Richard Goss the mariner of Marblehead and Ipswitch

This is Richard Goss (1662 - 1715) the mariner of of Starr Island, Marblehead and Ipswich (No evidence he was son of Edward Goss) of Marblehead. (Note don't confuse him with Richard Goss of Portsmouth, New Hampshire - that is a different family).

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RICHARD Goss, mariner, was born by 1662 in England, He arrived by June 1693 at Star Island. His parents are not known. An Edward Goss was also seen in Marblehead and was possibly his brother (there is no evidence Edward was was Richard's father as Cutter speculated). He was kinsman of and overseer estate of Mrs. Eleanor Welcome of the Shoals 1699, first noted in N.H. June 1693 as witness against John Carter. He Bought land on Star Island in 1694. He was Selectman 1702. List 309. He sold is land on Star Island in 1705 and he retired in Ipswich and died there on 24 Jan. 1714-5, aged 52. His wife was named Mary ___. His children include Mary, Eleanor, Elizabeth, John, Thomas, Hannah, Richard and William baptized in Ipswitch.

Children

1. Mary died young
2. Eleanor, married July 1, 1721, Thomas Rhodes, of Marblehead.
3. Elizabeth died young
4. Thomas, married March 17, 1728, Patience Harraden.
5. John, born about 1704 married Oct 20, 1725 Sarah Phillips
6. Hannah Goss married 5 Nov 1732 Adoniram Griffin
7. Richard, born 1711, baptized Jan. 6, 1711-12; resided in Gloucester married Elizabeth Harraden Jan 1, 1734
8. William, baptized Aug. 1, 1714 married Rebecca ___ by 1740 and married 2nd Hannah Tucker 17 Jan 1764.

Who this is not

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LYWC-HRG Note this is a different man: Richard Goss of Portsmouth was born by 1642 and had a first unknown wife and two children Richard and Robert. He had a second wife Jane Walford. He died by 1684. His son Richard was born by 1667 in Rye and he married Martha Foss and died before 3 Mar 1719 in New Castle. Their children were Richard, Mary, Jonathan, Margaret, Jethro, John, Thomas, Nathan, Martha and Rachel.

Sources

1. Noyes/Libby/Davis, "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire," (1939), pp. 276, #1 and 240, #1; Dieterich. Harriet Hall, "The Goss Family of Portsmouth (Rye), New Hampshire," (The Essex Genealogist, May 1993), p. 92. $35 on their website.
2. Babson, John J., History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann: Including the Town of Rockport (Gloucester Mass.: Procter Brothers, 1860) 260
3. Essex County Historical and Genealogical Register, (Ipswich, Mass.: M. V. Perley, 1894) 1:127
4. William Cutter, Genealogical And Personal Memoirs Relating To The Families Of Boston And Eastern Massachusetts (1908) Volume III p 342-3
5. Essex Genealogist, The 13:23
6. Torrey U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 1:639
7. Old North Burying Ground 1634 Find A Grave Memorial# 81591479
8. Ipswich - V2 PAGE : 571 TEXT : Richard, Jan. 24, 1714-15, a. 52 y. G. R. 1.
9. “The first settlers in Marblehead, Massachusetts were from Guernsey and Jersey: Corporal Joshua Goss, Revolutionary War Soldier and the descendants of his son John” by Grace Goudie Budway 1972 Available on Ancestry.com
10. Essex County Probate: File #: 11311 Name: Richard Goss File Date: 07 Feb 1715
11. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of ..., Volume 3 edited by William Richard Cutter pages 1254 – 1255:

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