Genealogical Notes to Assist Others in Tracing out Their Family Histories
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GENEALOGICAL N OTES, O B xJantrilrotions t o tjje Jrolj itstorli OF S OME OF THE FIRST S ETTLERS OF CONNECTICUT ANT) MASSACHUSETTS. UYHE T LATE NATHANIEL G OODWIN. HARTFORD: F . A. BROWN. 1856. HARVARD C OLLEGE LIBRARY t ✓ -t-O t ^ —fro/I- .- f [•RES8F O CA8B, TIFrANY AND COMPANY, HARTFORD, CONN. PREFACE. The f ollowing pages contain a selection from the Gene alogical Notes made by my uncle, Nathaniel Goodwin, from time to time after his appointment to the office of Judge of Probate for the district of Hartford, in 1833, and prepared for publication by him during the last three or four of the latter years of his life. They were not designed by him to be complete genealogies even of the families which * are t reated of, but, as the title indicates, genealogical notes to assist others in tracing out their family histories. Mr. Goodwin had begun to print the work, making his final cor rections as the proof-sheets were brought to him, and had proceeded as far as page 68, when the printing was suspend ed, as he hoped temporarily, by a severe attack of disease, but as the event proved, finally, so far as he was concerned, by his death. At his request, made a few days before his death, and the desire of his executors, the manuscripts were placed in the hands of Henry Barnard, LL. D., President of the Connecticut Historical Society, who had rendered my uncle similar aid in his former publications, to see through the press ; but the pressure of his engagements obliged him, after the supervision of some fifty pages, to relinquish all further care of the work, beyond preparing a iv P REFACE. memoirf o the author's life, and the immediate charge of the publication devolved on Charles J. Hoadly, Esq., late Librarian of Trinity College, and now State Librarian. Its i difficult for one man to enter into the labors of another in matters of this kind, and to harmonize memo randa differing sometimes in date and substance with regard to the same facts, particularly when the original sources whence the information was gathered are not indi cated. Probably many of the blanks in the following genealogies would have been filled out, had Mr. Goodwin lived to finish the work himself, but no pains have been spared, to supply missing dates from the large mass of manuscript notes left by my uncle, and to add some from other reliable sources. The u ndersigned would, in conclusion, express his thanks, and the thanks, he doubts not, of many others interested in inquiries of this sort, to both of the gentlemen above named, for their cooperation in carrying this work through the press, as another, although imperfect, contribution to this department of literature, from one who had devoted many years to its preparation. DANIEL G OODWIN. Hartford, Conn., May 15th, 1856. CONTENTS. MEMOIRF O NATHANIEL GOODWIN vii GENEALOGY O F THE GOODWIN FAMILY, xv ADAM B LAKEMAN, of Stratford, Conn., .... 1 LEONARD C HESTER, of Wethersfield, Conn 8 DANIEL C LARK, of Windsor, Conn 23 JOHN D W1GHT, of Dedham, Mass., 40 WILLIAM E DWARDS, of Hartford, Conn 48 WILLIAM G OODRICH, of Wethersfield, Conn., . 69 JOHN G OODRICH, of Wethersfield, Conn 84 WILLIAM G URLEY, of Northampton, Mass 86 JOHN H OLLISTER, of Wethersfield, Conn .97 JOHN H OPKINS, of Hartford, Conn 107 JOHN I NGERSOLL, of Hartford, Conn., and of Northamp ton, M ass 119 LEWIS J ONES, of Watertown, Mass 129 WILLIAM J UDSON, of Concord, Mass., and of Stratford, and N ew Haven, Conn., 137 JOHN K ENT, of Scffield, Conn., 145 RICHARD M ATHER, of Dorchester, Mass 150 MICHAEL M ETCALF, of Dedham, Mass., . 157 JOSEPH M YGATT, of Hartford, Conn 16.1 JOHN N OTT, of Wethersfield, Conn., .... 165 JOHN P ORTER, of Windsor, Conn 170 ROBERT S EDGWICK, of Charlestown, Mass., . 175 Rev. H ENRY SMITH, of Wethersfield, Conn 190 JARED S PENCER, of Cambridge and Lynn, Mass., and of Haddam, C onn 197 THOMAS S PENCER, of Hartford, Conn 205 Vi C ONTENTS. Rev. S AMUEL STONE, op Hartford, Conn 211 SAMUEL S TORRS, of Mansfield, Conn., . • .215 SAMUEL T ERRY, of Springfield, Mass., and of Enfield, Conn., 2 21 STEPHEN T ERRY, op Windsor, Conn., 223 MATTHIAS T REAT, of Wethersfield, Conn 224 RICHARD T REAT, of Wethersfield, Conn., . • .227 ANDREW W ARD* of Wethersfield, Stamford, and Fair field, C onn., 237 Governor J OHN WEBSTER, of Hartford, Conn., and Had- let, M ass., 242 Governor T HOMAS WELLES, of Hartford, Conn., . 250 NICHOLAS W ORTHINGTON, of Hatfield, Mass., . 264 APPENDIX. JOHN C ASE, op Windsor, and Simsuury, Conn., . 275 EDWARDS F AMILY, 301 GOODRICH F AMILY, 308 WILLIAM S PENCER, of Cambridge, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., 3 10 FAMILYF O RICHARD TREAT 328 WILLIAM W HITING, of Hartford, Conn., .... 