Osmund Dutch

Abt 1593 - 1684  (~ 91 years)

• Name	Osmund Dutch  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1593  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Dec 1684	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I36602	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2022

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Haywell,   b. of Punknowle, Dorset, England d. Bef 11 Dec 1628
  Marriage	1620  [4]
  Family ID	F21521	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Grace Pratt   d. 10 Oct 1694, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	20 Mar 1629	Bridport, Dorset, England   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Grace Dutch   2. Alice Dutch   d. Bef 4 May 1704, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F21518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Genealogical interconnection note: Osmund Dutch's eldest daughter Alice married, as her third husband and his second wife, Jeremiah Meacham (~1613-1695), earliest know direct paternal ancestor of BAM. From The Ancestry of Nicholas Davis (citation details below): In New England Osmund Dutch is first found in Newport, Rhode Island, where he was admitted an inhabitant in March, 1638/9. His stay there was short, however, as by July, 1639, he had gone to Cape Ann, formed a partnership in the fishing trade with Thomas Millward of Noodle's Island and made the great decision to send for his family and remain in America permanently. He went to Boston and employed Thomas Lechford, the first lawyer of the colony, to write his wife in Bridport and send her the documents necessary for the disposal of their English property before she should set sail to join him. Dutch could not write, but Lechford undoubtedly set down his spoken words with little change. [...] When his family arrived Dutch settled them in Gloucester. There are no deeds to him, but it is supposed that he bought from John Sadler land at the easterly part of Gloucester harbor where a place was long known as "Dutch's slough." He had five acres at Eastern point, and in 1674 "Osmand Dutches Island in little Good Harbour" is mentioned. Dutch mortgaged all his Gloucester property to Thomas Bishop of Ipswich to secure the payment of £50 in 1663. In 1678 he had given his son-in-law Samuel Elwell two acres of marsh at "Stark naught harbor." Nathaniel Pitman sued Dutch for debt in 1641. Dutch had bought a raft from Pitman on condition that the raft would "swim," which it didn't. Dutch served as selectman in 1650, was a member of a trial jury in 1655 and in 1658 contributed to the salary of the parson, Rev. Mr. Millett. In 1662 he sued John French for holding back some cloth and spoiling a coat made for Dutch and a suit for one of his sons, and won the case. He was fined in 1662 for resisting an officer coming to levy a fine for his neglect of military training. His age was "about sixty" in 1663. The Dutches had a servant, Mary Davis, who spent her evenings out with "the Shoalers," who did no good to any girl's reputation. His principal difficulties and suits were with John Meagher, a shoreman, with verdicts for either side. In 1674 he signed a petition against allowing a tavern near the meeting-house.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3296] Mary Lovering Holman, "The Correct Ancestry of Jemima Meacham." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 69:32, Jan 1938. [S1331] The Ancestry of Nicholas Davis, 1753-1832, of Limington, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1956. [S6011] The Hammatt Papers No. 1: The Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Mass, 1633-1700 by Abraham Hammatt. Ipswich, Massachusetts: Ipswich Antiquarian Papers, 1880. [S1427] The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847, Wife of Capt. Abel Lunt of Newburyport, Massachuetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1947.