Parents Isaac Goose and Elizabeth Foster
Granddaughter of Capt. William Foster and Anne Foster (Brackenberry)
Married printer Thomas Fleet
Death and burial unknown
Maybe buried with husband in unmarked grave
Pls contact me with info on Mrs Fleet
NOTES
Despite evidence to the contrary, there are reports, familiar to tourists to Boston, Massachusetts, that the original Mother Goose was a Bostonian wife of an Isaac Goose, either named Elizabeth Foster Goose (1665–1758) or Mary Goose (d. 1690, age 42) who is interred at the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street.
According to Eleanor Early, a Boston travel and history writer of the 1930s and '40s, the original Mother Goose was a real person who lived in Boston in the 1660s.
She was reportedly the second wife of Isaac Goose (alternatively named Vergoose or Vertigoose), who brought to the marriage six children of her own to add to Isaac's ten.
After Isaac died, Elizabeth went to live with her eldest daughter, who had married Thomas Fleet, a publisher who lived on Pudding Lane (now Devonshire Street).
According to Early, "Mother Goose" used to sing songs and ditties to her grandchildren all day, and other children swarmed to hear them.
Finally, her son-in-law gathered her jingles together and printed them.
Parents Isaac Goose and Elizabeth Foster
Granddaughter of Capt. William Foster and Anne Foster (Brackenberry)
Married printer Thomas Fleet
Death and burial unknown
Maybe buried with husband in unmarked grave
Pls contact me with info on Mrs Fleet
NOTES
Despite evidence to the contrary, there are reports, familiar to tourists to Boston, Massachusetts, that the original Mother Goose was a Bostonian wife of an Isaac Goose, either named Elizabeth Foster Goose (1665–1758) or Mary Goose (d. 1690, age 42) who is interred at the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street.
According to Eleanor Early, a Boston travel and history writer of the 1930s and '40s, the original Mother Goose was a real person who lived in Boston in the 1660s.
She was reportedly the second wife of Isaac Goose (alternatively named Vergoose or Vertigoose), who brought to the marriage six children of her own to add to Isaac's ten.
After Isaac died, Elizabeth went to live with her eldest daughter, who had married Thomas Fleet, a publisher who lived on Pudding Lane (now Devonshire Street).
According to Early, "Mother Goose" used to sing songs and ditties to her grandchildren all day, and other children swarmed to hear them.
Finally, her son-in-law gathered her jingles together and printed them.
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