Samuel Goode, Jr

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12 Jan 1746 - Samuel Goode, (p. 234) 302a, Brunswick Co., on the heads of the br. Of Blenstone Cr. And Possom Quarter, at William Hayward’s c., Ravenscroft line, Edmond’s c., Cargill’s c., Hayward’s line, (p. 235) 12 Jan 1746.

“Virginia Land Patent Book 25, Pages 1-288,” Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, 1 May 1990, p. 130

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1749 Lunenburg County, Virginia List of Tithes - Jno Goode, Magnes Goode, Samuel Goode, William Goode

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Samuel Goode, 400 acs. Lunenburg Co. on both sides of a Br. Of Maherrin Riv.; adj. Cox, Evans & Marrable; 19 Aug 1758, p. 467. 40 Shill.

“Virginia Land Patent Book 33” Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXXII, No. 3, 1 Aug 1994, p. 246

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1782 Continental Census, Prince Edward, Virginia - Samuel Goode, 3 white souls, 1 dwelling, 4 other bldgs., p. 101

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Heads of Families, Virginia, 1783 - Prince Edward County - Samuel Goode, 3 white, 8 black

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Heads of Families, Virginia, 1785 - Prince Edward County - Samuel Goode, 9 whites, 1 dwelling, 3 other buildings

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His sons (Samuel, William, Mackerness, Philip, and John) moved after Samuel’s death in 1735, speculating in land at Bluestone Creek in Mecklenburg Co., near the Charlotte Co. line. By the 1750s they moved across the Roanoke River to the counties later designated as Charlotte and Prince Edward (Source: Richard Bland of Richmond, VA 9/18/01).

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In 1730 Samuel Goode owned 1,800 acres in Clover Hill, Chesterfield, Virginia, bounded on the west by the Appomattox River, the property of Francis Eppes on the east, and Richard Womack to the south (Source: Richard Bland of Richmond, Virginia, 9/18/01).

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1 May 1749 - Chesterfield County, Virginia formed from Henrico County.

1746/7 January 12, William Ligon obtained a patent for 800 acres in Amelia (now Prince Edward) County. The tract included 400 acres previously granted Peter Jefferson [3324.4.1.2]. The land was on both sides of Saylers Creek. He sold 48 acres of this land to Samuel Goode of Nottoway Parish on 23 April 1751, for £15. Goode bought the remainder of the tract nine years later in October 1760 when it then lay in Prince Edward County. On 16 May 1746, William bought 400 acres on Saylers Creek from Alexander Spiers for £120. Spiers had bought the land from Thomas Osborne V [O.1.1.1.1] in 1742.

Samuel Goode held 302 acres in Brunswick (now Lunenburg), Virginia in 1746, 400 acres in Lunenburg in 1758, and 400 acres in Prince Edward in 1760 (Virginia County Records, VII, Prince Edward County, Book 34, p. 573).

Samuel Goode was of Prince Edward when Thomas Osborne sold him 53 acres there on Childers Branch in 1764.

The two generations that lived in Prince Edward County lived near the juncture of Prince Edward with Amelia and Cumberland counties (Kentucky Cousins, p. 47).

The family of Samuel Goode II resided from the 1760s to the 1780s in present-day Lockett, Prince Edward, Virginia, very near the Amelia and Nottoway County lines and Sailors or Saylors Creek (Source: Richard Bland of Richmond, Virgnia, 9/18/01). In the war between the States, the last Virginia battle was fought there in 1865.

The Samuel who moved to Prince Edward County might well have been Samuel III, rather than Samuel II. The similarity of names makes tracing of families 300 years back difficult if not impossible. G. Brown Goode estimated that Samuel II was born around 1707 (unpublished revisions to Virginia Cousins, Library of Congress). If that were true, his father would have been around 60 years of age when his first child was born, and this is not very likely. My guess is that two Samuels have been telescoped into one -- that Samuel I fathered Samuel II around 1675 and then Samuel II fathered Samuel III, who was our first Prince Edward county forbear. This would help to account for the some 4000 acres of land held by Samuel Goodes at about 1730. In other words, there could have been three of our Samuel Goode forbears with land at the same time in Chesterfield and Henrico counties (Kentucky Cousins, pp. 47-48).

