Goodenows of Sudbury, Massachussetts 1638

Notes


19. Jane Goodenow Goodnow

in ship "Confidence"||Massachusetts bay Colony||


Henry Wait Wight Wright

William Ward Wight, Wight Genealogy.


26. Mary Goodnow

This we believe to be the Mary whom Savage assigns to Thomas'
brother Edmund. There is no Mary, dau of Edmund in Sudbury VR
and she is too close in age to Hannah's in Savage to be likely.
Between the entries of the two, Savage has the words, "if the
rec. be not wrong, as prob. it is."
The following is from Henry N. Biddles:
Mary was convicted of fornication in April 1657 with James Ross whom she adamantly refused to marry for at least a year. She finally married him 5 Dec 1658.


James Ross

James Ross enlisted in the Scots army at the age of 16 or 17.
He served in the Narragansett Swamp Fight in King Philip's War in 1675.
Ref: Whitney, Wyne, and Allied Families: Genealogical and Biographical by Mary Catherine Wyne Whitney.

The age old antipathy between the English and the Scots broke
out into war in 1649. By 1652 over 500 Scottish prisoners
from Dunbar and Worcester had been transported as indentured
servants to Massachusetts Bay Colony. By 1680 only some 120
remained. During the 1650s they certainly made their presence
felt, but as much for their savage violence as their sexual
indiscipline. Thus James Ross, the father of Mary Goodenow's
bastard, had received heavy punishment of thirty-nine stripes
for "shamefull abuse and violence towards his master." [Servant
to John Ruddick - Fewkes Manuscript, Book Of Ross] NEHG. In
King Philip's War, in the attack on Sudbury Apr 21, 1676, the
"Sudbury Fight", he lost property to the amount of Seventy
Pounds, being about midway between the highest and lowest of
the losses of the town's people.
From Henry N. Biddles, 2003:
James was one of the surviving soldiers of Charles II's Scottish army made prisoners at the Battle of Worcester 3 Sep 1651 by Cromwell. After the battle, Cromwell was greatly exercised to find sustenance for them and to keep them under restraint as a potential source of danger. Many died of pestilence and, as a measure of relief, many were sent to Boston as redemptioners on such terms that they soon acquired their freedom. John Cotton, minister of Boston, wrote to Cromwell that they were kindly used, having been sold for a limited servitude in a country where their labor was in such demand that they were not ill-rewarded. James, a Royalist soldier, was captured at the battle of Worcester, England. Along with 272 others, he was transported from Gravesend to Boston on the ship John and Sarah, leaving Gravesend in November 1651 and arriving 13 May 1652. The Scots transported to the Massachusetts Bay Colony were noted for their savage violence and their sexual indiscipline. Thus James Ross, the father of Mary's bastard, had received heavy punishment of 39 stripes from "shameful abuse and violence towards his master." James Ross was in prison at least from May 23, 1655 onward and was ordered released from prison when he petitioned the court with a "humble apology" and promised to reform his behavior on August 31, 1655. The Annals of Sudbury states that James Ross signed a petition concerning a 1678 battle between the settlers and the Pokonoket Indian known as "Philip" and his warriors.


28. Abigail Goodnow Goodenow Goodenowe

||Duplicate records in the Sudbury Vital Records show a Nov.
11, 1642 birthdate.


Thomas Barnes

Barence was the name according to the marriage in the VR of
Marlboro, MA. Hudson states that Thomas Barnes was in Marlboro
early, and bought land from Jonathan Johnson and thus became a
resident. Will in 1679 mentions his wife, Abigail, sons
Thomas, John, and William, and daughters Dorothy, Abigail, and
Susan. In SPEEDWELL with Shadrack Hapgood, John Fay, Nathaniel
Goodnow, and Thomas Goodnow (Jr.) whose sister, Abigail, Thomas
married.


30. Samuel Goodenowe Goodnow Sr.

||||Will dated Marlboro, 16 Nov, 1716 leaving property to
grandchildren, David, Jonathan, Thomas, Mary Goodnow, and to
Sarah, Widow of his son Samuel and Executrix. Probate record
#9377 dtd 3 Oct 1722, Marlboro. Inventory 3 FEB 1723 by Peter
RICE, John BANNISTER, jr., and Caleb RICE, contains such items
as "Wearing clothers, five oxen, four cows, two beds and
furniture, books".

