Twelfth Generation

2566. John Osgood^1450,1810 was born on 23 July 1595 in England, Hampshire, Wherwell parish.¹⁸¹⁰ He signed a will on 12 April 1650 in Massachusetts Colony, Essex Co., Andover.¹⁸¹¹ After mentioning his wife and children, he bequeaths eighteen shillings to the Meeting House in Newbury to buy a cushion for the minister to lay his book upon and gives his servant Caleb Johnson one cow calf to be payed 3 years before his time is out and to be kept at the cost of his executors. He died on 24 October 1651 at the age of 56.¹⁸¹⁰ John requested permission to sail to New England from the Westminister court. The following letter was found in the state Paper Office in England:
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 23, 1637. Your sonne is very well. Ye bearer of this letter will, as I am told, pay any monys that shall be due to you in this business.
This letter is superscribed:
To my Honorable friend, Mr. Nicholas, one of ye clerks of ye counseyl in King's Street near ye axe yard in Westminister and is endorsed 3d April in 1638. Mr. Dr. Stanley schoolmaster at Winton for a passe for Jo: Osgood (Frost, 155)

John sailed to New England shortly after he received his pass. He settled for a time in Ipswich until moving to Newbury were he lived until 1645. He then settled in Andover for the remainder of his life. He was one of the founders of the church in 1645 and was the first representative of Andover to the General Court in 1651, but was only able to attend one of the Court meetings before dying. Sarah and John Osgood were married before 1637 in England.¹⁸¹⁰

2567. Sarah¹⁴⁵⁰ died on 8 April 1667 in Massachusetts Colony, Essex Co., Andover.¹⁸¹⁰ She was born.

Children were:

	i.	Stephen Osgood was born about 1638 in England.1812 He died of smallpox on 15 January 1690/1 at the age of 53 in Massachusetts Colony, Essex Co., Andover.1812
1283	ii.	Deborah Osgood.