Osgood, John (1770-1840)

Name:

Osgood, John (1770-1840)

Title:

Sealer of Weights and Measures, Town of Haverhill, 1795
Clerk, Town of Haverhill
Treasurer, Town of Haverhill

Born:

06/20/1770

Birthplace:

Andover, MA

Died:

07/29/1840

Death Location:

Haverhill, NH

Residence:

Andover, MA
Salem, MA
Haverhill, NH 1793-1840

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Silversmith, Clock watchmaker 1793-1840

Father:

Osgood, John (Col.)

Mother:

Frye, Huldah

Relations:

Master to Phinehas Bailey
Master to John Osgood, Jr.
Step-brother-in-law of Enoch Poor
Step-brother-in-law of Henry Dearborn

Spouse:

Married Sarah Porter, May 4, 1797, Haverhill, NH

Children:

John, born May 29, 1798, Haverhill, NH; died December 26, 1860, Boston, MA; Married Delia W. Moore, November 18, 1830
Alfred, born July 22, 1802, Haverhill, NH

Notes:

Advertisement, Spooner's Vermont Journal, November 4, 1793.

Advertisement for Apprentice, Courier of New Hampshire, 21 Mar 1797.

Advertisement for Journeyman Clockmaker, Federal Mirror, 27 Feb 1795.

Antiques Journal, Jan 1960.
Alfred Blaisdell, "Recollections of My Grandfather, John Osgood," Haverhill Heritage Books, Haverhill Corner, Early 19th Century.
Charles A. Currier, M.D., Typed Manuscript Tracing Ownership of 27 Osgood Clocks.
Flynt Fales, "Osgood, John," 191-92.
Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver, Adams Brown Company, 1983, 116-17.

William F. Whitcher, History of the Town of Haverhill New Hampshire. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press,1919), 368, 609-610.

Ira Osgood, Compiler. 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, Massachusetts: The Salem Press), 37, 68-69.