Ancestors of Mary Doreen ANDERSON
Notes
480.
Samuel OSGOOD
Samuel Osgood was one of a committee of 5 (Capt John Farnum, Mr. Nehemiah Abbot, Capt Asa Foster, and Samuel Holt) appointed on May 17, 1773, to prepare the instructions to Andover's representative in the Massachusetts General Court in response to a letter from the Committee of Correspondence of Boston. Their response read:
"Sir: We cannot but be possessed with thoughts pregnant with the deepest sorrow, when on every side we behold the most bold invasions made upon our civil rights: Resentment against the daring invader, and distress of Kind for the wound liberty has already received, ... Therefore, we advise you, Sir, to oppose, not with an indifferent coolness, but with an unremitting resentment everything that threatens the peaceful and quiet enjoyment of our liberties ... ."
p.23, Harris, Edward Moseley, Andover in the American Revolution, (Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, MO 1976)
He was one of a committee of 5 (Samuel Phillips, Esq., Capt Asa Foster, Joshua Holt, and Dr. Joseph Osgood) appointed on February 3, 1774, to respond to another letter from the Boston Committee of Correspondence regarding the arrival of tea in East India Ships with instructions that none of the tea could be unloaded unless the duty was paid. Andover decided to forward the "Resolves" from Philadelphia as expressive of their own sentiments and delivered a copy to the Boston Committee. Those "Resolves" stated:
"1stly: Resolved: that the disposal of their own property is the inherent right of Freemen; that there can be no property in that which another can, of right, take from us without our consent; that the claim of Parliament to tax America, is, in other words, a claim of right to lay contribution on us at pleasure. ...
3rdly; That the express purpose for which the tax is levied on Americans, namely for the purpose of Government, the administration of justice, and the defense of his Majesty's Dominions in America, has a direct tendency to render Assemblies useless and to introduce Arbitrary Government and slavery.
4thly; That a virtuous and steady opposition to this ministerial plan of Governing America is absolutely necessary to preserve even the shadow of Liberty and is a duty which every Freeman owes to his country, himself, and his posterity. ..."
p. 25, Harris, Edward Moseley, Andover in the American Revelution, (Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, MO 1976)
He was appointed to a "Committee to Promote Circumspection" to take into account "the depressing Difficulties (by virtue of the "intolerable" Acts) to which this province has already been reduced and others that impending over it" and to propose a form of covenant concerning non-importation to be subscribed to by the people of Andover. The Covenant was an important step toward the break with Great Britain. Commitee members were Mr. Moody Bridges, Messrs. Samuel Phillips, Jr., Samuel Osgood, Capt John Farnum, Mr. Joshua Holt, Capt. Asa Foster, Messers. Asa Abbot, Nehemiah Abbot, Lt. Henry Abbot, Deacon Joseph Abbot, Capt. Samuel Johnson, Ens. Josiah Blanchard, Ens John Barker, Col. George Abbot, Col. James Frye, Lt. Nathan Chandler, Mr. Benjamin Poor, Capt. Isaac Osgood, Dr. Joseph Osgood, Mr. David Abbot, Lt. John Ingalls, Mr. Barrachius Abbot, Ens. Stephen Holt, Mr. John Abbot 4th, Sgt. John Abbot, Mr. William Foster, Mr. Ebeneezer Poor, Deacon John Dane, and Messrs. Benjamin Farnum and Samuel Frye
p. 27, Harris, Edward Moseley, Andover in the American Revelution, (Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, MO 1976
Minutes of Town Meetings, microfilm records, frame 5244, Memorial Hall Library Collection.
482.
Zebediah , Jr. ABBOTT Deacon
From Sarah Loring Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover, Houghton, Mifflin & Sons, Boston, 1880, Reprinted in 1990 by the North Andover Historical Association.
p. 303-304. Belonged to the First Foot Company of Andover who marched in consequence of the alarm on the 19th of April 1775 under the command of Joshua Holt with an account of travel from their alarm post to Cambridge and from Cambridge to the place again .
p. 315-316. As one of the Selectmen of Andover, chose Samuel Phillips, Jr., to represent Andover in the Provincial Congress held in Watertown on May 31, 1775
p. 356. Delegate to the convention to draft a Constitution for the state of Masachussets convening in September 1779 at Cambridge. with Samuel Osgood, Esq., Samuel Phillips, Jr. Esq, and John Farnum Jr.
From "Genealogical Register of the Abbot Family of Massachusetts and Connecticut"
Member of the Convention for forming the Constitution of Massachusetts.
From p. 257-258, Abbott, Lemuel Abijah , Descendants of George Abbott , of Rowley, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, 1906, Call Number: Gc 929.2 Ab28a v.1
Zebediah Abbott studied at Harvard College, taught school for a time, and finally engaged in general merchandising in Andover, where, during the Rev. War, of the half dozen stores, his was one of the two largest. He was also an undertaker.
He was warden, 1770; selectman, 1773-4-5-6-7-8; member of a committee to assist in collecting Province taxes; moderator of Town Meeting, Sept. 21, 1778; member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1779, 1780; member of the committee to settle with soldiers, Dec. 20, 1780; highway surveyor, 1786-7-8-9; and member of the committee to audit selectmen's accts., 1787.
He served one and a half days as private in Capt. Joshua Holt's Co., which marched to Cambridge,
Mass., on the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775. (Mass. Soldiers and Sailors of the Rev. War )
He was a member of the Convention that met at Cambridge, 1779, to form the Constitution of Mass. "To this Convention," said Gov. Winthrop, "there was as great a number of men of learning, talents, and patriotism as had ever been assembled here at an earlier period."
Deacon Abbott was much esteemed for his honesty, usefulness, and enterprise. He was made a deacon of the South Church, Andover, 1785.
He is buried in South Parish Cemetery, Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts (ref: Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol 3, L-R, by Patricia Law). His Epitaph reads:
"O happy death for him How highly blest
The soul departs and wings its way to rest,
The loss of such a friend we deeply mourn
While he's to bliss supreme by Angels borne."
His estate inventoried, June 17, 1794, for lbs. 1,727: 7s.: 4d.
488.
Thomas WIGGIN
Thomas died at Ft. George in the Revolutionary Army, Nov.30, 1776.
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