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Roger Goodspeed

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: April 30, 1685 (73)
Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Son of Robert Goodspeed, Sr. and Alice Goodspeed
Husband of Alice Goodspeed
Father of Nathaniel Goodspeed; John A Goodspeed, Sr.; Mary Hinckley; Benjamin Goodspeed; Ruth Davis and 2 others
Brother of Robert Goodspeed, Jr.,; Bennett Goodspeed; Thomas Goodspeed; Jane Goodspeed; Margaret Goodspeed and 5 others

Occupation: Privateer, Founding Father of Barnstable Massachusetts
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About Roger Goodspeed

The Goodspeed House is a historic house at 271 River Road in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Built c. 1653 (other sources say 1685), the 1-1/2 Cape style house is the oldest house in the Marstons Mills area of Barnstable, and is one of the oldest in the entire town. It is believed to have been built by Roger Goodspeed, Marstons Mills' first settler.[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]

The Goodspeed House is set on the west side of River Road, just north of its junction with River Ridge Road. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, five asymmetrical bays in width, with a side gable roof and central chimney. Exterior trim is minimal, with simple surrounds around the windows, and a lintel shelf above the main entry. An ell extends to the rear of the house toward a barn.[2]

The house is claimed to have been built by local settler Roger Goodspeed in about 1653, making it the oldest house in the village. The house remained in the hands of Goodspeed's descendants for five generations. Its asymmetrical facade suggests that it was at first built as a "half house", only three bays wide.

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1) http://www.themorrisclan.com/GENEALOGY/FAMILY%20STUDIES/GOODSPEED%2...

[F8]. Roger GOODSPEED. Born at Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England; son of Robert GOODSPEED [F3] and Alice HARRIS. He arrived in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts in 1639. He married Alice LAYTON on 1 December 1641 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. In 1643 was on the list of those able to bear arms. His wife was admitted to the church 31 Dec. 1643, and he was admitted to the church 28 July 1644. His father, in his will dated 15 September 1658, bequeathed to him and to his brothers Bennett and Thomas 6£ 13s 4d each, if they or any of them return from beyond the seas within ten years after their fathers decease. Roger was indiscreet enough on one occasion to get himself into rather serious trouble, as shown by the following complaint and proceedings on the records of Plymouth Colony: "John Jenkins, of Barnstable, [who we are also related to] complained against Roger Goodspeed in an action of defamation to the damage of fifty pound, in his charging of the said complainant to be a lyer, and that he had stolen his kidd, biding all the people there to take notice thereof; this being on a lecter day, in September last, in the publicke meeting house there, before sundry people. The jury find for the plaintiff twenty pounds damage, and the coste of the suite, or an acknowledgement to the satisfaction of the Court, and the coste of the suite." Roger accepted the alternative as shown by the following entry taken from the same record: "THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ROGER GOODSPEED." "These are to certify whom it may concern, That what words passed from mee, Roger Goodspeed, att the meeting house att Barnstable concerning John Jenkins, his stealing my kidd and lying, were rash, unadvised aand inconsiderate words; and upon due consideration I see I had noe cause soe to say, and ame sorry for soe saying, and desire him to passe it by. Roger Goodspeed X his mark." A marginal note in the records states, "This was ended by acknowledgement." It may not be out of place in this connection to say Roger exhibited more courage than discretion. It required considerable "nerve" to openly charge a neighbor with theft and falsehood on a lecture day before all the people. He must have been both corageous and physically strong or Jenkins would then and there have resented the impeachment. He died in 1685 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. CHILDREN: Nathaniel GOODSPEED [F43], John GOODSPEED [F9], Mary GOODSPEED [F44], Benjamin GOODSPEED [F45], Ruth GOODSPEED [F46], Ebenezer GOODSPEED [F5], Elizabeth GOODSPEED [F37]. {S2a, S2e, S2f, S4, S15}.

2) GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 397

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"Before the year 1653, Roger Goodspeed removed from Good-

speed's Hill to the Indian village of Mistick or Misteake, now

known by the more modern and perhaps more euphoneous name of

Marston's Mills. I' think he was the first of the whites who

settled in that part of the town.

