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I wrote a couple of months ago about Military Records I have on George Gould who died at Reams Station, Virginia during the Civil War. He was the son of Philander Erwin GOULD & Patience M BENSON . Their children were: Finette,George,Reddington,Layfette,Floyd,Frank M,Philander Jr.,Royal Rose (my gggrandfather),Harriett Jane,Hannah A, and Mary C. They lived in Rutland Twp., Tioga Co., PA when the war broke out. Patience had to prove to the government that George was the main support of the entire family; therefore, family, friends, and neighbors wrote letters that were notarized to the government to prove her rights to the pension funds. I have the copies of the handwritten letters and wanted to know if you would be interested in them.
I, Aaron Wood of the township of Rutland in the county of Tioga and the state of Pensylvannia, on oath say that I am fifty years old, that I resided in the same township with the said George Gould (to wit, the said township of Rutland) ever since he was born until he enlisted into the army sometime in 1862, when it is reported he was killed, and I know, that the said George Gould, had no wife or child, he never having been married, and futher that I have no
interest in this claim direct or indirect. Aaron Wood
I, Elmer Backer also of the said township of Rutland, on oath say that
my age is thiry one years, that, I was well aquainted with the said George Gould
son of the said Patience M Gould, in his lifetime I was born and always lived in
the same township with him until he went into the Army. I was first Luentenant
of the company in which he served for a time, afterward was Capt. of another
company. The said George Gould died without wife or child, never having been
married, and futher htat I have no interest in this claim, direct or
indirect. E. R. Backer
State of Pennsylvania
County of Tioga
Before me as Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally
appear the foregoing and written names Aaron Wood and Elmer Backer, to me well
known and whom I certify to be ntilled to full credit and each severally
in due form of law make oath and subscribed to his respestion foregoing
affedavit before me this 18th day of December 1871 and futher certify that I
have no interest in this claim direct or indirect.
Daniel Watson, J.P.
Rutland, April 25, 1866 This is to certify that I Joel Rose, MD have personally acquainted with Phylander Goold for a number of years, and know him to be a very poor man and that his health is verry poor in corrsequense of Hernia, which he has torn (unable to read), with other difficulties of his bodly system. I do not consider him able to support his family which is quite large. Joel Rose MD
Rutland, April 25, 1866 I am acquainted with the above name Philander Gould and from a personal examination believe the above certificate to be true. John M. Borden MD
Commonwealth of Penna.
Tioga County-SS
Personall appeared before me the above named Joel Rose MD and John M Borden MD and made oath that the facts set forth in their affidavits were true sworn and subscriped before me at Rutland this 25th day of April 1866. Daniel Watson J.P.
Tioga Co., SS
On this seventh day of May 1866 before me personally appeared Metilda Benson
and Polly Stoup residents of Rutland in said county who after being duly sworn
do on their solomn oaths state that they are well acquainted with Philander
Gould and Patience M Gould; tht they were present at Horseheads, Chemung Co.,
N.Y. when they were married by Conklin Eng a Justice of the Peacein and for the
Chemung County on the 20th day of August AD, 1835; that they have know them
since that time and that they hve lived together as man and wife.
That the said Philander Gould has been for many years in poor health and
unable to provide wholly for his family, and that George Gould their son before
he enlisted in the army mainly supported the family.
Matilda Benson X
Polly Sloub X (Possibly Polly Stout-
Note form JMT)
Sworn and Subscribed before me will I certify that the above witnessns and
credible persons and that I am not inerrested in this claim. Daniel Watson
JP
State of Penna
Co of Bradford
On this 31st day of August 1866 before me personally came Ezriuh Benson of
Columbia town in the county of Bradford state of Pennsylvannia who after being
duly sworn says that he was a private in Co "G" 16th Pa Calvalry, and said he
was acquainted with Georg Gould who was a private in the same company "G" 16th
Reg Calvalry and not a member of Co "C" in said regiment.
Ezriuh Benson
Sworn and Subscribe before me will I certify that I am not interested in this
claim Witness my hand and seal the 31st day of August 1866. V M Sony (?)
Assocut Inder (?)
