John Goodenow

Note: Of Semley, Wiltshire. Sudbury. Freeman 1641. (Farmer, p. 124)

He arrived 24 April 1638 on the Confidence from Northampton to Boston with his wife Jane and his daughters Lydia and Jane. Also on board were his brother Thomas Goodenow, aged 30, his wife Jane and his son Thomas and his sister Ursula; his brother Edmund, aged 27, his wife Ann, and sons John and Thomas.

His Occupation was listed as "Husbandman" A husbandman is:

1) Tenant farmer 2) Farmer dealing with animals (14th century from the Anglo-Saxon husbonda)

Sources

1. Richardson, Douglas. "English Origins of the Goodenow Family", The American Genealogist volume LII (1976).
2. Richardson, Douglas. "The Goodenow-Haynes Connection", The American Genealogist volume LXI (1985).
3. Trask, William B.. "Abstracts of the Earliest Wills on the Records and Files at East Cambridge, Mass., in the County of Middlesex", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume XIX (1865).
4. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. "Sudbury Records", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume XVII (1863).

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