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Subject: [GM-L] OSGOOD Families of Westford, MA (Middlesex Co.)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:09:24 EST

Subject: OSGOOD Family of Westford, MA
Source: History of the Town of Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts,
1659 to 1883 by Rev. Edwin R. Hodgman, A.M., Lowell, MA - Morning Mail
Company, Printers, 1883.

p.462 - 463

OSGOOD, Benjamin, Colonel, b. at Andover, 1754, m. Tryphena Cummings,
daughter of Thomas Cummings, Jr., 1778. Children:
1. Phena Osgood b. 1779 m. James Robbins, 1803.
2. Benjamin Jr., b. 1781. (see below)
3. Josiah b. 1782; d. 1784.
4. John b. 1784.
5. Jacob b. 1787.
6. Patty b. 1790 m. Alpheus Spalding of Chelmsford in 1815.

p.463
OSGOOD, Benjamin Jr., M.D., b. 1781 m. (1) Nancy Cummings, dau of Isaac
Cummings, in 1810. She d. 1831. Their children:

1. Benjamin Franklin Osgood b. 1812; died unm.

2. Zaccheus Wright Osgood b. 1814; d. 1821.

3. Nancy Osgood b. 1816; d. 1819.

4. George Stuart Osgood b. 1819; d. 1837.

5. Nancy Houghton Osgood b. 1821.

6. Elizabeth Mayhew Osgood b. 1823.

7. Isaac Cummings Osgood b. 1826; died at Racine, WI 1854.

8. John Mason Osgood b. 1828.

Benjamin Osgood Jr. m. (2) Eliza Cummings dau of John Cummings in 1833
and had:

9. Augustus Holyoke Osgood b. 1833.

10. Judith Pickman Osgood b. 1836; died 1837.

11. Ellen Appleton Osgood b. 1840

Dr. Benjamin Osgood died 1863.

OSGOOD, John; son of Col. Benjamin Osgood & Tryphena Cummings.
John Osgood m. (1) Patty Fletcher, dau of Capt. Thomas Fletcher, in 1807.
Their children:

1. John Hamilton Osgood b. 1807; resided in Chelsea.

2. Josiah Osgood b. 1809; resided in Chelsea.

3. Martha Osgood b. 1811; m. Rev. Thomas Laurie, D.D. and went as a
missionary to Turkey and died 1843.

John Osgood m. (2) Mrs. Sarah (Spalding) Perham of Chelmsford in 1816.
His children by his 2nd marriage:

4. Harriet Emma Osgood b. 1817; m. George Brown, 1839 and removed to
Winchendon.

5. Edward Henry Osgood b. 1829.

John Osgood died in 1858. His 2nd wife, Sarah died 1878 aged 91 years
and eleven months.

OSGOOD, Jacob; son of Col. Benjamin Osgood & Thryphena Cummings.
Jacob Osgood m. Patty, dau of Pelatiah Fletcher in 1807. Their children:

1. Joel Fletcher Osgood b. 1807.

2 & 3. Jacob & Patty Osgood (twins) b. 1809, and Jacob died 1829.

4. Peletiah Osgood b. 1811.

5. Charles Osgood b. 1815; removed to Townsend.

6. Maria Osgood b. 1817.

7. Alden Pitt Osgood b. 1819. (see below)

8. Eliza Jane Osgood b. 1821; d. 1834.

9. Isaac Newton Osgood b. 1823; d. 1825.

10. Augusta Ann Osgood b. 1827.

11. Jacob Newton Osgood, b. 1829.

12. Chester Houghton Osgood b. 1832; d. 1847.

13. Benjamin Everett Osgood b. 1835.

OSGOOD, Alden P., m. (1) Sarah S. Baker in 1849. She d. 1857. He
m. (2) Nancy, dau of Deacon Caleb Wight in 1858. His children by his
2nd wife:

1. Houghton Gilbert Osgood b. 1859.
2. Ida Marie Osgood b. 1861.
3. Sarah Josephine Osgood b. 1863; d. 1878.
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