Lovejoy John b. ABT 1630 England, U.K. d. NOV 1690

1630 - 1690

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Birth Abt 1630 England, U.K. [1]

Gender Male

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Died Nov 1690 [1]

Person ID I5106 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Family 1 Osgood Mary

Married 01 Jan 1651 [1]

Children

1. Lovejoy

Family ID F2151 Group Sheet

Family 2 Hoyt Hannah

Married 23 Mar 1678 [1]

Family ID F2153 Group Sheet

Notes	John Lovejoy first appears in LOVEJOY our colonial history as one of the first settlers and original proprietors of Andover, Massachusetts. It is >aid that he was born in England, about 1630, and probably came from Andover, Hants, from whence came nearly all of the first settlers of the New England town of the same name. Andover, Massachusetts, was incorporated in 1646, and in one of the ancient record books is set down the names of settlers in the order of their arrival there. The name of John Lovejoy is seventeenth on the list. In 1658 he was one of the petitioners to the general court for relief from the encroachments of other towns on the territory of Andover, and in 1674 he was one of a committee chosen to settle "a great controversie in ye towne about giving out of lands." with direction "to consider ye same to se if it be convenient to give away any more land or how and to whome." In 1687, when travellers began to complain because there was no house of public entertainment "upon the Rode at Andover that leatleth from Ipswich and the Townes that way to Billerica." the name of John Love- juy appears first on the petition to the general court praying "that William Chandler Senior whose house stands convenient may be allowed for that worke." On January 1, 1651, John Lovejoy married Mary Osgood, of Ipswich, who died before 1678. daughter of Christopher Osgood. He married second, March 23, 1678, Hannah, daughter of John Hoyt. of Salisbury. John Lovejoy died in November. 1690. His children, all born in Andover; 1. Mary, April n. 1652. 2. Sarah, April 10. 1654. 3. John, February 9. 1656. 4. William, April 25, 1657, one of the first deacons of the South Church, 17n. 5. Ann, 1659. 6. Joseph, February 8, 1662. 7. Christopher, March 1, 1663. 8. Benjamin, December 4, 1664. 9. Nathaniel. May 29, 1667. 10. Abigail, 1669. ?. Deborah, 1670. 12. Ebenezer. June 22, 1673.

Sources
[S147] Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, William Richard Cutter, (Name: 1908;), 1349 (Reliability: 3).