Thomas Gould, I

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Biography

Notables Project
Thomas Gould is Notable.
Thomas Gould was born, probably in England, about 1607 (testified 1652, age 45).[4][5]

Goold, Thomas (1607-27 Oct. 1675), founder of the first Baptist church in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was born in southern England, possibly in Hampshire or Wiltshire. A wagonmaker by trade, Goold immigrated to Massachusetts in 1639 with his wife, Hannah Miller, with whom he had three daughters. Goold and his wife became full members of the Congregational Church in Charlestown on 7 June 1640, and he became a freeman of the colony on 2 June 1641. By the time his wife Hannah died in 1647, Goold had leased the governor John Winthrop's Ten Hills Farm on the northern border of Charlestown, where he raised cattle. He married Mary Harwood, a widow from an established family, by 1654; together they had two children.

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Thomas Gould (abt. 1607 - bef. 1674)

Thomas Gould

Born about 1607 in England

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling%28s%29 unknown]

Husband of Hannah (Miller) Gould — married before 7 Jun 1640 in Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony

[uncertain]

Husband of Mary (unknown) Gould — married before 1654 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Father of Hannah (Gold) Eliot, Mary (Gould) Skinner and Mehitable (Gould) Gooding

Died before 30 Apr 1674 before about age 67 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Profile last modified 1 Dec 2023 | Created 24 Sep 2013

Thomas Gould migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The
Disputed Origin and Associations

Thomas Gould was reported the son of John Gould and Judith Marks (aka Judith Langley, Judith De Langley). This association was disputed and the association severed based on the supposed parents wills, 1633 and 1650--these wills mention no son Thomas. See Research Notes and G2G, "Proposal to sever Thomas Gould from parents."

His birth location was reported as "Herefordshire, England." This was added after he was attached to parents John and Judith, who were of Herefordshire. There is presumably no other contemporaneous source that, independent of these parents, suggests his birth there. At the time the parents were severed, his birth location was updated to "England."

An attached son Jacob Gould who was born Cambridge was not reported in the family of Thomas Gould of Charlestown.[1][2] He was otherwise reported the son of Thomas Gould, of Cambridge and Boston, and wife Mary.[3] These parent-child associations were updated in 2021. See Research Notes

Biography

Notables Project
Thomas Gould is Notable.
Thomas Gould was born, probably in England, about 1607 (testified 1652, age 45).[4][5]

Immigration

In a partial reconstruction of 1639 passenger lists, Thomas Gould of Charlestown was identified by Robert Charles Anderson in 2008 as having immigrated aboard the Jonathan.[6]

At Massachusetts Bay

Thomas Gould and his wife Hannah (possibly nee Miller) were admitted to the First Church of Charlestown on 7 day 4 mo 1640 [7 June 1640].[7] Their daughter Hannah was baptized there the following year, 11 (2) 1641 [11 April 1641].[8][9]

Thomas Gould was made a freeman, 2 June 1641.[10]

Thomas Gould died Boston, before 30 April 1674 (date will codicil proved).[11] See Research Notes

Will

Thomas Gould left an undated will, with a codicil dated 25 April 1674, proved 30 April 1674.[12] Wyman published an abstract of the will.[13]

Family

Thomas[14] married (1) Hannah, possibly Hannah Miller, who died 15 (3) 1647 [15 May 1647]; Wyman writes, "at Ten-hills farm (per Winthrop papers)."[15][16] Thomas married (2) before 1654, Mary _____,[17] possibly Mary Harris, the widow Hayward or Howard;[18]

Children born to Thomas and Hannah Gould,[19]

Hannah Gould, baptized Charlestown First Church, 11 (2) 1641 [11 April 1641]; married 1675 Thomas Elyot [Eliot].[20][21][22]
Mary Gould; married 1669, Thomas Skinner.[23][24]
Mehitable Gould; married James Gooding.[25]

Children of Thomas and Mary Gould,[26]

Elizabeth Gould, born about 1654 (age 17 in 1671).[27]
Samuel Gould.[28]

Research Notes

Disputed Parents, John and Judith Gould. Both Walter Goodwin Davis (1959) and Donald Lines Jacobus (1960) wrote about the family of John and Judith _____ Gould; both authors included abstracts of their wills. No son Thomas is mentioned in either will, and neither author otherwise associated a son Thomas with the family.

