Captain/Deacon Abner Goodale

• DAR A046232
• GOODALE, ABNER
• Ancestor #: A046232
• Service: MASSACHUSETTS Rank(s): PRIVATE
• Birth: 8-22-1755 MARLBOROUGH MASSACHUSETTS
• Death: 5-16-1823 MARLBOROUGH MASSACHUSETTS
• Service Description: 1) CAPT GATES,COL WARD
• Spouse
• Number: 1)
• Name: MARY/MOLLY HOWE

Fought in the Battle of White Plains

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ABNER GOODALE (NATHAN4, JOHN3, ZACHARIA2, ROBERT1) was born August 22, 1755 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and died May 16, 1823 in Marlborough, Massachusetts. He married MOLLY (MARY) HOWE June 16, 1779 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, daughter of ELIAKIM HOWE and REBECCA HOWE. She was born September 28, 1757 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and died November 15, 1818 in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

More About ABNER GOODALE: Burial: Springhill Burial Grounds

More About MOLLY (MARY) HOWE: Burial: Springhill Burial Grounds

Children of ABNER GOODALE and MOLLY HOWE are:

        #  i. NATHAN6 GOODALE, b. April 17, 1780, Marlborough, Massachusetts; d. October 12, 1843.

1. ii. ABNER GOODALE, b. October 12, 1782, Marlborough, Massachusetts.
2. iii. POLLY GOODALE, b. October 12, 1782, Marlborough, Massachusetts; m. ISAAC STRATTON, January 19, 1810, Marlborough, Massachusetts.
3. iv. TIMOTHY GOODALE, b. September 03, 1784, Marlborough, Massachusetts; d. April 18, 1856, Jamaica, Vermont; m. POLLY STRATTON

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Note*: Will of Nathan Goodall of Marlborough, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, dated 9 Dec 1778, names wife Pereis, sons Abner, Solomon, David, Job and Nathan deceased, and daughters Sarah Ward, Meriam Allen, Lucy How and Levina Goodall.2

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An orchardist and Deacon of the congregational Church in Marlboro. Captain in the Revolutionary War. Third owner of the Goodale homestead in Marlboro. His daughter Lucy was a missionary to the Hawaiian Islands. All his children were college educated.
Exact birth and death dates supplied by Grace (Cronin) Schmitt, graver 47044232

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The Goodale Homestead is a historic First Period house located at 368 Chestnut Street in Hudson, Massachusetts, United States. The oldest portion of the 2+1⁄2-story timber-frame house dates to 1702, making it the oldest existing building in Hudson. George Francis Dow and John Goodale designed and built the house. It was later home to Goodale's various notable descendants. The house may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History
George Francis Dow and owner John Goodale designed and built the original 1702 portion of the Goodale Homestead in what was then Marlborough, Massachusetts.[2] When he died in 1752, the house passed to his only son Nathan Goodale. At least five generations of notable Goodales were born or lived at the homestead, including Nathan's only son Abner Goodale, a captain in the American Revolutionary War who fought at the Battle of White Plains and later a deacon.[2]

Abner and his wife Mary "Molly" Howe Goodale had at least ten children. Their first son Nathan Goodale became a schoolteacher while his younger brother David Goodale followed in their father's footsteps as a deacon.[2] Their youngest sister Lucy Goodale Thurston became one of the first American Protestant missionaries in Hawaii.[2]

Both Nathan and David Goodale had large families. Though Nathan was the oldest son he decided David should be the house's owner and occupant, supposedly stating, "Thou art the one to remain. Our father was a deacon, you are also a deacon, and let remain as the Deacon Goodale farm."[2]

David Goodale was an anti-slavery abolitionist who ran for Congress on the Free Soil Party ticket.[2] The house therefore possibly served as a stop on the Underground Railroad prior to the American Civil War.[2] David's son David Brainard Goodale also became a deacon, making him the fifth generation of Goodales and third generation of deacons who were born or lived at the ancestral homestead.

In 1955 then owner Mrs. Arthur Greenwood donated the house's northern ell to the Smithsonian Institution.[2] When the Marlborough, Hudson, and Massachusetts Historical Commissions inventoried the house as a historic property in 1974, Mrs. Greenwood's estate owned it.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1975.[1] Since 1975 the house has been owned by corporations established by Thurston Twigg-Smith, Hawaiian businessman and a great-great-grandson of Lucy Goodale Thurston.[3]

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• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Oct 6 2022, 21:25:47 UTC
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodale_Homestead