Samuel Osgood

A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS. DAR Ancestor # A084663

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Samuel, eldest son and second child of James and Hannah (Hazen) Osgood, was born in Concord, July 13, 1734, and died March 16, 1774^ aged forty. February 16, 1761, John Webster and Samuel Osgood filed a remonstrance with the general assembly, stating that "they had lately purchased the farm commonly called Keith's farm, contiguous to Rumford, of the claimers of the right of John Tufton Mason, Esq., and that it would be more convenient for them to be annexed to Boscawen than to Canterbury, on account of the distance from the meeting house, and the badness of the roads, and not agreeable to their interest, connexions or inclinations" to be annexed to Canterbury. This farm contained three hundred acres, and lay .north of the Rumford (Concord) line, on the east side of the Merrimack river.

Bouton's History states that he married Jane Webster; Carter's Pembroke says he married, January 4, 1753,

Elizabeth , who died September" 27, 1792.

His children were: Lydia, Elizabeth, Sarah. Joseph, Dorcas, John, Thomas and Christopher.