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About John Goddard, of Oyster River
Seen as child of John Goddard & Frances Goddard without supporting evidence. Seen as child of Edward Goddard & Priscilla Goddard (D'Oyly) without supporting evidence.
John Goddard. Born ca 1608. John died on 12 Nov 1666 in Durham, Strafford County, New Hampshire
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From the History of Durham:88
“John Goddard, born about 1608, as a deposition shows, was one of Capt. John Mason’s colonists, who came over in the Pied Cow, arriving at Newichawannock, or South Berwick, Me., 13 Jun 1734, where he aided in erecting a saw-mill and grist-mill. Sept. 21, 1647, he bought of Joseph Miller (He removed to Cambridge, Mass. He is called also Joseph Millard and was probably one of the ancestors of President Millard Fillmore) land and buildings in Dover, on Goddard’s Creek, near the shore of Great Bay. Dea. W. S. Meserve and I [Everett Stackpole] visited the spot in April, 1913, and it seems plain that Goddard’s house must have stood about where a summer cottage does now on a little hiss, at the extreme point of land, on the south side of the creek. The landing must have been near by, to which a road was laid out in early times. His house was a garrison. Goddard’s Neck of land is mentioned in 1657, in alying out the boundareies of Dover and Exeter.
”John Goddard was constable for Dover in1655. He was made freemand of Dover in 1653. He owned a share in Piscassic falls with timber accommodations, which he sold in 1659. He died 12 Nov. 1666. The verdict of the coroner’s jury concerning the ‘untimely death of John Goddard’ was put on file 25 June 1667. His widow, Welthea, or Welthen, born about 1621, married (2) John Symonds. She was living, non compos mentis, in 1705. John Goddard was a carpenter by trade. He was once fined for being absent from meeting four days and ‘twice at the Quakers,’ the fine being forty shillings. We are led to think that courts were almost as anxious then as they are now to collect fine and fees. Fancy John Goddard rowing at low tide the whole length of Great Bay and Little Bay and up Oyster River half way to the Falls to get to meeting. The division of his estate in 1670 shows the following children [namely John, Benjamin, a daughter who m. John Gilman, Mary, and Martha], and since the male lines of descent speedily ceased, the Goddards of Maine who claim descent from his will have to look for Massachusetts for their ancestor.”
Children
- I. John- d.s.p. by 1678, will 2 July 1672
- II. Elizabeth- m. John Gilman
- III. Mary- m.1. Arthur Bennett, 2. Joseph Field, 3. Hans Wolford
- IV. Martha- m.1. before 1670 James Thomas (d. between 1715 & 1718), 2. Before Dec. 1718 Elias Critchet, d. after 1730
- V. Benjamin- d.s.p. before 30 Apr. 1717
- http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr01/rr01_336.html
- page 12-13 of History of the town of Durham, New Hampshire : (Oyster River Plantation) with genealogical notes by Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn, 1850-1927; Thompson, Lucien, b. 1859; Meserve, Winthrop Smith, 1838- Published [1913]
- "Capt John Mason's "stewards and servants" sent to New Hampshire 1630"
- Pope, C. Henry. (1908). The pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660: a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns, churches, courts and other contemporary sources. Boston, Mass.: C.H. Pope. Page 80. Hathitrust
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John Goddard, of Oyster River's Timeline
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1608
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of, London, Middlesex, England
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1643
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Oyster River
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1644
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Oyster River Plantation, Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States
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1645
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Oyster River
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1646
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Oyster River, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
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1649
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Oyster River, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
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November 12, 1666
Age 58
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Oyster River Plantation, Strafford County, New Hampshire
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