Christopher OSGOOD

- 1650

• Name	Christopher OSGOOD
  Gender	Male
  Emigration	24 Mar 1633/34	Southampton, England   [1]
  	Passenger on the Mary & John
  Occupation	Brickmaker  [1]
  Death	Between 19 Apr 1650 and 10 Oct 1650
  Notes	From Great Migration 2:5:318-322. CHRISTOPHER OSGOOD ORIGIN: Marlborough, Wiltshire. MIGRATION: 1634 on the Mary & John (on 24 March 1633/4, "Christopher Osgood," appeared on the passenger list of the Mary & John, sailing from Southampton for New England [Drake's Founders 70]. FIRST RESIDENCE: Ipswich. OCCUPATION: Brickmaker [ITR]. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Ipswich church prior to 6 May 1635 implied by freemanship. FREEMAN: 6 May 1635 (third in a sequence of three Ipswich men) [MBCR 1:371]. EDUCATION: Signed his will. OFFICEHOLDING: Ipswich petit jury, 29 March 1642, 28 March 1648, 26 March 1650 [EQC 1:40, 139, 186]. Grand jury, 4 November 1645 [EQC 1:86]. ESTATE: On 26 January 1634/5, the town of Ipswich granted to five men, including "Christopher Osgood," "a hill of ground containing 30 acres of land, unto each of them 6 acres of land" [ITR]. In the 1635 inventory of Ipswich landholding, "Christopher Osgood" held five parcels: "an houselot upon part of which he hath built an house, . five and twenty acres of land lying at Chebacco ., six acres of meadow towards the Neck ., six acres of planting ground upon the hill on the north side of town ., [and] ten acres in Jeffries Neck" [ITR]. On 1 March 1637/8, "Christopher Osgood" was granted ten acres likewise of the same ground upon the same consideration" (i.e., "ten acres of land beyond Muddy River, within the common fence, in exchange for ten acres laid down in Jeffries Neck") [ITR]. On 1 February 1641[/2?], "Christopher Osgood of Ipswich, brickmaker," sold to "Moses Pengry of Ipswich, salter, all that my parcel of land containing by estimation ten acres which lyeth within the common fence, on the north side the river of the town of Ipswich" [ITR]. In his will, dated 19 April 1650 and proved 10 October 1650, "Christopher Osgood of Ipswich" bequeathed to "my eldest daughter Mary Osgood ten pounds . at her day of marriage"; to "my other three daughters, Abigail, Elizabeth and Deborah five pounds to each of them . at or upon their respective days of marriage"; to "my son Christopher Osgood . my house & lands . at the age of two and twenty years"; "my beloved wife Margery Osgood shall be the sole executrix of this my will & to enjoy the profit & benefit of my estate during the minority of my children"; and requested "Mr. John Norton & my father Phillip Fowler to be overseers" [ILR 1:77; EPR 1:121-22]. On 16 October 1650, "[u]pon the petition of Margery Osgood, of Ipswich, widow, for an order from this court for a greater proportion in the estate of her late husband, deceased, than by will is given to her, it is ordered, that the managing of the whole business concerning the estate shall be referred unto Mr. Samuel Symonds, Major Denison, & Mr. Joh[n] Norton, & to put an issue thereupon, keeping as near unto the will of the said Osgood as may be" [MBCR 3:217]. On 15 December 1650, "[w]hereas the General Court held at Boston 15th of October 1650, in answer to the petition of Margery Osgood of Ipswich, widow, desiring that some equal order might be determined by the said court, concerning the estate of Christopher Osgood her late husband, that herself and children May be most comfortably provided for as the estate will afford, did order that we whose names are underwritten should put an issue thereunto, keeping as near to the will of the said Christopher as may be, we therefore having considered of the case & finding the estate not sufficient to answer the legacies, think meet & do agree only to make these abatements or alterations, viz: that the eldest daughter instead of ten pounds mentioned in the will shall have eight pounds, that the second daughter instead of five pounds shall have four pounds, that the eldest son shall have the house & land, and shall pay to the two younger children when they shall attain the age of eighteen years four pounds apiece"; signed by Samuel Symonds, John Norton and Daniel Denison [ELR 1:105]. On 15 July 1670, "Ma[r]gery Coleman, administratrix to the estate of Thomas Rowell my former husband late of A[n]dover . & deceased, and with the free and full consent of Thomas Coleman, of the Island of Nantuckett, my present husband," deeded to "my son Christopher Ossgood of Andover aforesaid, joiner, . all that my parcel of upland lying and being on the north & west side of Shawshin River within the bounds of Andover aforesaid containing by estimation one hundred acres ., except the quantity of fifteen acres thereof which I hereby reserve . to me & my heirs forever, . and also all that my two acres and half of meadow ground, lying & being on the same side of the river of Shawshin in five parcels" [ILR 4:406-7]. On 27 May 1673, "Margery Coleman of Nantuckett, late