Capt. JOHN OSGOOD: Owings Stone Family Genealogy — 20,000+ ancestors and their relatives

Title Capt.

Birth 1632 England [2]

Gender Male

Fact He refused to pay the taxes imposed by Sir Edmund Andros and was imprisoned without a warrant for nine or ten days in late summer 1687. This apparently made him popular with his fellow citizens. [2]

Immigration Apr 1638 England to Mass. prob. on the Confidence [2]

Died 31 Aug 1693 Andover, Essex Co., Mass. [2]

Person ID I5267 Owings Stone Genealogy, Ancestry & Heritage

Last Modified 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00

Father JOHN OSGOOD, b. 23 Jul 1595, Wherwell Parish, Hampshire, England

Mother SARAH BOOTH, b. Abt 1598, Wherwell Parish, Hampshire, England

Family ID F5287 Group Sheet

Family MARY CLEMENTS, (confessed Salem witch), b. 1637, England

Married 15 Nov 1653 Haverhill, Essex Co., Mass. [2, 3]

Notes

Married:

performed by Robert Clements

Children

	1. John Osgood, b. 13 Sep 1654, Andover, Essex Co., Mass.
	2. Mary Osgood, b. 27 Nov 1656, Andover, Essex Co., Mass.
	3. TIMOTHY OSGOOD, b. 10 Aug 1659, No. Andover, Essex Co., Mass.
	4. LYDIA OSGOOD, b. 10 Aug 1661, Andover, Essex Co., Mass.
	5. Peter Osgood, b. 30 Aug 1663, Andover, Essex Co., Mass.
	6. Samuel Osgood, b. 10 Mar 1665, Andover, Essex Co., Mass.
	7. Sarah Osgood, b. 7 Apr 1667, Andover, Essex Co., Mass.
	8. Mehitable Osgood, b. 4 Mar 1671, Andover, Essex Co., Mass.
	9. Hannah Osgood, b. 30 May 1674, Andover, Essex Co., Mass.
	10. Sarah Osgood, b. 4 Nov 1675, Andover, Essex Co., Mass.
	11. Ebenezer Osgood, b. 4 Oct 1678, Andover, Essex Co., Mass.
	12. Clement Osgood, b. 12 Oct 1680, Andover, Essex Co., Mass.

Family ID F3755 Group Sheet

Notes	In March 1656, the first recorded Andover town meeting was held in his home, the home his father left him. He was first a sergeant in the milita, 1658, 1661, then a lieutenant, 1666, 1675, 1677, 1689, fainlly a captain, 1683. He was a selectman, 1670-73, 1677, 1680-82, and representative in 1668-69, 1689 and 1690. He was an innholder in 1689. Savage says: JOHN, Andover, s. of the reced. b. in Eng. oft. a selectman, was capt. and rep. 1666, 9, 89, and 90, with high popularity, as he had been imprison. by Andros. He m. at Haverhill, 15 Nov. 1653, Mary, d. of Robert Clement, had John, b. 3 Sept. 1654; Mary, 27 Nov. 1656; Timothy, 10 Aug. 1659; Lydia, 12 Aug. 1661; Peter, 30 Aug. 1663; Samuel, 10 Mar. 1665; Sarah, 7 Apr. 1667; Mehitable, 4 Mar. 1671; Hannah, 30 May 1674; Sarah, 4 Nov. 1667; Ebenezer, 4 Oct. 1678; Clement, 12 Oct. 1680, d. soon. He d. 21 Aug. 1993, no doubt in some degree from the torment inflict. on his w. by accusa. of witchcraft in the damnable delusion of 1692, tho. [[321]] she saved her life by confess. of impossib. guilt. See Abbot, Calef, and Hutchinson, II. 31. Charming page is that in 1 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII. 241, wh. gives her indictm. the gift of it being, that she "a covenant with the devil did make, and signed the devil's book, and took the devil to be her God, and consented to serve and worship him, and was bapt. by the devil, and renounc. her former Christian bapt. and promised to be the devil's, both body and soul forever, and to serve him." I rejoice, that, aft. the evaporation of the infernal spirit, she had energy eno. to acknowledge, 19 Oct. 1692, bef. the venerab. Increase Mather (not Cotton M. as in Geneal. Reg. XIII. 118, told) the falsehood of her confess. for surely most of the charges in that indict. would be better laid against the judges in the oyer and terminer. They served, if they did not worship the devil, and took him to be their God, whether they signed his book or not. Had that book been brot. into Court, as it ought to have been, or the governm. call. on to show at least, what means they had used to get the precious rec. to the open view of the jury, the name of William Stoughton, and more than one of his assoc. judges, I doubt not, as clear. as that of Mary Osgood, would have flared in the sapphire blaze. Hard is it to decide, whether prisoners or judges were under stronger delusion. Sarah d. 22 Apr. 1667; Hannah d. 3 Aug. 1674. Lydia m. 20 Jan. 1680, James Frye; Mary m. 8 July 1680, John, Aslett. Clement d. 18 Nov. 1680. Prob. born in Wherwill, Hampshire, Engand. Essex County, Massachusetts, Probate Index, 1638-1840 File #: 20215 Name: Capt. John Osgood File Date: 01 Dec 1693 Residence: Andover Type: intestate [2, 3, 4]

Sources
[S71] Clement, Percival Wood

[S119] Osgood, Ira, (The Salem Press)

[S106] Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Savage, James

[S285] Sanborn, Melinde Lutz

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