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Subject: Goddard
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and  Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes  Waltham and Weston - by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston,  1860.
Volume  I.
Part 2.
p.238
 
Joseph Goddard, m. at Watertown, Mar 25, 1680, Deborah Treadway and settled in Brookline, on a farm, where his gr. grandson, Joseph Goddard lately  resided.  Children:
 
1. Elizabeth Goddard b. at Watertown, Jan 8, 1680-1; m. June 27, 1706, Deacon John Adams of Framingham and had many descendants.
2. Joseph  Goddard b. at Watertown Nov 7, 1682; m. and had 3 sons, two of whom died young,  and the other son settled at New London, Conn. and had one daughter who m.  
____Coburn.
3. James Goddard who died 1734.
4. Robert Goddard born  1694.
5. John Goddard b. 1699.
6. Deborah Goddard.
 
Benjamin Goddard of Charlestown m. Martha Palfrey, b. 1670; died Nov. 27, 1737. [?Benjamin Goddard m. at Cambridge, May 30, 1769, Martha  Palfrey.]  Children:
1. Nathaniel Goddard, a farmer of Weston; m.  (1) at Cambridge, Nov 26, 1723, Mary Cooper.
She died at Weston, May  3, 1762; and he m. (2) (published Oct 29, 1762), Lydia Cutting, of Watertown.
2. Benjamin Goddard b. 1705; died Dec 9, 1759 aged 54  yrs.
3. John Goddard b. May, 1709; a cordwainer of Cambridge; died May  12, 1751 aged 41 yrs.
4. Thomas Goddard b. 1720; a housewright of  Charlestown; died Apr. 10, 1768.
5. Martha Goddard b. 170_; died Oct  9, 1770; m. Walter Cooper, cordwainer of Cambridge.
 
Hon. Edward Goddard, Esq., who m. June 1697, Susanna Stone; admitted full communion April 27, 1701. He resided at Watertown; a schoolmaster, April 12,  1697, until about 1707, when he moved to Boston where he was a teacher. He  moved to Framingham, Mar 25, 1714, where he taught a grammar school, several  years, and where he received numerous civil, military and  ecclesiastical appointments. For his character and services, see Barry,  p.261, and the "Goddard Genealogy,"
p.9 and p.64, et seq.   Children:
 
   1. Edward Goddard b. May 4, 1698; died at Shrewsbury, Oct 13,  1777.
2. Susanna Goddard b. Feb 25, 1699-1700; m. May 21, 1719,  John Drury by whom she had 15 children. He died early in 1754,  and his widow m. (2) Dec 5, 1760, Joseph Haven.
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3.  Simon Goddard b. Feb 18, 1702-2; died at Shrewsbury, Nov 3,  1758.
4. Benjamin Goddard b. Aug 15, 1704; died at Shrewsbury,  Jan 28, 1754.
5. David Goddard b. Sept 26, 1706; grad. Harvard  Coll. 1737; ordained at Leicester, June 30,  1736; died on a visit to Framingham during the "great sickness", Jan 19,  1754.
6. William Goddard b. Mar 22, 1708-9; died the next June  6th.
7. Mary Goddard b. June 4; died Aug 5,  1711.
8. Ebenezer Goddard b. Nov 18; died Dec 24,  1712.
9. Ebenezer Goddard (again) born at Boston, Jan 17,  1713-14.
10. William Goddard b. Dec. 10th, died Dec 17,  1720.
11. Hepzibah Goddard bap. May 8, 1723.
 
