John 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]

1. Sarah GOODRICH was born on 10 Apr 1679; died on 17 Oct 1719.
2. Rebecca GOODRICH was born on 11 Nov 1680; died on 10 Apr 1703.
3. Mary GOODRICH was born on 4 Sep 1682; died on 5 Feb 1730.
4. Samuel GOODRICH was born on 24 May 1684; died on 7 May 1706.
5. Abigail GOODRICH was born on 27 Apr 1686.
6. John GOODRICH was born on 9 Jun 1688.
7. Allen GOODRICH was born on 13 Nov 1690; died on 8 Apr 1764.
8. Ann GOODRICH was born on 1 Sep 1692.
9. Jacob GOODRICH was born on 27 Nov 1694; died in Nov 1746.

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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]