William Goodhue III (1667 - bef. 1712)

Born 13 Nov 1667 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Died before 3 Oct 1712 before age 44 in Ipswich, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Biography

William Goodhue III was born on 13 November 1667, in Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[1][2][3]

Per the Goodhue Family, this William probably died unmarried.^[3] He is not named in his father's will written October 3, 1712, so it must be presumed that he died before that date.^[4]

Research Notes

The death date that was on this profile actually belongs to William Goodhue (abt.1666-1722). The current death date is estimated.

Marriage

There is no record of a marriage for William Goodhue III in Ipswich, nor are there children which can be definitely identified as his. There is a Deacon William Goodhue who married a Mrs. Mary Webb on 7 Dec 1699,^[5] but William III would have been only 32 then, which might be too young to be named a deacon.

Furthermore, there was a Deacon William who had a son, Capt. William, who died on 12 Oct 1712, at the age of 67,^[6] which means he would have been born ca. 1645. That would indicate that this Deacon William was born no later than ca. 1625.

There is another marriage of a Deacon Goodhue (no first name given), probably in the late 1600s (the date in the transcripts is only "16--," to a Mrs. Remember Fisk,^[7] who died 16 Feb 1701/2.^[8]

So, there may well have been more than one Deacon William Goodhue, as well as additional Deacons Goodhue, in 17th-century Ipswich. More research is needed to determine who Deacon William might have been and whether William III might have relocated when he married away from Ipswich.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Ipswich - Births, p. 165: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Ipswich/Images/Ipswich_B165.shtml (accessed 12 Apr 2017)
2. ↑ Birth: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #82025769 (accessed 28 January 2022)
   William Goodhue born on 13 Nov 1667 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Goodhue, Jonathan. History and Genealogy of the Goodhue Family in England and America to the Year 1890. (E. R. Andrews, Rochester, NY, 1891). Pages 12-13. Citing: "Family 3. 3. William Goodhue."
4. ↑ Goodhue, History and Genealogy of the Goodhue Family: Pages 297-299. Citing: "Will of Dea. William Goodhue, Chebacco, 1712."
5. ↑ http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Ipswich/Images/Ipswich_M191.shtml (accessed 12 Apr 2017)
6. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Ipswich - Deaths, p. 570: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Ipswich/Images/Ipswich_D570.shtml (accessed 12 Apr 2017)
7. ↑ http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Ipswich/Images/Ipswich_M191.shtml (accessed 12 Apr 2017)
8. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Ipswich - Deaths, p. 570: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Ipswich/Images/Ipswich_D570.shtml (accessed 12 Apr 2017)