Margaret (Spencer) Goodwin (abt. 1631 - abt. 1673)

Born about 1631 in South Berwick, York, Maine [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Daniel Goodwin Jr. — married Mar 1653 in Kittery, York, Maine

Descendants

Died about Jul 1673 at about age 42 in Kittery, York, Maine

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Biography

Margaret Spencer was the daughter of Thomas Spencer and Patience Chadbourne. She was born about 1633 in South Berwick, York, Maine.

Daniel Goodwin married in 1654 ^[1], Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Patience (Chadbourne) Spencer of South Berwick, Maine. Margaret was the granddaughter of William Chadbourne, who emigrated in 1634 from Devonshire, England following his son Humphrey Chadbourne who came to America in 1631; Humphrey Chadbourne built the "Great House" at Strawberry Bank (Portsmouth). He was deputy to the General Court in 1657 and 1659, and Associate Judge in 1662. ^[2]

Margaret's father, Thomas Spencer, first settled in Cambridge then removed to Kittery, Maine where he had a lawsuit in Maine Court on March 6, 1636-7; he then took oath of allegiance to Massachusetts government on 16 Nov. 1652. He gave a dowry of land to his daughter Margaret, and afterward confirmed it to her husband Daniel Goodwin, 14 Aug 1667.

After the death of Margaret Spencer, her husband Daniel Goodwin remarried in 1670 to Sarah (Sanders), widow of Peter Turbet and the daughter of John Sanders of Ipswich, Salisbury, Hampton, Wells and Cape Porpoise; wife Anne." ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
2. ↑ New Englanders in Nova Scotia Manuscript. R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA.
3. ↑ Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.

See also:

• The Goodwin Project
• Daniel Goodwin - The Goodwin Project
• Goodwin Family History
• Mahlon G. Erickson. Berwick Maine Records from 1811-1857, Goodwin and Goodridge entries extracted from microfilm
• John Eldridge Frost. "The Descendants of Daniel Goodwin of Eliot Maine,"(1917 - 1992), Second Edition.
• John Hayes Goodwin. "Daniel Goodwin of Ancient Kittery and His Descendants"
• Dotty Keyes. Daniel Goodwin Biography
• Dotty Keyes. A Compilation of the Family Records of Daniel Goodwin, the Immigrant
• George Thomas Little, A.M., Litt. D. compiler. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume III

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Andrew White for creating WikiTree profile Spencer-4050 through the import of APW_2013-03-26.ged on Mar 26, 2013.
• Spencer-7751 was created by Marybeth O'gorman through the import of O_Gorman-Flynn-Kimble-Mosher2.ged on Aug 11, 2014.
• Spencer-9152 was created by Roland Goodwin through the import of Goodwin Family Tree.ged on Jan 1, 2015.

• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=123988929&ref=acom