History

The farm was chopped out the forest in 1780 when the William Osgood family moved first to Claremont, NH from Massachusetts where they first emigrated from England. William Osgood purchased land in Newport shortly after the original settlers came to the area. The family expanded on the original 100 acres and now owns 265 acres that is mostly in forested or maple-orchard land, with about 20 acres in tillable land where vegetables, apples and berries are produced. We are very proud of our heritage as farmers on the very place our ancestors chose, and to be the seventh, eighth and ninth generations of family to now work the soil here.

1. William Osgood & Hepsibah (Dutton) Osgood

2. William Osgood & Priscilla (Stone) Osgood

3. Lemuel Osgood & Hannah (Spaulding) Osgood

4. Orren & Lucy Osgood (brother & sister, never married) & sister Hannah (Osgood) Johnson (married to Thomas Bixby Johnson, a shoemaker in Newport, NH)

5. Edward Bixby Johnson & Martinia (Glass) Johnson

6. Lucy Osgood (Johnson) McDonough & Frederick Charles McDonough

7. Frederick Charles McDonough, II & Norma (Grant) McDonough

8. Rebecca ("Becky" McDonough) & Bennie Nelson

9. Samuel Nelson