Jeremiah Goodridge

(3898) Jeremiah Goodridge (William'), born March 6, 1638; married, Nov. 15, 1660, Mary, daughter of Robert and Eleanor Adams; resided in Newbury, Mass.

Children:

• 3901. Mary b. Nov. 21, 1663; m., Apr. 21, 1684, Arthur Thresher.
• 3902. William b. Aug. 2, 1665.
• + 3903. Jeremiah b. m. Mary [-?-] ; resided in Newbury, Mass.
• + 3904. Philip b. Nov. 23, 1669; died Jan. 16, 1729; was among the early settlers of Lunenburg, and built the third house in the place in 1724; was a deacon in the church, and was the first person buried in the principal graveyard of Lunenburg; married, April 16, 1700, Mehitabel, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Stevens) Woodman, born Sept. 20, 1677, died Feb. 24, 1755.
• 3905. Elizabeth b. Feb. 27, 1679; m., Oct. 10, 1710, John Cooper.
• 3906. Hannah b. Nov. 15, 1681; m., in 1703, Nathaniel Pettengell, b. Jan. 21, 1676, son of Mathew and
• Sarah (Noyes); perhaps m. 2d, Jonathan Sibley.
• + 3907. John b. May 26, 1685; m. married, June 13, 1707, Hannah Brown; resided in Newbury, Mass.

pg. 357-359 The Goodrich family in America. A genealogy of the descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Conn., and William Goodridge of Watertown, Mass., together with a short historical account of the family in England, the origin of the name, a description of Goodrich castle etc (1889). Goodrich-Family-Memorial Association; Lafayette Wallace Case, ed; Chicago, Fergus printing company

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3. Jeremiah' Goodridge (William) was bom in Watertown, Mass.. March 6, 1638. He settled in Newbury Mass., where he died January 20, 1707. Isaac Whittier was a substitute for Jeremiah Goodridge in the war at "Cape Breton and the Eastward." In his will, proved in Salem, Mass.. March 9, 1682 , Robert Adams gave to his daughter Marj' (Adams) Goodridge, one cow.

He married, in Newbury November 15, 1660, Mary Adams, born in newbury , September 1, 1642, daughter of Robert and Eleanor (Wilmot) Adams. There is no record of her death.

Children, all born in Newbury

• i. Marv, b. Nov. 21, 1663; m. .Arthur Thresher, in Newbury, Apr. 21, 1684; had a daughter, b. in Newbury. 1692; probably others.
• ii. William, b. Aug. 2, 1665; was pressed into the service"to the Eastward" in 1688 by Governor Andros; d. in the army, and. An administrator of his estate was appointed Feb. 11, 1700-1.
• 6. iii. Jeremiah, b. Sept. 4. 1667. born in Newbuy, Mass., September 4, 1667, and was living there with his wife in 1741. He married, in Newbury, in 1703, Mary Rowe.
• iv. Sarah, b. Jan. 28, 1673 ; m., about 1690. John Grant, of Newbury; four children.
• V. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 27, 1678-79: m. John Cooper, of Newbury Oct. 10. 1715.
• vi. Hannah, b. Nov, 15. 1681 : m. in Newbury. in 1704. John Pettengill, b. Sept. 21, 1654, son of Richard and Joanna (Ingersoll) Pettengill, who came from Staffordshire. England. in 1643.
• 7. vii. John. b. May 26. 1685.was born in Newbury, Mass., and died in Gloucester, Mass., in November, 1754. He married, first, in Newbury, January 13, 1707, Hannah Brown, born in NewburyNovember 16, 1688, daughter of James and Hannah Brown. They settled in Gloucester, Mass. He married, second, Ann. Robinson, in Gloucester, November 11, 1754. She was living in Gloucester, his widow, in 1759. He had nine children all born in Gloucester, and probably all by his first wife. Records fail to give account of all of them. The only Goodridge name in Gloucester in the United States census of 1790 was that of Sarah Goodridge, a widow.

pg 77-78. 84-5 The Goodridge genealogy : a history of the descendants of William Goodridge who came to America from Bury St. Edmunds, England, in 1636 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts with some inquiry into the history of the family in England and the origin of the same Edwin Alonzo Goodridge, & Lyman Horace Weeks; 1918, New York : Lenz & Riecker

• Updated from FamilySearch Family Tree via father William GOODRIDGE by SmartCopy: Jul 8 2015, 16:18:08 UTC

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On 12 or 19 August 1632 when William Goodrich was 24, he married Margaret BUTTERFIELD

Their 1st son was Jeremiah GOODRIDGE

Jeremiah was born on 6 March 1637/8 in Watertown, Middlesex co., MA[10] and died in 1707; he was 69[1]. In October 1655 he was listed as a servant of Justinian Holden & got into a constable's hands for bad behavior[9].

On 15 November 1660 when Jeremiah was 23, he married Mary ADAMS, daughter of Robert ADAMS & Eleanor [surname not known], in Newbury, Essex co., MA

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