of Andover in the county of Essex, for and in consideration of that natural affection I do bear unto my son Thomas Ossgood of Newbury" granted him "liberty to take into his possession my dwelling house, barn, outhouses, yards, garden, orchard and the land about it or belonging thereunto both upland & meadow wherein I lately dwelled in my former husband Thomas Rowell his time which house & land is now in the occupation of Christopher Ossgood . provided always that the said Thomas Ossgood shall pay or cause to be paid unto my son Jacob Rowell the full sum of twenty-nine pounds ten shillings when he comes to age of twenty-one years, according to the order of court, and also five pounds apiece to my two daughters, Abigaill Wilson and Debor[a]h Russ" [ILR 3:274]. On 8 June 1675, "Margery Coleman late wife of Thomas Rowell of Andover, deceased, having let unto my son Christopher Ossgood of Andover my house and land for twelve years, for which he is to pay unto me the said Margery fifteen pounds when the said twelve years is expired ., I the said Margery Coleman (having appointed & ordered my son Thomas Ossgood for to pay unto my son Jacob Rowell his portion ordered unto him by the court which amounted to twenty-nine pounds ten shillings) . order and appoint my son Thomas Ossgood to receive the aforesaid fifteen pounds towards the payment of the said portion ordered by the court unto my son Jacob Rowell of my son Christopher, and do also give unto my son Jacob Rowell a feather bed or bolster, which I left in my son-in-law John Lovejoy his hands, & an iron pot I left with daughter Russ, also a basin and little pewter platter I have in my own keeping" [ILR 4:7]. BIRTH: By about 1607 (based on date of first marriage): DEATH: Between 19 April 1650 (date of will) and 10 October 1650 (probate of will). MARRIAGE: (1) St. Mary, Marlborough, Wiltshire, 21 April 1632 Mary Everatt. She was buried there on 22 April 1633. (2) St. Mary, Marlborough, Wiltshire, 28 July 1633 Margery Fowler, daughter of PHILIP FOWLER 1634, Ipswich [GM 2:2:560-64]. She married (2) soon after 24 February 165[0/]1 Thomas Rowell (antenuptial agreement of "Thomas Rowell of Salisbury with Margere Ossgood widow of Christopher Ossgood of Ipswich" [EPR 1:397]). She married (3) by an unknown date THOMAS COLEMAN 1634, Ipswich [GM 2:2:159-60]. She married (4) by 1682 Thomas Osborne [NEHGR 16:25-26]. CHILDREN: With first wife MARY OSGOOD, bp. St. Mary, Marlborough, Wiltshire, 17 March 1632/3; m. Ipswich 1 January 1651[/2?] John Lovejoy [recorded at Andover]. With second wife ABIGAIL OSGOOD, b. say 1636; m. Ipswich 9 September 1657 Shoreborne Wilson. CHRISTOPHER OSGOOD, b. say 1638; m. (1) Salem 6 December 1663 Hannah Belknap, who died at Andover on 21 November 1679; m. (2) Andover 27 May 1680 Hannah Barker, who died at Andover on 6 April 1687; m. (3) Topsfield 21 December 1687 Sarah Reddington (who died at Andover on 8 July 1689), daughter of John Reddington [TAG 81:152]; m. (4) by 1692 Sarah _____ (eldest known child b. Andover 3 May 1692; in his will of 24 July 1722, Christopher Osgood included a bequest to "Sarah Osgood my dearly beloved wife" [EPR 13:643]), who died at Andover on 8 July 1738 . ELIZABETH OSGOOD, b. say 1640; named in father's will of 19 April 1650; deceased without issue by 27 May 1673, when she received no legacy from her mother [ILR 3:274]. DEBORAH OSGOOD, b. say 1643; m. Andover 28 August 1663 John Russ. THOMAS OSGOOD, b. 1650 or 1651 (probably posthumous); m. Andover 22 May 1674 Susanna Lord. ASSOCIATIONS: Margery (Fowler) Osgood, wife of Christopher Osgood, was daughter of PHILIP FOWLER 1634, Ipswich [GM 2:2:560-64]. (On 26 September 1648, Christopher Osgood posted bond for the appearance at court of Joseph Fowler [EQC 1:147].) Although the children of Christopher Osgood resided after his death in Andover, which was also by that time the residence of the immigrant JOHN OSGOOD 1638, Newbury, there is no apparent close relationship between the two immigrants. Christopher Osgood derived from Marlborough, Wiltshire, whereas John Osgood was from Wherwell, Hampshire [Drake's Founders 59]. Marlborough and Wherwell are not, however, that far apart, and further research in English records may reveal that they belong to the same family. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1859 C.M. Endicott published a brief genealogy of the first three geneations of the family of Christopher Osgood [NEHGR 13:200-2]. In 1894 a more extensive account of the family of Christopher Osgood was included in a volume prepared by Ira Osgood and edited by Eben Putnam [Ira Osgood, compiler, and Eben Putnam, editor, A Genealogy of the Descendants of John, Christopher and William Osgood . (Salem 1894)]. [1]
  Person ID	I3131	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	3 Sep 2012

  
  

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  [S164] Great Migration Sketches, (URL: http://www.greatmigration.org/research/sketches).