Mercy GOODENOW

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Captain John Goodenow of Sudbury

Mercy married Joseph PATTERSON on 22 Sep 1701 in Concord, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of James PATTERSON and Rebecca STEVENSON) was born on 1 Jan 1677/8 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died before 14 Feb 1736/7. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
She was admitted to full connection in Waltham Church, 9 April 1724, and he 21 March, 1724-5. They were both dismissed from Waltham to Leicester Church, 18 February, 1738-9, about which time they removed to Leicester, where they resided in may, 1742. they removed from there to Stockbridge, where, in 1749, at the death of Rev. (?) they, and the families of their son, Samuel Brown, Jr., and son-in-law, Deacon John Chamberlain were three of the only twelve English families in town. He was a deacon of the church, and had a large share of the municipal offices and business of Stockbridge while it was a precinct and after it was incorporated as a town. He was a member of the provincial Congress in 1775. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His will, dated 1782, making son Samuel sole executor, was proved 2 March, 1784. He willed all his estate, real and person, to his grandsons, Joh Isaac, Abram, Joseph, and Lemuel, sons of Captain Abraham Brown. She died in Stockbridge, 6 March, 1774, and he died 7 February, 1784.

Mercy married Deacon Samuel BROWN in 1721. Samuel was born about 1702; died on 17 Feb 1784. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]