Samuel Goode inherited 300 acres in Henrico County on the north side of Appomattox River on Middle Creek from his father in 1734. It was probably he who in 1730 had received a grant of 400 acres in Henrico County (Virginia Land Register, book xxiv, p. 573) about the time of his coming of age (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

In 1742 he began to extend his possessions across the Appomattox, and bought from Thomas Jones of Amelia County - probably a cousin - 300 acres on both sides of Horsepen Branch near Benjamin Ward, and Joseph Wilkinson for which he paid 30 pounds (Amelia County Deed Book I, p. 268). This was only five or six miles from his home in Henrico County (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

In 1743 he bought from Judah Israel of Amelia a tract of 135 acres a few miles further up the Appomattox, on the south side of Smacks Creek, at the point where it enters the river. For this plantation, which had been a grant of the Crown to William Shannon, he paid 18.13 pounds (Amelia County Deed Book II, p. 2), (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

It was on this land that he settled in 1743-1744, for in the following year he sold to Charles Cheatham, for 35 pounds the 300-acre plantation in Horsepen Branch. In October 1743 he was described as of Henrico, in July 1744 as of Amelia County (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

This locality is close to Goodes Bridge across the Appomattox for more than a century the principal crossing place on the wagon roads from Richmond to Amelia County and southwest Virginia. It is believed that Samuel Goode built this bridge about this time (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

In 1745 and 1746 he appears to have been living in Brunswick County. In the latter year he received a grant of 302 acres in that county (Virginia Land Register, book xxv, p. 233) and in 1745 sold 300 acres in Horsepen Branch to William Watkins of Henrico County for 45 pounds and 5 shillings, already referred to as sold to Cheatham in 1744, but which appears to have fallen again into his hands. In the deed he is described as “Samuel Goode of Brunswick” so that there can be no doubt of his identity (Amelia County Deed Book II, p. 87) (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

In 1748 he returned to Amelia County and bought large tracts in its frontier portion, in the region which was to become Prince Edward County, and where he appears to have settled down at the age of about forty to stay the last 50 years of his life (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

September 16, 1748 he bought 1700 acres in Raleigh Parish, Amelia County on both sides of Saylors Creek from Alexander Spears for 200 pounds (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

February 2, 1750 he bought 400 acres adjoining the property of Scott, Collins and Williamson on Spring Creek from Thomas Williamson: John Childress, Abraham Womach and Philemon Holcombe witnesses (Kentucky Cousins, p. 63).

April 23, 1751 he bought 48 acres adjoining property of Spears, Jefferson and Hooper on Great Saylors Creek from William Ligon of Nottaway Parish, Amelia County for 15 pounds (Kentucky Cousins, p. 63).

May 23, 1752 he sold 449 acres on the lower side of Saylors Creek - part of the tract he had bought from Spears in 1748 (commonly known as Lick Branch which John Goode purchased in 1750) - to Graham Johnson for 45 pounds (Kentucky Cousins, p. 63).

These purchases were about twenty miles to the west of Goodes Bridge. In the transactions which took place 1751-1752, Samuel Goode is described as of Nottoway Parish, Amelia County, although the Saylors Creek tract was in Raleigh Parish, and later in St. Patrick’s Parish, Prince Edward County (Kentucky Cousins, p. 63).

Samuel II or III was living in the county before Prince Edward was formed. The first date we have was 1751, when he was directed to survey, construct, and maintain the section of road between Sailor's Creek and Sandy Creek (Kentucky Cousins, p. 48).

Samuel Goode was neighbors with Patrick Henry in Prince Edward County, after the latter retired from the governorship of Virginia in 1786. He could have also been a neighbor of Thomas Jefferson's father, Peter Jefferson, who obtained land on Sailor's Creek in 1734 (Kentucky Cousins, p. 48).

Although not named to the first court, Samuel Goode appears to have been prominent in early Prince Edward County. In 1757, for example, he was listed as an ensign in the county militia. The court directed him, as a member of a committee, to bring 18 "idle and dissolute" men to the court as possible draftees for service in the French and Indian War (Kentucky Cousins, p. 50).

Our Samuel was elected in 1755 to serve as one of the twelve members of the first vestry, along with Charles Venable, the father of our John Collier Goode's first wife. The vestry was apparently almost as important as the court. They took care of the needy and sick, if there were no relatives to look after them; they were responsible for binding out orphans to be cared for and to learn a trade; and they were responsible for processioning (surveying) the boundaries of all land holdings (Kentucky Cousins, pp. 50-51).

There are other indications of Samuel's prominence in the affairs of Prince Edward County. In 1757, the vestry named him as one of a four-man committee to look over possible sites for a 3000-acre glebe for the parish's minister (Kentucky Cousins, p. 51).