His six acre houselot then was bounded southerly by the land

of the Indian Sachem Paup-mun-nucks^t ^"d westerly by Oyster

River. On the north of this lot he owned a neck of land con-

taining sixteen acres. In 1665 he bought forty acres of land ad-

joining the Oyster River and the Indian pond of Thomas Allyn.

In 1667 the town granted him sixteen acres adjoining his house-

lot. He also owned meadows in that vicinity. In 1659 he pur-

chased a tract of land of Dea. John Cooper at the east of Coo-

per's Pond.

April 6, 1678, he conveyed all his lands and meadows at

South Sea to his sons John and Ebenezer, excepting six acres, on

the condition that they support him and his wife Alice during

their natural lives. This instrument is on record, and is very

carefully drawn. It is signed with his mark.

He joined the church in Barnstable July 28, 1644, his wife

Alice having joined on 31 of the preceding December. He was

admitted a freeman of the Colony June 5, 1651, and was on the

grand jury that year. He was a farmer or planter, and had en-

joyed no advantages for obtaining an education. He appears to

have been an exemplary member of the Christian church, and to

have lived, except on one occasion, a quiet and inoffensive life.

In 1672, at the Meeting House in Barnstable, he charged John

Jenkins with having stolen his kid and lying ; but like an honest

The town of Barnstable has no right to remove the pound, without the assent of the

holders of said meadow. If the town should order its removal without such assent the

latter would be relieved from all obligation to maintain a pound in another place, and could

not be dispossessed of said meadows.

June 1, 1688. l^e grass that grows on the Pound Meadows was granted to James

Lewis and Nathaniel Bacon, for so long a time as they shall maintain a pound for the town's

use and no longer. The meadows were not granted, only the right to cut the "common

thatch, goose grass or sedge that grows upon them.*' This is a nice distinction but the

language used shows the intention of the parties. Lewis and Bacon admitted four others

as pai*tners and the meadows were divided into six lots, and the maintenance of certain

portions of the pound fence was assi^ed to each lot. In 1778 some of the partners

neglected to put up their particular portion of the fence and the town was indicted. That

matter was settled, the partners found that they were oblij?ed to put up the fence, and did

so. Recently they have again neglected to keep the fence in repair and the town has taken

possession of the meadows. This the town had an undoubted right to do ; but a question

arises whether or not those partners who have maintained their particular portions of the

fence can be deprived of the use of the meadows. On the other hand, it is said that the

fjirant was made as a whole, that the division was a subsequent arrangement not binding on

the town.

The latter is the common sense view of the question. A quadrangular piece of land

fenced on three sides ie not a "pound for the town's use." Either of the partners had the

same right that the town had. He could have put up the fence and claimed the delin-

quent's share of the meadow.

t Paup-mun-nueks WAfi- the Sachem of Masapee, now called Marshpee, the easterly part

of Sandwich and the westerly and central parts of Barnstable. He ever lived on friendly

terms with the whites: For several years this ancient and once powerful sagamore resided

in the immediate vicinity of Roger Goodspeed."

398 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.

man, after due consideration, he acknowledged that he "had no

just cause, soe to say, and -was sorry for soe saying, and desired

Mr. Jenkins to pass it by."

He died in 1685, and his wife Alice in 1689. In her will

dated Jan. 10, 1688, and proved Sept. 4, 1689, she names her

son John whom she cuts off with a shilling ; her daughter Ruth

Davis, to whom she gives 40 shillings, a brass kettle, and half

her wearing apparel ; to her daughter Elizabeth, then unmarried,

£20, and the other half of her wearing apparel ; to her daughter-

in-law Lydia, wife of her son Ebenezer, one colt and one gown ;

to her grandson Benjamin, son of Ebenezer, 1 colt ; and to her

son Ebenezer, her dwelling-house, and all her other estate.

Roger Goodspeed left no will. He divided his large landed es-

tate to his children by deeds, and the agreement above referred to

executed during his lifetime. He married Alice Layton Dec. 1,

1641. Children born in Barnstable :

2. I. Nathaniel, 6th October, 1642, (see below.)

3. II. John, June 1645, (see below.)

4. III. Mary, July 1647, married, 14th Dec. 1664, Samuel

Hinckley.

5. IV. Benjamin, 6th Mav, 1649, (see below.)

6. V. Ruth, 10th April, "^1652, married, 2d Feb. 1674-5,

John Davis, Jr.

