Individual Details

Christopher Lovejoy

(1 Mar 1661/62 - 17 Mar 1736/37)

Christopher Lovejoy apparently did not hold public office but in several deeds is termed "Husbandman." In his will, 1736, Christopher gave his widow one cow but instructed his grandson, Jonathan, to keep it for her and pay forty shillings annually. Also she got the use of "all lands and meadow on north side of the brook behind the barn that runs into the pond meadow except a parcel laying a the brook and joining John Foster's land; thence the bounds run to Ebenezer Lovejoy's land on the west and my upland near Thomas Abbot's pasture her had of Joseph Phelps." Christopher in his will asked his son, Hezekiah, to redeem a pasture he desires for his share that "lies on the dam owned by Timothy Mooar" (Haggett's Pond Dam), In 1721 Christopher and Ebenezer Lovejoy, along with William Foster, formed a syndicate and bought an enormous farm belonging to the Frye heirs. Christopher sold off various parcels and it is probably here that his sons located.

Events

Birth1 Mar 1661/62Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, British America
Marriage26 May 1685Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, British America - Sarah Russ
Death17 Mar 1736/37Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, British America

Families

SpouseSarah Russ (1668 - 1737)
ChildMiriam Lovejoy (1686 - 1770)
ChildChristopher Lovejoy (1687 - 1732)
ChildSarah Lovejoy (1689 - )
ChildJonathan Lovejoy (1697 - 1725)
ChildHezekiah Lovejoy (1701 - 1751)
ChildElizabeth Lovejoy (1700 - )
ChildMargaret Lovejoy (1709 - )
FatherJohn Lovejoy (1622 - 1690)
MotherMary Osgood (1633 - 1675)
SiblingMary Lovejoy (1652 - 1677)
SiblingSarah Lovejoy (1654 - 1706)
SiblingJohn Lovejoy Jr. (1656 - 1680)
SiblingLieutenant William Lovejoy (1657 - 1748)
SiblingAnn Lovejoy (1659 - 1724)
SiblingJoseph Lovejoy (1662 - 1737)
SiblingBenjamin Lovejoy (1664 - 1689)
SiblingNathaniel Lovejoy (1667 - 1752)
SiblingAbigail Lovejoy (1669 - 1747)
SiblingDeborah Lovejoy (1671 - )
SiblingEbenezer Lovejoy (1673 - 1760)

Notes

Birth

Louejoy, Christopher, s. John and Mary, Mar. 1, 1661-2.

Marriage

Database: American Marriages Before 1699
Name Spouse Marriage Date Marriage Place
LOVEJOY, Christopher Russ, Sarah 26 May 1685 Andover, Mass.

According to Henry S. Lovejoy, they were married by Major Saltonstall.

Lovejoy, Christopher, and Sarah Russ, May 26, 1685.

Endnotes

1. Andover, MA Vital Records to 1850 [Births & Marriages] (Topsfield, MA : The Topsfield Historical Society , 1912) Online Web Edition Transcribed by Frances LaMarco. .

2. Jackson, Annie Givin, Genealogical record of John Lovejoy (1622-1917) of Andover, Massachusetts, and of his late wife, Mary Osgood of Ipswich, Massachusetts : also of their descendants unto the tenth generation (Denver, Colo.: A.G. Jackson, 1917, 40 pgs.), p 10 - March 1, 1663.

3. Andover, MA Vital Records to 1850 [Births & Marriages] (Topsfield, MA : The Topsfield Historical Society , 1912) Online Web Edition Transcribed by Frances LaMarco. .

4. Jackson, Annie Givin, Genealogical record of John Lovejoy (1622-1917) of Andover, Massachusetts, and of his late wife, Mary Osgood of Ipswich, Massachusetts : also of their descendants unto the tenth generation (Denver, Colo.: A.G. Jackson, 1917, 40 pgs.), p 10.