Page 28: Indenture 3 Oct 1760, between William Ligon of Amelia, grantor, and Samuel Goode of Prince Edward for 355 pounds; 752 acres on west side of Saylor's Creek. His wife Ann waives dower rights (Part II, The Ligon Family in America, Chapter XVII, p. 386)

He was appointed, along with John Watkins, in 1763, to procession all land below Bush River from the mouth of Ash's Mill, from the old road from the mill to Sailor's Creek, by the creek, and the Appomatox River. Processioning (determining boundaries) was required by law to be done every four years and was a function of the parish. Since this operation affected the claimed land holdings of people, I should assume that the most respected and reliable citizens were selected for it (Kentucky Cousins, p. 52).

Samuel's property must have been extensive. At his death he distributed 400 acres of land. The census for 1782 recorded his family as including three members. One of his eight children no doubt was still at home at that time. He was recorded as owning eight slaves and four buildings in his plantation besides the dwelling. His will in 1797 divided 18 slaves among his heirs in addition to those he had already given to various children; the difference could be accounted for by the 15-year time span. The same census reported another Samuel Goode with a family of nine and eight slaves; Robert Goode with a family of eleven and ten slaves; and Philip Goode with a family of five and 18 slaves. These were probably Samuel's sons, all of whom lived nearby. We are descended through him through Robert (Kentucky Cousins, p. 52).

Other members of the family probably lived in the county, so the other Samuel could have been a cousin or nephew. There was a Mackarness Goode in the county in 1765 and 1767. In 1765 he was the surety for Robert Goode's marriage bond. At this time, Robert's brother Mackarness was too young to serve in that capacity, so this Mackarness must have been his uncle or cousin (Kentucky Cousins, p. 52).

G. Brown Goode listed Samuel's wife as a Miss Burwell, but in Perrin's History of Kentucky (1886, p. 891), the biography of Samuel Goode listed her as a Mrs. John Burwell. A notation in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) files in Washington lists her as Susannah Burwell. The Perrin account would suggest she was a widow at the time she married Samuel; if G. Brown Goode and the DAR notations are correct, she could have been the daughter of John Burwell. I am inclined to believe that her maiden name was Burwell since several of Samuel's descendants were given the name of Burwell. Samuel's son, Samuel, named one of his sons Burwell, and at least two of this Samuel's grandsons carried the name (Kentucky Cousins, pp. 52-53).

Samuel Goode inherited 300 acres in Henrico County on the north side of Appomattox River on Middle Creek from his father in 1734. It was probably he who in 1730 had received a grant of 400 acres in Henrico County (Virginia Land Register, book xxiv, p. 573) about the time of his coming of age (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

In 1742 he began to extend his possessions across the Appomattox, and bought from Thomas Jones of Amelia County - probably a cousin - 300 acres on both sides of Horsepen Branch near Benjamin Ward, and Joseph Wilkinson for which he paid 30 pounds (Amelia County Deed Book I, p. 268). This was only five or six miles from his home in Henrico County (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

In 1743 he bought from Judah Israel of Amelia a tract of 135 acres a few miles further up the Appomattox, on the south side of Smacks Creek, at the point where it enters the river. For this plantation, which had been a grant of the Crown to William Shannon, he paid 18.13 pounds (Amelia County Deed Book II, p. 2) (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

It was on this land that he settled in 1743-1744, for in the following year he sold to Charles Cheatham, for 35 pounds the 300-acre plantation in Horsepen Branch. In October 1743 he was described as of Henrico, in July 1744 as of Amelia County (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

This locality is close to Goodes Bridge across the Appomattox for more than a century the principal crossing place on the wagon roads from Richmond to Amelia County and southwest Virginia. It is believed that Samuel Goode built this bridge about this time (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

In 1745 and 1746 he appears to have been living in Brunswick County. In the latter year he received a grant of 302 acres in that county (Virginia Land Register, book xxv, p. 233) and in 1745 sold 300 acres in Horsepen Branch to William Watkins of Henrico County for 45 pounds and 5 shillings, already referred to as sold to Cheatham in 1744, but which appears to have fallen again into his hands. In the deed he is described as "Samuel Goode of Brunswick" so that there can be no doubt of his identity (Amelia County Deed Book II, p. 87) (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

In 1748 he returned to Amelia County and bought large tracts in its frontier portion, in the region which was to become Prince Edward County, and here he appears to have settled down at the age of about forty to stay the last 50 years of his life (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

September 16, 1748 he bought 1700 acres in Raleigh Parish, Amelia County on both sides of Saylors Creek from Alexander Spears for 200 pounds (Kentucky Cousins, p. 62).

