Benjamin Goold

Benjamin (3), third child of Benjamin (2) and Elizabeth (Ferguson) Goold, was born at Kittery, now Eliot, September 15, 1747, and was a Quaker. He went to Windham, Maine, in 1774, and married, December 24, 1775, Phebe, daughter of Nathan and Mary (Gray) Noble, of Gray, Maine. Her father was a descendant of Thomas Noble, the emigrant, and he served in the army at Louisburg in 1745 and 1758, and in the expeditions to Canada in 1757 and 1759, and at the siege of Boston in 1776. He enlisted January 6, 1777. in the Eleventh Massachusetts Regiment, under Colonels Ebenezer Francis and Benjamin Tupper, for three years, and was killed at the battle of Saratoga, October 7, 1777, aged fifty-four years. His two sons served in the army. Benjamin Goold was a cordwainer and a thrifty farmer. He served his town as highway surveyor, assessor of taxes and as collector. He died at Windham, November 12, 1807, aged sixty years. His wife was born at New Milford, Connecticut, May 15, 1749, and died at Windham, February 19, 1817, aged sixty-seven years. Her great-grandfather, John Noble, was the founder of New Milford, Connecticut. Their children were: Simeon, Nathan, Daniel, Betsey, Mary, Ezra (died young), Ezra, two children who died in infancy, and Abner.

Source: Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume 1. By Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, (1909), page 407-408

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