Capt Osgood CARLETON^[1]

1741 - Abt 1816  (74 years)

• Name	Osgood CARLETON
  Prefix	Capt
  Born	17 Jun 1741	Nottingham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt May 1816	Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire
  Person ID	I36657	Main
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2017

  
  

  Father	Jeremiah CARLETON,   b. 3 Jul 1715, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1768, Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire  (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Eunice TAYLOR,   b. 30 Oct 1717, Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1794, Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire  (Age 76 years)
  Married	22 Jun 1740
  Family ID	F12849	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lydia JOHNSON,   d. Aft 1816
  Married	Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts
  Children	1. Osgood West CARLETON,   b. 9 May 1783, Fishkill, Dutchess, New York   2. John CARLETON,   b. 18 Feb 1785, Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts   3. David CARLETON,   b. 18 Apr 1787, Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2019
  Family ID	F12850	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Died - Abt May 1816 - Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Osgood for a quarter of a century before 1810 was the leading teacher of mathematics and navigation in Boston, Suffolk Co., Ma His was the school of the day for instruction in navigation and in the art of map construction. Osgood enlisted 2 May 1758 in the company of Captain Aaron Fay, Colonel Ebenezer Nichols, and served seven months for the "Reduction of Canada." His residence was given as Litchfield. While residing in Woburn 6 April 1759 he was attached to the regiment of Colonel Eleazer Tyng, under the command of Jeffry Amherst for the invasion of Canada. On 1 January1760 he enlisted as a private in the company of Joseph Newhall, Colonel Jacob Bayley, then stationed at Louisburg. He was discharged 20 December1760. It was while rendering service in the army of Nova Scotia his talent for mathematics and his skill at original work was recognized. He was made part of the working force among the navigators and artillerists of the King's army and navy. For five years he was under the tutelage of Major-General John Henry Bastide in the provinces and on the high seas. At the outbreak of the war for Independence he was a patriot. He was present at Bunker Hill, where his brother David was killed. During the first year of the war he was a sergeant in the company of Captain John Wood, Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent and in 1776 the quartermaster of the 16th Continental Infantry. Afterwards he served as a Lieutenant. His physique was such that he could not endure the hardships of campaigns, and he was assigned to the Corps of Invalids. During the later part of the war he was assigned to carry dispatches between Boston and Philadelphia, and in carrying money for the treasury of the Continental Congress, or to paymasters in the field. Osgood constructed maps of Boston in 1795. The copper plates of these maps in 1801 were placed in the custody of the Ma Historical Society. His map of the district of Me was issued in 1795. The map of Ma was issued before 30 January 1798. In 1810 he published "Practice of Arithmetic" which was widely used at the time. he was attached to the regiment of Colonel Eleazer Tyng, under the command of General Jeffry Amherst for the invasion of Canada. he enlisted as a private in the company of Captain Joseph Newhall, Colonel Jacob Bayley, then stationed at Louisburg. and was at the battle of Bunker Hill, where his brother David was killed. One of the other '"Osgood facts" is that he had a student in Boston whose name was Robert B. Thomas of "The Farmers Almanac." Mr. Carleton taught him how to make almanacs and indeed made the calculation for the first Farmers' Almanac himself. The story is told that everything was finished and ready for the printer except the weather predictions, and Mr. Carleton told his daughter, a lively girl of sixteen, that she might add them. In a spirit of mischief she predicted a thunder storm in January and a snowstorm in June. When the book was printed, Mr. Carleton reproached his daughter for having ruined the venture, but as it happened, a thunder storm did come in January and one morning in June the girl arose and found flakes of snow falling. She called her father to see. The reputation of the Farmers' Almanac was made for all time. He was also a cunning hunter and trapper.

  
  

• Sources

  [S117] CARLETON Carr, Andrue (Andrew) of Martha's Vineyard, Ma, Andrue Carleton Carr.