Fifth Generation

121. Reverend Thomas GOSS³⁵ was born on 6 July 1716 in Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.³⁵ He died on 17 January 1780 at the age of 63 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.³⁵ Life Sketch: "Pastor of the church among the Boltonians, who, for upwards of thirty nine years having exercised the sacred office, departed this life January 17th 1780, in the 63rd year of his age. A man adorned with piety, hospitality, friendliness, and other virtues; somewhat broken in body but endowed wth wonderful fortitude; he was the first among the clergy in these unhappy times to be grievously persecuted for boldly opposing those who were striving to maintain the ecclesiastical polity which was handed down by our ancestry. Friends erected this monument." He was buried in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.³⁵ in the Old South Burying Ground.

Abigail NEWHALL WADE³⁵ was born on 28 July 1717 in Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.³⁵ She died on 15 July 1791 at the age of 73 in Amherst, Hillsborough County, NH.³⁵