February 2, 1750 he bought 400 acres adjoining the property of Scott, Collins and Williamson on Spring Creek from Thomas Williamson, Witnesses: John Childress, Abraham Womach and Philemon Holcombe. (Kentucky Cousins, p. 63).

April 23, 1751 he bought 48 acres adjoining property of Spears, Jefferson and Hooper on Great Saylors Creek from William Ligon of Nottaway Parish, Amelia County for 15 pounds (Kentucky Cousins, p. 63).

May 23, 1752 he sold 449 acres on the lower side of Saylors Creek - part of the tract he had bought from Spears in 1748 (commonly known as Lick Branch which John Goode purchased in 1750) - to Graham Johnson for 45 pounds (Kentucky Cousins, p. 63).

These purchases were about twenty miles to the west of Goodes Bridge. In the transactions which took place 1751-1752, Samuel Goode is described as of Nottoway Parish, Amelia County, although the Saylors Creek tract was in Raleigh Parish, and later in St. Patrick's Parish, Prince Edward County, (Kentucky Cousins, p. 63).

In 1760 Samuel Goode received a grant of 400 acres in Prince Edward County (Virginia Land Register, book xxiv, p. 573), bringing the total amount of his holdings to 1700 acres, much of which was forest, and the remainder devoted to tobacco planting (Kentucky Cousins, p. 63).

Samuel Goode Land Sale

This Indenture made this 28th day of July One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Four between Samuel Goode of Prince Edward County of the one part and John Ellington of Amelia County of the other part.

Witnesseth that the said Samuel GOODE for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and ninety pounds current money of Virginia to him in hand paid by the said John ELLINGTON the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge hath granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said John ELLINGTON one certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the county of Prince Edward containing by estimation four hundred acres, be the same more or less it being the land and plantation whereon the said Samuel GOODE now lives and is bounded by the lines of Jacob WADDILL, John ELLINGTON, William HUDSON, and Richard WADDILL. Together with all houses, woods, waters and water courses thereon, To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land and every part and parcel thereof unto the said John ELLINGTON his heirs and assigns forever, and the said Samuel GOODE doth for himself and his heirs, executors and administrators defend the said John ELLINGTON and his heirs against the claim of any person or persons whatsoever claiming any right to or in the afore mentioned land and premises. In witness whereof the said Samuel GOODE hath hereto set his hand the day and year above written. Saml GOODE SEAL Signed, Sealed and Delivered In Presence of John ELLINGTON, Frances OSBORNE, Thomas BEIDLE. At a court held for Prince Edward County August 1774 this deed....from Samuel GOODE Junr to John Ellington was presented in court and proved by the witnesses thereto and Mary the wife of the said Samuel being privily examined relinquishing her right of dower to the land within mentioned and ordered to be recorded.

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1782 Continental Census, Prince Edward, Virginia - Samuel Goode, 3 white souls, 1 dwelling, 4 other bldgs., p. 101

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Heads of Families, Virginia, 1783 - Prince Edward County - Samuel Goode, 3 white, 8 black

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Henings Volume XI page 250 May 7, 1783

I. Whereas extending the navigation of the river Roanoke from the falls, upwards to the fork of Staunton and Dan Rivers, and up the said rivers Staunton and Dan to the head thereof, will be of great benefit and advantage, as well to the inhabitants of the interior part of this state as to the public in general, and it is represented to this present general assembly that many persons are willing and desirous to subscribe and contribute thereto, for the encouragement thereof: For such laudable and useful undertaking,

II. Be it enacted by the present General Assembly, That Patrick Henry, Paul Carrington, Joel Watkins, Isaac Coles, Samuel Goode, Robert Wooding, James Callaway , Charles Lynch, Henry Walker, Robert Adams, John Wilson, Peter Perkins, William Harrison, John Marr and Edward Moseley, gentlemen, be, and they are hereby nominated, constituted, and appointed, trustees, for clearing so much of the said rives as shall be within this state; and they are hereby respectively authorized and empowered to take and receive subscriptions for that purpose; and if any person or persons shall neglect, fail, or refuse to pay the several sums of money respectively subscribed, for the purpose of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the said trustees respectively, or undertaker, to sue for and recover the same, in the name of the trustees, or undertaker for clearing the rivers, whereof they are by this act respectively appointed trustees; by petition where the subscription shall not exceed five pounds, and where the same shall be above that sum, by action of debt.

