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THE GOSSETTS
IN EUROPE
Chapter
1
The Early Gossett Family
Chapter
2
The Origin of the Gossett Name
Chapter
3
Heraldry, Knights & The Crusades
Chapter
4
An Interpretation of the
Gossett Coat-of-Arms
Chapter
5
The Gossetts Were Nobles in France
The Nobility of France
Chapter
6
The Gossetts Were Huguenots
Jean Gosset, A Huguenot
Descendants of Jean Gosset
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The Gossetts
In America
Chapter
1
Peter Gosset of Chester County, PA
Descendants of Peter Gosset
Chapter
2
John Gosset of Cumberland County, PA
Blunstons Licenses
Chapter
3
Descendants of John Gosset of PA
Peter Gosset of Franklin County, PA
John Gosset of Virginia
Mary Gossett, Wife of the Rev. Morgan
Cumberland & Shenandoah Valleys
Chapter
4
Matthias Gossett of Virginia
Sons of Matthias Gossett
Matthias Gossett, Jr., Berkeley Cty, WV
Jacob Gossett of Kentucky
From Magna Charta
Chapter
5
John Gossett of Ohio
Highland County & New Market, Ohio
Will of John Gossett
Chapter
6
Descendants of John Gossett of Ohio
Amariah Gossett
Abijah Gossett
Rachel Gossett
Moses Gossett
Lavinah Gossett
Lindsay, Presley, Milton & Wilson
Gossetts/1850 Ohio Census for Highland Cty
Chapter 6, Section
2
John Jack Gossett
Will of John [Jack] Gossett (1791-1853)
Descendants of John Gossett , continued
Chapter 6, Section
3
Descendants of John Gossett , continued
Chapter 6, Section
4
Descendants of John Gossett , continued
Chapter 6, Section
5
Descendants of John Gossett , continued
Chapter
7
The Gossett Genealogy (Recapitulation)
The Ancestry of Gossetts in Ohio
Allied Families
The Roberts Family
The Pulse Genealogy
The Roush Ancestry
The Carter Genealogy
The Mullins Ancestry
The Hitt Ancestry
The John Ancestry
Other Gossetts
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Introduction
By Kim Hughes
January 1999
To All My Cousins...
I have been researching my branch of the Gossett family since
the early 1980s, but it wasn't until recently that I started
hearing of the Newcomer book. I had seen copies of
some of the chapters and found a startling amount of information.
I tried to get a copy of the book but had little luck. I was
finally able to obtain a copy of The Family of Gossett
through the interlibrary loan program at my local library. Because
I found this book so difficult to obtain and so valuable to Gossett
genealogy, I took on the arduous task of scanning the entire
book for publication on the Internet.
Published in 1954 by Evangeline Gossett Newcomer, the book
is not easily identifiable because it does not have an ISBN number
or a Library of Congress number. There is no copyright information
listed, either. It is not my intention to violate any copyright
laws, nor infringe on any persons rights. If I have done
so, please advise.
I hope that Mrs. Newcomer would agree with my intent to make
her work available free of charge to those interested in Gossett
genealogy. Therefore, no portion of this book may be downloaded,
copied or reproduced in any manner or form for commercial purposes
and may not be sold or offered for sale. You may not charge for
access to this book, if made available on the Internet, nor make
it part of an on-line library that charges for access. Copies
may be made for personal, noncommercial use only, to further
knowledge of our Gossett ancestors amongst our many cousins.
Please give all credit to Mrs. Newcomer. Her work has become
invaluable to Gossett researchers.
The text within this book was scanned through computerized
optical character recognition. It is unchanged from the original
manuscript, with a few exceptions. Special care was given to
ensure that names and dates were correctly digitized. Minor corrections
in spelling, punctuation and capitalization were made where there
would be no impact in doing so. Some names appear to be misspelled
but were not changed because they match the original manuscript
and I had no way to verify the correct spelling for those names.
Any reference made to illustrations at the end of the book
no longer applies. Illustrations are now placed in the appropriate
place within the text.
Where information has proved to be wrong or misleading, changes
were made within the original text immediately following the
incorrect information and are included within brackets ([ ]).
Some information was added to clarify issue and also appears
within brackets. Some formatting of text and paragraphs was changed
to ease in reading.
Should you find a mistake within the text, whether it is a
typo or incorrect information, e-mail the correction to KimberlyKHughes@yahoo.com.
I hope you enjoy this book as much as I have!.
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PREFACE
By Evangeline Gossett Newcomer
November 1954
In recent years, three genealogical periodicals have published
information on Gossett families. The Detroit Society for Genealogical
Research Magazine published in June 1945 a contribution by Clara
Hageman Sipperley, who is a descendant of William Gossett (1790-1845).
Then, Tylers Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine,
October 1947, and January and April 1948, included data on Miss
Josie Gossetts line, which she embodied in Tchudy
and Allied Families. For the third magazine publication,
Miss Gossett augmented her material with information on other
branches and assembled an article, The Gossett Family,
which was issued, April 1951, in The Register of the Kentucky
Historical Society.
There have been other publications on Gossett families. A
chapter on a branch in South Carolina appears in The Steen Family
by Rev. M. D. A. Steen, published by Montfort & Co., Cincinnati,
Ohio, 1917, pp. 73-90. The book contains two portraits of Gossett
men, intelligent and fine-looking, corporation executives. One
is a student of metaphysics.
Another book, The History of Houston County, Texas,
by Armistead Albert Aldrich, published 1943, pp. 152-4, presents
The Gossett Family by Mrs. Josie Gossett Newton of
Galveston.
My father, Joseph Gossett of Palo Alto, California, owned
the Bible which belonged to his father (d. 1855). A few names
and dates of his relatives in Ohio and a reference to the family
background were recorded. The statement reads:
The Gossetts descended from one of the oldest noble
families of Europe. During the religious wars they fled from
France to England. In the early days the Gossetts emigrated to
America and settled in Pennsylvania. John Gossett, son of Matthias
Gossett, came from Virginia to Ohio.
That brief inscription was the impetus which prompted me to
undertake the preparation of this history.
Originally the name was Goussé (pronounced Goo say´).
Then the name became Goussét, finally Gosset or Gossett.
Gosset with one t is generally used in France and
in England. In America the more Anglicized form with double t
is universally adopted. In this volume the Gossett name will
be spelled with double t except when direct references
are being made to English and French families.
This book, entitled The Family of Gossett presents
the European background of the Gossett family and an account
of Jean (John) Gosset, who was a member of a noble family in
Normandy, France. His oldest son was John Gosset, the father
of John and Peter Gosset who came to America. Also, this book
provides information on descendants of Jean Gosset, especially
on descendants in America.
Although dealing primarily with one branch, this chronicle
portrays the background of every Gossett family because the Gossetts
were nobles of ancient lineage in France. All of the children
of a nobleman in France were nobles, while in England a peerage
descended only to the eldest son in the nature of an office.
In connection with tracing the Gossett ancestry back to the
invasion of Normandy, an effort has been made to illustrate the
progress of social life in France from the time of the first
crusade, so that more clearly can we understand the role the
Gossetts played.
Information has been obtained from the works of historians
on medieval life. Relatives have aided by furnishing data, and
genealogists have searched diligently to secure records. Valuable
assistance was received from the Library of Congress as well
as other public libraries. To all I wish to express my deep gratitude.
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