genealogy of Patty Rose

 

 


Genealogy of Patty Rose


Name Capt. John OSGOOD
Birth 16 Oct 1631, Wherewell, Hampshire, England
Death 21 Aug 1693, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts76,88
Marriage 15 Nov 1653, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts20,23,36,88
Spouse Mary CLEMENTS
Birth 1637, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Death 27 Oct 1710, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts76,88
Father Robert* CLEMENTS (1595-1658)
Mother Lydia* DRUMMER (1595-<1642)
Children:
1 M Lt. John OSGOOD
Birth 3 Sep 1654, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,76,88
Death 17 Apr 1725, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts76
Spouse Hannah AYER
Marriage 17 Oct 168188
2 F Mary OSGOOD
Birth 27 Nov 1656, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,76,88
Death 13 Feb 1739/40, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts76
Spouse Lt. John ASLETT
Marriage 8 Jul 1680, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,23,88
3 M Timothy OSGOOD
Birth 10 Aug 1659, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,76,88
Death 16 Sep 1748, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts76,88
Spouse Deborah POOR
Marriage 29 May 1689, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,23,88
Spouse Mary POOLE
Marriage 11 Apr 1728, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts23
4 F Lydia OSGOOD
Birth 12 Aug 1661, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,76,88
Death 14 Nov 1741, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts76,88
Spouse Capt. James FRYE
Marriage 20 Jan 1679/80, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,88
5 M Peter OSGOOD
Birth 30 Aug 1663, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,76,88
Death 24 Sep 1753, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts88,76
Spouse Martha AYER
Marriage 19 May 169088
6 M Lt. Samuel OSGOOD
Birth 10 Mar 1664/65, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,88
Death 22 Apr 1717, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts76,88
Spouse Hannah DEAN
Marriage 4 Feb 1701/0288
7 F Sarah OSGOOD
Birth 7 Apr 1667, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,76,88
Death 22 Apr 1667, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,76,88
8 F Mehitable OSGOOD
Birth 4 Mar 1671/72, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,76,88
Death 28 Oct 1752, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts76
Spouse Daniel POOR
Marriage 25 Apr 168888
9 F Hannah OSGOOD
Birth 30 May 1674, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,76,88
Death 3 Aug 1674, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,76,88
10 F Sarah OSGOOD
Birth 4 Nov 1675, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,88
Death 23 Sep 1724, Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts76
Spouse Capt. Thomas PERLEY
Marriage 169588
11 M Clemence OSGOOD
Birth 4 Oct 1678, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,76,88
Death 18 Aug 1680, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts
12 F Clement OSGOOD
Birth 12 Oct 1680, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,76,88
Death 18 Nov 1680, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts20,76,88
Notes for Capt. John OSGOOD
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son of John and Sarah OSGOOD
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JOHN, Andover, s. of John Osgood; b. in Eng. a. 1631; oft. a selectman, was capt. and rep. 1666, 9, 89, and 90, with high popularity, as he had been imprison. by Andros. He m. at Haverhill, 15 Nov. 1653, Mary, d. of Robert Clement, had John, Mary, Timothy, Lydia, Peter, Samuel, Sarah, Mehitable, Hannah, Sarah, Ebenezer, Clement. He d. 21 Aug. 1993[sic], no doubt in some degree from the torment inflict. on his w. by accusa. of witchcraft in the damnable delusion of 1692, tho. she saved her life by confess. of impossib. guilt. See Abbot, Calef, and Hutchinson, II. 31. Charming page is that in 1 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII. 241, wh. gives her indictm. the gift of it being, that she "a covenant with the devil did make, and signed the devil's book, and took the devil to be her God, and consented to serve and worship him, and was bapt. by the devil, and renounc. her former Christian bapt. and promised to be the devil's, both body and soul forever, and to serve him." I rejoice, that, aft. the evaporation of the infernal spirit, she had energy eno. to acknowledge, 19 Oct. 1692, bef. the venerab. Increase Mather (not Cotton M. as in Geneal. Reg. XIII. 118, told) the falsehood of her confess. for surely most of the charges in that indict. would be better laid against the judges in the oyer and terminer. They served, if they did not worship the devil, and took him to be their God, whether they signed his book or not. Had that book been brot. into Court, as it ought to have been, or the governm. call. on to show at least, what means they had used to get the precious rec. to the open view of the jury, the name of William Stoughton, and more than one of his assoc. judges, I doubt not, as clear. as that of Mary Osgood, would have flared in the sapphire blaze. Hard is it to decide, whether prisoners or judges were under stronger delusion. [ref 20]
