Daniel Goble Jr. (1669 - bef. 1734)

Born 21 May 1669 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Houghton) Goble — married before 1696 in Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died before 1734 before age 64 in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey [uncertain]

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Biography

Daniel (alias David, infra) Goble, son of Daniel and Hannah (Brewer) Goble, was born May 21, 1669 at Concord, MA. ^[1] After his father’s death in 1676, his mother Hannah married Ephraim Roper who resided at Lancaster. Daniel married Sarah Houghton Houghton-155 ^[2] before Jan. 5, 1694/1695 when he executed a deed ^[3] conveying land devised in 1684 to Sarah by her father John Houghton Houghton-173 when she was age 11. (The text of John’s will is posted on his WT profile.) The conveyance was to Sarah’s brothers. ^[2]
Before 1700 “...with his brother or cousin John Goble he [Daniel] went to Berkeley Co. S.C., joining the Orangeburg Colony.” ^[3] where “he acquired over 800 acres of land by patents …” ^{[3] [4]} In Colonial South Carolina, multiple land warrants were issued to Daniel Goble (with various spellings of Goble), the earliest in 1699. ^{[5] [6] [7]} The realty was in or near Charleston, not in what is now Orangeburg, S.C.
The family removed to the Colony of New Jersey and settled in Hanover Township ^[2] "As early as 1717 one David Goble, with his family of the Baptist persuasion, removed to this place (West Hanover) from Charleston, S. C, and some ministers of the same order began to preach at their house …” ^[8] Sherman (see sources) was quoting David Benedict, Baptist church historian. Daniel Goble is identified as David in this and similar histories of the Baptist Church of Morristown and in volumes citing those histories, probably a mis-read of a cursive Daniel, see Research Notes.
On March 14, 1725 (or 1725/1726) Joseph Lindley and Daniel Goble were appointed overseers of highways for Hanover Twp..^[9] This was almost certainly Daniel Goble age ca. 56 and not his son Daniel age 27.
Daniel and Sarah were survived by 7 children: Thomas, Daniel, Robert, Jemima, Jonah, Ezekial and Alice. ^[2] Daniel married (2nd) Abigail (unknown), ^[3] date unknown, see research Notes. Daniel died in 1730 per Find-A-Grave memorials (undocumented) and certainly before his children executed deeds in 1734 conveying land that descended to them.

Research Notes

1. . A cenotaph in the Baptist cemetery at Morristown honors, inter alia, 11 male Gobles, ten of whom were certainly descendants of our Daniel Goble (the ancestry of Christian Goble, b. in 1754 in Philadelphia, is uncertain). All Goble graves in Morristown cemeteries and identified via Find-A-Grave are of descendants of our Daniel Goble or a spouse thereof.
2. . The names of Daniel Goble’s surviving children were learned from deeds they executed in 1734 conveying realty near or in Lancaster which they inherited and had descended to their mother Sarah (Houghton) Goble. ^[10] They were Thomas, Daniel, Robert, Jonas, Jemima, Ezekial and Alice (no Henry Goble was among these grantors). ^[2]
3. . On August 11, 1752, 11 residents of Morristown co-founded the ‘Baptist Church at Morristown.’ The 11 included Jonas Goble, Melatiah Goble, Jemima Wiggins, Mary Goble, and Robert Goble, ^[8] all children of Daniel Goble or their spouses. “,,,(soon) after, a meeting-house was erected on land said to have belonged to the David Goble already mentioned, as having removed from Charleston, S. C.” ^[8]
4. . No record of any David Goble in South Carolina’s land records in the early 1700s has been found, while land records there and then of realty owner Daniel Goble are extant.
5. . David Benedict, the Baptist church historian cited by Sherman as a source for the name David Goble, wasn’t a resident of Morristown. His ministry was at Pawtucket, RI in 1813 when his extensive, two-volume history of the Baptist Church was printed.
6. . Daniel Goble had died when his children conveyed land they acquired by descent. The rolls of the Morristown Baptist church founded in 1752 never included Daniel or his wife. Pre-Revolutionary War records of the Piscataway (NJ) Baptist church are not extant now.
7. . From the foregoing and the 1725 appointment of Daniel Goble as highway overseer we can deduce that only one Goble family settled in Morristown, NJ before 1730, that its patriarch’s name was Daniel, and that Daniel was erroneously identified in Baptist church history as David Goble, also in histories of Morristown, NJ which cited or relied on that church’s history. So we can dismiss the name David as an historical error by D. Benedict and conclude that it was neither our Daniel’s given name or nor his middle name.
8. . Daniel’s marriage to a 2nd wife Abigail ____ appeared in the family trees of 3 descendants of Daniel Goble. ^[3] The grave marker of an Abigail Goble in the Presbyterian churchyard cemetery at Morristown, NJ was inscribed “In memory of Mrs. Abigail Goble who died in October 1742 aged 62 years.” (Source: Find-A-Grave.) The indicated life span of Abigail (1680-1742) would fit a second wife of Daniel and doesn’t fit any other Goble who left tracks in Morristown. The grave marker might not be the original one as it is ornate and unlike plainer markers common in the 1700s. Per Find-a-Grave memorials (i.e., modern, online and undocumented), Daniel’s wife Sarah d. in 1717 and Daniel d. in 1730.
9. . The NJ Secretary of State’s Index of pre-1901 wills, etc. was searched for Hunterdon and Morris Counties. No entry was found for Daniel (or David) Goble except one in 1750, the year Daniel’s son Daniel Goble Jr. died. Thus the claim that Daniel d. in 1730 is unproven.
10. . The term Orangeburg Colony returned nothing helpful via a Google search. Charleston, SC had an Orange Quarter, a term of unknown origin (possibly in honor of William of Orange who ascended to England’s throne in 1689). The term fell into disuse after 1715. Charleston’s French Quarter is a relatively modern term and does not coincide with the old Orange Quarter. ^[11] Given its context in Boykiw (see Sources) and the Goble family’s Baptist faith, the term perhaps meant a settlement in Charleston, S.C., of followers of Baptist minister William Screven. The First Baptist Church of Charleston acknowledges Screven as its first spiritual leader and gives 1696 as the year of his migration from New England to S.C. Of the S.C. land warrants granted to Daniel Goble found, the earliest was granted in 1699, so the Gobles probably went to S.C. sometime after the murder of Daniel’s mother in 1697.
11. . In 1720 Hanover became the name of a Township in Hunterdon County, NJ. What is now Morristown, NJ was known as West Hanover ^[8] and renamed Morristown in 1739 when Morris County was carved out of Hunterdon Co. Hanover became one of the Townships in Morris County.
12. . Aldus H. Pierson wrote and then read on the 180th anniversary [1932] of its founding a 13-page history of the Morristown Baptist Church. His speech included the following excerpts: ^[12]

