Martha [Barker] Goodell

Identity

It is most likely that Martha is Martha Ingalls was born at Andover on 9 February 1712/13 and she was the daughter of John and Sarah (Russell) Ingalls. Martha Ingalls and William Barker were married on 10 Mar 1729/30 and were parents of seven children. At the time of the marriage of Mrs. Martha Barker to Jacob Goodell on 20 December 1743 she was Mrs. Martha Barker of Rumford after William Barker died at Rumford on 6 January 1741.

Three of Martha Ingall's siblings (Mehitable, Benjamin, and Stephen) were already settled in Pomfret and it would be reasonable that the widowed Martha Barker of Rumford went to Pomfret where she married Jacob Goodell.

Supporting this idea is the information that five of the seven children of William and Martha (Ingalls) Barker married in Pomfret supporting that she went to Pomfret and remarried there.

First Marriage and Children

Martha Ingalls married William Barker on 10 March 1730 in Andover, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay. Martha Barker became a widow when William Barker died on 6 January 1741 in Rumford, New Hampshire.[1]

They had the following children.

1. Ephriam Barker (1731)
2. William Barker (1732)
3. David Barker (1732)
4. John Barker (1733)
5. Mary Barker (1735)
6. Stephen Barker (1738)
7. Martha Barker
8. Deborah (Barker) Coy (1739 - 1820)

Second Marriage and Children

Mrs. Martha Barker, widow, married second, Jacob Goodell, widower, on 20 December 1743 in Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut.[2][3]

They had the following children.

1. Reuben Goodell
2. Simeon Goodell
3. Silas Goodell
4. Peggy (Goodell) Bishop
5. Sarah (Goodell) Clark
6. Benjamin Goodell
7. Esther Goodell

Sources

1. Williams, George E. A Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Goodale/Goodell of Salem, Mass. West Hartford, Conn. (P.O. Box 305, West Hartford 06107: G.E. Williams, 1984. Print. Page 30.
2. Connecticut Town Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), pg. 89, "Pomfret Vital Records," Vol. 1, pg. 3: "Barker, [cont.], Martha, m[arried] Jacob Goodell, Dec. 20, 1743."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 67, pg. 371-375, "Marriages at Pomfret, CT: "Jacob Goodell married Dec. 20 1743 Martha Baker."