John Goffe III (1679 - 1748)

Born 18 Sep 1679 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Parrish) Goffe — married 1700 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 9 Aug 1748 at age 68 in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

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Biography

This profile is part of the Goff Name Study.

(Researchers in Wikitree and Familysearch disagree on whether this is John Goffe II or John Goffe III. They agree that John's parents are John Goffe and Hannah Sumner, but they give John and Hannah differnt parents, birthdates, and death dates.)

Grandfather Esquire John Goffe; The first English (Colonial) settlement within the borders of Darryfield, later Manchester, New Hampshire was in 1722; one of those families was an Esquire John Goffe b-1679 in Boston. He was married in 1700 to Hannah Parish in Goffstown, NH His family and two Brother In-laws, Edward Lingfield & Benjamin Kidder erected their homes on the Cohas River near the falls. John & Hannah Goffe lived on the north bank of the brook, nearly opposite of the Falls to which he has left his name. Goffe Falls, NH. & his fathers name > Goffestown NH celebrating 300 years past.

In the graveyard at Bedford NH… there rests, side by side, the martial remains of Esquire John Goffe; Colonel John Goffe; and Major John Goff; and at the side of each repose are the ashes of their wives. ‘History of Bedford:’ page 246

Marriage

Recorded at Boston & Chelmsford, performed at Chelmsford:
"John Goffe of Boston & Hannah Parrish of Chelmsford Married By Mr. Thomas Clark on 1699-1700[?]" (no day or month entered)^[1][2]

Here is an image of the above record: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH8R-QMX : 10 November 2020), John Goffe, ; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004277139.

Sources

1. ↑ Boston, MA: Marriages, 1700-1809, Vol. 2:291
2. ↑ Essex Institute, compiler, Vital Records of Chelmsford, MA, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1914), Vol. 1:289

• Find A Grave memorial #32756780
• Manchester Historic Association Collections (J. B. Clarke Co., Manchester, N.H., 1897) Vol. 1, Page 243
• Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1914) Page 289
• History of Bedford, New Hampshire from 1737 (Rumford Printing Co., Concord, N.H., 1903) Page 932
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCWL-JJ7 : 14 January 2020), John Goffe, 1679.