Susanna (Stone) Goddard (1675 - 1754)

Born 4 Nov 1675 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Goddard — married Jun 1697 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 4 Feb 1754 at age 78 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Biography

"Susannah Stone, daughter to Simon and Mary Ston Borne. the 4th of November"^[1] 1675 at Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.^[2][3].

Susanna Stone married Edward Goddard in June 1697 probably in Watertown or Boston, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.^[2][4] They had the follwong children:^[2]

Edward and Susannah Stone Goddard had children Edward, Susannah, Simon, Benjamin, and David born at Watertown and children William, Mary, Ebenezer, and Ebenezer 2d born at Boston,^[5] also William b. 1720 and Hepzibah b. 1725.^[2]

Susannah Goddard, wife of Edward Goddard, died on February 4, 1754, at Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts^[2][6] five days before her husband died of the "epidemical fever" known as "the great sickness" which was plaguing the town of Framingham, Massachusetts.^[5][7]

She is buried at the Church Hill Cemetery, Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts.^[8] According to William Austin Goddard in his 1833 book, her gravestone reads:

"Here Lies Buried The Body of Madam Susana Goddard Consort of Ye Hon Edward Goddard Esqr Who Departed This Life Feb Ye 4 AD 1754 Aged 78 years & 2 Mo Ye Memory of Ye Just is Blest"^[5] [although the "Just is Blest" according to the photograph on Find A Grave looks like it could be "Just & Blest"].

Sources

1. ↑ Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings with the Lands Grants and Possessions also The Proprietors' Book and The First Book and Supplement of Births Deaths and Marriages. Prepared for Publication by the Historical Society; Watertown, MA; Press of Fred G. Barker; 1894. (Births, Marriages and Deaths, First Book, pg 40) Available online through the Available online through the Vital Records Project
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Bartlett, Joseph Gardner. Simon Stone genealogy: ancestry and descendants of Deacon Simon Stone Watertown, Mass., 1320-1926. (Boston: Stone Family Association, 1926) at HathiTrust.org, pages 52-56.
3. ↑ Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts. Boston, MA; N.E. Historic Genealogical Society; 1860. pg 238-239, 585-586.
4. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015 at AmericanAncestors.org.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Goddard, William Austin. Genealogy of Edward Goddard. Worcester, MA; M. Spooner, Printer; 1833. pg 9, 64, 86.
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #11927064
7. ↑ Barry, Rev. William. A History of Framingham, Massachusetts, Including the Plantation, from 1640 to the Present Time, with an Appendix Containing a Notice of Sudbury and Its First Proprietors. Boston, MA; J. Monroe and Company; 1847. pg 66, 261-263.
8. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial #11927064 for Susanna Stone Goddard, Church Hill Cemetery, Framingham, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. <https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11927064>

See also:

• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. Vol. 2. Baltimore, MD; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1965-1998. pg 264. (Originally published Boston, 1860-1862)