James Goddard of Brookline, who m. Mary Woodward, dau. of Thomas &  Tryphena Woodward of
Brookline. She died June, 1765.   Children:
1. Sarah Goddard b. Oct 2, 1714.
2.  James Goddard b. Mar 22, 1716-17; lived beyond the age of 80 yrs; settled at  Falmouth, Maine; was a Friend (Quaker) of high standing in their  Society; had a numerous family, of whom were: Silas Goddard,  Elisha Goddard, Robert Goddard and Abel Goddard.
3. Elizabeth  Goddard b. May 8, 1718.
4. William Goddard b. Oct 1,  1721.
5. Marmaduke Goddard b. May 3, 1726.
6.  Joseph Goddard b. Aug 30, 1727.
7. Thomas Goddard b. Oct 13,  1728; died young.
8. Tryphena Goddard b. Jan 20, 1729-30; m.  ____ Hill; died a widow at Boston, May 12, 1812.
9. William  Goddard b. Aug 14, 1731; a cordwainer, of Roxbury; and afterwards a farmer  of Richmond, N.H.; m. Dec 23, 1761, Elizabeth White of  Brookline. Children:
1. Mary Goddard b. Oct  28, 1762; m. Gideon Whitemarsh of Northumberland, N.Y.
2. Joseph Goddard b. Aug 3, 1764; m.  Sally Parsons, of Colebrook, N.H.
3. Edward  Goddard b. Apr 25, 1767; m. Hannah Mann of Maryland, N.Y.  
Children:
1. Warren Goddard  2. Betsey Goddard  3. Samuel Goddard  4.  Hannah  Goddard.
5. William Goddard.
4. Sarah Goddard b. Oct 3,  1769; m. Otis Bates, of Northumberland, N.Y.
5. Samuel Goddard b. Mar 18, 1772; died in Richmond, May 17,  1779.
6. Elizabeth Goddard b. Aug 25, 1775; m.  Ephraim Robbins of Warwick and died  June 3, 1812, leaving one  son, Samuel Goddard Robbins.
7. Thomas Goddard  b. Mar 14, 1779; of Richmond; m. Lydia Cook of Shrewsbury, 
 Vermont,   who died Oct 16, 1829, and he m. (2) Olive Kelton of Richmond.  
Children:
1.  Elizabeth Goddard b. June 1, 1813; died Sept 13,  1832.
2. William  Goddard b. May 4,  1815.
3. Joseph  Goddard b. Oct 20,  1816.
4. Emery  Goddard b. Mar 4,  1818.
5. Zerah  Goddard b. Oct 4,  1819.
6. Lydia  Goddard b. May 24,  1821.
7. Asahel  Thomas Goddard b. January, 1824.
 
To be continued - Vol. I - Part 3 - p.239 - Robert Goddard & Mehitabel Spring & (2) Dorothy
(Dwight) Child.
Transcribed by Janice  Farnsworth


Subject: Goddard
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and  Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes  Waltham and Weston - by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston,  1860.
Volume  I.
Part 3.
p.239
 
Robert Goddard who m. at Watertown, Sept 1, 1717, Mehitabel Spring, who  died Nov 18, 1760, and he settled in Sutton (now Millbury), where he was a  Justice of the Peace and died May 8, 1785, aged 91 yrs. He m. (2) the widow,  Dorothy (Dwight) Child.  Children:
 
