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About Col. John Goffe, Indian fighter
- Daughters of American Revolution Ancestor #: A046045
- Service: NEW HAMPSHIRE Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
- Birth: 3-15-1701 NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Death: 10-20-1781 BEDFORD HILLSBOROUGH CO NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Service Source: BATCHELLOR, MISC REV DOCS OF NH, STATE PAPERS, VOL 30, P 14
- Service Description: 1) SIGNED ASSOCIATION TEST
Though too old at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War to take command of troops in the field – he was seventy-four – Goffe was an avid revolutionary, serving in the provincial legislature and becoming the first probate judge for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Before dying, he also witnessed the creation of the United States.
Goffe is buried at the old graveyard in Bedford, New Hampshire.
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On April 16, 1725, Goffe was with Captain John Lovewell on his third and final expedition against the Abenaki during Dummer's War. He was left with a small garrison at a fort built at Ossipee before Lovewell's Fight near the Abenaki village of Pequewket (within the present town of Fryeburg, Maine.)
In 1734, Goffe and his family moved to Derryfield, New Hampshire, now named Manchester. In 1744, during King George's War, he became a captain of scouts (snowshoe men) and led a company protecting the frontier of New Hampshire from Indian attack. In 1744, he built a saw mill and a grist mill in Bedford, New Hampshire.
At the outbreak of the French and Indian War in 1754, Goffe rejoined the New Hampshire Militia and served in Joseph Blanchard's Regiment. He saw action at the battles of Lake George, Fort William Henry, Carillon, Ticonderoga and Montreal, during which time he rose to the rank of Colonel and became the commander of the New Hampshire Provincial Regiment. In 1759, the regiment helped to build the Crown Point Military Road from Fort at Number 4 to Fort Crown Point. After the war, Goffe became the commander the Ninth New Hampshire Militia Regiment.
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Col. John Goffe, Indian fighter's Timeline
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March 25, 1701
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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January 17, 1723
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Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
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February 15, 1725
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February 15, 1725
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Manchester, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts
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February 16, 1727
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Bedford, Hillsborough, NH
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June 12, 1730
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Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
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1732
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