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JOHN2, son of John and Sarah Osgood; b. ab. 1631, in Eng.; m. Nov. 15, 1653, MARY2 CLEMENT; res. And.; 12 chil. [ref 36:268]
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John Osgood married Mary Clemance Nov 15, 1653 in Andover, Essex Co., MA [ref 23:0496897]
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Capt. John Osgood death 21 Aug 1693 Andover Essex [ref 76]
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Notes for Mary CLEMENTS
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MARY,2 b. ab. 1637; m. Nov. 15, 1653[Sv], JOHN2 OSGOOD (John1), of And. She was the youngest dau., who came from Coventry, Warwickshire, Eng., ab. 1652 or 3. [G. R. 1859, pp. 118, 272.] She was indicted for witchcraft in 1692; liv. 1695. [ref 36:96]
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Mary Osgood death 27 Oct 1710 Andover /wid Capt. John [ref 76]
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MARY2 CLEMENTS (Robert1), born in England in 1637, deposed in 1695, aged 58 yeares; died at Andover, Mass., 27 Oct. 1710. She married, 15 Nov. 1653, in Haverhill, Mass., John Osgood, born in England in 1632, died in Andover, 21 Aug. 1693, son of John and Sarah Osgood. When Robert Clements came to New England in 1642, Mary who was only five years old, was left in England, probably with relatives. Previous to 1652, she was living at Coventry with a Mrs. Biddle in Hay Lane. She must have joined her family in New England in 1652-3, as her marriage was in Nov. 1653, the ceremony being performed by her father. John Osgood, Jr., husband of Mary Clements, was a man of prominence in Andover, Mass. For thirty years he was in military service, and in 1683 he was captain of a "troop of horse." His name always appears second in any list of public or church officers at Andover. He had a considerable estate in lands and was a man of fortune. Mary Clements is mentioned as "a remarkably pious and good woman," and yet in 1692, she was accused of witchcraft. It is perhaps indicative of the height to which the witchcraft delusion rose that so prominent a woman could be found among the accused. Evidently the accusations were often caused by jealousy. It is quite probable that her commitment was signed by Dudley Bradstreet, her husband's friend. After signing a number of these warrants, Mr. Bradstreet refused to sign any more, and, with his wife, was immediately accused of witchcraft and obliged to fly for safety. Mary (Clements) Osgood died at Andover, Mass., 27 Oct. 1710. Children, born in Andover, Mass.: John, Mary, Timothy, Lydia, Peter, Samuel, Sarah, Mehetable, Hannah, Sarah, Clemence, Clement. [ref 88:57]
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The legal examination of the Andover victims lasted for several weeks; that of Mary (Clements) Osgood taking place on 8 Sept. 1692. With but one exception, the frenzied and agonized women, Mrs. Osgood among them, confessed that they had been "dipt" by Satan. About the only way to escape conviction and execution was to confess guilt and beg for mercy, so it is not surprising that Captain Osgood urged his wife to confess, in the hope of saving her life. However, in the end, the awfulness of a confession that one had given body and soul to Satan, outweighed in Mrs. Osgood's mind the desire for life and she recanted, and with others signed the following petition: "Our nearest and dearest relations seeing us in that dreadful condition, and knowing our great danger, apprehended there was no other way to save our lives.... Indeed, that confession that it is said we made was no other than what was suggested to us by some gentlemen, they telling us that we were witches, and they knew it and we knew it, which made us think that it was so, and our understanding, our reason, our faculties almost gone we were not capable of judgeing our condition. As also the hard measures they used with us rendered us incapable of making our defence, but said any thing and everything which they desired and with most of us, what we said was but in effect a consenting to what they said. Sometime after, when we were better composed, they telling us what we had confessed, we did profess that we were innocent and ignorant of such things: and we hearing that Samuel Wardwell had renounced his confession and quickly after condemned and executed, some of us were told that we were going after Wardwell. Mary Osgood, Deliverance Dane, Sarah Wilson, Mary Tyler, Abigail Barker, Hannah Tyler." (Upham's Salem Witchcraft, 2:403.)