1. Elisha Goddard b. July 13, 1719; a Captain; m. at Framingham, Nov 17, 1748, Anna Haven, who died October, 1756, aged 24 yrs., and he m. (2), Mary  Thatcher of Cambridge and moved to Sutton, where he died  Jan 19, 1784,  and his widow m. Sept 12, 1789, Jonathan Fay. 
She died June 29,
1796 aged 61  yrs.  (see Haven Genealogy, pp 11 & 12, and Thatcher, p.15)   
Children:
1. Elisha Goddard b. at Framingham Dec 3, 1749;  died Oct 25, 1771.
2. Silence Goddard b. at Framingham Nov  18, 1752; d. Jan 15, 1800; m. Major Jonathan Hale of Sutton, who settled in Framingham.  Children:
1. Nathan Hale who died  unmarried.
2. Mary Hale who m. May 19, 1800, Capt. William  Coolidge.
3. Anna Hale b. Nov 14,  1784.
4.  John Hale b. June 16,  1789.
5.  Mehitable  Hale.
6.  Nancy Hale.
This family moved to  Haverhill, New Hampshire.
3. Mehitable Goddard b. at  Framingham, July 15, 1755; m. the Hon. Benjamin Heywood  of Worcester, who died Dec 6, 1816, aged 71 years.  Children:
1. Mehitable  Heywood b. Dec 1786.
2. Nathaniel Moore Heywood b. July, 1788; m. Sept 19, 1816, Caroline Sumner of
Boston.   
3. Elizabeth Heywood  b. Mar, 1790.
4.  Benjamin Franklin Heywood b. 1792; grad. Dartmouth Coll., 1812, M.D. Yale  Coll., 1815; M.M.S.S.;  of Worcester; m. (1)  Nancy p.240 Green,  who died Aug 4, 1836; and he m. (2) Elizabeth R. Green.  Children:
1. Benjamin Heywood b. July 16, 1821; grad. Harv. Coll. 1840; M.D. Univ.  of Penn.; M.M.S.S. of  Worcester.
2. Caroline Heywood b. Aug 7,  1823.
3. Frederick Heywood b. June 30, 1825; grad. Dart. Coll. 1845; M.D. Harvard, 1846; M.M.S.S.
4. John Green Heywood b. May 24, 1828; died Feb 10,  1833.
5. Nathaniel M. Heywood, b. July 26, 1839; died  soon.
6. Nancy Green Heywood b. Dec 24,  1840.
7. John Heywood b. Mar 1,  1843.
5. Joseph  Heywood b. March,  1794.
6. Lucy  Heywood b. Apr 30, died November,  1796.
7. Nancy  Heywood b. Feb. 1798; died Aug 30, 1814.
4. Robert  Goddard b. at Sutton, Feb 12, 1759; died Oct 10, 1826; a Major, at Sutton;  m.
Anna Tainter, who died and he m. (2) Feb 11,  1793, Tamer Goddard who d. 
April 9, 1796 & he
m.  (3) Oct 6, 1796, Hannah Goddard who d. Mar 18, 1797 & he m. (4) the widow,  Sybil (Peters) Penniman.  Children:
1. Mary Goddard b.  Jan 25, 1781; m. Nov 25, 1805, Ephraim Forbes, who died Nov 8,  1817, and she m. (2) May 23,  1822, Josiah Hovey of Cambridge b. Dec 24,  1763.
2. Elisha Goddard b.  Feb 21, 1782; m. Jan 6, 1806, Catherine Broaders & res. 
 in
Ruthford (? Rumford),  Oxford Co., Maine.  Children:
1. Thatcher Goddard b. Nov.  1806.
2. Catherine Goddard b.  1809.
3. Elisha Forbes Goddard b. 1819; died  young.
3. Anna Goddard b.  Apr 18, 1785; m. Mar 11, 1806, Rufus Barton.  Children:
1. Sumner Barton b. Dec 15, 1806; d. Apr 2,  1826.
2. Zedekiah Barton b. Feb.  1810.
3. Lydia Barton b. March,  1813.
4. Thatcher Barton b. Apr 10, 1815; died June,  1816.
5. Rufus Barton b. October  1822.
6. Nancy Barton, twin of Rufus, b. October,  1822.
7. George Barton b. Aug.  1825.
4. Ebenezer Thatcher  Goddard b. July 22, 1789; a shipmaster; perished of cold, Dec 24,  1804.
5. David Goddard b.  Sept 6, 1792; m. Dec 28, 1816, Dorcas Littlehale; res.  
Belmont,
Maine.  Children:
1. Ephraim Forbes Goddard b. Aug 7,  1817.
2. Mary Ann Forbes Goddard b. Mar 11,  1819.
3. David Goddard b. Dec 10,  1820.
4. Robert Henry Goddard b. Nov 11,  1822.
5. George Thatcher  Goddard.
6. Elisha  Goddard.
7. Charles Carroll Goddard, b. Dec 10,  1832.
6. Abijah Goddard b.  Dec 25, 1794; died Aug 30,  1795.
7. Sybil  Goddard.
8. Caroline  Goddard.
9. Hannah  Goddard.
10. Maria  Goddard.
11. Sylvia Goddard, twin  of Maria.
12. William  Goddard.
13. Julia Goddard.
 
