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Samuel Osgood (February 3, 1747 – August 12, 1813) was an American merchant and statesman born in Andover, Massachusetts, currently a part of North Andover, Massachusetts. His family home still stands at 440 Osgood Street in North Andover and his home in New York City, the Samuel Osgood House, served as the country's first Presidential mansion.
Samuel Osgood was born in Andover, Massachusetts, February 3, 1748. He graduated from Harvard University and first experienced politics on a small scale, serving from 1774 to 1776 on the Massachusetts Provincial Congress and as a delegate to the Essex County Convention (Massachusetts).He earned more notoriety after a successful stretch with the ...
To create an efficient postal service--which was essential to promote economic development--Washington appointed Samuel Osgood (1748-1813), of Massachusetts, Postmaster General. Osgood, who had been a captain of a company of Minutemen at Lexington and Concord, had to carry out his tasks in a single room with two clerks.
Also known as the Walter Franklin House, it was an eighteenth-century mansion at the northeast corner of what was Pearl and Cherry (today Dover) streets in what is now Civic Center, Manhattan, New York City. 1770. The owner, Samuel Osgood, was a Massachusetts politician and lawyer, who settled in New York City.
The papers of Samuel Osgood include correspondence, memoranda, abstracts, financial reports and statements, and related documents, 1775-1812, of U.S. statesman Samuel Osgood, many pertaining to finances, the public accounts and national debt, relations with France, banks, and supplies for the army.
Samuel Osgood died on 12 August 1813 at home (3 Cherry Street) in New York City. He is buried in the Brick Presbyterian Church Cemetery. The church is located at what is now the corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-Seventh Street, in Manhattan.
The first Postmaster General of the new United States of America was Samuel Osgood. Postmasters General continued to be appointed by the President until 1971, In 1775, the Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin Postmaster General (PMG).
In the mid-nineteenth century, abolitionists and anti-slavery collaborators faced grave risks to themselves and their families. The story of Reverend Samuel Osgood illustrates the commitment many had, despite the dangers, to bringing slaves one step closer to freedom. > Table of Contents
But in 1789, Postmaster General Samuel Osgood removed her from the position stating that it would require "more traveling . . . than a woman could undertake." Osgood appointed his political ally, John White, a man inexperienced in postal operations, to replace her.
SAMUEL OSGOOD. New York Public Library 1. WASHINGTON HOME OVERVIEW: BORN: February 3, 1748, Andover, Massachusetts. EDUCATION: Harvard College. POLITICAL PARTY: Federalist. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Massachusetts Provincial Congress (1774-1776) Revolutionary Army (1776-1800) MA State Senate (1780, 1784) Member, Continental Congress (1781-1784) MA State House of Representatives (1784)
