The papers of Samuel Osgood include correspondence, memoranda, abstracts, financial reports and statements, and related documents, 1775-1812, of U.S. statesman Samuel Osgood, many pertaining to finances, the public accounts and national debt, relations with France, banks, and supplies for the army.
Samuel Osgood (February 3, 1747 – August 12, 1813) was an American merchant and statesman born in North Andover, Massachusetts, parent town of the Andovers. His family home still stands at 440 Osgood Street in North Andover and his home in New York City, the Samuel Osgood House, served as the country’s first Presidential mansion.
Osgood was a dedicated public servant who put hard work in front of party politics. Samuel Osgood. When the alarm sounded to signal the British were coming, Samuel Osgood led the militia of Andover, Massachusetts into the Battle of Lexington and Concord. He followed the Redcoats and served as an aide de camp to Artemas Ward during the Siege of Boston. After the British evacuated the city, Osgood resigned from the militia to accept election to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress.
Samuel Osgood’s letters to JA were of 7 Dec. 1783 and 14 Jan. 1784 (vol. 15:398–414, 452–455). JA drafted two replies on 9 April [ (1) , (2) ] and another on 30 June , all above, but sent none of them.
Reverend Samuel Osgood served as an important "conductor" of the Underground Railroad that helped transport escaping slaves from the South to freedom during the nineteenth century. Educated at Dartmouth College and Princeton Theological Seminary, Osgood opened his Springfield home on Main Street near present-day Hampden Street and in one year provided refuge for more than fifty escaping slaves.
Samuel Osgood The Honorable Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury. ASP description begins American State Papers, Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States (Washington, 1832–1861). description ends , Post Office , I, 5–7.
Samuel Osgood’s claim for compensation for property taken from him by Sherman’s Army in December 1864 probably would have been denied, because he only presented as witnesses two fellow formerly enslaved people, but his former slaveholder, John E. Baker, coincidentally visited Liberty County from his home in Thomas County while the Southern Claims Commission’s Special Agent was investigating the claim, and he corroborated Osgood’s testimony.
Samuel Osgood (February 3, 1747 – August 12, 1813) was an American merchant and statesman born in North Andover, Massachusetts, parent town of the Andovers. His family home still stands at 440 Osgood Street in North Andover and his home in New York City, the Samuel Osgood House, served as the country's first Presidential mansion.
Born in 10 Mar 1665 and died in 22 Apr 1717 North Andover, Massachusetts SGT Samuel Osgood
