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!     Register of St. Mary's Church, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England shows marriage of Margaret and Christopher Osgood.

Margaret and husband, Christopher Osgood, came to New England in the "Mary and John" from London.  On this vessel were also the parents of Margaret.  Before being allowed to leave London, all passengers of the ship were required to the "Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacie" on the 24 of March 1633-1634.  They arrived in New England in May 1634.

After the death of Christopher Osgood, Margery married second Thomas Rowell of Salisbury.  Her third marriage was to Thomas Coleman and her last marriage was to Thomas Osborne.

His will, as recorded in Essex Probate Book 1: 234, reads:

"I, Christopher Osgood of Ipswich, being weake in body, but of perfect understandinge & memory, doe comitt my soule into the hands of my redeemer, & concerning that little Estate the Lord hath lent mee, this is my last will & testament.

First, I do give unto my oldest daughter Mary Osgood, ten pounds, to be paid her or her assigns at her day of marriage, & to my other three daughters, Abigail, Elisabeth & Deborah, five pounds to each of them, to be paid to them, and every of them, at or upon their respective dayes of marriage.

And to my sonne Christopher Osgood, I do give my house and lands, to have & enjoy the same, at the age of two & twentie yeares.  And my will is, that my beloved wife Margery Osgood, shal be the sole executrix of this my will, & to enjoy the proffitt & benefitt of my estate, duringe the minority of my children, as abovesaid.  And lastly, I doe request and desire Mr. John Norton, and my Father Phillip Fowler, to be overseers, that this my will be performed, according to the true intent thereof.

In witness heere of, I have subscribed my hand, the nineteenth day of Aprill, 1650.

Christopher Osgood

I do also desire our respected Major (Daniel Denison) to a joyne with Mr. Norton & my Father.

Witness.
       Nathaniel Mathew.
       Joseph Rowlandson.
       Daniel Rolfe.


Memorandum which was forgotten, my will is, that my oldest daughter marry not, with the desire of my wife & the consent of my overseers, & that my younger daughters, marry not without the consent of their mother & the advice of the overseers, if it may be had, and that their several portions be paid unto them when they shall attaine the age of twenty yeares, if they be not marryed before that age.

Christopher Osgood

Proved by the oath of Daniel Rolfe, the 10th of the 8th mo. 1650, per me. Robert Lord."

On Oct. 15, 1650, the widow, Margery, petitioned for an abatement of the portions given by the estate of Christopher Osgood, to the eldest daughter, second daughter, eldest son, who was to have the house and land, and that to pay to the two younger children, when 18 years of age, because the property did not prove sufficient.  The petition was recorded on Dec. 15, 1650.

Soon after 1650, Margery married her second husband, Thomas Rowell, after entering into the following marriage contract:

"Know all men by these presents, yt I, Thomas Rowell of Salisbury, doe hereby covenant & make this agremt, concerning Margere Ossgood, ye widdow of Christopher Ossgood of Ipsweich, whoome God willing, I intend to make my Lawfull wife, & now being in perfect healthe, sense & memory, doe bind myselfe, to the premisses ffollowing: -- Videly: -- As I take her to be my loving wife, soe I freely take her issue, being two sonnes, & two daughters, as my one, to endeavor to bring them upp, as a ffather ought to doe:  & ffurther more, I bind myselfe, that the said Margere shall quiettly ennoy & possesse, the halfe of my estate, which I shall be possessed withall, when it shall please God to change my life, besides the part of portion of goods, which I shall have with her, paying to the said issue, there severall portons, mentioned in there ffathers will, according to the appointed times, out of the said estate, which I shall enjoy with her.  In wittnes whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand, this 24th day of Ffebruary: 1650.  In the presence of,

Phillip Ffowler (P marke). Thomas Rowell (the marke of).
William Bridges.
William Chandler.

Received in court, held at Ipswich, the 30th of Sept., 1662, & alowed of, by the court.  As attest.  Robert Lord, cler."

April 5, 1659, Thomas, carpenter, with wife Marjery, sold Lieut. Robert Pike of Salisbury "all my farm in the said town of Salisbury, containing by estimation, six score acres, be it more or less, viz.: twenty acres of it was granted by the town of Salisbury, forty acres bought of Mr. Samuel Hale, and forty acres bought of Mr. Thomas Bradbury, which was sometime John Hoge's; all which several parcels of land, are situate, lying, and being within the bounds of Salisbury, up at the new town" for 14 pounds.

