English Goodwin family papers : being material collected in the search for the ancestry of William and Ozias Goodwin, immigrants of 1632 and residents of Hartford, Connecticut

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by  Starr, Frank Farnsworth. 1n

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ENGLISH
GOODWIN
FAMILY PAPERS
being
material collected in the search for
the ancestry of
WILLIAM and OZIAS GOODWIN
Immigrants of 1632
and Residents of
Hartford, Connecticut.
Volume
I.
Hartford, Connecticut
1921

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PREFACE.
ForseveralyearssearchesweremadeinEnglandin theattempt
to trace the ancestry of William and Ozias Goodwin, early emi-
grantsto NewEngland,andwhowereof thecompanythatsettled
the town of Hartford, Connecticut.
As an indication of the extensive researches made, it may be
stated that abstracts were taken from 255 parish registers in 23
counties and from 1900 wills and administrations in the principal
Probate Court, the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and of the
courts in 33 counties, also from other numerous sources as stated
in the list of contents.
Among those engaged in the search were Col. Joseph L.
Chester, Rev. Augustus Jessopp, D.D., William Brigg, Joseph
J. Muskett, M.D., Oswald Barron, of England, and Capt. Charles
H.Townshend,HenryF. Waters,LothropWithingtonand Frank
Farnsworth Starr of America.
Of those above named, Mr. Starr is supposed to be the only
onenow livingand to him has been entrusted the task of arrang-
ing the material and supervising the printing thereof. As he
saw only a very small part of the records that were examined he
should not be held responsible for any errors that may appear
in these abstracts.
Asa resultof theseinvestigations itis nowknown thatWilliam
Goodwinwastwicemarried. Hisfirstwife,towhomhewasmar-
ried November 7, 1616, was Elizabeth White, sister of John
White of Hartford, Conn., and Hadley, Mass., and also of the
wives of Joseph Loomis and John Porter of Windsor, Conn., as
shown by entries on pages 37, 43, and 44 of this work. His
second wife was Susannah, probably widow of Rev. Thomas
Hooker of Hartford, Conn., and to whom Goodwin was married
after December 9, 1654.*
On page 478 is a fac-simile of the signature of William
Goodwin as a witness to the will of Samuel Emery of Black
Notley, Essex county, England which was made April 20, 1627.
*County Court Record, vol. 2, pp. 59-61, State Secretary's Office,
Hartford.
IV PREFACE.
The reader will notice the similarity of this signature to those
shown onpage40of "The Goodwins of Hartford, Conn." Black
Notley is only one and one half miles from Braintree where
Goodwin is supposed to have resided at that date.
Onpage 1123isadocumentshowingthetransferinJune, 1632,
by John "Tailcott" and wife Dorothy, William "Goodwyn" and
wife Elizabeth, of lands in Braintree and the adjoining parish of
Bocking. In 1632 Trinity Sunday came on May 27. Also on
pages 1174-77 will be seen extracts from the Commissary Court
of EssexandHertsconcerningWilliam Goodwin,William Lewis,
John Steele, John Talcott and William Wadsworth, all of whom
laterbecame residents of Hartford, Connecticut.
TheEnglishmaterialhasbeen found soextensivethata careful
index has been made to render it easily accessible.