Lt. John Goodyear

John Goodyear

• Spouse: Abigail Gibbard
• Parents: Stephen Goodyear, Margaret Lewen
• Birth Place: New Haven, New Haven, CT
• Birth Date: 8 Mar 1650
• Death Date: Nov 1702

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biography

6. Lieutenant John Goodyear, b. March 8, 1650, in New Haven; m. on June 26, 1683, Abigail, daughter of William and Ann (Tapp) Gibbard, b. Aug. 18, 1660.

William Gibbard, d. Aug. 9, 1662, leaving Samuel, mary, Phoebe, Sarah, Rebecca, Timothy, Abigail and Hannah. His will, dated August 1, 1662, and probated April 30, 1663, mentions brother Lieutenant John Nash (who probably m. his wife's sister) and leaves land in Tamsworth, Warwickshire, England. He appoints Mr. Francis Smith, of Stratford-on-Avon, and Mr. Robert newman to be overseers of his estate in England. His brother resided in Calaowne House, near Coventry, Warwickshire.

John Goodyear d. Jan 14, 1702. His estate was inventoried Dec. 4, 1703, and amounted to ~756 5s 6d., wife Abigail, administratrix. Recored Ne Haven Probate Records, 663-16-06. His wife Abigail d. before 1717. John Goodyear is genve the title of "Lieutenant" in the Colonial Records."

• John, ___________. Estate inventoried Dec. 26, 1709
• Nathaniel, b. 1690; m. Sarah Woodin
• Obedience, _____; d. before 1717
• Esther b. 1694 m. first, Ebenezer Bryan; second, Thomas Gibbs.
• Theophilus b. 1698; m. Esther Sperry.
• Abigail b. between 1698 and 1701 being of full age in 1719, giving receipt to Nathaniel Heaton for his guardianship; m., Jan 12, 1726, Samuel, son of Lieutenant Samuel and Sarah (Fenn) Burwell, of Milford, Conn.
• Andrew, b. 1702; m. first, Jane Gilbert; second, Esther Morris.[1]

John Goodyear was the seventh and last son of Stephen Goodyear (1598-1658). His father passed away in London, when he was seven years old.He was the only son of Stephen Goodyear (1598-1658) who grew up, married, and had children of his own. John Goodyear married Abigail Gibbard (1660-1718) on June 26, 1683 in New Haven. [2]

Sources

1. ↑ Genealogy of the Goodyear Family by Grace Goodyear Kirkman:https://books.google.com/books?id=z27hAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=...
2. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=126775226
3. Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven (Clarence D. Smith, Rome, New York, 1922-1932) Volumes 1-9
4. AGBI: American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT, USA
5. Find-A-Grave: Memorial #126775226 : Center Church on the Green Churchyard, New Haven, New Haven County, CT
6. Kirkman, Grace Goodyear. Genealogy of the Goodyear Family (Cubery & Co., San Fancisco, 1899) Page 55

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When John Goodyear was seven years of age in New Haven, his father passed away overseas, and was buried in London. John Goodyear's father has FindAGrave Memorial Number 139993092 as a burial marker page, and Memorial Numbers 17501582 and 28844665 as cenotaph marker pages.

John Goodyear was the only son who lived long enough to marry, and to have children of his own. All of his stepbrothers and his brother Andrew appear to have died young. Without John Goodyear, the family name would have been lost in America.

John Goodyear and his wife had five sons, but only their sons named Theophilus and Andrew passed down the family name to their own children.

In the early colonial years in America, the family's last name was spelled in different ways. John Goodyear's father was christened in London as Stephen Goodyere, and known as Stephen Goodyeare in the New Haven Colony town records of 1657 and 1658. John Goodyear was also known by the last name of Goodyeare, in the town records.

John Goodyear (1651-1702) married Abigail Gibbard (1660-1718) on June 26, 1683 in New Haven. Their three daughters were named Obedience, Esther, and Abigail. The headstones for the girls have not been found. Here is a listing of the five sons in the family:
1) Stephen (1684-before 1717), has no known headstone;
2) John (unknown-1709), has no known headstone;
3) Nathaniel (1690-1752), 15933058, has a headstone reading
"Goodyear"; 4) Theophilus (1698-1757), 20664381, has a headstone reading "Goodyar";
5) Andrew (1703-1781), has no known headstone.

Nathaniel appears to be one of the first people in the family to spell his last name as "Goodyear", as shown on his headstone from 1752.

There was only one cemetery in New Haven at the time of John Goodyear's death. Most of the cemetery was located to the rear of the "Meeting House" on the commons square, which is now called the "Center Church on the Green".

No headstones for John Goodyear or his wife can be found at any site. While many of the graves for the "Center Church on the Green" remain in place under the grass on the commons square, and a few graves remain under the church in the undercroft, all of the remaining headstones and graves from the grassy area surrounding the church were moved to the Grove Street Cemetery or elsewhere by 1821. The ground was then leveled, and seeded with new grass, to create a lawn for the community commons square.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven_Green

John Goodyear died in 1702, at the age of 50.

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