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born 7 Apr 1720 in Wethersfield, CT[1];
Charles Goodrich was born on 7 August 1720. He resided at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He was the son of Col. David Goodrich and Prudence Churchill. He married first Lucy Ward, daughter of Samuel Ward, on 25 December 1747. He married second Hannah Ward, daughter of Samuel Ward, on 5 June 1772. He died on 16 November 1816 at age 96.[2]
Transcribed from Case: "He purchased a large tract of land in Pontoosuc - now Pittsfield - Mass., there being but a single house in the town when he built his where the village of Pittsfield now stands. The country was a dense wilderness, without a single road. Solomon Deming had preceded him, and opened a trail to his rude home. He introduced the first cart and plow into the town, and held the plow that turned the first furrow; and sowed the first seed with his own hand. He was a member of the provincial congress in 1774; was engaged in the battle of Bennington, Vt; always prominent in public life: the magistrate of his town, county judge, a member for years of the early State legislature; a firm believer in the ordinances of revealed religion as he saw it, and did not hesitate to openly declare it. At the age of seventy-five years he made his famous ride on a Narragansett pony from his own home in Pittsfield, Mass., to Pittsfield, Vt., over one hundred miles in one day, to the home of his son James; and the knowledge of his arrival at night was made known by his shouting "Fire" - having seen on his approach a building in flames. His son heard the shout from his own house, fully three-quarters of a mile distant, and recognized his father's voice. At the semi-centennial celebration of the incorporation of the town, and the first agricultural fair, he was drawn through the streets by fifty yoke of oxen, standing on a stone drag holding a plow; then at the age of ninety-six years. He died the following year."[3]
Transcribed from Barber: "ln 1761, Charles Goodrich, Esq., of Pittsfield, obtained a grant of land on the south end of the town, and in 1764 his nephew Daniel Goodrich settled upon it; and the following year Benjamin Goodrich, the father of Daniel, settled there, with all his other sons, viz. Benjamin, Samuel, Nathan, David, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Hezekiah, Jeremiah, and Enoch."[4]
Death date may be 15 Nov 1815
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