Individual Details
John Lovejoy
(18 Jun 1622 - 7 Nov 1690)
John Lovejoy did not marry until a few more years passed and how he lived, with whom or where, during these first years isn't known as early Andover records are lacking. But his marriage is third of the first ten recorded in Andover. His name appears frequently on town and proprietors records after 1651 when he was married and it appears on petitions to the General Court and to other authorities for various purposes. He took the Freeman's Oath in 1662 and in 1669. In 1669 John was appointed one of a committee of three to join, with the selectmen to sell certain lands to raise money to defray the charges about the new meeting house. He held several minor public offices in Andover. Probably in 1669 he was fence viewer for the southerly part of the town, an office more important then, with the stray cattle, than now. In 1674 he was probably constable, although the record is not clear. John and three of his sons, John, William and Christopher, took the Oath of Allegiance Feb 11, 1678.
The emigrant, John Lovejoy, was the first of hundreds of Lovejoys who have taken part in American wars. When he was more than fifty years of age he fought the Indians to protect the struggling villages on the New England shores. He served in King Philip's War (1675-76), receiving the pay of 1 pound, 10s 0 d. and assigning it on August 24, 1676 as tax credit to "Andover Towne," probably because the town had advanced this sum to his family during his absence. He served in Captain Joseph Gardiner's first company of Salem Militia, 1675-76, in the expedition against the Narragansetts and an official date of Dec. 10, 1675 is recorded. John Lovejoy is further credited with serving under Captain Samuel Brckelbank against the Indians at Sudbury (prob. Mass.) later in King Philip's War and again receiving 1 pound 10 s. 0 d. The official date of this service is June 24, 1676.
It is supposed that John Lovejoy's house was on Boston Road and that at one time it was moved from the site of Locke's Tavern, said to be the oldest site in Andover Center. According to the History of Essex County, his first grant of land joined that of Andrew Foster. And another reference says John "lived on the road at Andover that leadeth from Ipswich and the towns that way to Baliricha" (Billerica). high Street in Andover was once called "Lovejoy's Land." Punchard's school was near the Pine Swamp which was one of his holdings. Originally he probably had seven score acres and eventually probably owned as much as 320 acres. The famous Pomp's Pond in Andover was so called because Pompey, the negro slave of Captain William Lovejoy, swam in this body of water almost daily. As early as 1689 the town of Andover voted to encourage the establishment of an iron works and the Lovejoys operated this factory on the Shawshine River probably near the site of the subsequent Marland Mills.
John Lovejoy waited more than a year after the death of his first wife, Mary Osgood, before he took as his second wife, the widow Hannah Pritchard. John and Hannah were married Feb. 12, 1676 in Andover. The devotion of John Lovejoy had for his second wife is demonstrated by the careful provision he made for her in his six-page will, which was presented for probate March 31, 1691 or 1692.
Events
Families
Spouse | Mary Osgood (1633 - 1675) |
Child | Mary Lovejoy (1652 - 1677) |
Child | Sarah Lovejoy (1654 - 1706) |
Child | John Lovejoy Jr. (1656 - 1680) |
Child | Lieutenant William Lovejoy (1657 - 1748) |
Child | Ann Lovejoy (1659 - 1724) |
Child | Christopher Lovejoy (1661 - 1736) |
Child | Joseph Lovejoy (1662 - 1737) |
Child | Benjamin Lovejoy (1664 - 1689) |
Child | Nathaniel Lovejoy (1667 - 1752) |
Child | Abigail Lovejoy (1669 - 1747) |
Child | Deborah Lovejoy (1671 - ) |
Child | Ebenezer Lovejoy (1673 - 1760) |
Spouse | Hannah ( - 1705) |
Child | John Lovejoy (1680 - ) |
Father | Rowland Lovejoy (1597 - ) |
Mother | Elizabeth Neale (1600 - ) |
Sibling | Robert Lovejoy (1621 - 1669) |
Sibling | George Lovejoy (1623 - 1695) |
Sibling | Elizabeth Lovejoy (1624 - ) |
Sibling | Simon Lovejoy (1626 - ) |
Sibling | Henry Lovejoy (1628 - ) |
Notes
Marriage
Database: American Marriages Before 1699Name Spouse Marriage Date Marriage Place
LOVEJOY, John Osgood, Mary 1 June 1651 Ipswich, Mass.
"According to Miss S. L. Bailey's Historical Sketches of Andover, "Third in the list of the first ten marriages in Andover is, Jan. 1, 1651, John Lovejoy and Mary Osgood." They were married at Ipswich, Mass. by Rev. Mr. Simons."
Lovejoy, John, and Mary Osgood, at Ipwich, Jan. 1, 1651.
Marriage
Database: American Marriages Before 1699Name Spouse Marriage Date Marriage Place
LOVEJOY, John Prichard, Hannah 12 November 1676 Andover, Mass.
Lovejoy, John, and Hannah Prichard, 12 ; 11 m : 1676 [Feb. 12. CT. R.].
CT. R. - court records, Essex Co. Quarterly Court
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. Johnson, Carol Clark, A genealogical history of the Clark and Worth families : and other Puritan settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Cygnet, Ohio: Priv. print., , 1970, 577 pgs.), p. 422.
3. 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 7, 9.
4. Andover, MA Vital Records to 1850 [Births & Marriages] (Topsfield, MA : The Topsfield Historical Society , 1912) Online Web Edition Transcribed by Frances LaMarco.
5. 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.
6. 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 9.
7. 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.