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Ancestors of Mary Doreen ANDERSON

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1920. Christopher OSGOOD Capt.

Daniel Blanchard, servant of Christopher Osgood, was killed in an Indian ambush at Scarborough, south of Portland ME, in June, 1677 p. 72, Andover
From: Johnson, Carol Clark, A Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Families and Other Puritan Settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, (Privately Printed 1970), p. 423-424.
Christopher, Captain, a millwright, was born in 1643, received an education, and became an ardent
patriot. He sold the property inherited from his father to Thomas Metcalf October 2, 1666, and moved to Andover where he was sworn a freeman in 1676. In 1677 he was made constable and received a license to keep an ordinary "and draw wine and liquors to strangers for a year but not to suffer any townsmen to drink liquors in his house."
Daniel Blackhead, servant of Christopher, was killed by Indians at Black Point June 29, 1677.
Captain Osgood was a selectman in 1680, and he was one of the many who rebelled openly in 1687 against the harsh rule of the governor Sir Edmund Andros and were jailed without warrant and heavily fined. On April 18, 1689, the drums beat through the streets to announce the overthrow of Andros. A provincial government under Bradstreet was organized and approved by England.
Christopher built Frye's Mills at Andover and was a representative to the General Court for a number of years. In October 1692 he was forced to petition in behalf of his daughter Mary who was imprisoned for supposed witchcraft.
In April 1704, Captain Osgood received the order to build three blockhouses on the bank of the Merrimack, 12 feet wide, 15 feet long, with a fireplace at one end and a covered well, like the blockhouse at Newbury. A bounty of ś40 sterling was offered for every Indian scalp, and the soldiers were told that every Indian child under ten years should be sold as a slave, the price to be theirs. This was in retaliation for the Indian attack at Black Point when 200 Indians attacked 20 men at work in the fields, killing or capturing all but one, and for the Deerfield massacre of February 29, 1704, when 49 men, women and children were killed, and 109 others taken on a forced march to Canada, including many children who were held for ransom.

1922. Samuel Thomas WARDWELL

Samuel Wardwell was hanged for witchcraft in Salem on September 22, 1692. He is among those remembered at memorials in Salem and Danvers, Massachusetts.

Like many others, Wardwell, in his anxiety and terror, was led to make a complete "confession." While he was in a discontented mood because of a thwarted clandestine love affair with "a maid named Barker," he had seen some "catts" meeting together behind Mr. Bradstreet's house. One of them, assuming the form of a black man, told him that if he would only sign the book, he should "live comfortably and be a captain," like Dudley Bradstreet. Following the classic example of Faust, Wardwell attached his name to the contract, was then baptized in the Shawsheen River, and abandoned his church affiliation.
When Wardwell later was released from "brain-storming," he declared that the urgency of his tormentors had persuaded him, under emotional stress, that he must have done the deeds attributed to him. From that hour until his execution he never again weakened. He regretted that he had even once "belyed" himself and announced that even though it might cost him his life, he would stick to the truth. No one of sufficient importance intervened in the poor man's behalf, and he was hanged on September 22, 1692, together with seven others. Even as the noose was being adjusted around his neck, Wardwell declared in a firm voice that he was innocent. While he was speaking a puff of smoke from the executioner's pipe blew across his face and some misguided girl shouted, "The Devil doth hinder his words!" On this occasion the Reverend Nicholas Noyes, of the First Church in Salem, not content with mere watching, addressed the multitude of spectators, saying, "What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there!"
Wardwell's example was used in later trials as a threat to others of what might be their fate if they recanted their confessions. The injustice in his case reached beyond his grave. On January 2, 1693, his wife was brought before the Court of Trials, where a jury delivered the familiar verdict that she was "guilty of covenanting with the Devill." Meanwhile, the selectmen of Andover notified the Court of Quarter Sessions at Ipswich that the four Wardwell children were in suffering condition, and then proceeded to bind them out to other households in the neighborhood until they should be mature enough to pursue some gainful occupation. To pay the expenses of Wardwell's trial, the sheriff seized property of his amounting to 36 pounds, 15 shillings, including five cows, nine hogs, eight loads of hay, and six acres of corn upon the ground. Furthermore both Wardwells had to provide their own subsistence while they were in prison.
Eventually Sarah Wardwell was reprieved and released. In 1712, his mother meanwhile having died, Samuel Wardwell, Jr., requested and received compensation for the financial loss which his family had suffered. Unfortunately it was too late to bring his father back to life.
SOURCE: Andover: Symbol of New England by Claude M. Fuess.

1923. Sarah HOOPER

She was condemned for Witchcraft, but not executed, and sentence was revoked in 1703.

