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!    According to Donald Raney's genealogy, Christopher's birth date is given as 1642 but it is unknown what the source document is from which this date was taken.  All other sources show 1643 as the birth date.

From information found, Christopher had four wives and sixteen children. After his father died, Christopher sold the estate left him by his father in Ipswich and moved to Andover where the children of his relative, John Osgood, lived.

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.

On April 1, 1665, Christopher agreed to pay all the debts of his mother. He 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 July 15, 1670, he bought land on the northwest side of Shawshine river in Andover from his mother for 3 pounds.

In 1671 he made a deposition that he was 27 years of age and his wife, Hannah, was 30 years of age.

On May 27, 1673, he 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.

He took the Freeman's Oath on Feb. 21, 1675/76 and the Oath of Allegiance at Andover on Feb. 11, 1678.  He was Constable in 1676.  He was Selectman of Andover in 1678, 1679, 1680, 1683, 1684, 1686, 1687, 1688, 1693, and 1696.  He was a Representative to General Court in 1690, 1693, 1696, 1705, and 1709.

He was an ardent patriot and was imprisoned, without warrant, for a few days by Governor Andros.  He was Captain of a Company in the militia in 1690 and in active service had his servant killed by the Indians.

He was a member of the Church in South Parish which was organized Oct. 7, 1711.  it was composed of fourteen male members and his name is on the list next to the minister's name.

He sold a half right in the common lands in Ipswich which had belonged to his father's estate to Edmund Heard on July 18, 1722.  After the marriage of his mother to Deacon Rowell of Andover, he sold the estate left him by his father in Ipswich and moved to Andover.  He resided in Andover till his death.

According to the History of the Osgood Family; Descendants of Christopher Osgood, he was a millwright as was William Osgood of Salisbury and built Frye's mills in Andover.  However, in another source he is shown as a joyner and his son, Christopher, was shown as a millwright.

He died at age 80.  His will was dated July 24, 1722; proved June 10, 1723; and recorded in the Essex Probate Book 13, pg. 324.


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