John Gould (1746-1816) and his wife, Jane Palmer (1753-1825), were married in 1772 and lived in Wardsboro, Vermont (later Dover, Vermont). They had eight children: Enos (1773-1801), John (1775-1851), Aholiab (1777-1840), Silas (1780-1845), Huldah (1782-1849), Timothy (1787-1868), Lois (1789-1873), and Amos (1792-1867). Enos Gould and his wife, Betsey Johnson, had one daughter, Betsey E. Gould (1801-1830). The younger John Gould married Polly Stearns (1777-1851) and had six children; they later moved to Sullivan, Ohio. Aholiab Gould married Jane Sears (1785-1864). Silas Gould married Betsey Johnson Gould, his brother's widow, in 1803. They had four children: John P. (b. 1806), Sally (1808-1863), Lucy (1811-1841), and Lois (1817-1846). Huldah Gould married John Emerson in 1834, and they later moved to Sullivan, Ohio. Amos Gould and his wife, Polly Johnson (1792-1885), married in 1813 and had eleven children; they also moved to Sullivan County, Ohio.
Lois Gould married Sylvanus Parmely (1784-1874) in 1807, and they moved to Sullivan County, Ohio, before 1817. Sylvanus Parmely participated in early surveys of Lorain County, Ohio, and operated a sawmill and general store in Sullivan. Their ten children were Manning (1809-1833), Lois (b. 1811), Louisa (b. 1811), Rosetta M. (b. 1815), Sylvia (b. 1818), Ellsworth (b. 1821), Jane L. (b. 1823), Celia D. (1825-1888), Melvin B. (b. 1827), and Sarah Ann Agnes (1833-1874).
From the guide to the Sylvanus and Lois Gould Parmely collection, Parmely, Sylvanus and Lois Gould collection, 1809-1830, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)