I, Wm Hutchinson of Mansfield in the county of Tioga and State of
Pennsylvania on oath say that George Gould son of Patience M Gould worked one
season for me on my farm in Rutland township said county his work amounted to
one hundred and twelve dollars which I paid in grain, Store trade, some money
and provisions, the larger share of which was grain and provisions all of which
his mother and family had and stood in need of her husband not being able to
provide. The next year the same George Gould worked for Wm. Lawrence in the same
neighborhood and that I have no interest in this claim direct or indirect.
State of Pennsylvania
County of Tioga SS
William Hutchinson
Personally appeared the above named Wm Hutchinson to me well known and whom I certify to entitiled to full credit and in due form of law, made oath and subscribed to the above statement before me this 1st day of June 1872 and I certify that I have no interst in this claim direct or indirect. Wm Adams J.P.
I, Jefferson Sherman of the Township of Rutland in Tioga County and State of Penns on oath say that I have been well acquainted with Mrs. Patience M. Gould of said Town, County, and State for the last 30 years and I have lived as a neighbor to her for about 20 years and I knew that George Gould contributed to the support of his mother Patience Gould by his labor for others People and his wages went for her support for the time of 4 or 5 years before he went into the service of the US and Provisions to that time he worked for his Parents. She has got no property to my knowing except one cow the said George Gould left no widow or children surviving him. The means of knowing the above facts which I have one a personal knowledge of the family for the above tens of years and the most of the time a near neighbor to them and a knowledge of their circumstance and further I have no interest in this claim. Jefferson Sherman
State of Pennsylvania
County of Tioga SS
Personally appeared before a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county
above named Jefferson Sherman to me well known and whom I I certigy
to be entill to full credit and in due form of law made oath ????? to the
foregoing statement and certify I have no interest in this claim direct or
indirectly as Witness my hand and sel this ? day of December AD 1870.
Daniel Watson J.P.
I, A. J. Ross, Member of the firm of Ross and Williams, of Mansfield in the county of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania on oath say that I am acquainted with Patience M. Gould mother of George Gould deceased. That she and her family lived on a piece of land belonging to said firm of Ross & Williams situated in Rutland township said county of Tioga. That before her said son George inlisted into the army we made a verbal bargain by which if we were paid a spicified sum by a certain time (which was spicified) and ten per cent interest on said sum, we were to make a conveyance of said land to the Gould's and in case of them being unable to pay for it according to said bargain then they were to pay for the use of the land. Shortly after said bargain George went into the army and sent us money two or three times, small amounts, (that is his father said it was money George had sent from the army). After George was killed nothing more was paid and we took back the land and allowed what George had paid us to apply for the use of the same. We then sold the land to John Benson and has rented it to Mrs Gould ever since, or I am so informed at any rate she and her family have lived on it all this ?????????????
Also personally appeared Charles Lawrence to me well known and whom I certify to be entilled to full credit and who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he was well acquainted with the said George Gould during his lifetime until he went into the army lived in the same neighborhood with him from the time he was a small boy until he went into the army that he and George were young men together and intimate friends that he knows George never had any wife or children and that he has no interest in this claim direct or indirect C. W. Lawrence
Sworn an dsubscribed before me the 16th day of June 1873 SS Wm. Adams J.P.
Also personally appears J. E. Horton to me well known and whom I certify to
be entilled to full credit and who being duly sworn according to law sposs and
says that he was well acquainted with the said George Gould was brought up
together with him with same neighborhood and was intimate iwth him and sure the
said George Gould never had any wife or children and that he as no interest in
this direct or indirect.
G. E. Horton
Sworn and subscriped before me the 16th day of June 1873 SS Wm Adams J.P.
Whom I certify to be entilled to full credit and in due form of law made oath and subscribe to the forgoing statement and I further certify that I have no interest in this claim direct or indirect. Before me this 23rd day of May 1872. Daniel Watson, Justice of the Peace
Also personall appeared Thomas Horton of the said township of Rutland to me
well know and whom I certify to be entilled to full credit, who bring duly sworn
according to law deposes and says I have been acquainted with Patience M. Gould
above named for over thirty years and her son George Gould from a child until he
enlisted into the army which was sometime in 1862. He was a very steady
industrious boy and helped a good deal towards the support of his mother and
family, he worked six months for me before he went to work for Wm Lawrence. I
paid him sixty six dollars for his work and most all of it in grain, provisions
and things necessary for his mother and children support (which was quite small)
and she and her family have the things and I believe consumed them and I have no
interest in this claim.
