Clement GOSSELIN
Revolutionary War



COSSELIN, Clement (Gosline). Awarded land grant as refugee, 1798 act (wittke); b. 12 June 1747, Ste-Famille 1.0. (Gabriel & Genevieve Crepeaux). m. (1) 22 Jan. 1770 Ste-Anne-de-1a—Pocatiere, Marie-Beuve Dionne (Germain & Louise Bernier). Enlisted fall 1775, active on the south shore. 4 March 1776, captaincy in Hazen's Regt. At the retreat seems to have stayed at Ste-Anne. Oct. l777—mid—1778,imprisoned. March 1778 rejoined his regt. at
white Plains, N.Y, 29 Oct. 1778 at Lotbiniere. wounded at Yorktown. June 1783 brevet major and mustered out. m. (2) 12 Jan. 1787 (c. oucherville)
or 15 Jan. 1787 (Longueuil), Charlotte Ouimet (Ignace & Amable Prairie), he a resident of Lake Champlain. m. (3) 8 Nov. 1790 before Murdoch
McPherson, J.P., Marie-Catherine Monty, dau. Lt. Francis Monty (q.v.). Revalidated 12 May 1791, St.-Hyacinthe. 1800 at Plattsburgh. Settled 1802 at Lacadie, 1803 at St-Luc. 1815 returned to the U.S. d. 9 March 1816. Beekmantown, Clinton Co., N.Y. wife d. 9 April 1840/ 43 (Monty); 1787 at Chazy with 5 in family, 1790 visited St. Ours (Sullivan); Mooers List; Cont. Canada, Catharine, W 16655; BLWt. 885-300-Capt. Iss. 1/ 22/ 1790. No papers (RWPI); N.Y. land 80 acre lots no. 27 & 50; 420 acre lots no. 16 & 29 (RG 2l7); dau. Catherine m. 6-3-1787, Chambly, Joseph Lesage (Ger. & Margarita Boseus); dau. Marguerite m. 25-9-1797,
Beloeil. Jos-Dominique Messier (Jos. & M. Elis. Levasseur) dau. Marie-Genevieve/ Jane bap. 19 Dec. 1804, m. Lewis Monty (M804); Heitman says died 7 Aug. 1823); apparently descendents in the male line also (M804) on secret service in Canada l779-80-8l (Griffin, v. 1, pp. 135-139).


Canadian participants in the American Revolution, an index, by Virginia DeMarce
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