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Jonathan Goss

Rev War veteran
Where born:   Townsend-Middlesex Co MA
Where died:   Friendsville IL; res 1830-40 Wabash Co IL
Son of:   Jonathan Goss (1725 MA-1777 Townsend MA) & Mary Richardson (31 Mar 1704 MA-1777); received pension from Sep 1831-Sep 1844; Granted 100 acres as US Land Warrant in 1806
Lived at:   1830-1840 Wabash Co IL; 1840 has males: 1 80-89; females 0 1 3 0 0 1 1; possible ch: Rebecca (ca 1800) & Calista (ca 1800 PA-1880 IL m: 1826 Edwards Co IL John Martin); Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution Vol. 6 p
Age  654: Goss & Jonathan & Townsend. Private in Capt. John Minot's Co. - Col. Josiah Whitney's regt.
Arrived:  at destination May 10 1777; discharged July 9 1777; service: 2 mos. 10 days - travel included - at Rhode Island. Roll dated Warwick Neck. Jonathon Goss on list of prisoners sent from Halifax to Boston in the cartel ?Swift? Sept. 30 1778 as returned by Thomas Baildon - Commissary of Prisoners; reported a Seaman.

      * indicates buried with Jonathan Goss in Friendsville Cemetery.