Thomas Horton
Sworn and suscribed before me the 23rd of May 1872
Daniel Watson
Justice of the Peace
Also personally appeared Reddington Gould to me well know and whom I certify
to be entilled to be entilled to full credit, and who being duly sworn according
to law deposes and says that he is twenty eight years of age and has been a
criple and unable to support himself since he was fifteen years old, that he is
the son of the said Patience M. Gould, knew of his brother George sending money
home at different times while he was in the army. At one time he sent forty
dollars and mother was obliged to use most all the money he sent home to buy
things, food, and clothes for herself and family. Before George went into the
army he kept company with a young lady in the neighborhood some, (say if he had
lived would probably have married her) I and my sister Jane use to joke him
about her and call her his wife and in a letter he wrote home while in the army
speaking of his wife, he must have been joking for he never had any wife, or
family except that of his mother and fathers and further that he has no interest
in this claim direct or indirect. Redington Gould
Sworn and subscribe before me the 16th day of June 1873 and I certify that
I have no interest in this claim direct or indirect. Wm Adams, J.P.
I, John Benson of the township of Rutland in the county of Tioga and state of Pennsylvania on oath say that I am acquainted with Patience M. Gould of said township and have been for forty years and upwards. I know her son George from the time he was a child in the cradle until he enlisted into the army in 1862. She and her family have lived on a piece of my land in said township for the past fourteen years. She nor her husband during said time have owned no property except a part of the time one cow and part of the time two cows sometimes a poor old horse with very little, and a small amount of household furniture and since the death of her said son George they have had no means of support except what they have derived from my place and her labor and that of her children and it has been a very scanty support at that. She has often went out ot work among her neighbors. It was very different when her said son George was alive. He was a steady industrious boy and contributed largely towards the support of his said mother for the last five or six years of his life. I know of his working three and four years for Wm Lawrence and know of his mother and her family having grain, provisions and store trade for his work while there and I remember he worked one season for Wm Hutchinson and got his pay mostly in grain and things for the use of his said mother and his family and that I have no interest in this claim direct or indirect. I have know her husband over sixty years. John Benson
State of Pennsylvania
County of Tioga SS
Personally appeared the above named John Benson to me well know and whom I
certify to be entilled to full credit and due form of law made oath and
subscribed to the foregoing statement and I further certify that I have no
interest in this claim direct or indirect. Before me this 23rd day of May 1872.
Daniel Watson
Justice of the Peace
*reside on it to the present time. (?)
I knew George from a baby in the cradle until he went into the army always lived near him and am sure he never had any wife or children. I also knows of money being sent home by George while he was in the army or at least I was at Mrs. Gould when it came and she said it was from George and he wanted it paid on the place and stop the big interest but she was obliged to use it to get things for herself and family and at one time the family was so destitute I lent them some money until they could get the bounty money coming on account of George. Further I have no interest in this claim direct or indirect. John Benson X (his mark) (See John's Photo above)
Sworn and subscribed before me the 16th day of June 1873
Wm Adams J.P.
Also personally appeared Wm Hutchinson to me well known and whom I certify to be entitled to full credit and who bring duly sworn according t law deposes and says that he was well acquainted with the said George Gould son of Patience M Gould from the time he was small boy until he went into the army lived in the same neighborhood with him and am sure he never had any wife or children and further that I have no interest in this claim direct or indirect. Wm Hutchinson
Sworn and subscribed before me this 16th day of June 1873 SS Wm Adams J.P.
Adjutant General's Office
Washington DC
January 19th, 1871
Application for Pension #128,241
George Gould
Enrolled 10th day of Sept 1862, at Tioga, PA in Co "D", 16th Reg of PA
calvery for three (3) years. Mustered in as private on the 29th day of Sept 1862
at Harrisburg, PA. On the muster rolls of Co "D" for the months of
July and Aug 1864; he is reported Pat. absent wounded in C.C. Hospital;
Muster Out dated Aug 11'/65 report him Pat. Died August 27"/64 of gun shot wound
of head, in Cavy(?) Corps Hospital City Point, VA.
