Jeremiah Goodrich
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Jeremiah Goodrich (1709 - 1793)

Capt Jeremiah Goodrich
Born in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticutmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 6 Jul 1732 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticutmap
Husband of — married 29 Apr 1779 in Cromwell, Connecticut, United Statesmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 83 in Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesmap
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Biography

Capt Jeremiah Goodrich served during the French and Indian War.

Jeremiah Goodrich was born September 9, 1709 to David Goodrich and Prudence Churchill. He first married Ruth Kimberly on July 6, 1732 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. His second marriage was to Prudence (Sage) Stow Savage Gilbert Gould in 1779.[1]

He served in the French and Indian War as a captain of Connecticut’s 8th Company of the 6th Regiment in 1745 and was part of the campaign of 1757.[2] Jeremiah passed away May 8, 1793. He was buried in Portland Burying Ground, Portland, MIddlesex, Connecticut.[3][4][5][6]

NOTE: Although listed as children in the Goodrich Genealogy of Gershom Goodrich and Elizabeth (Savage) Goodrich[7], the subsequently published Bulkeley genealogy[8] refutes these children:

Sources

  1. Case, Lafayette. The Goodrich Family in America (Fergus Printing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1889: Page 47: No. 63
  2. https://nativenortheastportal.com/bio/bibliography/goodrich-jeremiah
  3. French Indian War gravestone
  4. gravestone - photo 2
  5. gravestone - view 3
  6. Find A Grave: Memorial #15917954
  7. The Goodrich Family in America. A Genealogy of the Descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Conn., and William Goodridge of Watertown, Mass. Lafayette Wallace Case M.D., Author Role: Editor Publication: Fergus Printing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1889, Second Date, 1984
  8. The Bulkeley genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley, being an account of his career, his ancestry, the ancestry of his two wives, and his relatives in England and New England, together with a genealogy of his descendants through the seventh American generation (1933), pg.249.




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