GOSS FAMILY
man John GOSS‏‎, son of Philip GOSS and Mary PRESCOTT‏.
Born ‎20 Jan 1692 Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, died ‎07 Sep 1779 Haverhill, Essex Co., MA‎, 87 years

Married ‎20 Nov 1711 Groton, Middlesex Co., MA (54 years married) to:

woman Mary WOODS‏‎, daughter of Samuel Jr WOODS and Hannah FARWELL‏.
Born ‎20 Jun 1693 Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, died ‎14 Dec 1765 Stow, Middlesex, Co., MA‎, 72 years

Children:

1.
man William GOSS‏
Born ‎13 May 1716 Lancaster, Worcester Co, MA, died ‎19 Oct 1791 Gardner, Worcester Co., MA‎, 75 years
2.
woman Elizabeth GOSS‏
Born ‎13 May 1716 Lancaster, Worcester Co, MA, died ‎± 1758‎, approximately 42 years
3.
woman Mary GOSS‏
Born ‎20 Jan 1716 Lancaster, Worcester Co, MA, died ‎1783 Brookfield, Worcester Co, Massachusetts‎, 66 or 67 years
4.
man John GOSS‏
Born ‎8 Sep 1718 Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, died ‎5 Oct 1747 Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA‎, 29 years
Notes
The birth and death of John Goss is reportedly mentioned in the Book, "The Farewell Family" Vol. 1, page 70. An Abigail Gorss is mentioned in Massachusett town records as marrying a William Fife in 1752. The spelling could easily refer to Abigail Goss.
5.
woman Sarah GOSS‏
Born ‎13 Apr 1720 Lancaster, Worcester Co, MA, died ‎26 Oct 1802 Stow, Middlesex Co, MA‎, 82 years
6.
man Philip GOSS‏
Born ‎18 Nov 1720 Lancaster, Worchester Co., MA, died ‎04 Apr 1804 Winchester, Cheshire Co, NH‎, 83 years
Notes
There has been great confusion regarding this Philip Goss married to Hannah Ball. Some sources confuse this Philip with one married to Mary Kendall and who died from an attack by Indians in Luzerne,PA in 1778. Both Philips are ultimately related to
Philip of Roxbury born in 1650. But one is descended through Philip's first wife Hannah, and the other through his second wife, Mary Prescott.
7.
woman Dorothy GOSS‏
Born ‎± 1721 Lancaster, Worcester Co, MA, died ‎11 Oct 1813 Lancaster, Worcester Co, MA‎, approximately 92 years
8.
man Jonathan GOSS‏‎
Born ‎18 May 1725 Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA‎

GOSS FAMILY
2nd marriage
man John GOSS‏‎, son of Philip GOSS and Mary PRESCOTT‏.

Married ‎30 Jul 1728 Bradford, Essex Co, MA (51 years married) to:

woman Mehitable BAILEY‏‎, daughter of James BAILEY and Hannah WOOD‏.
Born ‎08 Aug 1709 Fishkill, Dutchess Co, NY, died ‎after 1779 Bradford, Haverhill, MA‎, at least 70 years

Children:

1.
woman Hannah GOSS‏‎
Born ‎6 Nov 1730 Bradford, Essex, MA‎
2.
woman Anne GOSS‏‎
Born ‎12 Oct 1732 Bradford, Essex, MA‎
3.
man James GOSS‏
Born ‎12 Mar 1733 Bradford, Essex, MA‎
4.
man Peter GOSS‏
Born ‎17 Jun 1737 Bradford, Essex, MA, died ‎1790 Amherst Twp, Hillsboro, NH‎, 52 or 53 years
5.
man John GOSS‏
Born ‎8 Mar 1737 Bradford, Essex, MA, died ‎26 Sep 1821 Mt Pelier, VT‎, 84 years
Note:
John Goss was First Lieutenant in Captain Reuben Dow's Company of Militia Men from Hollis. He left a young wife and their three-month-old son when, beginning 19 April 1775 he, with this company, marched 42 miles to answer the call from Lexington
and Concord. Reuben Dow, the Captain, was another farmer-neighbor of John Goss. Both men remained at Cambridge where John re-enlisted for eight months in a new company under Captain Dow when 39 of the original company returned to Hollis and the
remaining 53 re-enlisted. The new company was mustered into the Massachusetts Regiment of Colonel William Prescott, the only company of Prescott's regiment in which all officers and privates were from one and the same town, Hollis, New Hampshire [west
of Nashua]. They fought with Prescott through the Battle of Bunker Hill. On 20 November 1775 Lieutenant John Goss signed the receipt for 47 (winter) coats for the men in his company.
John was listed as Captain John Goss, his name appearing on a 1775 list of commissioned officers prepared by Colonel Samuel Hobart of the New Hampshire Minute Men and Paymaster of the New Hampshire troops that year. By 1777 John was Captain of the
6th Company of Colonel Nichols' Regiment which left Hollis on July 20th to participate in the Battle of Bennington on August 16th. He had 42 men under his command, exclusive of officers. On his return from Bennington he was chosen by the town to be a
member of the committee appointed by the Committee of Safety to prepare the "Great Return" (list) for wages to be paid to Hollis militia men in service at the Battle of Bennington. In 1779 he was chosen at a special Town Meeting held on October 21st to
be a member of Hollis's Committee of Correspondence.
Alphabetical List of Officers of the Continental Army
G
Fifteenth Virginia
page 254
Goss, John (Mass). Lieutenant New Hampshire Minute Men in the Lexington Alarm, April, 1775; 1st Lieutenant of Prescott's Massachusetts Regiment, May, 1775; Surgeon 5th Continental Infantry, 1st January to 31st December, 1776.
6.
man Daniel GOSS‏‎
Born ‎14 Sep 1741 Bradford, Essex, MA, died ‎10 Dec 1809‎, 68 years
7.
man Abigail GOSS‏‎
Born ‎4 Sep 1743‎
8.
woman Martha GOSS‏
Born ‎11 Jul 1745 Bradford, Essex Co., MA, died ‎23 Aug 1826 Randolph, Orange Co., Vermont‎, 81 years
Dieterich. Harriet Hall, "The Goss Family of Portsmouth (Rye), New Hampshire,"
(The Essex Genealogist, May 1993), p. 94.
9.
man Richard GOSS‏‎
Born ‎10 Mar 1746‎
10.
woman Molle GOSS‏‎
Born ‎25 Mar 1753‎

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