First Generation 1. Samuel GOOSBURY was born in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts. The Rich Men of Massachusetts, by A. Forbes and J. W. Green, Published by W. V. Spencer, 16 State Street, Boston, Mass., 1851. p. 156. Native of the town, and a farmer; but made his property by the strictest vigilance after the wayward coppers that were in the least danger of going astray, by the closest calculation, and by scropulously consuming nothing that would bring money. "There is no accounting for tastes."