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- Daniel Blanchard, servant of Christopher Osgood, was killed in an Indianambush at Scarborough, south of Portland ME, in June, 1677 p. 72, Andover
From: Johnson, Carol Clark, A Genealogical History of the Clark and WorthFamilies and Other Puritan Settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony,(Privately Printed 1970), p. 423-424.
Christopher, Captain, a millwright, was born in 1643, received aneducation, and became an ardent
patriot. He sold the property inherited from his father to ThomasMetcalf October 2, 1666, and moved to Andover where he was sworn afreeman in 1676. In 1677 he was made constable and received a licenseto keep an ordinary "and draw wine and liquors to strangers for a yearbut not to suffer any townsmen to drink liquors in his house."
Daniel Blackhead, servant of Christopher, was killed by Indians at BlackPoint June 29, 1677.
Captain Osgood was a selectman in 1680, and he was one of the many whorebelled openly in 1687 against the harsh rule of the governor Sir EdmundAndros and were jailed without warrant and heavily fined. On April 18,1689, the drums beat through the streets to announce the overthrow ofAndros. A provincial government under Bradstreet was organized andapproved by England.
Christopher built Frye's Mills at Andover and was a representative tothe General Court for a number of years. In October 1692 he was forced topetition in behalf of his daughter Mary who was imprisoned for supposedwitchcraft.
In April 1704, Captain Osgood received the order to build threeblockhouses on the bank of the Merrimack, 12 feet wide, 15 feet long,with a fireplace at one end and a covered well, like the blockhouse atNewbury. A bounty of œ40 sterling was offered for every Indian scalp,and the soldiers were told that every Indian child under ten yearsshould be sold as a slave, the price to be theirs. This was inretaliation for the Indian attack at Black Point when 200 Indiansattacked 20 men at work in the fields, killing or capturing all but one,and for the Deerfield massacre of February 29, 1704, when 49 men, womenand children were killed, and 109 others taken on a forced march toCanada, including many children who were held for ransom.
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1642 - 1723 (81 years)