Increase Mather visited the prisoners and remarked that they "bewailed and lamented what they had confessed and proved the sincerity of their repentance by denouncing their confession, thus offering their lives, there seeming no escape from the awful fate of all who did not confess." At this time Mary Osgood, being questioned by him in Oct. 1692, replied that "Being asked why she prefixed a time, and spake of her being baptized, etc., about twelve years since, she replied and said, that, when she owned the thing, they asked the time, to which she answered that she knew not the time. But, being told that she did know the time and the like she considered that about twelve years before (when she had her last child) she had a fit of sickness; and was melancholy; and so thought that that time might be as proper a time to mention as any and accordingly did prefix the said time. Being asked about the cat, in the shape of which she had confessed that the Devil had appeared to her, &c., she replied, that, being told that the Devil had appeared to her and must needs appear to her, &c. (she being a witch) she at length did own that the Devil had appeared to her; and being pressed to say in what creature's shape he appeared, she at length did say that it was in the shape of a cat. Remembering that some time before her being apprehended, as she went out at her door, She saw a cat, &c.; not as though she any whit suspected the said cat to be the Devil, in the day of it, but because some creature she must mention & this came into her mind at that time" (Ibid. 2:406). Bewildered by their trying experiences, and tormented by the realization that in confessing an alliance with Satan, they had, as they believed, imperilled the immortality of their souls, the poor accused women were thrown into jail. Mary Osgood was imprisoned over three months without regard for her necessities or comforts. As winter came on the relatives of the accused became anxious lest they should die of their privations and drew up the following petition, and as John Osgood is the first signer, it seems probable that he was the prime mover in the matter.

"To the Honored Generall Court now sitting in Boston, This 12 of october 1692.
Right honored Gentlemen and fathers we your humble petitioners whose names are underwritten petition as followeth: viz. we would not Trouble your honours with a Tedious diversion: but briefly spread open our distressed Condition and beg your honours favour and pitty, in affording what Relieff may be thought Convenient, as for the matter of our Trouble: it is The distressed Condition of our wives and Relations in prison at Salem who are a company of poore distressed creatures as full of inwarde griefe and Trouble as they are able to bear up in life withall: and besides That, ye agrivations of outward Troubles and hardships thay undergo: wants of food Convenient: and the coldess of the winter season yt is coming may soon dispatch such out of the way That have not been used to such hardships: and besides this The exceeding great Charges and expences yt we are at. upon many accounts which will be two tedious to give a pertickuler account of. which will fall heavy upon us especially in a time of so great and expence upon a generall account in the Country which is expected of us to bear a part as well as others which if put all together our familys and Estates will be brought to Ruin: if it Cannot in time be prevented: having spread open our Condition: we humbly make our adres. To your honors To Grant yt our wives and Relations being of Such That have been aproved as penitent Confessors, might be Returned home to us upon what bond your honors shall See good we do not petition to take them out of the hands of Justice but to Remain as prisoners under bond in their own familys where thay may be more Tenderly Cared for and may be be redy to apear To Answer farther when the honored Court shall call for them: we humbly Crave your honors favour and pitty for us and ours hearin, having lett Down our Troubled Estate before you, we heartyly pray for your honors. Petitioners:
John osgood in behalfe of his wife.
John ffry. in behalf of his wife.
John Marston. in behalf of his wife: mary marston.
Christopher osgood in behalf of his daughter mary marten.
Joseph Willson: in behalf of his wife.
John Bridges: in behalf of his wife and children.
hope Tiler: in behalf of his wife and daughter.
Ebenezer Barker: for his wife.
Nathaniel Dane for his Wife."

