Shared Note: - Letter from Kathy Beals (5/19/1995) regarding clarification of the PhilipGoss line mix-up and Rev. Paul Henry Goss research on Goss line(materials from Fred Nelson)
From "Historical Material of The Blanchard Family", compiled by SusanNelson Nibeck from genealogical notes and materials collected by herfamily.
Philip Goss IV - born 1724 (wrong) Lancaster, Mass - married Hannah Ball- Winchester, New Hampshire. He died Winchester 1804 - Gravestone there- "Now death doth call and I must go And leave you in this world below And when this world I leasve behind I hope a better world to find."
Tombstone reads- "Death is a debt to Nature due which I have paid and so must you."
Town record says "Philip Goss was a leading man in the town and left thatmemory of the just which is blessed.