The Osgood family -- we them Osgood, of the first generation, was born in England in 1609, in came to this country in the year 1638. He saled from Southampton, on the ship "Confidence", April 11th.
Capt. Chase Osgood came to Loudon from Epping in 1794. He had a family of 20 children. He died in 1807 at the age of 88 he was interred in the burying ground at the Center.
Ebenezer Osgood, Esq., came from Raymond in 1803, and had a family of 8 children, named Enoch, James, Polly, Bradley, Ira,Lamila, Nancy and Ebenezer.
Ira Osgood, Esq., was born in Raymond, New Hampshire in 1799, in came to Loudon when four years of age. He married Sally B. Parsons, and had a family of seven children, named Henry J., Ebenezer P., William P., Charles H., Annie M., Mary E. and Martha E.. Ira Osgood was fitted for college at the Gilmanton Academy, after which he commenced teaching school, and to a large number of terms both in and out of town. He was chosen, and served for several years, as one of the selectman of the town, and afterwards was chosen representative for two years. He was a man of great firmness and in all undertakings and prosecuted them to the end. He devoted several of the last years of his life in compiling the genealogy of the Osgood family, which consisted of the descendants of eight generations. He died in April, 1877
Henry J. Osgood married Hannah E. H. Batchelder, and had a family of three children, named Mabel, Herbert and Henrietta, and was born in 1825, and by whom the present history has been written.
Ebenezer P. Osgood married Ann Randall, of Laconia, and has one child, named Charles H..
William P. Osgood married Paulina R. Clifford, of Loudon and has two children, named Jennie M. and George B.
Charles H. Osgood married, first Augusta A. Clough, of Loudon and the second time, Ann Lamprey, of Gilmanton, and has no children.
Annie M. Osgood (unmarried) is a schoolteacher of considerable note and lives at the Homestead.
Mary E. Osgood married, first Charles C. Clough, of Canterbury, and the second time, Rev. A. D. Smith, of Laconia.
Martha E. Osgood married Charles H. Bean, of Lawrence, Massachusetts who is a large and extensive dealer in lumber in that city.

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