GENEALOGY OF LOVEJOY FAMILY IN MONT VERNON NH Information from a web site "History & Genealogy of Mont Vernon, New Hampshire" located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com/HillsboroughCo/Montvernon/ Source: HISTORY of the TOWN of MONT VERNON, New Hampshire; Blanchard Printing Co., Boston, Mass. 1907 Disclaimer: We are not responsible for typographical errors, nor do we claim that these genealogies are accurate. LOVEJOY page 107 Joseph Lovejoy, a soldier of the Revolution, d. in Mont Vernon, Oct. 18, 1814, aged about 80 years. He m. Patience, dau. of *William and Mary (Lambert) Bradford, July 9, 1761. She d. Amherst, May 1, 1826, aged about 85 years. He settled in Mont Vernon about 1761. Ch. probably b. Mont Vernon: 1. Sarah, b. May 6, 1762, m. Feb. 14, 1786 *Daniel Kendall; d. Aug. 14, 1847. 2. Patience, b. April 1, 1766, m. Feb. 1, 1787, William Small of Amherst; had 12 ch; d. Morristown, Vt., Oct. 18, 1851. 4. Susannah, b. June 11, 1769, m. Feb. 9, 1796, David Stewart of Amherst, had 7 ch; d. Amherst, Aug. 24, 1846. 5. Polly, m. James Dascomb, May 20, 1794; d. Wilton, Nov. 16, 1851; 4 ch. 6. Betsey, b. 1772, m. Oct. 10, 1794, *Benjamin Parker. She d. Amherst, Sept. 25, 1839; 6 ch. 7. Arethusa, m. *Asa Farnum, May 25, 1803. 8. Joseph, m. Mrs. Baker, d. Salem, Mass., Nov. 1821 [NOTE: no Lovejoy family members listed in cemetery book] LISTING IN DAR PATRIOT INDEX: LOVEJOY, Joseph Birth: MA Circa 1734 Rank: Pvt Service: NH Death: NH 18 Oct 1814 Patriot Pensioned: No Widow Pensioned: No Children Pensioned: No Heirs Pensioned: No Spouse: (1) Patience Bradford ================= FROM: The Lovejoy genealogy with biographies and history, 1460-1930 : especially recording the American descendants and the English ancestry of John Lovejoy (1622-1690) of Andover, Mass., and of Joseph Lovejoy (1684-1748) of Prince George County, Md., but also embracing all known data on other persons bearing the Lovejoy name whether or not identified with the emigrant ancestors, by Clarence E. Lovejoy, New York: Lovejoy, 1930, 508 pgs. page 95 113. JOSEPH-4 son of Benjamin (35), b. Andover March 26, 1731 acc. Andover Vital Statistics; prob. d. Oct 18, 1814 Mt. Vernon N.H. Similiar difficulty was encountered by the Compiler in tracing Joseph Lovejoy (113) as was the case with John Lovejoy (108). But prob. Joseph m. July 9, 1761 Patience Bradford and lived in Amherst N.H. Patience was b. Souhegan West about 1740, d. Amherst Mar. 3, 1826, dau. William and Mary (Lambert) Bradford. This may be the Joseph Lovejoy recorded in Mass. Colonial Soldiers as serving in 1757 in the Andover "train band." A Joseph Lovejoy (1734-1814) is used as the qualifying ancestor for the Society of Colonial Wars by Frederick A. Haskell and Henry P. Stewart and he is reported to have served at Crown Point in 1758 in Col. John Hart's regiment. Also, a Joseph Lovejoy served at Lexington 1-1/2 days in Capt. Henry Abbot's company. Children: 196. SARAH, b. Amherst N.H. May 6, 1762; d. Mt. Vernon N.H. Aug. 14, 1847; m. Feb. 14, 1786 Daniel Kendall b. Litchfield Jan 18, 1860, d. Mt. Vernon Aug 17, 1830. Sarah and Daniel had seven children: Daniel Kendall b 1789; Mary b. 1792; Sarah b. 1794; Nathan b 1796; Alice b. 1800; Zaccheus N. b 1803 and Ira b. 1805. 297. EDITH b. Amherst Apr 7 1764; d.y. 298. PATIENCE b. Amherst Apr 1, 1766, d. Morristown, Vt. Oct 18, 1851; m. Feb. 1 1787 William Small b. Danvers, Mass. Oct. 21, 1743; d. Morristown Jan. 8, 1834, s. of William and Sarah (--)Small. Patience and William had ten children: William b 1793; Sarah b 1795; Mary b 1799; Lucretia C b 1802; a son b 1806; Nancy Bradford b 1807 and Laura Roby b 1810. 299. SUSANNAH b Amherst June 11, 1769; d. Amherst Aug. 24, 1846; m. Amherst Feb. 9, 1796 David Stewart b Dec. 20, 1757 at Amherst, d. Amherst Nov. 14, 1821 so of Samuel and Sarah (--) Stewart. Susannah and David had seven children: Sarah Tarbell Stewart b 1797; David b 1799; Amstren (?sp) b 1801; Mary Blanchard b 1803; Charles Lovejoy b 1805; Frederick b 1808 and Robert b 1811. 