John Gould, of the parish of "Kinglangley" died in 1633, leaving a will that called out his wife, Judith, and children, John (eldest), Joseph, Sarah, Hannah, Mary, Sacheus [Zaccheus], Nathan, Abell, Lidia and Elizabeth.[29][30]

Widow Judith, "of King's Langley" married again, to John's second cousin, Simon Gold of Bovingdon.[31]

She died in 1650, leaving a will mentioning her children Abel, Lydia, Elizabeth, Hannah, and those at New England--Nathan and Sarah. She mention son Zacheus, deceased.[32][33]

Thomas Gould of Cambridge is different man. See Benjamin Apthorp Gould, The family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield (1895) for chapter about "Thomas Gould of Boston"; they have son Jacob Gould, born Cambridge 1643.[34] The author claimed Thomas of Cambridge arrived 1639 aboard Jonathan with wife Mary, but is disputed by by Anderson who identifies that passenger as Thomas of Charlestown.[35] See also Gould-[____] by 1639 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700; the only noted work consulted is "Gould, 346," which is the above noted 1895 work.[36]

See also, Jacob Gould 1643 birth record, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"; database, FamilySearch; reports parents Thomas Gould and Mary; cites Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 496,864.

Date of Death. Records of the First Baptist Church report his death 27 October 1675,[37] and the same date (or "Oct. 1675") appears in several entries within the Massachusetts vital records collection at Ancestry.com.[38][39] Wyman, however, reports about his undated will and 25 April 1674 codicil, proved 30 April 1674.[40] The recorded will and codicil are Suffolk Probate case 682; the dates on the codicil are clear,[41] thus Thomas Gould's date of death has been revised to "before 30 April 1674."

Elizabeth had an uncle, John Harris. About Thomas' daughter Elizabeth Gould, Thomas Bellows Wyman wrote that she "testified 1671, ae 17 yrs.; her uncle, John Harris, named in deposition."[42]

Stepson Nathaniel Hayward/Howard. Will of Thomas Gould mentions "sonn Nathaniell Hayward" (Wyman reported "Haywood" but the surname appears Hayward in the will on record.)[43][44] Nathaniel seems otherwise Nathaniel (Howard) Hayward (abt.1642-1710). Wyman profiled him as "Nathaniel Howard"; reports he was associated with the Baptists in 1669 and that he "bought of J. Gooding ..."[45]

Published profiles, other records about Thomas Gould of Charlestown.

Benjamin Apthorp Gould, The family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield (Lynn, Mass. : Thos. P. Nichols, 1895), 340-341 (Thomas Gould of Charlestown); digital images, Hathi Trust.
Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18); digital images, InternetArchive.
"Thomas Gould (Baptist)"; Wikipedia.
Charles H. Chandler and Sarah Fiske Lee, The history of New Ipswich, New Hampshire, 1735-1914 (Fitchburg MA : Sentinel Print. Co., 1914), 445 (Gould); digital image, Hathi Trust.
"The First Baptist Church of Boston since 1665"; web content, Baptist History Homepage.
High Street Baptist Church in Charleston, Ms., (Boston: Press of J. Howe, 1853), 3-4; digital images, InternetArchive.
See the lengthy 11 October 1665 court record in Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England.[46]
See the lengthy 27 May 1668 court order in Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England.[47]
New Item. Charleston Daily Mail (Charleston, West Virginia)[48] "...nearly all his possessions to the collecter, was forced to resign because of his Baptist doctrine. Kmos, Imprisonments and whlppings were imposed by the Puritans. Thomas Goold of Charlestown, who formed the first Baptist Church here, was disciplined because he refused to have his infant child Elizabeth Baptised."

