Robert Goode (abt. 1730 - aft. 1804)

Born about 1730 in Prince Edward County, Colony of Virginia

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Died after 1804 after about age 74 in Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Birth

Robert Goode was born about between 1720-1730^[1] to Samuel Goode

Will

The will of Robert Goode is recorded at Prince Edward Court House, dated april 8,1804. Judge F.N. Watkins writes:

"His Will shows great piety, and is a rare paper. He makes provisions for emancipating his slaves thereafter born. It was an almost unheard of thing in those days for a Virginian to favor abolition"

Death

Robert died after 1804^[2]

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Sources

1. ↑ Virginia Cousins: A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode of Whitby, a Virginia Colonist of the Seventeenth Century, with Notes Upon Related Families, a Key to Southern Genealogy and a History of the English Surname Gode, Goad, Goode Or Good from 1148 to 1887 (Google eBook)
2. ↑ Virginia Cousins: A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode of Whitby, a Virginia Colonist of the Seventeenth Century, with Notes Upon Related Families, a Key to Southern Genealogy and a History of the English Surname Gode, Goad, Goode Or Good from 1148 to 1887 (Google eBook)

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