300. POLLY b Amherst about 1771; d. Wilton, N.H. Nov 16, 1851, m. acc. to DRL May 20, 1794 James Dascomb 301. BETSY b. Amherst 1772; d. Amherst Sept. 24, 1839; m. acc to DRL Oct 10, 1794 Benjamin Parker. Betsy and Benjamin had six children: Nancy Parker, Joseph, Arethusa, Thomas J. Lucretia and Samuel. 302. ARETHUSA b. Amherst d. 1803; m. acc to DRL May 23, 1803 Asa Farnum b Mt Vernon Feb 1 1780, son of Joseph and Mary (Lyon) Farnum. 303. JOSEPH b. Amherst about 1777; d. Salem, Mass. Nov 1821; m. Mrs. Baker page 66 35. BENJAMIN-3 son of Joseph (8) b. Andover Nov 21, 1690 prob. d. Hillsborough N.H. near Amherst, but no record found and this death may be that of his son Benjamin; m. Andover Feb. 13 or Aug. 14, 1717 Susanna Cornielle. Susanna was b. Billerica Feb. 24, 1697 and was acc. to Bertram E. Lovejoy, dau. of Peter and Joanna (Marshall) Corneille. Benjamin and Susanna lived in Andover until about 1750 when they moved with their son, Bemjamin, to Amherst, N.H. and according to Mrs. Adella Lovejoy Currier, may have stopped off temporarily in Lunenburg. Benjamin inherited some land from his father and in 1731 paid 300 pounds for some valuable property on the Boston Road. This is prob. the Benjamin who is listed in Volume XI, Town Papers of Amherst, now in N.H. statehouse as one of 32 "inhabitants of Souhegan West or Narragansett No.3" who signed a petition June 26, 1753 to incorporate the town. Children (all b. in Andover) +107. BENJAMIN, b. May 2, 1718. +108. JOHN, b. Jan 5 or Mar 5 1719/20 d. Rindge N.H. 1795 109. JOSHUA b July 10, 1723; d. inf Aug 26, 1723 110. JOSHUA b. Jan 11, 1724; d. inf. Apr 2, 1724 111. ABIGAIL b Jan 29, 1725/6; d.y. Aug. 1, 1738; some records name this child as Abijah but both Mrs. Currier and DRL recorded her as Abigail or Abiga 112. PETER b Mar. 30, 1728, in early records Peter was believed to have d. young in 1738, but C.F. Burge subsequently reported that a Peter d. 1774. However Miss Abbot believed the Peter who d. 1774 was No. 80. +113. JOSEPH b. Mar. 26, 1731; prob. d. Mt Vernon N.H. Oct 18, 1814. 114. OBADIAH b. Mar. 31, 1733, d.y. Aug 11, 1738 115. A son, b Oct 5, 1740; prob. named Abijah. Mrs. Currier thinks he was prob. the second son to be named Obadiah and that he was killed in Revolution but the Compiler disagrees with this. Hemenway's Vermont (Town of Westminster) records the death of Abijah at Westminster in 1776, ae 36 years with the following on this tombstone: "Life is uncertain, death is sure; sin the wound and Christ the cure." Abijah was commissioned a Major of militia shortly before his death, and may have been the Abijah who is listed in the manuscript copy of Mass. Colonial Soldiers for serving 19 weeks, 3 days in 1761. 115A. PETER (?) There is also some evidence among Revolutionary War rolls that Benjamin (35) had a late son named Peter, who served from Hillsborough N.H. in Capt. Baldwin's company, and also in Col. Stark's regiment in the siege of Boston, 1775; also in Capt. Wetherbee's company at West Point in 1776. It is unlikely the Peter with this war service could be the Peter (286) of Palmer, Mass. This Peter could be Peter Cornielle Lovejoy (6127) because of his residence in Westminster, Vt. page 59 8. Joseph-2 son of John (1) b. Feb 8 1662/63; d. Andover June 5, 1737 m. Andover May 26, 1685 his step-sister, Sarah Pritchard, b. Jan 2 1662 d. Andover June 30, 1739, dau of William and Hannah Pritchard. Joseph was made a freeman at Andover Apr 18, 1691. There is a record that on Mar. 10, 1680 he signed a petition at Amesbury, Mass. while a soldier of "Ye Training Band" asking the General Court that Samuel Foot be made lieutenant. Joseph's will is in vol 349 p310 of the Essex County Court