Samuel's house was a Garrison on "The Old Road" to the town
of Marlboro in 1711, 1 1/2 miles east of Marlboro. In 1672 a
grant was made to Samuel "by double pond meadow on both sides
of the meadow". He was a Freeman in 1690.


65. Thomas Goodenow

See attached sources.


66. Mary Goodenow

On 18 August 1707 Mary Goodnow and Mrs. Mary Fay, wife of
Gershom Fay and 2nd daughter of John Brigham were gathering
herbs near the Goodnow Garrison located on the Great Road near
Stirrip Brook when 20 or more Indians burst from the woods and
chased them towards the garrison fort. Miss Goodnow was lame
and was overtaken, dragged across the brook, mutilated,
murdered, and scalped. Mrs. Fay managed to reach the fort,
closed the gates, and loaded muskets for the one man she found
in the garrison. They held off the attacking Indians with
musket fire until their shots were heard by other settlers and
their arrival drove off the hostiles. Presumably on the same
day the Indians surprised and captured Jonathan Wilder of
Lancaster and a Mr. Howe of Marlboro. The affair is described
in the Boston News-Letter, 25 August 1707. "On Monday, the 16th
current, thirteen Indians on the frontier surprised two men at
their labors in the meadows at Marlboro, about four miles
distant from the body of the town, and took them both alive;
and as they passed out of the town, they took a woman also in
their marching off, whom they killed. Howe, one of the
prisoners, broke away in a scuffle, and brought home the
Indian's gun and hatchet, and acquainted the garrison and the
inhabitants, who speedily followed, and were joined by twenty
men from Lancaster, being in all forty, came up with the enemy,
who were increased to thirty-six, and on Tuesday, at ten
o'clock, found them, and in two hours exchanged ten shots a
man, in which skirmish we lost two men, and two slightly
wounded; no doubt we killed several of the enemy, whose track
being dragged away we saw, but recovered but one of them,
though it is probably conjectured that we killed ten or twelve
at least. We took twenty-four of their packs and drove them
off the ground, and they are yet pursued by two parties from
Lancaster and Groton. At our forces overtaking and attacking
them, they barbarously murdered the captives." In the packs
taken from the Indians, as mentioned above, were found the
scalp of Miss Goodnow, which was the first anyone knew of her
fate. John Farren and Richard Singletary were the ones slain
in this skirmish and Jonathan Wilder died as a captive. The
slain woman is not identified by name, but the presence of her
scalp in the Indian packs, conclusively shows it was Mary
Goodnow.


68. David Goodenow

See attached sources.


32. Susannah Goodnowe Goodenow

She is named in her Father's Will.


John Rediat Redmit Rediate Rednit Jr.

See attached sources.


John Miles Myles

Freeman March 14, 1639. In 1672 one of nine in a committee
instructing Selectmen. Large proprietor, 459 acres. Property
at "Nine Acre Corner" in the south part of town. He had a few
acres on the north side of the Common Road, running back to the
South River, between the lands of John Holden and Maj. Jonathan
Prescott,---now number 70 Main Street, opposite Academy Lane.
Here was his home along with barn, cow house, orchard, syder
house and syder mill. In his will he calls himself Black
Smith, and his inventory shows blacksmith tools, iron,
ironware, and coals, and also shows 5 cows, 4 oxen, 2 heifers,
3 year olds, 2 steers, 1 yearling, 2 mares, and a little horse,
12 sheep, 5 swine, 60 bushels Indian corn, 20 bushels rye, and
14 barrels syder. Estate valued at L600. He had a respectable
education.


Christopher Bannister Banister

He was in Marlboro before 1657 as a physician.