Sources

↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18); digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Annie Haven Thwing, Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630–1800 ... (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society CD_ROM, 2014), page 9319 (Thomas Gould, 21893); digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
↑ Benjamin Apthorp Gould, The family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield (Lynn, Mass. : Thos. P. Nichols, 1895), 346 (Thomas Gould of Boston); digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Henry F. Waters, The Voyage of the Jonathan to New England, 1639" in "Passengers and Vessels that have arrived in America," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 32 (1878):407-411, especially 409 (testimony of Thomas Gould); digital image, InternetArchive.
↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, "Abstract of Middlesex court files from 1649" (unpublished) in Middlesex County, MA: Abstracts of Court Files, 1649–1675, multiple vols, 1:8; digital image by subscription, AmericanAncestors; testimony of 6 (2) 1652 [6 April 1652] by Thomas Gould.
↑ Citing "ChChR" and "NEHGR 32:409," Robert Charles Anderson, "List of Freemen, 2 June 1641," Great Migration Newsletter 17 (2008):19-22+, especially 21; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, detail regarding the Jonathan in 2013, see Robert Charles Anderson, "Voyage of the Jonathan, 1639," Great Migration Newsletter 22 (2013):1-2, 8, especially 8; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, cites "NEHGR 32:[408-]410."
↑ James F. Hunnewell, Records of the First Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1632-1789 (Boston., D. Clapp and Son, 1880), 10; digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Hannah Gold 1641 baptismal record, James F. Hunnewell, Records of the First Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1632-1789 (Boston., D. Clapp and Son, 1880), 50; digital images, InternetArchive; "2d mo. : day 11 [1641]; she is "daughter of Thomas Gold and of Hannah his wife.".
↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18); digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Citing "ChChR" and "NEHGR 32:409," Robert Charles Anderson, "List of Freemen, 2 June 1641," Great Migration Newsletter 17 (2008):19-22+, especially 21; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
↑ Thomas Gould, Gold, Goold, case 682; Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers, multiple vols, Cases 101999:682 (Thomas Gould); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
↑ Thomas Gould, Gold, Goold, case 682; Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers, multiple vols, Cases 101999:682 (Thomas Gould); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18); digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Annie Haven Thwing, Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630–1800 ... (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society CD_ROM, 2014), page 9319 (Thomas Gould, 21893); digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
↑ Without further reference, Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18); digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Anna Gould 1646 death entry, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"; digital image, FamilySearch; Charlestown Births, marriages, deaths 1629-1843 Vol 3. p. 522/523; marginal note reads, "Wife of John. Note: This death was the wife of Thomas Gould corroborated by Winthrop's History (Savage's 2nd Edition."
↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18); digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Calling her "Mary Unknown," Annie Haven Thwing, Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630–1800 ... (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society CD_ROM, 2014), page 9319 (Thomas Gould, 21893); digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors; author adds, "See Winthrop" without further reference.
↑ Based on the distribution of the children made by Benjamin Apthorp Gould, The family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield (Lynn, Mass. : Thos. P. Nichols, 1895), 341 (Thomas Gould of Charlestown); digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18); digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Hannah Gold 1641 baptismal record, James F. Hunnewell, Records of the First Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1632-1789 (Boston., D. Clapp and Son, 1880), 50; digital images, InternetArchive; "2d mo. : day 11 [1641]"; she is "daughter of Thomas Gold and of Hannah his wife."
↑ Hannah Gold 1641 baptism, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database (only), FamilySearch; citing FHL microfilm 0837130 IT 2; reports baptism at Charlestown; parents as Thomas Gold and Hannah. Note erroneously reported as "11 Feb 1641."
↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18); digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Skinner-Goold 1669 marriage, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"; database, FamilySearch'.
↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18); digital images, InternetArchive; she is "Mehetabel."