1924. Thomas ABBOTT

"Genealogical Register of the Abbot Family of Massachusetts and Connecticut", Abiel Abbot, Thurston, Torey & Company, Boston, 1847
Farmer
Lived on the west side of the Shawsheen River, Andover Benjamin Farm remained in his family a century
A strict Puritan, he taught his children to reverence the sabbath and keep it holy, to make the Bible their only rule of faith and practice

1926. Joseph BALLARD

From p. 399, Carol Clark Johnson, A genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Families and other Puritan Settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1970
The Ballard Genealogy erroneously names Joseph Johnson as father of Rebecca and Samuel.
Joseph Ballard died in Andover September 1, 1732.
Joseph lived at Andover. He bought the land of William Chandler, April 9, 1719 (2 acres on the southerly side of Holt's Hill.

1928. Nehemiah ABBOTT

From "Genealogical Register of the Abbot Family of Massachusetts and Connecticut, Abiel Abbot, Thurston, Torey & Company, Boston, 1847
Deacon
Representative in the General Court
Highly respected for his moral worth and Christian values
From:Abbott, Lemuel Abijah , Descendants of George Abbott , of Rowley, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, 1906, Call Number: Gc 929.2 Ab28a v.1
He was the great-grand-father of the wife of Hon. Oliver Ellsworth, 3d Chief Justice U. S.; of the illustrious Lawrence bros., Hon. Abbott, William, Amos, Luther, and Samuel, all of Groton, Mass.; of Amos Abbott, M. C.; Nehemiah Abbott, M. C.; and scores of other distinguished men too numerous to mention. His descent is probably the most distinguished of any one bearing the surname in any line in his generation of any of the American pioncers
He was the most successful in life as a whole, of any of the descendants in the third generation. He received in the division of his father's estate, 80 acs. of upland, some meadow land, live-stock and household effects, to which he added from time to time by trading in land, etc., until for that day he was prosperous.
He was Corporal in the Colonial Militia, 1707; tithingman, 1693/4, 1698/9; fence-viewer, 1695; selectman, 1704/5, 1712/13, 1715/16, 1721/2, 1722/3; town meeting moderator, Oct. 11, 1720, Sept. 26, 1722, May 4, 1723; highway surveyor, 1716, 1717/18; member of the committee for locating the South church, Nov. 29, 1707; treasurer, 1707; member proprietors' committee for allotting land 320 times or more; member proprietors committee, Sept. 13, 1718, to defend them at the Inferior Court, Newbury, Mass. .... "and so from court to court"; member of the committe to draw up a plan "for ye sd Towns safety in improving their part of the said fifty Thousand pounds Loan of Bills of credit," granted the town as per act of the General Court.; member of the committee to make a levy of ś60 on the town to defray current expenses of the town for the year 17--; member of the committee to agree with Jonathan Abbott for a road through his premises, 1726/7; and was representative to the General Court, 1717-18-19-20, 1726. He was one of the original 14 male members and founders of the South church, Andover, 1709, and was chosen deacon, Sept. 22, 1720, which office he held till his death, about 30 yrs. He is mentioned in the Salem deeds as husbandman, yeoman, "gentelman" etc. "He was highly esteemed for his Christian virtues."
Among his many sales of real estate he sold to John Osgood, of Andover, tanner, May 14, 1716, for lbs. 16, about 4 acs. and 28 rods of land, belonging to his father's estate, lying on the north of Lt. John Osgood's land on the west of "ye great hill," etc.;(+) also to Lt. Osgood, Dec. 13, 17--, five pieces of land (about 12 acres) as laid out to George2 Abbott, drummer, decd.?? On Oct. 15, 1747, he gave his son Zebadiah, the homestead and all other lands, etc., he then owned in Andover, in consideration of a bond for ś1,000. It contained 160 acs., bounded on the east by Shawsheen River, on the north by land of Benjamin Abbot, Thomas Abbott, and Thomas Dunn, on the west by John Foster, John ?, and Zebadiah Johnson, and on the south by Timothy Ballard's. None of the buildings are now extant. His common lands in "Merrimac woods," near and on "Wood Hill" and all that lay near Tewksbury line were also included. The deed was recorded Feb. 13, 1752.
"William Lovejoy, bro. of Abigail, settled in the So. Precinct, Andover, and was one of the first deacons of the South ch., 1711. There were 60 mems. of this name on the lists of the South church before the W. Parish was set off. The name has been perpetuated chiefly in the So. and W. Parishes. The families there have been among the good yeomanry, upholders of order, sobriety, and religion. Among the conspicuous names of the family are Capt. Nathaniel Lovejoy, of the Revolutionary War period, and his son, Gen. Nathaniel Lovejoy, a graduate of Harvard College, 1766, trader at No. Andover, and Capt. William Lovejoy, of So. Andover, Among those who left Andover and located elsewhere were Dea. William R. Lovejoy, E. Boston, and Joseph Lovejoy, founder of the firm of Lovejoy & Sons, carpet merchants, Boston."
From Dea. Nehemiah Abbott, and especially through his children, Nebemiah, Abiel, and Abigail, came many distinguished descendants who have been honored by the most illustrious persons of their period both in Europe and America.

