Samuel GOODRICH

John married Rebecca ALLEN on 28 Mar 1678. Rebecca (daughter of Capt John ALLEN and Sarah ?) was born in Feb 1660/1 in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [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]

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He is said to have come in the "Abigail" (1635), aged 30, with wife, Ann, but it is difficult to reconcile this with his deposition in 1667 that he was aged 52 years, which would have made him born about 1615. The John Allen who came in the Abigail had wife, Ann, but in 1640, this John' wife's name was Sarah. It seems probable, therefore, that the passenger of the Abigail ad he were two different persons.

He was a brother of the Rev. Thomas Allen in the Frothingham's History of Charlestown, Rev. Thomas Allen's arrival in this country is placed in 1639, )p. 77), probably. Later (p. 88), he gives the date of John Allen's appearance in Charlestown as 1639, in which year he joined the Artillery Company. He was in the list of Freemen dated Mar. 13, 1638/9 and became a member of the church, May 22, 1641 and Freeman, the second of June following. In 1657, he was the richest man in the town; Representative, 1668 to 1674, inc. Served also several years as Selectman and often engaged in town affairs. For services rendered to the Colony, the General Court granted him 1000 acres in 1668. The services enumerated in the vote show that he was a sea captain, as well. (Mass. Bay Rec., vol. 4, part 2, p. 407, Charlestown.) That same year, he was Captain of the Charlestown Company of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery. The next year, Commissioner to prevent the export of coin. With James Russell, he was appointed a committee to collect contributions for his Majesty's Fleet at the Barbadoes in May, 1669. he was part owner in mills at Charlestown, Kennebeck and Piscataqua.

John married Sarah ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]