7. VI. Ebenezer, Dec. 1655, (see below.)

8. VII. Elizabeth, 1st May, 1658, (unmarried 1688.)

1. Nathaniel Goodspeed, son of Roger, married Nov. 1666,

Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. John Bursley. He died June, 1670,

and his widow married Oct. 1675, Increase Clap. He had two

children born in Barnstable, namely :

9. I. Mary, born 18th Feb. 1667-8.

10. II. Nathaniel, probably. Another child beside Mary is

mentioned in the settlement of the father's estate.

Nathaniel Goodspeed is also named several times on the

town records. After 1703 his name disappears, and a

Nathaniel Goodspeed, who married Sarah, appears at

Rochester, and had a family born from 1706 to 1713.

2. John Goodspeed, son of Roger, resided at Mistick. He

died in 1719, aged 74, and names in his will his wife Experience,

sons John and Benjamin ; daughters Mary, Rose and Bathsheba,

grand-daughter Ruth, daughter of his son Samuel, deceased. He

left a large estate. He married 9th Jan. 1668, Experience Hol-

way, and had :

11. I. Mary or Mercy, 18 Feb. 1669.

12. II. Samuel, 23d June, 1670, died before his father. He

married, and had a daughter Ruth living in 1719.

13. III. John, 1st June, 1673, (see below.)

14. IV. Experience, 14th Sept. 1676, not living in 1718.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 399

15. V. Benjamin, 31st March, 1679, (see below.)

16. VI. Rose, 20th Feb. 1680-1, married, July 10, 1700,

Isaac Jennings, of Sandwich. Died Dee. 21,' 1721.

17. VII. Bathsheba, 17th Feb. 1683.

2) 6665. Elizabeth Bursley was born on 15 Mar 1649 at Barnstable, Barnstable Co, MA. She married Nathaniel Goodspeed, son of Roger Goodspeed and Alice Layton, in Nov 1666 at Misteake, MA. She married Increase Clapp, son of Dea. Thomas Clapp and Jane Martin, on 3 Oct 1675 at Barnstable, Barnstable Co, MA. She died on 26 Jan 1706/7 at age 57.

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"Roger was born at Wingrave, county Bucks, England.1

     Roger Goodspeed of Barnstable in Plymouth Colony, the immigrant ancestor of the American Goodspeeds, was born probably at Wingrave, Co. Bucks, and died in testate. As stated his father in his will dated 15 Sept. 1658 bequeathed to him and to his brothers Bennett and Thomas 6£ 13s 4d each, if they or any of them return from beyond the seas within ten years after their fathers decease. He came to Barnstable in 1639, and in 1643 was on the list of those able to bear arms. His wife was admitted to the church 31 Dec. 1643, and he was admitted to the church 28 July 1644.

Roger was indiscreet enough on one occasion to get himself into rather serious trouble, as shown by the following complaint and proceedings on the records of Plymouth Colony:
"John Jenkins, of Barnstable, [who we are also related to] complained against Roger Goodspeed in an action of defamation to the damage of fifty pound, in his charging of the said complainant to be a lyer, and that he had stolen his kidd, biding all the people there to take notice thereof; this being on a lecter day, in September last, in the publicke meeting house there, before sundry people.
The jury find for the plaintiff twenty pounds damage, and the coste of the suite, or an acknowledgement to the satisfaction of the Court, and the coste of the suite."
Roger accepted the alternative as shown by the following entry taken from the same record:
"THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ROGER GOODSPEED"
"These are to certify whom it may concern, That what words passed from mee, Roger Goodspeed, att the meeting house att Barnstable concerning John Jenkins, his stealing my kidd and lying, were rash, unadvised aand inconsiderate words; and upon due consideration I see I had noe cause soe to say, and ame sorry for soe saying, and desire him to passe it by.
Roger Goodspeed X his mark"
A marginal note in the records states, "This was ended by acknowledgement." It may not be out of place in this connection to say Roger exhibited more courage than discretion. It required considerable "nerve" to openly charge a neighbor with theft and falsehood on a lecture day before all the people. He must have been both corageous and physically strong or Jenkins would then and there have resented the impeachment.
He was the son of Robert Goodspeed and Alice Harris. He married Alice Layton on 1 December 1641 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.2,3 Roger died in 1685.1

Citations

  1. [S70] NEHGR, "unknown short article title", vol 82 pg 452.