No notice was taken of this petition, for later, a second one was addressed to the authorities: "To his Excellency the Governor and Council now sitting, at Boston, The humble Petition, of severall of the Inhabitants of Andover, sheweth That whereas our Wives and severall of our neighbors, sometime Since, were committed to Salem Prison, (for what cause your Honors have been informed) and during their imprisonment have been exposed to great Sufferings which daily encrease by reason of the winter comeing on; we had hoped that before this day they would have had a Gaol delivery, but Since that hath been so long deferred, and we are very Sensible of the extream danger the Prisoners are in of perishing if they are not Speedily released: have made bold to make our humble Petition to yor Honors, to consider the present distressed and suffering condition of our friends in Prison, and grant them liberty to come home, upon such terms as yor Honors shall Judge most meet. If we might be allowed to plead their Innocency, we think we have Sufficient grounds to make such a plea for them and hope their Innocency will in time appear to the satisfaction of others, however they are at present under uncomfortable circumstances. So craveing pardon for the trouble we have now given your Honors, and humbly requesting that something may be speedily done for the relief of our friends. And yor Petitionrs as in duty bound Shall ever pray. &c.
Andover 6th Decembr 1692.
JOHN OSGOOD
CHRISTOPHER OSGOOD
JOHN FFRIE
NATHANIEL DANE
JOSEPH WILLSON
HOPESTIL TILER
JOHN BRIDGES
EBENEZER BARKER"

That this petition had more effect than the former one is evidenced by a bond filed in Court, 20 Dec. 1692, by "John Osgood Yeoman and Deacon John ffry both of Andover" for two hundred pounds. The bond recites that:-- "Whereas Mary Osgood wife of the abovesd John Osgood of Andover aforesd; is suspected & Accused of Committing Divers Acts of Witchcrafts shall and Do make her Personall appearance ... at ye next Court ... then ye above Recognizance to be void."

To the honoured court of Assize held at Salem,
The humble address of several of the inhabitants of Andover.
May it please this honoured court,
We being very sensible of the great sufferings our neighbours have been long under in prison, and charitably judging that many of them are clear of that great transgression which hath been laid to their charge, have thought it our duty to endeavor their vindication so far as our testimony for them will avail. The persons in whose behalf we are desired and concerned to speak something at present are Mrs. Mary Osgood, Eunice Frye, Deliverance Dane, Sarah Wilson and Abigail Barker, who are women of whom we can truly give this character and commendation, that they have not only lived among us so inoffensively as not to give the least occasion to any that know them to suspect them of witchcraft, but by their sober godly and exemplary conversation have obtained a good report in the place, where they have been well esteemed and approved in the church of which they are members.

The name of Captain Osgood may be found in other bonds by means of which he pledged himself in various sums for the appearance at Court of his townspeople, some of them being young children. It is evident that he made every effort to have the victims of the delusion restored to their families.