35. Capt John Goodnew Goodenow

9347||real estate & £882 5s 8d||

in ship "Confidence"||to Massachusetts Bay Colony||

John, son of Edmund and Anne Goodnow, was born in Dunhead,
Wiltshire, England in 1635, and was brought as an infant to the
Massachusetts Bay Colony in the ship "Confidence" in 1638. He
was brought up in the town of Sudbury, of which he was a
citizen, to the age of thirty-eight before he could take part
in the government of the town. He was a farmer, and in 1656
married Mary Axtell. He was made a freeman in 1673, and on Mar
26, 1677, John Goodnow and others were granted liberty to build
a saw mill on upper Hopbrook at a place viewed by a committee
of the town, which if they do they are to have twenty tons of
timber and earth for the dams. He was a Puritan and also a
Captain in the militia.
George Don Max, John goodenow in
Sudbury: A Chronology of Public Service, [:BOLD] 9 pp. After
detailing 65 acts of community services, concludes, "The public
service career of Captain John Goodenow, from drumming the
townspeople Churchward to presiding over the Town Meeting,
spanned more than half a century and as years rolled on the
positions of public trust and responsibility to which he was
elected, or appointed, extended to all parts of town
government. Toward the end of his political life, perhaps due
to a lengthy illness of his wife... and because of thoughtless
and uncontrollable impulses and desires, he placed himself in a
situation that even his peers would not brook.

Ref: Thompson, RogerSex in
Middlesex[:ITAL],1986, Univ Massachusetts Press, pg 171-172


Mary Axtell

Mary Rice as well as Mary Ann Starr are both given as the
mother of Mary Axtell. Kemble Stout: ZEPHANIAH EDMONDS
supports the former. RICE FAMILY IN AMERICA, NEHG Register Vol
53, the latter.


Mary Stone

See attached sources.


Capt James Pendleton


Their son EDMUND PENDIETON, was blinded as a boy, by a
rock thrown by Walter Wescott of Westerly, RI. He lived with a
relative of the GOODE@NOW family (his mother's family) named
John Kettle.

While the Portsmouth records include James Pendleton's
name among the "free comers" there up to 1657, and while he was
a grandjuryman in Portsmouth in 1659, and one of the town
constables in 1661, yet there is the possibility he may have
divided his time between that place and Sudbury. Because of her
extreme youth, his second wife may have preferred living with
her people for a time or at least going back to them when her
first two children were born. Either supposition could account
for their births having been entered on both the Sudbury and
the Portsmouth records.
James Pendleton led an active life in Portsmouth,
particularly after the year 1665 when his father removed to
Winter Harbor (Saco), Maine. At this time he not only succeeded
to the business the elder Pendleton had built up, but also to
his leadership in the civil and military affairs of the town.
And he also became engaged in numerous lawsuits in trying to
collect various accounts owed his father, thanks to a power of
attorney the latter had given him to windup his local affairs.
During these busy years he was Town Clerk of Portsmouth in
1663 and 1664, Selectman from 1663 to 1668 inclusive, one of
the Commissioners (local magistrates) to determine small
actions from 1667 to 1671, and Captain of the Portsmouth
military company from 1666 until 1674, the last year he lived
in this old seaport on the Piscataqua.
Among the items relating to him at Portsmouth we find his
appointment by the General Court as a member of a Committee to
select "The Convenientest place for erecting necessary
fortiffication" there in May, 1666, while on the 11th of
September in that year the Court admitted him to the freedom of
the Commonwealth.
We also find in the town records of January, 1667, that of
sixty-nine acres of land then laid out to him, ten were due to
Joseph Pendleton in 1652--pretty good evidence that this
brother was no longer living. And there is also record there
that in 1671 James Pendleton late in life that he began to be
called "Yeoman," by which time he had probably retired from
business and devoted himself to the cultivation of some part of
that thousand acre farm he bad bought at Watch Hill with the
help-as we now know of his sons, Joseph and Edmund.
After winding up his affairs in Portsmouth, Capt.
Pendleton, presumably with his wife and most of his family,
made a quick journey to Stonington where he arrived in time to
be a partaker at the ordination of the Rev. James Noyes as
pastor of the First (Congregational) Church there on September
10th, 1674. Brought up as be had been by an ardent Puritan
father, James had no use for the "Godless" government of Rhode
Island which alone of the New England colonies permitted any
freedom in matters of religion. In the continual squabbles that
went on for years over the jurisdiction of the settlement east
of Pawcatuck, he naturally favored Connecticut, even if it was
somewhat less rigid in its notions than Massachusetts, and this
predilection of his eventually brought him into direct conflict
with Gov. Cranston of the Rhode Island colony.


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