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Author: Walter L Ellis
Thomas Goss, Jr. was born ca. 1754 in Granville County, North Carolina. He married Marthy Pasty Putman ca. 1775. He was the son of NSSAR Patriot Thomas Goss, Sr. P-168411 (NC) and Fanny Sherman, daughter of NSSAR Patriot John Sherman, Sr. P-288916 (NC). In 1772 he served as one of the witnesses when his grandfather John Sherman, Sr. sold a parcel of land to his father Thomas Goss, Sr. He is named in his father’s Will of 1816.
Thomas Goss, Jr. was a soldier in North Carolina in the Revolution. He later moved to South Carolina and then to Georgia. As a Revolutionary War Soldier he received an extra draw in the 1832 Georgia Gold Lottery and won land in Habersham County. He died in Habersham County without claiming the land.
His son Benjamin Goss was a Soldier in South Carolina in the War of 1812 and moved to Georgia. Benjamin died in Arkansas.
Thomas Goss, Jr.’s. grandson (and Benjamin’s son) Nathaniel Harbin Goss married Millicent M. Whitten, grand daughter of NSSAR Patriot John Whitten P-319343 (VA) and grand daughter of NSSAR Patriot Absolom Thompson P- 334009 (SC). Nathaniel and Millicent were married in Georgia and moved to Missouri where they later died.
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