Thomas Osgood (1651 - aft. 1728)

Born 1651 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Lord) Osgood — married 22 May 1674 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died after 1728 after age 77 in Dorchester, Dorchester County, South Carolina

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Biography

Thomas Osgood was born at Ipswich, Massachusetts about 1650/1, son of Christopher Osgood and his second wife Margaret/Margery Fowler. ^{[1] [2]}

Thomas is not mentioned in the will of his father Christopher Osgood in 1650 and it is thought he was a posthumous child. His mother Margery married several times after Christopher Osgood's death, and as Margery Coleman of Nantucket, she names son Thomas Osgood in several deeds. ^{[2] [1]}

Thomas married Susanna Lord on May 22, 1674 at Andover, Massachusetts. ^{[1] [3]} Susannah was born about 1655, daughter of Robert Lord and Mary Waite. ^{[4] [5]}

In Susannah's father Robert Lord's will, written on June 28, 1683, he names among his heirs, daughter Susannah Osgood an her children. ^[4]

They resided in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1673, and 1675 and later. He is not found in Andover after the birth of daughter Mehitable in 1694. He perhaps removed with the Dorchester, Massachusetts emigration to South Carolina. ^{[6] [7] [2]}

In 1695, John Lord, Increase Sumner an William Pratt were dismissed from the church at Dorchester, Massachusetts to establish a congregation in South Carolina. In 1696, 4050 acres were obtained by the New Englanders and the township of Dorchester, South Carolina was established. Among those granted a farm lot in the first division, was Thomas Osgood. ^[8]

Children

1. Mary born on February 14, 1675/6. ^{[3] [2]}
2. Sarah born on February 6, 1677. ^{[3] [2]}
3. Hannah born on November 29, 1679. ^{[3] [2]}
4. Thomas born on December 17, 1680. ^{[3] [2]}
5. Josiah born on March 1, 1682/3; died on May 6, 1683. ^{[3] [2]}
6. Judith born on February 8, 1683. ^{[3] [2]}
7. Deborah born on February 26, 1685/6. ^{[3] [2]}
8. Josiah born on May 31, 1688. ^{[3] [2]}
9. Abigail born on August 11, 1690. ^{[3] [2]}
10. Susannah born on October 29, 1692; died on December 4, 1692. ^{[3] [2]}
11. Mehitabel born on May 25, 1694. ^[3]

Will

20 Nov 1728, Thomas Osgood of Berkeley, SC: wife Lydia (must be an error as she was first wife Lyida Titcomb who d 1673) to have 1/3 of his real estate and an enslaved person named Pegg, son Josiah, daughter Hannah Snow, a grandson Sam, and Way son of Abigail Way. Mentions other married daughters Judy Gains, wife of John Gains and Deborah Heard, wife of Edmund Heard of Ipswich, Essex. ^[9]

Enslaved person named Pegg.

Research Notes

Andover Marriages

LORD, Susanah, and Thomas Ossgood, May 22, 1674. CTR (p. 220)

Andover Births

Osgood, Abigall, d. Thomas and Susanna, Aug. 11, 1690. (p. 282)

Osgood, Deborah, d. Thomas and Susannah, Feb. 26, 1685-6. (p. 283)

Osgood, Hannah, d. Thomas and Susanna, Nov. 29, 1679. (p. 284)

Osgood, Josiah, s. Thomas and Susanna, Mar. 1, 1682-3. (p. 286)

Osgood, Josiah, s. Thomas and Susannah, May 31, 1688. (p. 286)

Osgood, Judeth, d. Thomas and Susannah, Feb. 8, 1683. (p. 286)

Osgood, Mary, d. Thomas and Susannah, Feb. 14, 1675[-6]. (p. 286)

Osgood, Mehitabel, d. Thomas and Susannah, May 25, 1694. (p. 287)

Osgood, Sarah, d. Thomas and Susanna, Feb. 6, 1677. (p. 288)

Osgood, Thomas, s. Thomas and Susannah, Dec. 17, 1680. (p. 288)

Osgood, Susanna, d. Thomas and Susannah, Oct. 29, 1692. (p. 288)

Andover Deaths

Osgood, Josiah, s. Thomas and Susannah, May 6, 1683. (p. 514)

Osgood, Susannah, d. Thomas and Susannah, Dec. 4, 1692. (p. 516) ^[3]

THE STORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA "After William Hilton's 1662 exploration of the Cape Fear River, a small group of New Englanders decided to go check it out. In 1663, this small group attempted to establish a settlement on the south bank of the Cape Fear River, about 20 miles inland from the river's mouth. These folks loved the land, but they hated the climate, and apparently they did not like the local natives either. Within months, this settlement was abandoned and everyone went back to New England where the climate was much more to their liking.

