St. Peter's Church- Over Wallop
m. ELIZABETH ______ (bur. 30 July 1598 Over Wallop, Hants.) will 26 Jan.- 21 Feb. 1585/6 Consistory Court, Winchester
bur. 26 Jan. 1585/6 Over Wallop, Hampshire
St. Peter's Church- Over Wallop
In his will Peter makes bequests to the parish church and to the church at Winchester and gives small legacies to his sons Robert and Richard and his daughters Margaret and Elizabeth. He gives his son Peter £20, furniture and the "Great House" when he reaches age 21. To his son John he gives half his "tolles", his timber and his hops. He names his wife Elizabeth and makes his son Richard his executor and legatee.
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NEHGR- Vol. XX, p. 23
will 25 Aug.- 17 Nov. 1630 Cottingworth, Wherwell, Wilts.
Cottingworth Farm- Wherwell- Home of the Osgoods
Robert Osgood of Wherwell was assessed to the Queen's subsidies in 39 Elizabeth I (1596) and again in 18 James I (1620).
Robert of Cottingworth, in the parish of Wherwell, left a bequest to the parish church, £60 to his youngest daughter Dorcas to be paid upon her marriage, £20 to his daughter Mary, £40 each to his sons John, Christopher and William, and small legacies to his wife Joan and his son Robert. He also gave £10 to Edward Abot, and £20 to Elizabeth, wife of John Bartlett. He appointed his son Stephen and daughter Mary as his executors. A list of debtors is attached to the will and includes £4/9/0 owed by John Osgood. As the legacies to Edward Abbot and Elizabeth Bartlett are so large I suspect that they were Robert's daughters, Edward Abbot's wife probably being deceased. The Abbots were one of the early settlers of Andover, MA.
Cottingworth is a large farm of 360 acres in Wherwell. The John Osgood named in the will was most likely Robert's eldest son and had received his portion of the estate prior to the will being drawn.
To my Honourable friend Mr. R. 3d Aprilis 1638.Noble Sir,
I am earnestly solicited by John Osgood, to write unto you again about His intended journey to New England, that he may have the liberty to goe. I told Him I had written the last weeke, but that would not satisfy Him because He could not be sure that Letter was Delivered, or that the way would be open to Him. I desire you, therefore that you would be pleased, if you have not done it already, to take order that he may passe, as He intended; because I would by noe means hinder him in his journey though it may be He would be his best friend that should doe it. I take my leave and rest.
Your Servant to dispose of,
Edward Stanley
March 23d, 1637
Your sonne is very well.
Ye bearer of this letter will, as I am told, pay any monys, that shall be due in this business.
Sir Edward Nicholas was the principal Secretary of State to King Charles I.
His wife Sarah, along with their four children as well as William Osgood and William Jones and Margery Packe, servant, sailed on the Confidence from Southampton on 14 Apr. 1638.
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Ref:
(1) A Contribution to the History of the Family of Osgood- Osgood Field- NEHGR- Vol. XX, p. 24
"Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury"- David Hoyt, Vol.I, pp.269-0
TAG- Vol. XVII, pp.99-100
3III. WILLIAM (PETER 1, ROBERT 2)
b.c.1609
In 1640 William built a barn in Newbury for John Spencer. In 1641 he was granted land in Salisbury on condition that he build a saw-mill on the falls of the Powow River not far from its junction with the Merrimac. A saw-mill, situated on "Pawwans river", in Salisbury, near to a corn-mill, was in possession of William Osgood, Philip Challis, William Barnes, and Anthony Colby, in 1658. Each of the four was to use the mill a week in turn. Colby admitted Samuel Worcester to a share of his fouth. "Osgood's Mill", in Salisbury was mentioned in 1682.(1) William and the other part owners of the mill were cited by the town for failing to pay the town its share of the lumber agreed upon in return for allowing the mill to be built on Salisbury land. William had to sue the heirs of the other owners including Susan Whitrige, administratrix of Anthony Colby's estate to recover boards for the town of Salisbury which he did during the Sept. term of the court in 1682. John Pressy "aged about forty-four years, testified that the first summer he came into this country, in 1651... I do well remember that the saw mill at Salisbury was one thing that was accounted a rare thing and I did go to see it and I did see it going and sawing boards that very summer."(5)
William received land in Salisbury in 1641, 1642, and in 1654, his homestead farm contained a six acre lot on Round Hill. On 18 Jan. 1655 Tristram Coffin of Newbury sold some meadowland in Salisbury to William.(8) He was a "commoner" and taxed in Salisbury in 1650, 11/6, and in 1652, 17/4. He received more land in Amesbury in 1659 and in 1662 and was a "townsman" of Amesbury in 1660, and a "commoner" in Amesbury in 1667-8. He and "Goodwife Osgood" had seats in the Amesbury meeting house in 1667 but, he was a "householder" of Salisbury in 1677. William sold 10 acres of land in Amesbury to Thomas Frame in 1689.(8)
By the original agreement in 1654 he and his family were to have certain rights in the new town, though residing in the old. His mill on the Powow River, though on the Salisbury side, brought him into close contact with the new town. Quite a number of residents of Salisbury and Amesbury worked for him at different times, and his enterprise appears to have drawn young men to the locality from other places. It is said that Symon, the notorious Indian, once lived with him.(2) Simon was thought to have been the leader of the Amesbury massacre of July 1697 when the Indians attacked the home of Elizabeth Osgood Quimby, wife of Robert Quimby. Simon fled thinking that he had killed the daughter of his benefactor.(6)
William testified against John Godfrey in 1658/9 concerning witchcraft dating back to 1640.(3) "Goodwife Osgood was summoned to give evidence concerning Susanna Martin in 1661. Elizabeth Brown, wife of William Brown, and Elizabeth Osgood testified in Apr. 1661 "to give their evidences concerning the said Martin... before the grand jury." Elizabeth Brown told her husband that Susanna Martin said: "she would make her the miserablest creature for defamin her name at the court". About two months after this, Brown says, his wife "would not own him... and from that time to this very day (1692) she has been under a strange kind of distemper and frenzy, incapable of any rational action, though strong and healthy of body." Based on this and other evidence Susanna Martin was convicted and executed as a witch. Elizabeth Brown fared better as: "The church appointed a day of humiliation, to seek God in her behalf; and thereupon her trouble ceased... for which the church, instead of the day of humiliation, gave thanks for her deliverance. She came to meeting and went about her business as before."(4)
William's wife Elizabeth is known to us by a family tradition. The story goes that after Elizabeth's death there was a husking at old William's log house. In the course of the evening as the young people became merry William recalled his earlier years. In response to their merriment he broke out in a sort of musical speech: "My wife was Betty Cleer and I loved her before I see her."
