John Goss

8th great grandfather

John GOSS (1693-c1745) who married Mary WOODS was the son of Philip GOSS & Mary PRESCOTT. John & Mary (WOODS) GOSS had seven children:

• 1. Elizabeth GOSS, b. 10 Apr 1716; m. 27 Aug 1738, Lancaster, MA, Barzillai HOLT
• 2. William GOSS, b. 10 Apr 1716; m1. 16 Jun 1736, Lancaster, MA, Lucy HALL/HEAD; m2. 8 Nov 1759, Bolton, MA, Elizabeth PIKE
• 3. Mary GOSS, b. 17 Jan 1717; m. 30 May 1737, Brookfield, MA, Josiah GILBERT
• 4. John GOSS, b. 7 Sep 1718; m. 5 May 1747, Abigail BALL
• 5. Sarah GOSS, b. 13 Apr 1719; d. 26 Oct 1802, Stow, MA; m. 1744, Stephen GIBSON
• 6. Philip GOSS, b. 1720/1
• 7. Jonathan GOSS, b. 18 May 1725; m. Mary __?__

From David Goss, correspondent, note of October 26, 2008

John Goss, who made the proposition about the bridge, was born in 1693. He was the son of Philip Goss, a Boston merchant, who bought the Rowlandson place, in Lancaster, in 1687, and who married Mary Prescott in 1690. This Philip Goss bought the "Washacomb Farm" of John Prescott, 2d, June 18, 1701. In 1717-18, John Goss received from John Prescott, 3d, "eighty acres of land, with the buildings thereon," between "Mill Brook" and the river, including some of the lower part of the Plain. In 1717, John Goss bought land now within Clinton limits, both of John Keyes and by way of exchange for the "Washacomb Farm" of Ebenezer Prescott. The deed of the former purchase, we have already noticed. The deed of the latter specifies land laid out in part to Ralph Houghton, and in part to George Adams, and since purchased by John Prescott, Sr. (2d). In one lot, there were about one hundred acres; in the other, land valued at fifty-two pounds ten shillings. Thus, John Goss must have owned several hundred acres in what is now the north-easterly portion of Clinton, lying for the most part between the present location of the Boston & Maine Railroad and the Nashua, and between Goodridge Brook and the center of the Plain.

John Goss built the first dam and mill where Rodger's privilege, south of Allen Street, now is. His dwelling-house, perhaps among the "buildings" specified in the deed of John Prescott, 3d, to him, was upon the bluff to the east, just above the mill. In 1733, John Goss sold to John Prescott, by way of exchange, twenty-three and one-half acres west of Prescott's Mill Pond, receiving several small pieces adjoining his own land. Records show that John Goss had at least six children, William, Elizabeth, Mary, John, Philip and Jonathan

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