"In 1695, a small church group in Dorchester, Massachusetts sent several of its members to Charles Town to "scout" for a suitable location to relocate their church. In 1696, the church was relocated west of Charles Town and the town of Dorchester was established "along the frontier" of Carolana - the second "permanent" town after Charles Town. This group managed to stay in Carolana for more than a few months and Dorchester was "thriving" at the time of "the Split."

"However, when Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia in 1733, the folks in Dorchester were tempted by the offer of more and better lands. In 1752, the congregation "up and moved" to the coast of Georgia, between the Medway and Newport rivers, in what is now Liberty County. What was once a thriving church community of Dorchester soon became a purely secular settlement that struggled to survive.

"About twenty-six miles from the city of Charles Town, on the north bank of the Ashley River and about six miles in a southwestwardly direction from the railroad depot in the present town of Summerville can be seen an old church tower with an overgrown disused graveyard around it, and some two hundred paces farther on - on the edge of the river - are the walls of an old fort, constructed of that mixture of shells in lime mortar formerly called "tapia" or "tabby" (often spelled "tapis" in early records). These two conspicuous objects, with some scattered and shapeless masses of brick at irregular intervals, marking the sites of former houses, are all that remains of the town of Dorchester, once a comparatively flourishing, hamlet in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. The site of the old village of Dorchester is on a neck or peninsula of land between the Ashley River and a creek now called Dorchester Creek. This creek was originally known as Boshoe, or Bossua Creek. It is now called Rose Creek, where it crosses the road from Summerville to Dorchester. The region about the mouths of these two creeks - especially about the penisula between Dorchester Creek and Ashley River - was known by the Indian name or Boo-shoo-ee. The meaning of this Indian term is unknown save that the termination "ee" or "e" seems to have some connection with water - viz: Peedee, Santee, Wateree, Congaree, Co-pah-ee, etc.

"The high land or bluff on the river where the village was afterwards located was, at the time of its location and afterwards, an "old field" and probably the site of the first clearing and settlement of John Smith. John Smith, of Boo-shoo, died prior to December, 1682, as in December, 1682, his widow, Mary, married Arthur Middleton, and on the death of the latter, about 1684, married Ralph Izard. John Smith seems to have left no children, and in some way his grant for 1,800 acres must have lapsed to the state or the method of a new grant must have been adopted so as to confer a good title, for in the year 1696 this same 1,800 acres is re-granted to the settlers who were to confer upon it the name of Dorchester."

For more about this see source: https://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Settlement/new_england_settlers_in_carolana.html

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Anderson, Robert C. Christopher Osgood in :The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-35, Volume V, M-P, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2007, p. 318-22, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB401/i/12155/321/23908853
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12} Endicott, C. M., The Osgood Family in New England, (continued), Volume 13, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1859, p. 200- 1 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11660/200/23514377
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12} Vital Records of Andover Massachusetts to the End o the Year 1849, Volume I : Births and Volume II: Marriages and Deaths, The Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1912
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Anderson, Robert C. Robert Lord in: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005, p. 325-9 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB394/i/12108/325/23896788
5. ↑ Felt, Joseph Barlow, History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton, C. Folsom, Essex, Massachusetts, 1834. p. 167
6. ↑ Putnam, Eben, editor, A genealogy of the descendants of John, Christopher and William Osgood, who came from England and settled in New England early in the seventeenth century, Salem Press 1894, p. 260
7. ↑ Stickney, Matthew Adams, The Fowler Family: a Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Philip and Mary Fowler, of Ipswich, Mass: Ten Generations: 1590-1882, Salem Press, 1883, p. 15
8. ↑ Lee, Lawrence. Dorchester, South Carolina, A New England Town On A Southern River in: Mayflower Quarterly, Volume 36, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1935-1985, p. 85-7. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2760/i/58390/86/1427244590
9. ↑ South Carolina, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/79319:9080

• Anderson, Robert Charles, Great Migration 1634-1635, M-P. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-35, Vol. 5 M-P page 322, entry for Thomas Osgood.

See also:

• Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1908 , p. 921.

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