Clément Gosselin
| Clément Gosselin | |
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Congress's Own Regiment
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| Born |
June 12, 1747 Sainte-Famille, Québec |
| Died | March 9, 1816 (aged 68) Beekmantown, New York |
| Service/branch | Army |
| Years of service | Continental Army: 1775–1783 |
| Rank | Captain and then Major for pension |
| Unit | 2nd Canadian Regiment |
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| Awards | Original Member of the society of Cincinnati |
Clément Gosselin (June 12, 1747 – March 9, 1816) was a French Canadian soldier who served in Moses Hazen's 2nd Canadian Regiment of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He recruited other French Canadians, assisted in American operations during and after the Battle of Quebec, and, following the American retreat from Quebec in 1776, continued to serve in Hazen's regiment. Included in that service were spy missions to the province of Quebec.
Clément Gosselin was born in 1747. He was the youngest of a large family living in Sainte-Famille, on the eastern side of Île d'Orléans east of the city of Quebec. At the time of the British invasion of 1759 Gosselin was twelve years old.
In January 1782 Clément was stationed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to guard prisoners captured at Yorktown. In 1783 he was discharged and given a Major's pension. He was also given a land grant of 1000 acres at Chazy, near Lake Champlain in New York state.
He was with General von Steuben in Newburg, New York, to receive his membership in The Society of the Cincinnati.
He moved to Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada in early 1791, moving to Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie around 1800 and then to Saint-Luc in 1803. From 1815 on, Gosselin was living in Clinton County, New York until his death in Beekmantown.
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