1930. William LOVEJOY Capt.

Captain Lovejoy was prominent in both military and civil affairs in Andover. He was a Lieutenant and later a Captain, accumulated much property, and owned slaves.
It was this William Lovejoy who owned the famous Negro slave, Pompey, who is mentioned in various biographical dictionaries because he lived to be 102 years of age dying in 1826, His wife, Rose, lived to be 99. Ponp's Pond in Andover, Massachusetts, was named for him. Captain William gave Pompey his freedom. "Pomp" is recorded as serving 1 1/2 days in the Revolution in Captain Henry Abbott's Company.
Captain William's will showed an estate of 722 pounds, a considerable sum in those days.

1932. Hezekiah BALLARD

Was a Deacon of the Church.
A Blacksmith by trade.
He inherited a share of his Father's homestead, bought land at Pine Plains April 9, 1718.
Bought all rights to the Andover land of Enoch Ballard of Plainfield, Conn, on May 19, 1719

1942. John BROWN

Capt. John Brown, son of William, came with the family to Leicester, and was there elected to the Massachusetts Legislature and served with the ability for twenty successive years. He was twice married and the father of nineteen children. His oldest son was John Brown, a Revolutionary soldier, who was twice wounded at the historic battle of Bunker Hill.
From William Brown, English Immigrant of Hatfield and Leicester, Massachusetts and his Descendants, pp. 5-7:
As a young man, John removed from Hatfield, MA with his family to Leicester, MA, then a wilderness, before 1720, his family being one of Leicester's original settlers. Residing his adult lifetime in Leicester, he played a vital part in the development of the town. As early as 1723 he is recorded as serving as a sentinel from Leicester in Lieutenant Samuel Wright's Company from November 12, 1723 to June 10, 1724. Later, holding a captain's commission during the French and Indian Wars, he commanded a company in the expedition to Louisburg on Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia) and took part in its surrender in 1745. When he volunteered in a company of Minute Men in an expedition to Crown Point (New York) from September 24 through November 11, 1756, he was noted as "one of the most considerable men in town" (History of Leicester by Emory Washburn, 1860, p. 274). Once again in August, 1757, with the rank of captain, he marched on the alarm for relief of Fort William Henry (now restored at Lake George Village, NY). Two of Captain Brown's sons, John and Perley, likewise served in the expeditions to Crown Point and Fort William Henry. Leicester's representative to the General Court of Massachusetts for many years between 1749 and 1768 was Captain Brown. In October, 1765, he was elected to represent Leicester regarding the Intolerable Acts.
As a result of totally supporting the colonists' struggle for independence throughout his life through active service when he was younger and later due to meeting the heavily imposed taxation and demands for supplies for the war effort, he died a man of little means. A town meeting in 1778 was called to see if the town would redeem a certain mortgage in order to "indemnify themselves from the maintenance of Captain John Brown." John was a shoemaker by trade.
Following whole-heartedly the patriotic example established by their father, five of Captain Brown's sons, namely, John, Perley, Benjamin, William and Daniel served in the Revolution. Perly and William lost their lives and John was severely wounded, crippling him the rest of his life. Seeing the toll the hardships of the colonists' struggle for independence had taken on their family and taking into consideration the poor New England soil, several of Captain Brown's children yearned for a better place where their toil would prove more advantageous. Captain Brown's youngest son, Daniel, was the first to head west, settling in Hartford, Washington County, NY in 1785. The following year his brother, Caleb joined him. Brother Benjamin and his family residing in Rowe, MA, joined his brothers in Hartford c1787, staying nine years before moving to the Northwest Territory (now Athens Co., Ohio) c1796. Sister Apphia and her husband, Jonathan Cable, purchased land in Hartford 1795, removed c1804 to Jefferson County, NY, and then after 1810 to Athens County, OH. Sister Sarah and her husband, Gad Chapin, purchased land in Hartford 1798. Since Captain Brown died in Leicester, MA, 1791, perhaps after his decease his widow and daughter Elizabeth removed to Hartford, NY, as both are buried at Hartford. Perley's widow with her second husband, Jeremiah Chase, and Perley's sons resided 1790 and 1800 Shaftsburg, Bennington County, VT, the county adjacent to Washington County, NY.

1949. Jane EYRE

Robert EYRE b:1648, settled in New Jersey and then Delaware county, Pennsylvania in the 1660's. He married Ann SMITH, dtr of Francis SMITH of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Robert and Ann had 5 children: Ann, Jane, Robert, Francis and William.
All that is known of Jane EYRE is that she married William DYER. Nothing is known of her siblings: Ann, Robert and Francis. The lineage down from William EYRE b:1698 is fairly well researched.

1956. Samuel JEWELL

This information was posted on WorldConnect in the new_jewell database. It has not been verified, and should be treated with caution.

1964. John SANBORN

John was a farmer, and developed one of the finest farms in the area. In 1708 he was a soldier in the Indian wars, and in 1724 was made sergeant of a company of thirty-one men who served in Lovewell's war. He was also a grantee of land in Cheter, and was a selectman of that town from 1724-1726. (From Stearn's Genealogical and Family History of New Hampshire, p. 268)