Following up on the legend of the death of Moses Gould in 1816, I had some questions. Would a logger’s death have been so commonplace it wasn’t recorded in a local newspaper? Was it likely that Moses was working as a logger? The rest of his family appear to have been primarily [...]
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Lumberjacks – the cowboys of early Maine
Posted in Gould, methodology, research notes on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Trying to tease Moses out of the shadows
Posted in Gould, methodology, research notes on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My 4th great grandfather, Moses Gould died, reportedly at age 40, while lumbering in the Maine woods. He left a wife, Anne Adams Gould, and 7 young children. My 3rd great grandfather was his youngest son Joseph Gould. Joseph never knew his father. In fact if the various brag book entries for Joseph and his [...]