329 JOHN L ORD, op Hartford, Conn., 347 ERRATA, 3 5ti INDEX 3 57 *** T he Editors would acknowledge their obligations to James Savage, LL. D., President of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for many valuable suggestions. MEMOIR o r NATHANIEL G OODWIN. Nathaniel G oodwin, — whose accurate contributions to the genealogical literature of New England entitle him to an honor able remembrance, not only among professed antiquarians, but by all who desire to see the restless habits of our people corrected by a stronger infusion of family and local attachments, which gene alogical studies are calculated to foster — was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on the 5th of March, 1782; the youngest child of Nathaniel Goodwin, and Anna [Sheldon] Goodwin, the daughter of Deacon Isaac Sheldon. His a ncestor on the father's side, was of the old New England Puritan stock— the names of the brothers "William and Ozias Goodwin, being inscribed* on the stone monument erected to the memory of the early settlers of Hartford, in the ancient burying-ground of the First Church in Connecticut, where Mr. Thomas Hooker, "the light of the Western Churches," first ministered ; Ozias Goodwin, and his elder brother William Goodwin, were of that " goodly company " of men, women, and children, who in June, 1635 or 1636, left Newtown, New Cam bridge, and other settlements in the seaboard of Massachusetts, to plant a new colony on the " delightful banks " of the Connecticut. Mr. William Goodwin was a man of mark in his day. He was admitted a freeman of Massachusetts, at Cambridge, in November, 1632, and was a member of the first General Court in that *See l ist of in G oodwin,s " Dtscendants of Thomas Olcott." p. xn. viii M EMOIR OF province a t which delegates attended, held in May, 1634. Gov. Winthrop in his journal speaks of him as " a very reverend and godly man, being an elder in the congregation of Newtown" — in Cambridge. In 1636, he was commissioned with Mr. Samuel Stone, to negotiate for the grant of the land where Hartford now stands, from Sunckquasson, Sachem of Suckiauge, and grand pro prietor of the lands of this region. He was one of the trustees of Gov. Hopkins' will — and in the dissensions about church membership, baptism, and discipline which convulsed the church of Hartford and Wethersfield, in 1659, he sided with the Rev. Mr. Russell, of the church at the latter place ; and with Gov. Webster, Mr. Whiting, Mr. Culick, Mr. Barnard and others, removed to Hadley, and founded there a church of which he be came ruling elder, as he had previously been in the church at Hartford. He subsequently removed to Farmington, where he died in 1673, leaving one daughter who married John Crow, of Hartford. Mr. Goodwin's homestead, in the original distribution of the town of Hartford among the settlers, in 1639, embraced three acres — " abutting on the highway, lying at the North side of the Riveret, leading from the palisatlo to Sentinel Hill" — and included the site on which Wadsworth Atheneum, with the Library of the Connecticut Historical Society, now stands. Mr. O zias Goodwin did not sympathize with his brother in his peculiar views as to church membership, and discipline, so far as to feel constrained to go out from his brethren in the church at Hartford, but continued to reside there, where he became the progenitor* of most of the name now in this section of the State. His home-lot was located on the west side of what is now Trum bull street, and on both sides of Church street as since laid out. Nathaniel G oodwin, the father of the subject of this memoir, was a merchant in Hartford, and died in 1782, a few weeks before this son was born. The children were placed under the guardian ship of Capt- Ebenezer Barnard, at that time a resident of Berlin, but who afterwards removed to Hartford, where he died in 1827. The guardian appears to have aimed to secure a good education for his wards — both Nathaniel and his older brother James, having * S ee Genealogical Notes of Oziae Goodwin, page xv. Those Notes wore not intended by Judge Goodwin to form a part of this YOlume, and are therefore, not so complete as ho would have made them, had he liYed. I NATHANIEL G OODWIN. IX been s ent to the Academy at Flainfield, at that time second to none other in Connecticut. From a specimen copy, executed by young Goodwin, and dated April 30, 1792, we should judge that the scholars of that school made one valuable acquisition — that of a handwriting, which has even now, the rare merit of legibility. After l eaving school, Nathaniel served an apprenticeship in the art of printing ; for two years with Mr.