Hannah (Goodwin) Pitkin (abt. 1638 - 1724)

Born about 1638 in England [uncertain]

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Died 12 Feb 1724 at about age 86 in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Hannah Goodwin, the only daughter of Ozias and Mary (Woodward) Goodwin, was born in England in 1637-9. Her father, Ozias, was the progenitor of the Goodwin family in Connecticut. He was born in England in 1596 and came to America with Rev. Thomas Hooker. His wife, Mary Woodward was the daughter of Robert Woodward of Braintree, in the County of Essex, England.^[1][2][3]

Hannah married William Pitkin at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1660-1. He died December 16, 1694, aged 55.^[1][2][3][4]

Hannah (Goodwin) Pitkin died at East Hartford, on February 12, 1723-4, aged 86.^[1][3][5] She is buried in Center Cemetery in East Hartford.^[2] Her gravestone, apparently placed in the nineteenth century by Pitkin Family of America author Albert Palmer Pitkin, reads:

The Grave Of

HANNAH GOODWIN

WIFE OF

WILLIAM PITKIN.

THE ANCESTRAL MOTHER OF

ALL BY THE NAME IN AMERICA

BORN 1637,

DIED FEB 12, 1723.

———

THIS STONE ERECTED BY

A.P. PITKIN OF HARTFORD

Children (Pitkin)

Children of William and Hannah (Goodwin) Pitkin:^[1]

1. Roger Pitkin, born 1662; married Hannah Stanley; died November 24, 1748.
2. William Pitkin, born 1664; married Elizabeth Stanley; died April 5, 1723.
3. Hannah Pitkin, born about 1666; married Timothy Cowles.
4. John Pitkin, born about 1668; died unmarried 1706.
5. Nathaniel Pitkin, born about 1670; married Hester Hosmer; died February 20, 1733.
6. George Pitkin, born September, 1675; died unmarried December 23, 1702.
7. Elizabeth Pitkin, born October, 1677; married John Marsh.
8. Ozias Pitkin, born September, 1679; married Elizabeth Green; died January 29, 1747.

Research Notes

• Birth in England. It seems unlikely that Hannah was born in England. Her father apparently came to New England in 1632, which is supposed to be before she was born, and she is not listed as a passenger with her parents and brother William.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Pitkin, Albert Palmer. Pitkin Family of America (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn., 1887). Page 2. Citing: "William and Hannah (Goodwin)."
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Goodwin, James. The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut (Brown and Gross, Hartford, Conn., 1891). Pages 713-714. Citing: "1337. Hannah Goodwin."
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7P5-3S6 : 22 July 2021), Hannah Goodwin in entry for William Pitkin, .
4. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985). Volume 2, Page 1200. Citing: "PITKIN, William (?1635-1694, ae 58) & Hannah [GOODWIN] (?1637-1724); ca 1660/1; Hartford {Blake-Glidden 201; Warner-Harrington 237; Moore Anc. 283, 421; Hartford Prob. 1:308, 496; Goodwin: Gen. Notes xv; Goodwin 713; Booth (1910) 77, 174; Cowles 1:29, 89; Hamlin 318; Stanley 234; Farwell (1929) 309; Dunham-Boyd 125, 132, 151; Reg. 66:160}"
5. ↑ The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011). Volume East Hartford, Page 35. Citing: "Hannah, (d. Ozias), b. ( ), 1638; d. Feb. ( ), 1724, age 86."
6. ↑ Banks, Charles Edward. The Planters of The Commonwealth (The Riverside Press, Boston, 1930) Pages 99, 101. Citing: "LYON, William Peirce, Master, sailed from London June 22 [1632] and arrived September 16 at Boston. ... Ozias Goodwin, of Booking, county Essex, [bound for] Cambridge; Mrs . Goodwin, William Goodwin."

See also:

• Cowles, Calvin Duvall. Genealogy of the Cowles Families in America (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Conn., 1929). Vol. I. Page 29.

• Goodwin, Nathaniel. Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts (F.A. Brown, Hartford, Conn., 1856) Page 251.

• Walker, George. History of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1883 (Brown & Gross, Hartford, 1884) Page 195-6 (footnote).

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18509351/hannah-pitkin : accessed 9 March 2022), memorial page for Hannah Goodwin Pitkin (1637–12 Feb 1723), Find A Grave: Memorial #18509351, citing Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Dorothy (contributor 47601262).