John Gould Sr. (1648 - 1712)

Born 5 Aug 1648 in Old Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Abigail (Belcher) Gould — married 1670 in Old Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Martha (Redington) Gould — married before 1691 in Reading, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 24 Jan 1712 at age 63 in Stoneham, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

John Gould (son of John Gould and Joanna ?) was born 05 Aug 1648, and died 24 Jan 1712. He married Abigail Belcher.

Family

Children born to John Goold/Gould in Redding, Massachusetts Bay:

1. John Goold, b. 28 Mar 1671^[1]
2. Abigall Gould, 30 Dec 1672^[2]
3. Mary (8 May 1687) [1] (Reading Town Records on Family Search)

Marriage(1)

Abigail Belcher married John Gould by 1671 at Reading,Middlesex,Massachusetts Bay.^[3] References for marriage, from cited source: Reg. 7:26, 60:250; Charlestown 74, 426; Belcher 21; Gould 322; Giles 170.

Marriage (2)

John Gould, d. 1712, married (2) to Martha Redington, b. 1655, in Reading, Massachusetts, by 1691.^[4]

He is buried at Old Burying Ground, Wakefield, Middlesex, MA

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCM1-HTY : 3 November 2017), John Goold, 28 Mar 1671; citing Birth, Redding, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHJN-6XJ : 10 February 2018), Abigall Gould, 30 Dec 1672; citing Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, ; FHL microfilm 890,236.
3. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21174/641/426887763
4. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/rd/21174/641/426925289

• Find A Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21241579.
• Eaton, Lilley. Inscriptions, From The Most Ancient Burial Ground, In South Reading, MS., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, 1853) Vol. 7, Page 26.
• Leach, J. Granville. John Redington of Topsfield, Mass., and some of His Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1907) Vol. 61, Page 226.
• Charlestown Genealogies and Estates. Page 426. https://ia801606.us.archive.org/18/items/genealogiesestat01wyma/genealogiesestat01wyma.pdf.

• Vinton, John Adams. The Giles Memorial (Boston, 1864); p. 170-1

• Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org) Case 9536: Will

County Change Note

Charlestown was laid out in 1629 by engineer Thomas Graves, one of its early settlers, in the reign of. Charles I of England. Charlestown became a city in 1848 and was annexed by Boston on January 5, 1874. With that, it also switched from Middlesex County, to which it had belonged since 1643, to Suffolk County,