Individual Details
Margery FOWLER
( - )
Events
Families
Spouse | Christopher OSGOOD (1607 - 1650) |
Child | Abigail OSGOOD (1636 - ) |
Child | Christopher OSGOOD (1638 - 1722) |
Child | Elizabeth OSGOOD (1640 - 1673) |
Child | Deborah OSGOOD (1643 - ) |
Child | Thomas OSGOOD (1650 - ) |
Spouse | Thomas ROWELL ( - ) |
Spouse | Thomas COLEMAN ( - ) |
Spouse | Thomas OSBORNE ( - ) |
Father | Philip FOWLER (1580 - ) |
Notes
Miscellaneous
Gives daughter Mary Osgood ten pounds to be paid at her day of marriage.Gives other daughters, Abigail, Elisabeth and Deborah, each five pounds payable on day of marriage.
Gives son Christopher Osgood house and land at age 22
Wife Margery Osgood is to be executrix and enjoy the estate during the minority of the children.
Overseers of the estate are to be Mr. John Norton and "my father[in-law] Phillip ffowler" -- 19 April 1650
Witnesses: Nathaneel Mather, Joseph Rowlandson, Daniell Rolfe
Addendum: Eldest daughter must have consent of overseers to marry
Younger daughters must have consent of mother to marry
Portions payable to them at age 20 if not married
Proved "10 : 8 : 1650" [In view of following, this means October 8]
-- Copy of will, Ipswich Deeds, Vol. 1, leaf 76.
Margery Osgood, widow, petitions for a greater share. Oct. 16, 1650, referred to Mr. Samuel Symonds, Maj. Dennison and Mr. John Norton for a settlement.
--Mass Bay Colony Records, vol. 3, page 217.
The will was altered:
Eldest daughter 8 li. rather than 10
Second daughter 4 li. rather than 5
Eldest son to pay the "two younger children" at age 18, 4 li. each [Did one of the daughters die in the interim?]
Dated Dec. 15, 1650
--Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 104.
Endnotes
1. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, 7 volumes (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1999-2011), vol. 5, p. 321; indexed database of page images, NEHGS, AmericanAncestors.org (https://www.americanancestors.org/search/category-search/503850/great-migration-study-project : viewed 5 May 2019).
2. Major Lemuel Abijah Abbott, compiler, Descendants of George Abbott, of Rowley, Mass., of his joint descendants with George Abbott, sr., of Andover, Mass.; of the descendants of Daniel Abbott, of Providence, R. I.; of some of the descendants of Capt. Thomas Abbott, of Andover, Mass.; of George Abbott, of Norwalk Ct.; of Robert Abbott, of Branford Ct.; with brief notes of many others of the name, original settlers in the United States, (Two vols., consecutive pagination) (Boston, MA: T. R. Marvin & Son [printer], 1906), pp. 57-61; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/descendantsofgeo01abbo and https://archive.org/details/descendantsofgeo02abbo : accessed 17 May 2016; genealogical sketch of Nehemiah Abbott.
3. George Francis Dow, editor, The Probate Records of Essex County Massachusetts, Volume II, 1665-1674 [abstracts] (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1917), pp. 121-122, Estate of Christopher Osgood of Ipswich; online page images, Hathi Trust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008912649 : viewed 4 May 2019).
4. George Francis Dow, editor, The Probate Records of Essex County Massachusetts, Volume II, 1665-1674 [abstracts] (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1917), pp. 121-122, Estate of Christopher Osgood of Ipswich; online page images, Hathi Trust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008912649 : viewed 4 May 2019).
5. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, 7 volumes (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1999-2011), vol. 5, p. 321; indexed database of page images, NEHGS, AmericanAncestors.org (https://www.americanancestors.org/search/category-search/503850/great-migration-study-project : viewed 5 May 2019).
6. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, 7 volumes (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1999-2011), vol. 5, p. 321; indexed database of page images, NEHGS, AmericanAncestors.org (https://www.americanancestors.org/search/category-search/503850/great-migration-study-project : viewed 5 May 2019).
7. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, 7 volumes (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1999-2011), vol. 5, p. 321; indexed database of page images, NEHGS, AmericanAncestors.org (https://www.americanancestors.org/search/category-search/503850/great-migration-study-project : viewed 5 May 2019).