    5. Mary Goddard b. Mar 19, 1760; died April 19,  1776.
 
    6. Thatcher Goddard b. May 25, 1761; a physician,  settled at Arundel, York Co., Maine, October, 1784, where  he m. Dec 23, 1786, Lucy Wiswall born at Arundel, Jan, 1765.  Children:
1. Mary Goddard b. Aug  22, 1788; m. June 18, 1811, William Goddard, son of John  & Hannah Goddard, b. Jan 12,  1781.
2. Lucy Goddard b. Dec 21,  1789; d. Dec 13, 1795.
3. Elisha  Goddard b. July 15, 1791; died 1845; grad. Harvard Coll, 1812; (name  changed,
1815 to Francis Edwards);  m. Oct 5, 1829, Martha Bartlett.
4. Miranda Goddard b. May 8, 1793; m. Oct 28, 1815, Augustus Peabody b. May 17,  1780.
Children:
1. Augustus Goddard Peabody b. Feb 4,  1818.
2.  Owen Glendower Peabody b. Apr 23,  1822.
3.  Edward Thatcher Peabody b. June 6,  1825.
4.  Lucie Maria Peabody b. Feb 6,  1828.
5. Eunice Goddard b. Feb 1,  1795; died May 25, 1824 of  consumption.
6. Susanna Goddard b.  Jan 7, 1797; died June 9, 1828; m. May 6, 1824, John G.  Perkins b. June 7, 1791.  Children:
1. Thatcher Goddard Perkins b. Sept 25,  1825.
2. Susan Eliza Perkins b. Nov 30,  1827.
7. John Goddard b. Nov 2,  179_; died at Lisbon, Portugal, Feb 10,  1823.
8. Thatcher Goddard b. May  27, 1800.
9. William Goddard b.  Jan 27, 1802; d. Aug 18, 1807.
10. Lucy  Goddard b. Feb 25, 1804.
11. Caroline  Goddard b. Feb 27, 1806; m. May 1, 1826, Francis Osborne  Watts.
12. William Henry Goddard b. June  25, 1808; m. Cecilia Graham.
7. Ebenezer Goddard b. Aug 25,  1762; died August, 1769.
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8. Samuel Goddard b. 1763; a  farmer; m. April 1783, Mary Burbank. He moved to Royalston, Vermont, where he died of apoplexy, Mar. 27, 1809.  Children:
1. Susanna  Goddard b. May 27, 1784; m. ____ Lilly of Bethel,  Vermont.
2. Caleb  Goddard who died  young.
3. Thatcher  Goddard b. Oct 15, 1795; a paper-maker; died at Montpelier,  VT., Nov 18,  1813.
4. Lucy Goddard  b. 1798; m. 1815, Joel Emery, of Tunbridge,  VT.
5. Isaac Goddard  b. Mar 5, 1800; m. Aug 12, 1825 Rebecca, dau. of Joseph Woodward  of Worcester, b. Feb  23, 1804.  Children:
1. George Woodward Goddard b. Mar 23,  1827.
2. Emmons A. Goddard b. Dec 22,  1828.
3. Silas Goddard b. Feb 17,  1831.
6. Silas Goddard  who m. November, 1825, Fanny, dau. of Deacon Stephen Bartlett  of Dudley, Mass. b.  Oct. 1802.
9. Susanna Goddard b. February 1764; died aged  4 months.
 
To be continued - Vol. I - Part 4 - p.241 - John Goddard of Brookline & wives, Lucy Seaver & widow Hannah (Jennison) Stone.
Transcribed by  Janice Farnsworth


Subject: Goddard
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and  Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes  Waltham and Weston - by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston,  1860.
Volume  I.
Part 4.
p.241
 
John Goddard, of Brookline, who occupied the homestead of his father, m. in 1725, Lucy Seaver, who died. He m. (2) Sept 4, 1729, widow Hannah (Jennison)  Stone. She died Dec. 4, 1777. She was a grand daughter of Samuel & Hannah  (Manning) Stearns, and her first husband's father, Jonathan Stone, was a  younger brother of Susanna, wife of Edward Goddard.  
In 1745, he  moved
to Worcester, leaving his son John Goddard on the homestead. He died  June 26, 1785, aged 87 yrs.
Children:
 
1. John Goddard, b. May 28, 1730, died April 13, 1816, aged 86 yrs. He was Representative of Brookline, 1785, 86, 87, 88, 90 and 1792. He m. June 28,  1753, Sarah Brewer who d. Jan 26, 1755, and he m. (2) Hannah Seaver, b. July  16, 1735; died May 31, 1821, aged 86 yrs. Children:
 