2. [S70] NEHGR, "unknown short article title", vol 82 pg 452,.
3. [S170] NE Marriages Prior, Torrey, Clarence A. , pg 311."
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Goodspeed history:

1. This entry was taken from my 1st Cousin Mary Francis Goodspeed's family information on Ancestry.com

Roger GOODSPEED. Born at Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England; son of Robert GOODSPEED [F3] and Alice HARRIS. He arrived in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts in 1639. He married Alice LAYTON on 1 December 1641 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. In 1643 was on the list of those able to bear arms. His wife was admitted to the church 31 Dec. 1643, and he was admitted to the church 28 July 1644. His father, in his will dated 15 September 1658, bequeathed to him and to his brothers Bennett and Thomas 6£ 13s 4d each, if they or any of them return from beyond the seas within ten years after their fathers decease. Roger was indiscreet enough on one occasion to get himself into rather serious trouble, as shown by the following complaint and proceedings on the records of Plymouth Colony: "John Jenkins, of Barnstable, [who we are also related to] complained against Roger Goodspeed in an action of defamation to the damage of fifty pound, in his charging of the said complainant to be a lyer, and that he had stolen his kidd, biding all the people there to take notice thereof; this being on a lecter day, in September last, in the publicke meeting house there, before sundry people. The jury find for the plaintiff twenty pounds damage, and the coste of the suite, or an acknowledgement to the satisfaction of the Court, and the coste of the suite." Roger accepted the alternative as shown by the following entry taken from the same record: "THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ROGER GOODSPEED." "These are to certify whom it may concern, That what words passed from mee, Roger Goodspeed, att the meeting house att Barnstable concerning John Jenkins, his stealing my kidd and lying, were rash, unadvised aand inconsiderate words; and upon due consideration I see I had noe cause soe to say, and ame sorry for soe saying, and desire him to passe it by. Roger Goodspeed X his mark." A marginal note in the records states, "This was ended by acknowledgement." It may not be out of place in this connection to say Roger exhibited more courage than discretion. It required considerable "nerve" to openly charge a neighbor with theft and falsehood on a lecture day before all the people. He must have been both corageous and physically strong or Jenkins would then and there have resented the impeachment. He died in 1685 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. CHILDREN: Nathaniel GOODSPEED [F43], John GOODSPEED [F9], Mary GOODSPEED [F44], Benjamin GOODSPEED [F45], Ruth GOODSPEED [F46], Ebenezer GOODSPEED [F5], Elizabeth GOODSPEED [F37]. {S2a, S2e, S2f, S4, S15}.

16Marfy38added this on 26 Jan 2010

2. This entry was taken from Jonathan Goodspeed's (I assume a relative) profile fro Roger Goodspeed here on Geni:

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 397

http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028819212/cu31924028819212_djv...

"Before the year 1653, Roger Goodspeed removed from Goodspeed's Hill to the Indian village of Mistick or Misteake, now known by the more modern and perhaps more euphoneous name of Marston's Mills. I' think he was the first of the whites who settled in that part of the town.

His six acre houselot then was bounded southerly by the land of the Indian Sachem Paup-mun-nucks^t ^"d westerly by Oyster River. On the north of this lot he owned a neck of land containing sixteen acres. In 1665 he bought forty acres of land adjoining the Oyster River and the Indian pond of Thomas Allyn.

In 1667 the town granted him sixteen acres adjoining his house-lot. He also owned meadows in that vicinity. In 1659 he purchased a tract of land of Dea. John Cooper at the east of Cooper's Pond.

April 6, 1678, he conveyed all his lands and meadows at

South Sea to his sons John and Ebenezer, excepting six acres, on the condition that they support him and his wife Alice during their natural lives. This instrument is on record, and is very carefully drawn. It is signed with his mark.

He joined the church in Barnstable July 28, 1644, his wife Alice having joined on 31 of the preceding December. He was admitted a freeman of the Colony June 5, 1651, and was on the grand jury that year. He was a farmer or planter, and had enjoyed no advantages for obtaining an education. He appears to have been an exemplary member of the Christian church, and to

have lived, except on one occasion, a quiet and inoffensive life.

