Friendsville Cemetery, Friendsville, Wabash County IL
Jonathan Goss
Jonathan Goss Born: 13 Mar 1760 Died: Mar 1844 Plot: 06N54
Rev War veteran Where born: Townsend-Middlesex Co MA Where died: Friendsville; res 1830-40 Wabash 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; 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 page 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.