    1. Sarah Goddard, b. Apr 26, 1754; died June 26,  1780.
 
    2. John Goddard, b. Nov 12, 1756; grad. Harvard Coll.  1777; studied medicine with Dr.
A. R. Cutter of  Portsmouth, N.H., but never engaged in the practice of it, on  account of unfitness of his constitution to endure its  hardships. After encountering much hard- ship and danger  in the service of his country, he entered into the drug business  in Portsmouth. (for an account of his talents, character  and public services, see, "Goddard Genealogy," pp.28-31)  He m. (1) June 5, 1783, Susanna Heath, dau. of John Heath of  of Brookline. He m. (2) June 5, 1788, Jane Boyd, b. Sept  25, 1763, eldest dau. 
of George
Boyd, Esq., of Portsmouth.  She died in childbed, Oct 11, 1790 and he m. (3) Dec 14, 1791, Mary Langdon, b. July 14, 1760, dau. of Rev. Samuel Langdon, D.D., of Portsmouth, once President of Harvard College.  She  died of apoplexy June 14, 1808 and he m. (4) January,  1811, Ann White b. Sept 15, 1768; died September 1832.  He died Dec 18,  1829, 
aged 73 yrs.   Children:
1. John Heath Goddard b. Mar  18, 1784; m. Jan 26, 1812, Almira Porter b. 
June  7,
1792 dau. of Dr. Aaron Porter, then  of Saco, Maine.   Children:
1.  John Goddard b. Apr 7,  1813.
2. Susanna  Heath Goddard b. Sept 25, 1816.
2. Henry  Goddard b. Nov 23, 1785; m. April 11, 1810, Elizabeth Leavitt, youngest dau. of Jonathan Payson, Esq.  of Portsmouth.  Children:
1.  John Goddard b. Feb 28,  1811.
2.  Elizabeth White Goddard b. May 25,  1812.
3. Mary  Pickering Goddard b. May,  1814.
4. Henry  Warren Goddard b. Dec 3,  1816.
5. Charles  William Goddard b. Dec 29, 1825.
3.  Samuel Goddard b. July 3, 1787; m. Sept 30, 1818, Mehitabel May Dawes, b. 
Sept  1,
1796.  Children:
1.  Louisa Goddard b. Dec 17,  1819.
2. Ann  Elizabeth Goddard b. July 26,  1821 3. Lucretia  Dana Goddard b. Oct 15,  1823.
4. Samuel  Goddard b. Oct 20, 1825.  Died.
5. Harriet  Barnes Goddard b. Jan 29,  1827.
6. Eleanor  Swan Goddard b. Sept 5,  1829.
7. Samuel  Goddard (again) b. Aug 30, 1832 4.  William Goddard b. June 22, 1789; died Oct 11,  1790.
5. Jane Boyd Goddard b. June 22,  1789, twin of William; died Jan 29,  1805.
6. Harriet Goddard b. Oct 2, 1790;  died Sept. 23, 1814.
7. Lucy Maria  Goddard b. Feb 1, 1793; m. October, 1823, John Pickering, Esq.,  of Portsmouth.  Children:
1. John Pickering b. May 25,  1825.
2. David Sewall Pickering b. 1830. Died.
8. Elizabeth Sewall Goddard.
9. William  Goddard b. April 22, 1796; grad. Harvard Coll., 1815; m. November  1832, _____  Smith.
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10. Charles Goddard, b. Sept  15, 1797; grad. Yale Coll. 1814; m. Aug 16, 1830,  Caroline Ann Lerow b. Apr. 4, 1811. A son  Charles Goddard b. May, 1833.
11. Ann  Goddard.
12. Warren Goddard b. Sept 12, 1800;  grad Harvard Coll. 1818, sometime Preceptor of Princeton Academy; m. Aug 6, 1829, Mary C. Tobey, born at Sandwich, August, 1805.
13. Ann White Goddard, b. Feb 5, 1803;  m. May, 1829, Rev. Orange Clarke.
14. Richard  Langdon Goddard, b. Feb 29, 1804; a merchant of New York, of the firm  of
(1833) Goddard & Gleason.

3. Samuel Goddard b. Feb 28, 1758 son of John Goddard & his  2nd wife, Hannah Seaver. He m.
1781, Joanna Brewer b. Jan 15,  1765. He died Aug 25, 1786 and his widow died April 18,  1810.
1. Samuel Brewer Goddard b. Nov  12, 1782; m. Aug 22, 1804, Emily Dawes b. 
May 22,  1785.
1. Emily Joanna Lamb Goddard b. 180_?
2.  Joanna Goddard b. April 3, 1785; died.
3. Rebecca Goddard b. Jan 29, 1787; died May 26, 1798.
4. Hannah  Goddard b. Oct 30, 1759; died Sept 16, 1786.
5. Joseph Goddard  b. Apr 15, 1761; Justice of the Peace, Brookline from 1811 to  1824; he inherited the old homestead, where he died 184_. He m.  Oct 29, 1785, Mary Aspinwall, born Mar 31, 1765, dau. of Samuel  & Sibil Aspinwall of Brookline. She d. Feb 5, 1825 &
he  m. (2) Feb 18, 1830, Mrs. Lucy Snelling.   Children:
1. Hannah Goddard b.  Sept 8, 1786; died 1829; m. Mar 23, 1808, Capt. George Washington Stearns.
2. Mary Goddard b. Dec  15, 1787; m. July 19, 1809, Samuel May of Boston, b. 
Dec  4,
1776.  Children:
1. Samuel May b. Apr 11,  1810.
2. John Joseph May b. Oct 15,  1813.
3. Edward Augustus May b. Feb 16,  1817.
4. Frederick Warren Goddard May, b. Dec 4,  1821.
5. Mary Goddard May b. Feb 14,  1824.
6. Louisa Goddard May b. May 19, 1827; d. July 9,  1828.
7. Abigail Williams May b. Apr 21,  1829.