In 1672, at the Meeting House in Barnstable, he charged John Jenkins with having stolen his kid and lying ; but like an honest...(?)

The town of Barnstable has no right to remove the pound, without the assent of the holders of said meadow. If the town should order its removal without such assent the

latter would be relieved from all obligation to maintain a pound in another place, and could not be dispossessed of said meadows.

June 1, 1688. l^e grass that grows on the Pound Meadows was granted to James Lewis and Nathaniel Bacon, for so long a time as they shall maintain a pound for the town's use and no longer. The meadows were not granted, only the right to cut the "common thatch, goose grass or sedge that grows upon them.*' This is a nice distinction but the language used shows the intention of the parties. Lewis and Bacon admitted four others

as pai*tners and the meadows were divided into six lots, and the maintenance of certain portions of the pound fence was assi^ed to each lot. In 1778 some of the partners neglected to put up their particular portion of the fence and the town was indicted. That matter was settled, the partners found that they were oblij?ed to put up the fence, and did so. Recently they have again neglected to keep the fence in repair and the town has taken possession of the meadows. This the town had an undoubted right to do ; but a question arises whether or not those partners who have maintained their particular portions of the fence can be deprived of the use of the meadows. On the other hand, it is said that the

fjirant was made as a whole, that the division was a subsequent arrangement not binding on the town.

The latter is the common sense view of the question. A quadrangular piece of land fenced on three sides ie not a "pound for the town's use." Either of the partners had the same right that the town had. He could have put up the fence and claimed the delinquent's share of the meadow.

t Paup-mun-nueks WAfi- the Sachem of Masapee, now called Marshpee, the easterly part of Sandwich and the westerly and central parts of Barnstable. He ever lived on friendly terms with the whites: For several years this ancient and once powerful sagamore resided

in the immediate vicinity of Roger Goodspeed."

398 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.

man, after due consideration, he acknowledged that he "had no just cause, soe to say, and -was sorry for soe saying, and desired Mr. Jenkins to pass it by."

He died in 1685, and his wife Alice in 1689. In her will

dated Jan. 10, 1688, and proved Sept. 4, 1689, she names her son John whom she cuts off with a shilling ; her daughter Ruth Davis, to whom she gives 40 shillings, a brass kettle, and half her wearing apparel ; to her daughter Elizabeth, then unmarried, £20, and the other half of her wearing apparel ; to her daughter- in-law Lydia, wife of her son Ebenezer, one colt and one gown ;

to her grandson Benjamin, son of Ebenezer, 1 colt ; and to her son Ebenezer, her dwelling-house, and all her other estate.

Roger Goodspeed left no will. He divided his large landed estate to his children by deeds, and the agreement above referred to executed during his lifetime. He married Alice Layton Dec. 1, 1641.

Children born in Barnstable :

2. I. Nathaniel, 6th October, 1642, (see below.)

3. II. John, June 1645, (see below.)

4. III. Mary, July 1647, married, 14th Dec. 1664, Samuel

Hinckley.

5. IV. Benjamin, 6th Mav, 1649, (see below.)

6. V. Ruth, 10th April, "^1652, married, 2d Feb. 1674-5,

John Davis, Jr.

7. VI. Ebenezer, Dec. 1655, (see below.)

8. VII. Elizabeth, 1st May, 1658, (unmarried 1688.)

1. Nathaniel Goodspeed, son of Roger, married Nov. 1666, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. John Bursley. He died June, 1670, and his widow married Oct. 1675, Increase Clap. He had two children born in Barnstable, namely :

9. I. Mary, born 18th Feb. 1667-8.

10. II. Nathaniel, probably. Another child beside Mary is

mentioned in the settlement of the father's estate.

Nathaniel Goodspeed is also named several times on the

town records. After 1703 his name disappears, and a

Nathaniel Goodspeed, who married Sarah, appears at

Rochester, and had a family born from 1706 to 1713.