In the name of God, Amen.I, William Osgood senr of the town of Salisbury in the county of Essex, in his majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, being weak of body, but through the goodness of God of sound, & disposing memory & understanding, Do make this my last Will & testament, in manner & form following,
First and principally I commend my soul to God who gave it, & my body to the dust from whence it was taken, decently to be buried, with Christian burial, at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named, in hopes of a joyful Resurrection to life eternal at the last day, through the perfect merits of Christ my Redeemer.
Nextly, as for my worldly goods & Estate, after payment of all my just debts & funeral expenses, I dispose of as followeth vizt.
Imprimis - I give & bequeath unto my son William Osgood one hundred acres of my six score acre lot lying in the township of Salisbury above said, at a place commonly called "Round Hill", as also my dwelling house & land adjoining, or homestead, & my tide meadow lot & my lot of salt meadow lying near a place commonly called Munday's Pond, as also a full & complete half of all my other meadows, except that which is in a place in Salisbury commonly called the "higly piglys", during the term of his natural life, & unto the sons of the said Wm. Osgood my son in equal portion, To have & to hold to themselves their heirs or assigns forever. Also I give unto my said son William Osgood the one half of my grist mill with the privileges thereunto belonging during the term of his natural life.
Item - I give & bequeath unto my grandson John Osgood son of my said son John Osgood deceased, twenty acres of upland lying in the upper end of my six score acre lot, called "Round Hill" lot, on the condition that he leave a convenient high way, next unto land of Ensign William Allen for the use of those, who shall hereafter possess that other part of said six score acre lot by lawful derived title from me, or my heirs, as also that he pay or cause to be paid & delivered unto his sister Hannah Osgood or her order within the town of Salisbury in some good & merchantable pay at price current & merchantable the full & just sum of four pounds within one year next after my decease, which together with the above mentioned four pounds to be paid by his brother William, I give unto her for a Legacy.
Item. I give & bequeath unto grandson Thomas Quimby son of my daughter Elizabeth Quimby deceased (as a Legacy), forty shillings in good pay, to be disposed of for his use out of my part of the rent which shall be due to me from or out of the income of the fulling mill which Benjamin Eastman senr is about to build at the discretion of said Benj. Eastman.
Item. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Joanna wife of Robert Jones of Amesbury the one half of my fresh meadow lying in Salisbury at a place commonly called "bugs-mow", as also a lot of upland which I had by execution upon judgment in Court obtained against widow Mary Challis administratrix to the Estate of her once husband Philip Watson Challis deceased, lying in Amesbury, at a place commonly called "Thorn Hill".
Item. I give & bequeath unto my daughter in law Abigail now wife of my son William Osgood all my household goods of what sort kind soever they be.
Item. All the rest of my lands, meadows, goods & estate whatsoever, not herein before bequeathed, after my debts & funeral discharged as abovesaid, I do give & bequeath unto my loving son-in-law, Thomas Currier senr of Amesbury, whom I make & appoint sole executor of this my last Will & testament to take care that it will be in all respects & particulars punctually observed and fulfilled. And hereby revoking all other wills by me heretofore made I Lilliam Osgood senr do subscribe, seal & acknowledge the contents of this instrument to be my last Will & testament this 15th day of March in the twelvth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord William the third, by the grace of God of England, Scotland &c., King, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred.
Signed & Published in the presence of
Thomas Morrill
William W O Osgood (L. S.)
Nathaniel Eastman X
his mark & seal.
Benjamin Eastman
Issue-
Ref:
(1) "Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury"- David Hoyt, Vol.I, pp.269-0
Amesbury & Salisbury V.R.
"Currier Family Records of the U.S.A. & Canada"- Vol.I, pp. 7-8