↑ Based on the distribution of the children made by Benjamin Apthorp Gould, The family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield (Lynn, Mass. : Thos. P. Nichols, 1895), 341 (Thomas Gould of Charlestown); digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18); digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18; Samuel 19); digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Citing "Commissary of London, Essex and Herts," Donald Lines Jacobus, The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (Woodstock, Vt. The Elm Tree Press, 1960), 194 (Nathan Gould: Fairfield, Connecticut); digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Without further reference, Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes ... (Portland, Me. : Anthoensen Press, 1959), 102; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (Woodstock, Vt. The Elm Tree Press, 1960), 194 (Nathan Gould: Fairfield, Connecticut); digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Citing "Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Pembroke 145," Donald Lines Jacobus, The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (Woodstock, Vt. The Elm Tree Press, 1960), 194-195 (Nathan Gould: Fairfield, Connecticut); digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Citing "Prerogative Court of Canterbury. 145. Pembroke," Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes ... (Portland, Me. : Anthoensen Press, 1959), 102-103; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Benjamin Apthorp Gould, The family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield (Lynn, Mass. : Thos. P. Nichols, 1895), 346 (Thomas Gould of Boston); digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Robert Charles Anderson, "List of Freemen, 2 June 1641," Great Migration Newsletter 17 (2008):19-22+, especially 21; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
↑ Gould-[____] by 1639 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700 (2015), multiple vols, 1:642; database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
↑ Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhard, “Boston, MA: Church Records, 1630-1895” (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society CD_ROM, 2002), multiple vols., First Baptist Church: 18; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
↑ Thomas Gould 1675 death entry, "Boston Index Deaths, 1630-1690," filmed page 17 of 50, in "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"; digital image by subscription, Ancestry.com; seems also Ancestry.com; death as "Oct 1675" and "See Farmer's Register."
↑ Thomas Gould 1675 death entry, "Deaths Prior to 1700" (Boston ...) in "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"; digital image by subscription, Ancestry.com; he is "minister of first Bap. Church" reference is "See Farmer's Register."
↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18); digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Thomas Gould, Gold, Goold, case 682; Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers, multiple vols, Cases 101999:682 (Thomas Gould); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18); digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 428 (Thomas 18); digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Thomas Gould, Gold, Goold, case 682; Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers, multiple vols, Cases 101999:682 (Thomas Gould); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown ... (Boston: D. Clapp, 1879), 522 (Nathaniel 1); digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England (Boston, W. White, printer to the commonwealth, 1853-54), 5 vol. in 6, 4:2:290-91 (11 October 1665); digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England (Boston, W. White, printer to the commonwealth, 1853-54), 5 vol. in 6, 4:2:373 (27 May 1668); digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ "Baptists to Convene," Charleston Daily Mail (Charleston, West Virginia) June 5, 1915. p. 6; digital image Newspapers.com clipping); regards "Anniversary of the Founding of the First Baptist Church."
See also--
Gould-[?Miller] 1641 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700 (2015), multiple vols., 1:642; database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors; works consulted as "Charlestown 428 ,18; Gould 340, 341; Giles 170."
Gould-[?Harris] Hayward?/Howard? 1654 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700 (2015), multiple vols., 1:642; database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors; works consulted as "Charlestown 428; Gould 340."
Thomas Goolde, 02 Apr 1626, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"; database (only), FamilySearch, cites Saint Peter, Berkhamstead, Hertford, England; FHL microfilm Q942.58 V27 V. 3; 'Note: not certain, spelled as Goolde, location correct but different dates)
Thomas Gould in "Writings of Benjamin A. Gould"; web content, FunWithFamilyHistory. (pdf).
"... 250 Years In Life of Church," Boston Post, June 7, 1915; p. 2; regards, "First Baptist Anniversary: Meetings In Secret." See attached image
"Baptists to Convene," Charleston Daily Mail (Charleston, West Virginia) June 5, 1915. p. 6; regards "Anniversary of the Founding of the First Baptist Church." See attached image
"Baptists Celebrate 250th Anniversary," Bluefield Daily Telegraph (Bluefield, West Virginia), June 6, 1915 (vol. 33, No. 137), p. 1; See attached image
Adrian Chastain Weimer, "Thomas Goold (1607-October 1675)," American National Biography (2008)": web content by subscription, American National Biography; " ... founder of the first Baptist church in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was born in southern England, possibly in Hampshire or Wiltshire ... "
Acknowledgments

Thank you to Sandy Culver for creating Gould-1601 on 23 Sep 13.