Gould, Brister, 1759 - 1823

Brister (Bristoe/Bristol) Gould was the son of Besse, a woman of color from Abington, Massachusetts.  He married Phebe Squinn on January 15, 1797 in Middleborough.  The couple had a number of children: Betsey (1797), Lydia (1799), Jane (1801), Ruby (1803), Melinda (1805), Zerviah (1807), and Benjamin (1809).  Gould was a teamster during the American Revolution.  He drowned at Hawley in East Weymouth in 1823.  F. Apthorp Foster, Vital Records of Abington, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: Stanhope Press, 1912), 89, 285.  Pierce, Indian History, Biography, and Genealogy, 218.