3. Joseph Goddard b. July 27,  1789; m. July 30, 1821, Clarissa Whitney, b. 
March,  1802;
died June 18, 1823. He m.  (2) Nov 23, 1825, Elizabeth Marianna Norton, b. 
Nov 18,  1803.
1. Joseph Warren Goddard b. April 4, died Sept 21,  1823.
2. Elizabeth Goddard b. Nov.,  1826.
3. Joseph Warren Goddard (again) b. June 10,  1828.
4. Frederic Norton Goddard
4. John  Goddard b. Feb 17, 1791; died Sept 21,  1828.
5. Lucy Goddard b. Feb 12,  1793; m. June 4, 1820, Lewis Withington of Roxbury, afterwards of New York.  Children:
1. Mary Goddard Withington b. June 27,  1821.
2. Lucy Maria Withington b. Jan 25,  1823.
3. Lewis Franklin Withington b. May 12,  1824.
6. Susannah Goddard b. Sept  14, 1794; m. April 17, 1822, James Jones who died Dec  3, 1826.  Children:
1. Susannah Goddard Jones b. Jan 30, 1823; d. November,  1824.
2. Louisa Elizabeth Jones b. Aug 17,  1824.
3. Susannah Jones b. Dec 12, 1825.
7. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard b. Oct. 4, 1796; m. Sept 4, 1824 at Birmingham, England, where he resided; m.  Julia Backope.  Children:
1. Julia Backope Goddard b. July 12,  1825.
2. Mary Louisa May Goddard b. Oct 28,  1826.
3. Edward Delavan Goddard b. Apr 13,  1828.
4. William Henry  Goddard.
5. Caroline Elizabeth Grey  Goddard.
8. Louisa May Goddard b.  Oct 2, 1798; d. July 30, 1826.
9.  Elizabeth Goddard b. Nov 30, 1800.
10.  Abijah Warren Goddard b. Mar 30, 1803; m. Apr 23, 1829, Eliza Tilden. 
She  died
Jan 25,  1841.
11. Benjamin Goddard b. June 11,  1805; died Nov 1, 1807.
12. a child by  his 2nd wife, died soon.
6. Benjamin Goddard b. Jan. 20, 1763; died  June 28, 1764.
7. Lucy Goddard b. Feb 15, 1764; d. Feb 11,  1777.
8. Benjamin Goddard b. Mar 20, 1766; a merchant of Boston,  acquired an ample fortune and in middle life retired to an elegant  country seat in his native town, where he was residing in 1852. He m.  Dec 15, 1793, Louisa May, b. Dec. 14, 1773, dau. of Samuel May, Esq. She died  Jan.
18, 1832 and he m. (2) Jan 15, 1835, Catherine Brown of Boston.  (see "Goddard  Genealogy," p.
33.
 