2. John Goodspeed, son of Roger, resided at Mistick. He

died in 1719, aged 74, and names in his will his wife Experience, sons John and Benjamin ; daughters Mary, Rose and Bathsheba, grand-daughter Ruth, daughter of his son Samuel, deceased. He left a large estate. He married 9th Jan. 1668, Experience Holway, and had :

11. I. Mary or Mercy, 18 Feb. 1669.

12. II. Samuel, 23d June, 1670, died before his father. He

married, and had a daughter Ruth living in 1719.

13. III. John, 1st June, 1673, (see below.)

14. IV. Experience, 14th Sept. 1676, not living in 1718.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 399

15. V. Benjamin, 31st March, 1679, (see below.)

16. VI. Rose, 20th Feb. 1680-1, married, July 10, 1700,

Isaac Jennings, of Sandwich. Died Dee. 21,' 1721.

17. VII. Bathsheba, 17th Feb. 1683.

2) 6665. Elizabeth Bursley was born on 15 Mar 1649 at Barnstable, Barnstable Co, MA. She married Nathaniel Goodspeed, son of Roger Goodspeed and Alice Layton, in Nov 1666 at Misteake, MA. She married Increase Clapp, son of Dea. Thomas Clapp and Jane Martin, on 3 Oct 1675 at Barnstable, Barnstable Co, MA. She died on 26 Jan 1706/7 at age 57.

http://www.ingersoll.net/ancestor.htm

"Roger was born at Wingrave, county Bucks, England.1

Roger Goodspeed of Barnstable in Plymouth Colony, the immigrant ancestor of the American Goodspeeds, was born probably at Wingrave, Co. Bucks, and died in testate. As stated his father in his will dated 15 Sept. 1658 bequeathed to him and to his brothers Bennett and Thomas 6£ 13s 4d each, if they or any of them return from beyond the seas within ten years after their fathers decease. He came to Barnstable in 1639, and in 1643 was on the list of those able to bear arms. His wife was admitted to the church 31 Dec. 1643, and he was admitted to the church 28 July 1644.

Roger was indiscreet enough on one occasion to get himself into rather serious trouble, as shown by the following complaint and proceedings on the records of Plymouth Colony:

"John Jenkins, of Barnstable, [who we are also related to] complained against Roger Goodspeed in an action of defamation to the damage of fifty pound, in his charging of the said complainant to be a lyer, and that he had stolen his kidd, biding all the people there to take notice thereof; this being on a lecter day, in September last, in the publicke meeting house there, before sundry people.

The jury find for the plaintiff twenty pounds damage, and the coste of the suite, or an acknowledgement to the satisfaction of the Court, and the coste of the suite."

Roger accepted the alternative as shown by the following entry taken from the same record:

"THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ROGER GOODSPEED"

"These are to certify whom it may concern, That what words passed from mee, Roger Goodspeed, att the meeting house att Barnstable concerning John Jenkins, his stealing my kidd and lying, were rash, unadvised aand inconsiderate words; and upon due consideration I see I had noe cause soe to say, and ame sorry for soe saying, and desire him to passe it by.

Roger Goodspeed X his mark"

A marginal note in the records states, "This was ended by acknowledgement." It may not be out of place in this connection to say Roger exhibited more courage than discretion. It required considerable "nerve" to openly charge a neighbor with theft and falsehood on a lecture day before all the people. He must have been both courageous and physically strong or Jenkins would then and there have resented the impeachment.

He was the son of Robert Goodspeed and Alice Harris. He married Alice Layton on 1 December 1641 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.2,3 Roger died in 1685.1

Citations

1. [S70] NEHGR, "unknown short article title", vol 82 pg 452.

2. [S70] NEHGR, "unknown short article title", vol 82 pg 452,.

3. [S170] NE Marriages Prior, Torrey, Clarence A. , pg 311."

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Roger Goodspeed's Timeline

1611
November 20, 1611
Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England (United Kingdom)
1640
1640
Age 28
Banestable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
1642
October 6, 1642
Barnstable, Plymouth Colony
1645
June 15, 1645
Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
1647
July 1, 1647
Barnstable, Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony
1649
May 6, 1649
Barnstable, MA, United States
1652
April 10, 1652
Marston Mills, near, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
1655
December 31, 1655
Barnstable, (Present Barnstable County), Plymouth Colony (Present Massachusetts), (Present USA)
1658
May 1, 1658
Barnstable, MA, United States