Capt. Ephraim GOODRICH

Ephraim married Sarah TREAT on 20 May 1684 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of Richard TREAT, Jr. and Sarah COLEMAN) was born on 8 Jun 1664 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 26 Jan 1711/12 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ephraim married Jerusha TREAT on 25 Dec 1712 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Jerusha (daughter of James TREAT and Rebecca LATIMER) was born about 1678 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 15 Jan 1754 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John and William Goodrich, brothers, located first at Watertown, Mass., where it has been said six tracts of land were granted to William, but they were evidently granted to another William Goodrich with wife Margaret, who died in 1647, which is proved by the fact that he was holding them after 1644. (Bond's Watertown, p, 777; Watertown Records, 1 p. 102, of lands, etc.) he was among the very first settlers at Wethersfield, being one of a small party known as the adventurers who wintered there before the arrival of the main body. The next year, 1636, the Watertown Company or the larger part of it, including his brother John, migrated to the site of the new town and there planted themselves anew. In the distribution of the town lands among the settlers, he had several lots assigned to him. He drew land in the allotment of 1670, but his homestead of 6 acres he bought of Thomas Ufford, which was on the west side of Main Street, diagonally across from the meeting house. He also bought 117 acres from Ufford on the east side of the river. (Stiles Ancient Wethersfield.) He was Freeman, May 15, 1656; Deputy to the General Court for five sessions from May, 1662 to October, 1666, inclusive, a member of the Grand Jury in May, 1662, and Ensign of the Wetherfield trainband in May, 1665; one of Mason's Army in the Pequot War of 1637.

William married Sarah MARVIN on 04 Oct 1648 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of Matthew MARVIN and Elizabeth ?) was born in 1632 in England; was christened on 27 Dec 1631 in Great Bentley, St. Marys, Essex, England; died in 1702 in Stratford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Marjorie HOWE in 1615. Marjorie was born on 1588 or 1591. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Mar 1600, Great Bentley, co. Essex, England
• Fact: 1635, Came on the "Increase" with wife and five children
• Fact: 1635, An original settler in Hartford and of Norwalk, 1651

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"Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin": Matthew, youngest son of Edward and Margaret Marvin, was baptized in St. Mary's Church, Great Bentley, Essex, England, 26 March, 1600; Rev. Robert Dernell was then its rector. His father's will gave him the "mentchon house called Edons alias Dreybrockes, and ij Croftes of land called Hartles and Brocken Heddes," on the condition that he paid his mother yearly during her life "the fulle sume of Sexe Poundes," in default of which it was to pass to his bother Reinold with a like condition. He was then about fifteen years old. He probably resided there with his mother until her death in May, 1633.

He married (1) about 1622 Elizabeth (?), born about 1604, judging from her age as given when she went to America; she died in Hartford, probably about 1640; and from the ages of his younger children, certainly not later than 1647. rebecca is thought to have been Elizabeth's youngest child, as she is named in her father's will, but not in that of his second wife, who mentions her own children then living. He married (2), about 1647, Alice, widow of John Bouton, born about 1610; in her will, 1 Dec., 1680, she calls herself "aged about seventy;" she made oath to the inventory of her husband's estate 17 Dec., 1680, and died soon after; the inventory of her own estate is dated "the last of January, 1680/1."

Matthew sailed from London in the "Increase," Robert Lea, master, having proved, 15 April, 1635, that his party had "taken the oathes of Allegeance and Supremacie: As also being conformable to the Government and discipline of the Church of England, whereof they brought testimony.. Cert. from ye Justices and ministers where there abodes have latlie been."

He had been a "sydeman" at St. mary's in 1621; "overseer" in 1627, and senior warden in 1628. He is last mentioned there 22 Aug. 1633, when "William Littleburye, the servant of Matthew Meruin, was buried."

The record of his departure calls him "husbandman, aet. 25," and names his wife and children "Elizabeth Marvynn, vor, 31; Elizabeth Marvinn 31 ( a clerical error for 13); Matthew Marvynn, 8; marie Marvynn, 6; Sara marvynn, 3; Hanna Marvynn 1/2." Some of his fellow-passengers appear as his fellow townsmen in Hartford, Farmington and Norwalk. The "Increase" sailed about the middle of April, and reached New England about the first of June. Where he spent the first few months after his arrival, is not known. His name is on the monument in honor of the first settlers of hartford, the first of whom arrived there about November, 1635, and Matthew was one of "the twelve very earliest emigrants whose names are known," and who formed the company known as Adventurers, to whom belonged "Venturers' Field." He resided on the corner of Village (now Pleasant) and Front streets, the lot fronting east.

Matthew married Elizabeth ? before 1622 in England. Elizabeth was born about 1604; died about 1642. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]