Mary S. Lowell

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Mary Osgood's life was a quiet one so far as the records and probably one of hard work as she died in 1675, while John was still acquiring acres for his boys. Mary, her eldest, had married John Wilson down at the "Corners", but the rest had yet to be placed. Hanna Pritchard came in 1675 to live with John "thirteen comfortable years" as he relates in the will of 1690 when the prematurely old man is ready to leave this "vale of tears" where grief waited upon him. Three years after Mary Osgood left her baby Ebenezer to Hanna's care, Sara married William Johnson, one of the active, almost turbulent spirits that seemed to animate the boys of the John Johnson line from Ipswich. John Lovejoy, eldest son, married that same year Naomi Hoyt from Newbury or Amesbury, daughter of the emigrant John and his second wife Frances. She was probably a woman of great beauty without moral backbone to balance. In 1667, her sister Dorothy famous as a "new woman" having rashly "put on men's clothes." Father Hoyt and all the neighbors swarm to the Norfolk court where Amesbury people were disciplined and "manifested the great appearance of said Dorothy's repentance." But the hard hearts agree to whip her when she comes back into the county, if 40 shillings fine in corn and money is not paid immediately. The neighbors help out and Dorothy settles down in feminine fashion.