To the Goble family belongs the credit of founding our church. David Goble according to the records arrived in this vicinity about 1717 from Charleston, South Carolina. He apparently had a number of children... Jonas Goble gave the first meeting house on Mt. Kemble Ave. and was the first deacon while Robert Goble was the first clerk succeeded by Ezekial Goble. The last named gave up his church work to emigrate to the Miamy [sic] Country in 1795 and probably most of the surviving Gobles went at about the same time. Jonas Goble resided at the time of the Revolution near the old brick school house as his residence is indicated and his name appears upon the military maps. Let us recall the names of those founders of our church who came from Piscataqua church - Daniel Sutton, Jonas Goble, Malatiah Goble, Daniel Walling, Ichabod Tompkins, John Sutton, Jemima Wiggins, Naomi Allen, Sarah Wiggins, Robert Goble and Mary Goble. We know that Malatiah was the wife of Jonas Goble and Mary was probably the wife of Robert.

Facts (imported from Family Search without attribution)

• Land Warrant 2 (23 DEC 1699) Daniel Gobel had a warrant out of the Secretary's office for 300 acres of land in SC
• Land Warrant 3 (14 MAY 1707) Daniel Gobel, 260 acres of land

Sources

1. ↑ Concord, Massachusetts, Births, Marriages and Deaths 1635-1850 p. 14 pub. by the Town [Concord] 1895
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Burr and Gage, John Houghton of Lancaster, MA …., 73 NEHGR 392-4 (1925)
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Boykiw, Norma G., The Goble Family … pp. 3-5, 17-8 (1976)
4. ↑ Steen, Evelyn Goble, The Goble family in America: descendants of …...Thomas Goble ... p. 13 self-published (1996) [online via FamilySearch]
5. ↑ Salley, A. S., Ed., Warrants for Land in South Carolina 1692-1711 p. 160 (1919)
6. ↑ Salley, A. S., Ed., South Carolina Land Records Vol. 18 p. 114 (cited by Steen, see sources)
7. ↑ Dymond, Dorothy Hand, Genealogy of the Hand Family and Related Families pp. 169, 209, pub. Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD 1982
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3} Sherman, David Magoun, Historic Morristown, New Jersey: The Story of Its First Century,... pp. 76-9, Howard Publishing Company (1905)
9. ↑ Halsey, Edmund D., History of Morris County, New Jersey ... p. 19 (1882) [available online via FamilySearch]
10. ↑ Worcester (Co., MA) District Deeds Book 7 p. 259; Book 6 p. 486; Bk. 9 p. 67
11. ↑ Smith, Henry A.M., The Orange Quarter and the First French Settlers in South Carolina, pub. In The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol. 18 #3 pp. 101-123 July, 1917
12. ↑ Steen, Elizabeth Goble, Goble Family website, Stories and Biographies/ the Baptist Church of Morris County, New Jersey, http:www.goblegenealogy.com

• Find A Grave, database and images (http://f, Findagrave.com : accessed 3 May 2017), memorial #131196878 for Daniel Goble (1669 - 1733) - Find A Grave Memorial.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 22 February 2017, 16:30), entry for Daniel David Goble(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:94R1-67X); contributed by various users.

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VQ6W-TVJ : 4 December 2014), Danill Gobill, 21 May 1669; citing CONCORD,MIDDLESEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0823762 IT 1.

• Ancestry Family Trees (Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=1545140&pid=329

• Gilbertson, Allan. Alice Goble, the First Wife of Nathaniel² Woods of Groton, Massachusetts, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., Spring 2018) Vol. 172, WN 686, Page 105.

• New England Marriages to 1700. (Subscription required. 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/21174/625/426887419>

• FamilySearch. Evelyn Goble. The Goble family in America : descendants of Stephen Gobel of the Revolutionary War, descended from Thomas Goble of Sussex, England, and Charlestown, Massachusetts.

• Deed recorded in Worcester (Co., MA) District Deeds Book 7 p. 259. FamilySearch. Worcester County (Mass.) deeds (1722-1866) and index to deeds (1731-1889) --, 1722-1889 Deeds, v. 6-7 1730-1736. P. 259. Image 466 of 625.