(Note III, IV, V, VI describes their duties and replacement in case of death, etc.)

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Will of Samuel Goode (1700-1797), written 19 Aug 1796 and recorded 18 Dec 1797, in Prince Edward County, Virginia.

In the name of God Amen! I, Samuel Goode, of the County of Prince Edward, being at this time of sound mind and memory, and recollecting the mortality of my body, do make, ordain and constitute my last will and testament in manner and form following:

Imprimis, I give to my son Robert, a negro boy named Isham and a Negro girl named Lucy, which negroes, them and their increase, I give to him and his heirs forever.

Item, My will and desire is to give to my son, Phillip Good, my negroes, Frank, Rachel, and Hezekiah, provided he will pay one hundred pounds in gold or silver, which money I desire to be equally divided among my grandchildren, the sons and daughters of Mackerness Goode, dec'd; but in case Rachel and Hezekiah should all be sold together in my family, and the money arising from such sale be equally divided among my grandchildren, the sons and daughters of Mackerness Goode, dec'd, as before mentioned.

Item, I give to my son, Phillip Goode, all the Negroes which he had of me, being now in his possession; them and their increase I give to him and his heirs forever.

Item, I lend to my daughter, Prudence Moorman, a negro woman named Lydda and a negro girl named Lydda during her natural life, and after her death to be equally divided between my two granddaughters, Susanna Moorman and Kitty Jones Moorman, which negroes, and what they hereafter increase I give to them and their heirs forever.

Item, I lend to my granddaughter, Susanna Crenshaw, daughter of Sarah Barksdale, dec'd, four negroes, namely, a negro woman named Hannah, a negro woman named Lueisa, a negro boy named Spencer, and a negro boy Jack during her natural life, and after her decease to leave the said negroes to be equally divided among all her children as they arrive to the age of twenty-one or marry; but if they should die before they arrive to that age or marry, I give and bequeath the said Negroes and their increase to be equally divided between my grandchildren, the sons and daughters of Sarah Barksdale, dec'd, namely Lucy Tate, Sarah Barksdale, William Barksdale and Grief Barksdale, to them and their heirs forever.

Item, I give and bequeath to my great-granddaugter, Sally Mackerness Tate, daughter of my granddaughter, Lucy Tate, a negro girl named Polly, and whatsoever increase she may hereafter have, to her and her heirs forever.

Item, My will and desire is that my grandson John C. Goode, son of Robert Goode, should have the use and benefit of the houses, land and plantation whereon I now live until the expiration of the year 1797.

Item, I give and bequeath to my son-in-law, William P. Daniel, the plantation whereon I now live, and all my land adjoining thereto, except half an acre reserved for a burying place, to him and his heirs forever, reserving to my grandson, John C. Goode, the use and benefit of houses, land and plantation till the expiration of the year 1797.

Item, I lend to my daughter, Ann Daniel, the following negroes during her natural life, namely, a negro man named Isaac, a negro woman named Dilsy, a Negro woman named Phillis, and what they have already increased, or shall hereafter increase, and after his death I leave them to be equally divided among all her children, which negroes are in possession of Wm. P. Daniel, them and their increase I give to them and their heirs forever. I also lend to my daughter, Ann Daniel, a negro woman named Nancy, and her child Franky, during her life, and after her death I leave them and their increase to be equally divided amongst all her children, which I give to them and their heirs forever.

Item, I give and bequeath to my grandson, John C. Goode, son of Robert Goode, a negro man named Jesse, to him and his heirs forever.

The remaining part of my estate, after my just debts are paid, I leave to be equally divided between my son Robert Goode, my daughter, Prudence Moorman, and my granddaughter, Nancy Goode, daughter of Samuel Goode, dec'd.

I do hereby appoint my son, Robert Goode, executor of this my last will and testament, revoking and disannulling all other wills by me heretofore made, acknowledging this and no other to be my last will and testament. In confirmation of the whole and every part of it I have hereto set my hand and seal this 19th day of August 1796.

Signed, sealed and acknowledged in the presence of John Crute, John Arms.

Samuel Goode

Source: Kentucky Cousins, Cecil Goode, p. 64

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Contributor: David Goode (49372965) - ddgoode@hotmail.com

Children

1. Mackerness Goode 1730–1786
2. Ann Goode Daniel 1737 – unknown
3. Prudence Goode Hendrick Moorman 1742 – unknown
4. Philip Goode 1743–1822
5. Sarah Goode Barksdale 1745–1775
6. Robert Goode 1745–1804
7. Samuel Goode 1749–1792