Dorcas (Shephard) Goodell (1751 - 1811)

Born 2 May 1751 in Canterbury, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Goodell II — married 1 Dec 1774 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 28 Aug 1811 at age 60 in Westminster, Windham, Vermont, United States

Biography

Birth

Dorcas Shepard was born at Canterbury, Connecticut,, on 2 May 1751, the daughter of Benjamin Shepard (abt.1722-aft.1792) and Hannah (Goodell) Shepard (1727-).^[1]

Marriage

Dorcas Shepard married [[Edward Goodell Jr. (1751-1813) at Pomfret, Connecticut, on 1 Dec 1774.^[2] They were first cousins, once removed; Edward was a grandson and Dorcas was a great-granddaughter of Thomas (Goodell) Goodale (1676-1756) and Sarah (Horrell) Goodale (1684-1750).

Children

The known children of Dorcas (Shepard) Goodell are listed in the "Children" section of her husband's profile.

Death

Dorcas (Shepard) Goodell died at Westminster, Vermont, on 28 Aug 1811.^[3] Her gravestone at the Westminster West Cemetery in Westminster West, Vermont, says that she died on 28 Aug 1811 in her 61st year.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Transcription of the birth record of Dorcas Shepard (AmericanAncestors.org subscription required), citing Canterbury records volume 1, page 218, in Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011) > Canterbury > page 142. From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.
2. ↑ Transcription of the marriage record of Edward Goodell Jr. and Hannah Shephard (AmericanAncestors.org subscription required), citing Pomfret records volume 2, page 58, in Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 , Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011 > Pomfret > page 175. From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.
3. ↑ Transcription by the town clerk of Westminster, Vermont, of the death record of Dorcus Goodell (AmericanAncestors.org subscription required), in Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, from microfilmed records. Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013 > Deaths G to 1871 > page 5159 of 11672
4. ↑ Photo of gravestone of "Mrs. Dorcas, the amiable consort of Deacon Edward Goodell" (Find A Grave: Memorial #106671346)

See also:

• Gerald Faulkner Shepard, compiler, and Donald Lines Jacobus, editor, The Shepard Families of New England: Volume 1, Ralph Shepard of Dedham (The New Haven Colony Society, New Haven, Conn, 1971), page 112

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Greg Rose for starting this profile.