Henry Goldham

Notes

• Nicholas Munger was believed to be the stepson of Henry Goldam, an early settler in New Have Colony who later became a prominent member of the Guilford Colony.  He apparently married Nicholas’ widowed mother, Frances.  Goldam had a daughter, Susannah, by his first wife.  In his will, Goldam gave Nicholas (referred to as “son-in-law”):  “All my land in the Neck.”3   The land bequeathed him was situated in the East Parish of Guilford, now the town of Madison on the public road along the bank of the Neck River.  Here, Nicholas settled in 1651. 
• By other authorities he is said to have been son-in-law (i. e. stepson) of Henry Goldham or Goldam, an early settler at New Haven and Guilford. "Henry Goldham, freed from training (military service) from weakness in 1645, had only Susanna, who married the 2d John Bishop. In his will of 9th of July, 1661, gives some land to Nicholas Munger, called son-in-law; probably son of his (Goldham's) wife Frances." (Savage: vol. ii, p. 269.)
• That Nicholas Munger came to this country with William Chittenden, is traditionary; that he was here in company with Henry Goldam and family of New Haven Colony, seems proven by documentary evidence. His stepfather, Goldam, was one of the prominent men of Guilford Colony, though not one of the original proprietors. "Munger was one of the poorer planters," says the History of Guilford. "None of the settlers were rich, and none were poor, and few had servants." All seem to have been comfortably situated and self-supporting.
• In his will Goldham gives to Nicholas Munger "All my land in the Neck, paying myself, if demanded during my lifetime, one barley corn by the year by way of acknowledgement, and after my death, if my wife shall survive and shall demand the same the sum of five bushels of whete by the year, but if she miss demanding in or at the very expiring of the year, then to be free from any payment that present year, and at the death of my fore said wife, to be to him fully and freely and to his heirs forever."

References

• http://www.mvcc.org/Centerville/histsoc/FromBlacksmithtoGeneral.htm...
• https://tokala.net/TCM/nicholas.htm
• Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts by William Richard Cutter, pg. 1687