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9. Nathaniel Goddard b. June 5, 1767; a merchant of  Boston; m. May 2, 1797, Lucretia Dana,
b. Oct  9, 1773, dau. of Amariah & Dorothy Dana of Amherst, Mass.   Children:
1. Lucretia Dana  Goddard b. Apr 17, 1798; m. Dec 2, 1823, Benjamin Apthorp Gould,  a grad. of Harvard Coll.  1814; for some time Master of the Public Latin School of  Boston,
afterwards a  merchant.   Children:
1. Benjamin Apthorp Gould b. Sept 27,  1824.
2. Nathaniel Goddard Gould b. Apr 4,  1827.
3. Lucretia Goddard Gould b. June 14,  1831.
2. Frederic Warren  Goddard b. Oct 25, 1800; drowned in Lake Zurich, Switzerland,  Aug.
22nd,  1820.
3. George Augustua  Goddard b. Nov 15, 1802; grad. Harvard Coll. 1822; a merchant  of Boston.
4. Henrietta May  Goddard b. Jan 25, 1805; m. Nov 10, 1835, Edward Wigglesworth  of Boston.
5. Mary Storer  Goddard b. Feb 13, 1807.
6.  Francis Dana Goddard b. May 1,  1810.
7. Nathaniel Goddard,  b. Sept 8, 1812.
8. Benjamin  Goddard, twin of Nathaniel, b. Sept 8,  1812.
9. Louisa May Goddard  b. Oct 21, 1814.
10. Georgiana  Goddard b. Apr 25, 1817.
11.  Frederica Warren Goddard b. Apr 12, 1822.
10. Jonathan Goddard  b. Oct 26; died Nov 13, 1768.
11. Jonathan Goddard (again) b.  Nov 22, 1769; m. Oct 27, 1803, Charlotte Martin, b. Nov 25,
1779.   Children:
1. Ann Martin Goddard b. Sept 11, 1804;  died.
2.  John Thomas Goddard b. Feb 21, 1806.
12. Abijah Goddard b. Aug  25, 1771; died Apr. 5, 1772.
13. Abijah Goddard (again) b. Apr  17, 1774; died of consumption, Oct 29, 1794.
14. Warren Goddard  b. Mar 25, 1776; died of consumption, Dec 25, 1797.
15. Lucy  Goddard b. Aug 30, 1778; d. Dec 8, 1792.
16. William Goddard b.  Jan 12, 1781; a merchant of Boston; m. Dec 26, 1805, Mary  Storer, b. June 27, 1785. She died Nov 24, 1806 and he m. (2)  June 18, 1811, Mary Goddard b. Aug
22, 1788, dau. of Dr.  Thatcher Goddard.   Children:
1. Mary Goddard b.  Oct 1, 1806; d. Jan 1, 1807.
2. William Warren Goddard b. July 21,  1812.
3. Mary Caroline  Goddard b. June 7, 1814.
 
2. Samuel Goddard b. July 13, 1732; died June 12, 1803; went to Worcester with his father, and there married Abigail King who died April 8, 1804.  Children:
1. Abigail Goddard b. Jan 8, 1761; m. Joel Tainter of  Millbury and died May 24, 1790, leaving two  children.
2. Hannah Goddard b. Aug 17, 1762; d. Mar 18, 1797; m. Capt.  Robert Goddard of Sutton.
3. Mehitabel Goddard b. May 16,  1764.
4. Lydia Goddard b. Mar 24, 1766; died Aug 9, 1778.
5.  Tamar Goddard b. Jan 22, 1768; died Apr 8, 1796; m. Feb 11, 1793, Capt. 
Robert  Goddard.?
6. Elizabeth Goddard b. July 26, 1770; died Sept 20,  1790.
7. Mary Goddard b. July 3, 1772; d. June 26, 1817,  unmarried.
8. Samuel Goddard b. Oct 25, 1774; d. May 3,  1800.
9. John Goddard b. Nov 24, 1776; died Aug 18, 1807; m. and res.  in Millbury. 
 Children:
1. Tamar  Goddard.
2. Almira Goddard.
10. Ludy Goddard b. Jan 29, 1779.
11.  Joseph Goddard b. Apr. 3, 1781; m. Rebecca Newton and settled on the paternal  estate in the
south part of Worcester.   Children:
1. Orlando Goddard b.  Feb 24, 1807.
2. Samuel Goddard b.  Aug 29, 1808.
3. Abigail Goddard  b. June 12, 1810.
4. John Goddard  b. July 28, 1812.
5. Benjamin  Goddard b. Apr 4, 1815.
6. Henry  Goddard b. Feb 16, 1817; died November  1827.
7. Hannah Goddard b. July  10, 1819.
8. Sylvia Goddard b. Mar  12, 1821.
12. Eunice Goddard b. September 6, 1783.
 
3. Hannah Goddard b. July 17, 1736; m. at Worcester, Abel Heywood, by whom she had: 1. Abe Heywood. 2. Daniel Heywood. 3. Hannah Heywood.  Abel Heywood died and she m. 
(2) Asa Ward
and had: 4. Asa Ward.  5. Artemas Ward. 6. Olivia Ward. 
4. Joseph Goddard b. Dec. 5, 1740; died at  Worcester, April 19, 1758.
 
To be continued - Vol. I. - Part 5 - p.243 - Benjamin Goddard of Grafton  & wife, Mary Kidder.
Transcribed by Janice  Farnsworth