GOSS FAMILY | |||
 John GOSS, son of John GOSS and Mehitable BAILEY.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. Married 10 Feb 1774 Hollis, Hillsboro Co., NH (47 years married) to:  Catherine CONANT, daughter of Josiah CONANT and Katharine EMERSON.Born 10 Sep 1753 Hollis, Hillsboro Co., NH, died 21 Apr 1837 Hardwick, Caledonia Co., VT, 83 years Children: 1. John GOSSBorn 7 Jan 1775 Hollis, Hillsboro Co., NH, died 19 May 1808, 33 years 2. Samuel GOSSBorn 29 Nov 1776 Hollis, Hillsboro Co., NH, died 19 Aug 1866 Montpelier, Washington, VT, 89 years 3. Abel GOSSBorn 23 Oct 1780 Hollis, Hillsboro Co., NH, died 16 Apr 1808, 27 years 4. Catherine GOSSBorn 11 Oct 1782 Hollis, Hillsboro Co., NH, died 26 Nov 1866, 84 years 5. Lucy GOSSBorn 30 Dec 1784 Hollis, Hillsboro Co., NH, died 12 Nov 1807, 22 years 6. Anna GOSSBorn 5 Aug 1787 Hollis, Hillsboro Co., NH 7. Mark GOSSBorn 10 Oct 1789 Hollis, Hillsboro Co., NH, died 17 Jun 1851 (near) Columbus, Franklin Co., OH, 61 years 8. Luke GOSSBorn 13 Jun 1792 Hollis, Hillsboro Co., NH, died 15 Dec 1863, 71 years 9. Elizabeth GOSSBorn 19 Nov 1795 Hollis, Hillsboro Co., NH, died 28 Nov 1875 Nyack, Rockland, New York, 80 years, buried Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, Orange, NY Note: Obituary notice: FRENCH---At Nyack, N. Y. Nov. 23 1875, Mrs. Eliza G. French, mother of Rev. J. Clement French, D. D.,of Brooklyn, and Rev. E. W. French of Jersey City. | |||
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