Friedeswiede Mulford

Seen as daughter of Anthonie Osborne & Margaret Osborne

From Savage:

”OSBORN, WILLIAM, Salem 1630, freem. 22 May 1639, by w. call. in Felt's list of ch. memb. 1641, Frezwith or Freesweed, had there, I think, no ch. rem. to Dorchester, and there town rec. ment. by Frodiswerd his w. had Recompense, b. 26 May 1644, a. "six-o'clock P. M." H. C. 1661, at Braintree had Hannah, 24 Aug. 1646; Bezaleel, 8 Mar. 1650; and some yrs. aft. at Boston, by prob. the same w. call. Fredeswith and in Prov. rec. Freesweed, had Joseph, b. 6 Apr. 1652; and Jonathan, 16 Nov. 1656. He was a merch. and he d. a. mid. life; his inv. of 29 Apr. 1662 shows over L1000; well for that time. His wid. m. John Mulford of South Hampton, Yorksh. E. Riding, and in 1670 sold to Rev. Antipas Newman of Wenham, that 10 acres granted to. O.”

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http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~royc/genealogy/Osborne/Descendants%2...

Children of Thomas Osborn 2 who are not usually given in genealogies may have been Jonathan and Bezaleel. Osborn Shaw thinks so. At any rate, there were Osborns here bearing those names at dates when they could have been sons of Thomas 2; although Judge Henry P. Hedges was inclined to think they were together with another Joseph, sons of a wealthy Boston merchant, William Osborn. William Osborn 1 was in Salem 1630, in Dorchester 1639, at Harvard College 1661; he had a son Recompence born in Dorchester 1644, at Braintree, Mass. had Hannah born Aug. 24, 1646, Bezaleel May 8, 1650, and in Boston had Joseph born April 6, 1652 and Jonathan born Nov. 16, 1656. He died 1662. His widow married John Mulford of East Hampton. (Widow Friedeswiede Osborn). Recompence 2 graduated from Harvard and later taught school in New Haven, then went to East Hampton and after 1665 disappears, probably died here; Jonathan went to Cape May, N.J. where he and his brother Joseph owned a house together in 1690. Joseph is probably the "Joseph Sr." who died in 1741 in East Hampton aged about 90.

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John Mulford married, 2nd, Friedeswiede (widow of William Osborn), but she was not the mother of any of his children. All the children were by his first wife, identified as Hannah Howell of Southampton, according to various clues, the daughter of Edward Howell, founder of Southampton. An early victim of the fanaticism which eventually bewitched Salem, Massachusetts, Hannah died in infamy and for this reason was forgotten in most family recollections.
John Mulford's (1606-1686) will was dated 04 December 1683 and it was proved 19 October 1686. He was probably buried in the Southend Burying Ground, but the wooden markers of the time did not survive. His will mentions second wife Friedewiede and carefully divides his large estate between her and his children. (Sources: Genealogical Dictionary by Savage, 1860; Colonial Ancestors and Descendants, by Uri Mulford, 1920; James Cory and Susan Mulford, by C. H. Cory, 1922; Lineal Ancestors, by C. H. Cory, 1937; by J. H. Jones, 1907.) Judge John Mulford died in 1686, at East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, at age 81.
Her last name at birth likely was not Swiede and remains actually unknown. Although her first name is divided by some into two names, evidence is in favor, and most sources agree, that Friedeswiede was a single name, after Saint Frideswide (Frithuswith) of Oxford, England. Wikipedia

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(_____) (Osborn) Mulford, neighbor in Boston, was called "sister Moleford" in Collicott's will, and was probably a sister of second wife Thomasine. Coddington suggested that Frideswide and Thomasine were born Wards and were younger half-sisters of Samuel Ward of Hingham or of Ward's unknown wife.

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References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Swiede-1 cites
  • Jeannette Edwards Rattray, East Hampton History. East Hampton, Long Island, New York: Country Life Press (1953), page 476.
  • Pelletreau, William. Records of the Town of Smithtown, Long Island, N.Y. (1898) Page 4
• Bates, Samuel. Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640-1793 (Daniel H. Huxford, Randolph, Mass., 1886) Page 628: 1646 *"Hannah, Daughter of William Osborne & Frizund his wife was Borne The 24th of the 6 month" (b. Aug 24, 1644) Archive.Org
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/L8SW-M6L cites
  • "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DCTX-2TT2 : 10 November 2020), Fredeswth in entry for Joseph Osbourn, 6 Apr 1652; citing Birth, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004329324.
  • "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DCT8-CP3Z : 10 November 2020), Fredeswth in entry for Jonathan Osbourn, 16 Nov 1656; citing Birth, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004329324.
  • “Frideswide Osborn” in the New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635. Richard Collicott sketch. AncestryImage Coddington suggests that Frideswide (__) (Osborn) Mulford and Thomasine (__) Collicott were younger half sisters of Samuel Ward of Hingham or of Ward’s unknown wife.
    • WARD of Hingham and Charlestown, Massachusetts. Samuel Ward, my 10th great grandfather, was an early settler at Hingham, Massachusetts. He might have been the brother of the Henry Ward who was buried there on 15 May 1642. His first wife was Mary Hilliard, who died at Hingham 28 November 1638 ten days after giving birth to my 9th great grandfather, Samuel, Jr. Mary had given four children to Samuel, Sr. His second wife was Frances Pitcher, the widow of a Mr. Reycroft. Frances died in 1690 and is buried at Copp’s Hill Burial Ground in Boston. link
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102903520/hannah-f-osborn (no records / tombstone shown)
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20180859/john-mulford “ Husband of Hannah F Friedeswiede ; AE 80 ys. One of the earliest settler in this town in 1649.”
• https://osborne-origins.org/linkrecs/f9754.htm#R9755 cites
• 1. "Gen. Mag. of NJ", Vol.36, p3, "The Other Osborne Family", Richard Cook
• 2. "The Barbour Collection of CT Vital Recs.", "Index", Barbour