William Godley (1725 - 1762)

Born 1725 in Yorkshire, England

Husband of Mary Margaret (Rockhill) Godley — married 1745 in Hunterdon, New Jersey

Descendants

Died 16 Nov 1762 at about age 37 in Mansfield Woodhouse, Sussex, New Jersey

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Biography

Residence

Residence:

Place: Ireland^[1]

• Fact: Christening (25 SEP 1725) West Dean By Seaford,Sussex,England
• Fact: History William Godly, born in England or Virginia by c.1712. The first record of him in NJ is in the Janeway store near North Branch in 1737 with Ed Rockhill Jr, his father-in-law to be. He bought 555 acres of timberland in Kingwood/Amwell in 1742 from Walter Clark. He was named as son-in-law in the will of Ed Rockhill in 1748, probably having married Mary ca. 1744, when Mary was twenty years old. He died in 1762 in Mansfield Woodhouse, Sussex Co., probably after a lingering illness or an injury from a logging accident, and at the home of Achsah Lambert, longtime Quaker friend of the family, and possibly sister of Mary. Her property was south of Asbury, just over the Hunterdon Co. line in Sussex Co. His will, written in August, was probated November 16, naming his eight children; Ann, Rebecca, Edward, Achsah, Mary, William, John, and Joseph. He signed his will, writing very well as if he had been educated in England, not the American South, where most people were illiterate. I was priveleged to handle and study his original will in the old documents room at the NJ Archives. William is not found in any more of the Quaker records in NJ, PA or VA that I know of.

William was born about 1717. He passed away in 1762.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S410 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=biodat&h=73304&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Data: Text: Residence date: Residence place: Ireland

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 24 November 2018, 20:30), entry for William Godley(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KP44-LB8); contributed by various users.
• Source: S410 Repository: #REPO1 Title: U.K. and U.S. Directories, 1680-1830 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.Original data - Avero Publications. Biography Database, 1680-1830. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England: Avero Publications, 1998.Original data: Avero Publications. Biography Database, 1680-18 Abbreviation: U.K. and U.S. Directories, 1680-1830 Master Listing Source: Y Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=biodat&h=131801&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817

New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc., Vol III

• Family Tree from Harold Godley dated 1996