We were surprized to hear that persons of known integrity and piety were accused of so horrid a crime, not considering, then, that the most innocent were liable to be so misinterpreted and abused. When these women were accused by some afflicted persons of the neighbourhood, their relations and others, . . . they had so good grounds of charity that they should not have thought any evil of them, yet, through a misrepresentation of the truth of that evidence that was so much credited and improved against people, took great pains to persuade them to own what they were, by the afflicted, charged with, and, indeed, did unreasonably urge them to confess themselves guilty, as some of us who were then present can testify. But these good women did very much assert their innocency, yet some of them said they were not without fear least Satan had some way ensnared them, because there was that evidence against them which then was by many thought to be a certain indication and discovery of withccraft, yet they seriously professed they knew nothing by themselves of that nature: Nevertheless, by the unwearied sollicitations of those that privately discoursed them both at home and at Salem, they were at length persuaded publickly to own what they were charged with, and so submit to that guilt which we still hope and believe they are clear of. And, it is probable, the fear of what the event might be, and the encouragement that it is said was suggested to them, that confessing was the only way to obtain favour, might be too powerful a temptation for timorous women to withstand, in the hurry and distraction that we have heard they were then in. Had what they said against themselves proceeded from conviction of the fact, we should have had nothing to have said for them, but we are induced to think that it did not, because they did soon privately retract what they had said, as we are informed, and, while they were in prison, they declared to such as they had confidence to speak freely and plainly to, that they were not guilty of what they had owned, and that what they had said against themselves was the greatest grief and burden they laboured under; Now, though we cannot but judge it a thing very sinful for innocent persons to own a crime they are not guilty of, yet, considering the well ordered conversation of those women while they lived among us, and what they now seriously and constantly affirm in a more composed frame, we cannot but in charity judge them innocent of the great transgression that hath been imputed to them. As for the rest of our neighbours, who are under the like circumstances with these that have been named, we can truly say of them that while they lived among us, we have had no cause to judge them such persons as, of late, they have been represented and reported to be, nor do we know that any of their neighbours had any just grounds to suspect them of that evil that they are now charged with.
Dudley Bradstreet; Francis Dane, sen.; Thomas Barnard; Tho. Chandler, sen.; John Barker; Henry Ingolls, sen.; Wm. Chandler, sen.; Samuel Martin; Stephen Parker; Samuel Ingolls; Ephraim Stevens; Daniel Poore; John Ingolls; Henry Ingolls, jun.; John Frie, sen.; James Frie; John Aslebee; Samuel Holt; John Abbot, sen.; Samuel Blanchard; Wm. Ballard; Thomas Hooper; John Hooper; Wm. Abbot; James Russell; Oliver Holt; John Presson; Francis Dane, jun.; George Abbot; Wm. Chandler, jun.; John Chandler; Joseph Robinson; Thomas Johnson; Tho. Johnson, jun.; Andrew Peters; Mary Peters; Elizabeth Rite; Wm. Peters; Sam. Peters; Walter Wright; Hooker Osgood; Benj. Stevens; Ann Bradstreet; Joanna Dane; Eliza. Stevens; Eliza. Barnard; Phebe Robinson; Hannah Chandler; Hannah Dane; Bridget Chandler; Mary Johnson; Robert Russel; Mary Russel.

A few months after his wife was freed (21 Aug. 1693), he died, his death hastened, if not caused, by the anxiety and grief with which he had contended during the past year.

In 1695, Mary (Clements) Osgood testified in Court regarding an Ann Potter:-- "The Deposition of Mrs Mary Osgood (alias) Clemance now of Andover in ye Countey of Essex in New England formerly of ye City of Coventry in Warwick Shire in old England aged 58 yeares Who Testiefieth & saith that before ye yeare Anno Doml 1652 I lived in ye City of Coventry abovesd & boarded in ye house of Mrs. Biddle in Hay lane & was then well acquainted with Mrs Ann Potter grandaughter to Thomas Potter Esq who had been Mayor of ye City ye said mrs Ann Potter her fathers Name was as I have been Informed Humphery Potter ye Only Son of sd Thomas Potter Esq ye abovesd Ann Potter (whose parents as I have heard were murdured in Ireland) is now living in Salem in New England & Wife to mr. Anthony Neadham & also sd Mary Osgood does further Testifie that Mrs Rebecca Bacon Aunt to Abovesd Ann Potter sent to England for her which Invitation she accepted Mrs Mary Osgood made Oath to what is abovewritten this 19th of July 1695."
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