Records. He prob. held no public offices but did serve on the grand jury of the Circuit Court at Ipswich in 1696. Children (all b. Andover) 33. SARAH b Feb 21 1685/6; m. Feb 7, 1710 Joseph Clark 34. JOSEPH b Feb 21 1689; d Mar 2, 1697/8 +35. BENJAMIN b Nov 21, 1690 36. HANNAH b Feb 11 1693; prob m(1) Feb 2 1737 Daniel Faulkner. Hannah m(2) July 19, 1741 William Martin 37. LYDIA b June 2 1697; m. Dec 3 1718 Caleb Johnson +38. JOSEPH b Oct 6 or 16, 1699; d. Andover Mar. 3 1773. page 51 John-1 LOVEJOY of Andover (son of Rowland of England) was the common ancestor of most Lovejoy families in AMerica and was born in England about 1622/23. According to MSAL, John arraived from England on April 11, 1630 in the ship "Arabella," which is supposed to have been one of a convoy carrying 800 men. [However there are a number of contradictions]. John Lovejoy held several minor public offices in Andover. Probably in 1699 he was fence viewer for the southerly part of town, as office more important then, with the stray cattle, then now. In 1674 he was probably constable, although the record is not clear. He took the Freeman's Oath in 1662 and in 1669. 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 Brockelbank against the Indians at Sudbury (probably Mass.) later in King Philip's War and again receiving 1 lb 10 s. 0 d. The official date of this service is June 24, 1676. John "lived on the road at Andover that leadeth from Ipswich and the towns that way to Baliricha [Billerica]. John Lovejoy's first wife, Mary Osgood, came to America from Southampton, Eng. arriving in Mar. 1633/4 in the ship "Mary and John," commanded by Captain Sayres of London. Mary was born Mar. 17, 1633 (prob the year before) in Marlboro, Wilts, Eng. and died in Andover July 15, 1675. She was the oldest daughter of Christopher Osgood and was reared by her stepmother, Margery (Fowler) Osgood, dau of Philip Fowler, who d. June 24, 1679 and of his wife, Mary Winsley, who d. Aug. 30, 1659. posthumously). John Lovejoy waited moer than a year after the death on July 15, 1675 of his first wife, Mary Osgood, before he took as his second wife, the widow Hannah Pritchard. Acc. to a record in the Essex County Quarterly Court, John and Hannah were m. "12:11m:1676" and this date is, therefore, calculated to be Feb. 12, 1676. The marriage was in Andover. Hannah outlived John and d. Aug 1, 1705 in Andover, of a cancer in her throat. Acc. to records of Bertam E. Lovejoy (2458) she was the widow of William Pritchard who was killed Aug. 2, 1675 while serving in King Phillip's War when he was a sergeant in the garrison at Brookfield. William and Hannah Pritchard's dau, Sarah, born Jan 22 1662, married her step-brother, Joseph Lovejoy(8). Practically no records were found about Sergeant William Pritchard except that he prob. was in Lynn bet. 1741 and 1643 "in the coast service bet. Port of Boston and Northern Settlements." The devotion of John Lovejoy for his second wife, Hannah Pritchard, is demonstrated by the careful provision he made for her in his six-page will which is reproduced in this book. John Lovejoy d Nov 7, 1690 and his will was presented for probate Mar. 31, 1691 or 1692. Children (all by first wife, all b. at Andover) 2. MARY b Apr 11 1652; d. June 18 1677; m. Joseph WILSON 3. SARAH b Apr 11, 1654; d Feb 22 1706; m. Sergt. William JOHNSON +4. JOHN b Feb 9 1655; d. Andover July 14, 1680. +5. WILLIAM b Apr 21 1656 or 57; d. July 9 1748. 6. ANN b Dec 21 1659 d Feb 29 1724; m. Jonathan BLANCHARD +7. CHRISTOPHER b Mar 1 1661/2; d Mar 17 1736/7. +8. JOSEPH b Feb 8 1662/3; d Andover June 5 1737 9. BENJAMIN b Dec 4 1664; d 1689 while a soldier at Pemaquid, Me. +10. NATHANIEL b May 29, 1667; d. Andover Mar 7 1752 11. ABIGAIL b Aug 20 1669 d May 2 1747; m. Deacon Nehemiah ABBOT 12. DEBORAH b Nov 4 1671 +13. EBENEZER b Jan 22, 1673; d. Andover May 15 1760 (end)