Caualty Sheet: Geoge Gould, Private, 16th Reg, Calvery,Pennsyvania. Place of
casualty, Reams Station, VA;wounded in action;Aug 23, 1864.
Roll of Honor, Vol 13, page 124;date of death Aug 27,1864;buried Caverly(?)
Corps Cemetery, VA.
George Gould was 24 years on his first Company Muster-In Roll at Harrisburg, PA Sept 29, 1862: Bounty paid: $25.00 Prem paid: $2.00.
"Portrait and Biographial Album of Livingston Co., Illinois"
March 1, 1881
Page 589 and 590
ROYAL ROSE GOULD, one of the wealthy farmers and stock-raisers of Long Point
Twp. owning 200 acres located on section 2, was born in Pennsylvania on the 23rd
of February 1848 and is the son of Philander and Patience M. (Benson) Gould who
were natives of Pennsylvania and Connecticut, respectively. The father born Oct
21, 1801, and the mother Feb 21, 1815. The former died in 1881, and the later
died 12 Oct 1880. To them were born eleven children: Fientte, on the
1st day of June, 1836, married William Lane, and had one child, Grant still
living; she died on the 20th of Dec 1883; George, born January, 1838, enlisted
in the army at Rutland in 1862, and served twenty-three months; on the 27the of
August, in a skirmish near Reams Station, VA, he was shot over the right eye,
and the ball came out over the left ear; suring his term of service he was in
forty-one battles besides skirmishes. Harriet was born March 20,
1845, and died June 17, 1882; Reddington was born in April, 1846, and died in
Pennsylvania Sept. 1, 1873; Royal, our subject, was born Feb 23,1848; Philander
Erwin, born Dec 4, 1849, married Minnie Marsh; they have one child, and live on
the old homestead in Pennsylvania. LaFayette was born Sept 24, 1851, and married
Alta Marsh; they have three children and reside in Bradford Co., Pennsylvania.
Frank M. was born Sept 30, 1853, and was married to Mabel Ridenhour, of Bradford
Co., Pennsylvania; she is the daughter of Daniel and Esther Ridenhour; they have
one child, and reside in Ingham County, Mich. Mary C., born June 1?, 1855,
married Jake Williams, who died July 6, 1881, leaving one child; Floyd was born
March 2, 1857, is unmarried, and lives in Bradford County, Pennsylvania; Hannah
A. was born May 31, 1861, was married to Albert Series, and has one child.
On the 11th of May 1876, Royal Rose Gould was married to Mary Louise
Carlton, a daughter of Benjamin and Laura (Eaton) (Miller) Gould, whose
biographies will be found in another part of this work. Mrs. Carlton was the
wife of Lanson Miller, deceased, and her maiden name was Eaton. By her first
husband were born three children: John L. was married to Maggie Stephenson, and
resides in Colorado; Deloss is mining in Idaho; Laura J. was born Jan 23, 1842,
and died Jan 29, 1865; she was the wife of Gus Payne, and resided in Long Point.
To Mr and Mrs Gould there have been born four children: Benjamin Reddington;
July 11, 1878; Lorne W.; Dec 30, 1879; Ina Ethel; Dec 25, 1881; George Leland,
Aug 27, 1885.
Mr. Gould's farm is well improved and finely cultivated. Its productiveness
has been much added to by the construction of considerable tile ditches.
In politics Mr. Gould acts with the Republican party, but wholly through
positives of patriotism, as he has no desire to hold ?, nor inclination to
become an office-seeker. He is largely interested in the material welfare of his
country and township, which he manifests upon all occasions. Mrs. Gould is an
active member of the Christian Church, and devotes her energies to good works.
NOTE FROM CHOCY: Laura Eaton Miller Carlton was daughter of William Eaton and Asaneth Loomis of Springfield Twp., Bradford Co., PA. I have quite a bit of info on Loomis; almost nothing, so far, on William who came by canoe to find his neighbors the Leonards, one of the first settlers of the area. Nothing on Lanson Miller.