William Goodwin (abt. 1591 - 1673)

Born about 1591 in Harwich, Tendring District, Essex, England [uncertain]

Husband of Elizabeth (White) Goodwin — married 7 Nov 1616 in Shalford, Essex, England

Descendants

Died 11 Mar 1673 at about age 82 in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut

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William Goodwin migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 2, p. 790) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

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Biography

William Goodwin was born in England.

Born by about 1591, based on date of first marriage.^[1] William Goodwin was the brother of Ozias Goodwin, who first appeared at Hartford in 1639.

At the Braintree, Essex, England, church, Goodwin was a "sidesman" (usher/greeter^[2]) and, in 1630 and 1631, a churchwarden there.^[3]

He emigrated in 1632 on the Lyon,'^[4] residing initially at Cambridge, removing to Hartford 1636, Hadley by 1659, and Farmington by 1670.

He married (1) in Shalford, Essex, England, 7 Nov 1616^[5] Elizabeth White, daughter of Robert White; she was baptized Shalford "fyfte March 1591,"^[6] and died before January 1669/70.^[7] She was the sister of three other New England immigrants: John White (d. Hartford); Mary (White) Loomis, wife of Joseph; and Anna (White) Porter, wife of John.^[8]

William Goodwin married (2) after 7 Dec 1654 and before January 1669/70 Susan (Garbrand) Hooker, widow of Rev. Thomas Hooker; she d. at Farmington 17 May 1676.^[9] In his will, Rev. Hooker (died 1647) designated his "beloved friend William Goodwin" to be overseer of his estate.^[10]

William was made freeman 6 Nov 1632. Deputy to the General Court. An early settler of Hartford, of "great influence to church and state". Resided in Hadley for 10 years from the first settlement; owned 8 acres of land there. Returned to Connecticut in 1660^[11] and died in Farmington, 11 Mar 1673.

Children

1. Elizabeth, b abt 1620; m abt 1640 John Crow of Hartford (probably as his second wife since his eldest daughter Esther was born about 1628 and so was too old to be daughter of Elizabeth Goodwin).

(Note: Christopher Goodwin had been reported a child of William Goodwin and first wife, Elizabeth White, but in his profiling of William Goodwin, Robert Charles Anderson had recognized only one child, Elizabeth, born to that immigrant.^[12] The relationship between Christopher and the purported parents was thus severed.)

Research Notes

"William Goodwin of Bocking"

"From the Parish Register of Shalford: Marriages"

"1616. Nov. 7, William Goodwyn of Bocking, singleman, and Elizabeth White of this parish, singlewoman". ^[13]

Bocking was then a village of a single, long street, standing on the banks of River Blackwater.^[14] Bocking is 5.4 miles south of Shalford, where William Goodwin married Elizabeth White. Bocking is two miles from Braintree, where William was a church warden.

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-­1633, Volumes I­-III, 3 vols. (1995), 2:791-794 (William Goodwin); digital images AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).
2. ↑ "Sidesperson," Wikipedia (accessed 2014).
3. ↑ Citing "Goodwin Papers 2:1171-73" in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-­1633, Volumes I­-III, 3 vols. (1995), 2:791 (in particular part); digital images AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).
4. ↑ Citing "Hotten 150," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-­1633, Volumes I­-III, 3 vols. (1995), 2:790 (in particular part); digital images AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014)
5. ↑ Citing "Church Register, Shalford, Essex County, England," Frank Farnsworth Starr [and James J. Goodwin], Various ancestral lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut, 2 vols. (1915, reprint in 199?), 2:399; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
6. ↑ Frank Farnsworth Starr [and James J. Goodwin], Various ancestral lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut, 2 vols. (1915, reprint in 199?), 2:398-399 (in particular part); digital images Hathi Trust (accessed 2014); for baptisms at Shalford, author cites "Church Register..."
7. ↑ Date on which "William Goodwin sold land in Hadley, Mass, and the name of his wife who joined in the deed of it is Susanna," in "The Children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, who settled in Hartford and Windsor," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 55 (1901):25 (in particular part); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
8. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-­1633, Volumes I­-III, 3 vols. (1995), 3:1979 (in particular part); digital images AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).
9. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-­1633, Volumes I­-III, 3 vols. (1995), 2:790 (in particular part); digital images AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014)
10. ↑ The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995).
11. ↑ Judd's History of Hadley.
12. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-­1633, Volumes I­-III, 3 vols. (1995), 2:791-793 (in particular part); digital images AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).
13. ↑ The Children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, who settled in Hartford and Windsor, at HathiTrust.org, from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 55 (1901), p. 28
14. ↑ GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bocking, in Braintree and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time. Date accessed: 08th October 2018

See also:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #34132400

• James Junius Goodwin and Frank Farnsworth Starr, The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut, descendants of William and Ozias Goodwin (1891); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).

• Barbour, Lucius Barnes, 1982, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland and Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut pp.268

• Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-­1633, Volumes I­-III, 3 vols. (1995), 2:790-794 (William Goodwin); digital images AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).

• Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-­1633, Volumes I­-III, 3 vols. (1995), 3:1976-1979 (John White); digital images AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).

• "The Children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, who settled in Hartford and Windsor," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 55 (1901):22-31; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014). In his sketch of the immigrant John White, Robert Charles Anderson called this "an excellent article on the White family in England, and the connections to other New England immigrants" [The Great Migration Begins ... (1995), 3:1979].

• Frank Farnsworth Starr and James Junius Goodwin, English Goodwin family papers : being material collected in the search for the ancestry of William and Ozias Goodwin, immigrants of 1632 and residents of Hartford, Connecticut, 3 vols. (1921); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014). In his review of the immigrant, Robert Charles Anderson called this a "massive three-volume set," commenting further, "The material of most interest to descendants of William Goodwin may be found in Volume Two (pp. 1123-24, 1171-77)." Anderson cited this source as "Goodwin Papers."

• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford — Elder William Goodwin

• Hooker, Edward. The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908 (Rochester, N.Y., 1909) Page 3

• Hollister, Gideon. The History of Connecticut, From the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution (Case, Tiffany & Co., Hartford, 1857) Vol. 1, Page 509