Jacob Gosselin

The Gosselin Family came from Dieppe, France, where Jacob G. and his wife Martha Chauvel lived and were members of the Reformed Protestant Religion. About 1620 they fled to Holland where they became members of the French Protestant Church in Amsterdam (L'Eglise Wallone d'Amsterdam). There were four children born in Holland. One son, Jacob, baptized March 31, 1627, went to England and married in the French Church, Threadneedle St., London, Sarah Gooris (also a Huguenot), April 1, 1655. Jacob, baptized November 24, 1661, was one of the sons who became a silk weaver and lived in Soho, London, and Canterbury. About 1699 he emigrated to America and settled at Newton, Long Island, where two children, Judith and Josse (Joseph) were born. This was the period when the name was changed to Gorsaline. Joseph's grandson, John, came to Canada about 1689 [sic] and married Jane Cronk (Cronkheyt) of Dutch parentage from Dutchess County, N.Y., and settled at Sophiasburg. He served in the War of 1812. His son, Reuben, who married one of the de Mille sisters (Huguenot family) was a farmer first near Belleville, later at Bloomfield. A descendant is Brigadier R. M. Gorsaline, a retired medical military officer who married Beatrice Marjorie Sparks, a direct lineal descendant of Nicholas Sparks, the founder of Bytown (Ottawa). (Brigadier R. M. Gorsaline, 22 Downing St., Ottawa.)

The earliest definite record is of one Jacob Gosselin { Gorsline } and his wife Martha Chauvel, who lived in Dieppe, Normandy, and were of the Reformed Protestant Religion { Huguenots }. They fled from their home about the year 1609 and reached safety in Holland where they joined the French Protestant Church in Amsterdam { "L'eglise Wallonne d'Amsterdam" }. There were at least four children born in Holland, of which two boys died in infancy, a son Etienne baptized Feb. 27 1630, and a son Jacob baptized March 31, 1627, who proceeded to England and was married on April 1, 1655 in the French Church on Threadneedle Street, London. To Sarra Gooris, a native of London, daughter of Solomon Gooris. Jacob was naturalized on December 29, 1660. He was a sponsor at baptisms in 1658, 68 and 69.His wife was sponsor in 1661 and 70. He resided in London until his death about 1672. There were several children of Jacob and Sarra all baptized in Threadneedle Street Church, namely Marie, baptized June 8, 1656; died 1676; Jean, baptized September 12, 1658; Sarah, baptized February 19,1660; Jacob, baptized November 24,1661; Guillaume and Philipe baptized January 17, 1664; and Claude baptized April 9, 1665.

Jacob, fled from France to Holland. His son, Jacob, emigrated to England. And then Jacob III emigrated to Long Island, NY where his son Josse was born in 1701. During Josse's (or Joseph) lifetime, the name Gosselin become Gorsline, or even Gorssline and Gosline in some instances.

JACOB GOSSELINE, a respectable French emigrant, came to Newtown near the close of the seventeenth century. Having means, or acquiring it in the prosecution of his trade as a weaver, he purchased a farm, which he cultivated till his death, in or about 1722. He left sons Jacob, Jose, John, and Samuel. JOSE owned the farm now of William Leverich, near Newtown village, and was also a weaver. For nine years he was constable of the town. He m. in succession Elizabeth Alburtis and Martha Smith, and d. Nov. 20, 1772. His ch. were Samuel, Jacob, John, William, Joseph, James, Daniel, Richard, Elizabeth, Mary, Judith, Thomas, and Benjamin. Of these, Samuel left a family in Dutchess co. Richard d. in the Island of St. Croix, in 1771, leaving Richard, who settled at Delhi, N.Y., and Ann, who m. Capt. (afterwards Gen.) Aeneas Shaw, of the British army. Joseph m. successively Sarah Leverich, and widow Hannah Underhill, and d. in his 86th yr. Mar. 30, 1822. His sons were James and John, the last of whom m. Helen Conselyea, and was the father of the present Andrew and Peter Gorsline, of Newtown.

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