He died in Andover.  An inventory was taken June 16, 1662 showing an estate amounting to 156 pounds, 10 shillings, 2 pence.  The inventory was allowed Sept. 30, 1662, when Margery, his widow, was administratrix of estate.  By contract before marriage, margery was to have half the estate.  The court ordered 20 pounds, 10 shillings to be paid to Jacob Rowell, his son, when 21 years of age and to his grandchildren, the children of Valentine Rowell.  The eldest son of his grandchildren was to receive 7 pounds, 4 shillings.  The other five grandchildren were to receive 20 shillings apiece.  Additional inventory was sworn to in 1681 when his son, Jacob, was appointed to take the place of Margary, his widow.  Jacob is then called the only child who had then become of age. He was appointed administrator because Margary, the widow, had moved out of the jurisdiction to Nantucket.  Jacobe speaks of an agreement between his father and mother before marriage.  The appraisers were Dudley Bradstreet and Thomas Chandler.  Some of the estate was on the Indian Plains, being the third division meadow, on the west side of Shawshine river, and upland in the swamp division.

On July 15, 1670, "Margery Coleman, administratrix to the estate of Thomas Rowell, my former husband, late of Andover, deceased, with the full consent of Thomas Coleman, of the Island of nantuckett, my present Husband" for 3 pounds "payd by my son Christopher Ossgood, of Andover, Joyner" sells land on northwest side of Shawshine river, in Andover.  The witnesses were Governor Simon Bradstreet, Dudley Bradstreet, and Marcy Bradstreet.

After Thomas Osborne, a minister, was fined and imprisoned for his belief and fled from persecution to Nantucket, Margery took him for her fourth husband.  He sent a letter to George Little of Newbury, dated "Nantucket Island, 25 of the 8 month, 1682" which was published in the New England Hist. Gen. Register, 1862, pg. 25, from which is quoted the following:

"This is further to let you understand, I have married to one Margery Colman, a widdow, on the island Nantucket, where I now am.  I believe God hath provided for me & given me a meet help, a very loving wife, one in charity & walking, & I judge for the Lord, & a true lover of the pepell & church of the Lord, & I se nothing but the Lord blessing our indavors, we may live comfortably, though both aged & but crazy. ....I & my wife, entreat you to remember our harty love, to our brother Chandler & his wife, & all their children, intreating him, if he have my husband Colman's mind, which himself did write, & my husband Colman did set his hand to it, how he would leave me a confortable maintynance, if he died, & left me a widow.  My wife desires, he wold be pleased, to send it, if he have the same, as judging it might be of great benefit & use unto her, for her husband Colman's sons, deals very hardly by her, & keeps & takes what they can from me, and requites me very unworthlly, for all my care & endeavors for their good, which is a great grief & trouble unto me, but we trust the Lord will bear us up & grant what is necessary, and give us contentment in our spirits, in that portion he in his wisdom shall carve out unto us."

In her estate, Margery who was known as Margery Colman of Nantucket left 5 pounds to Abigail.  By deed dated May 27, 1673, the payment was to be paid by her brother Thomas of Newbury one year after her mother's death.

On April 1, 1665, Christopher agreed to pay all the debts of his mother. Christopher took an oath to this agreement in Court in March 1672 because he was being sued by heirs of Thomas Rowell.  He offered them the value in land but they wanted it in money.  On Oct. 2, 1666, he sold the dwelling house and grounds in Ipswich left him by his father to Thomas Metcalf.

On May 27, 1673, Christopher occupied the house and land of his mother, Margery Colman of Nantucket, in which she had lived with her former husband, Thomas Rowell.  On June 8, 1675, she mentioned that she had let her house and land for twelve years to her son, Christopher of Andover. He was to pay her 15 pounds at the expiration of the twelve years.  On that date, she oredered him to pay it to her son Thomas Osgood.  This deed of gift received by Thomas from his mother, Margery Colman of Nantucket, late of Andover, gives him the dwelling house, barn, land, etc. "wherein I lately dwelled in my former husband Thomas Rowell, his tyme" and he is to "pay, or cause to be payd unto my sonn Jacob Rowell, the full sum of Twenty nyne pounds ten shillings, when he comes to the age of twenty one years, according to the order of court," and to her daughters Abigail Wilson, and Deborah Ross (Russ), 5 pounds each.

In 1675, Thomas Osgood was to receive, by the order of his mother, from his brother Christopher, 15 pounds towards paying the above portion to Jacob Rowell.


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