Rev. Edward Goddard

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• Religion: Swanzey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire; Rev. Edward Goddard was dismissed from the Church in Swanzey.
• Married: 1 Nov 1749, Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts; Lois Howe, the daughter of Nathan and Hepzibah (Taylor) Howe. She was born on 2 March 1749 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Issue: 1. Nathan Goddard (1770-1770) 2. Edward Goddard (1770-1776) 3. Hepzibah Goddard (1773-1776) 4. Hepzibah Goddard (1776-____) 5. Edward Goddard (1778-____) 6. Nathan Howe Goddard (1781-1811) 7. Hapgood Goddard (1783-____) 8. Eunice Goddard (1785-____) 9. Lois Goddard (1788-1789) 10. Lois Goddard (1793-1794)
• Graduation: 1764, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; : Harvard University
• Ordained: 27 Sep 1769, Swanzey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire

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• History: say 1723, Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts; He was one of the first settlers of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and one of the founders of its church.

Edward married Hepzibah Hapgood in 1722. Hepzibah (daughter of Thomas Hapgood and Judith Barker) was born on 27 Jun 1704 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 19 Jul 1763 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Religion: 1728, Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts; She was admitted to the church in Shrewsbury.

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Hapgood (1898) gives the year as 1822, a misprint.

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• Occupation: say 1695; He was a weaver.
• Occupation: 1697 to 1707, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; He was employed by the town as a schoolmaster.
• Religion: 6 Feb 1697/98, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; He was admitted to the First Church Watertown.
• Moved To: 1707, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; In Boston, he kept a school, and was a Ruling Elder in the First Church of Boston.
• Land/House: 25 Nov 1713, Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; On 25 November 1713, he bought a farm in Framingham from Joseph Buckminster for £143.
• History: say 1714; Edward kept the first grammar school in Framingham, Massachusetts. There he was the Town Clerk for 18 years, a Selectman for 10 years, the Town Treasurer for 2 years, and a Representative to the Massachusetts General Court for 8 years. He held a commission as a Justice of the Peace and was the Captain of the militia troop.
• Religion: 9 Apr 1718, Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; Edward and Susanna were admitted to the church in Framingham.
• Offices Held: 1720 to 1738; He was the Town Clerk.
• Offices Held: 1724; He was elected the Representative to the Massachusetts General Court. He served for 8 years in this position.
• Religion: 14 Apr 1725, Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; He was chosen on 14 Apr 1725 as Deacon of the Framingham Church, but he declined the appointment.
• Religion: 1732; Edward disagreed with the pastor of the Framingham Church, the Rev. Mr. Swift, and left it to join the church in Hopkington in 1732. He later helped form the Second Church in Framingham in 1746.
• Offices Held: 1733; He was chosen as a member of His Majesty's Council.
• Obituary: 1755; According to the Boston papers recording his death, he was "a person of very good natural powers, inquisitive and curious genius, industrious spirit, and considerable improvements in both divine and political knowledge, esteemed for sobriety, integrity, judiciousness and piety from his youth,......being of so good a character and a very accurate writer and draughter in almost all sorts of instruments, he was in his younger time encouraged to keep a school for writing and arithmetic in Boston, where he behaved himself to great acceptance, contracted and intimate friendship with the Rev. Mr. Bridge,... and other serious and solid men,...... in whose society he continued and grew in esteem and affection, and with mutual pleasure, till purchasing a farm in Framingham, he thought it best, for the sake of his children, to live upon and improve it. He was many yeas in commission for the peace, nine years chosen and served as Representative for the town in the General Court, and also chose and served three years more in his Majesty's Council for the Provence.... He was one of the greatest and most steady patriots, both of civil and religious liberties, in their largest extent, that ever appeard in the General Assembly in his day."

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Edward married Susanna Stone in Jun 1697. Susanna (daughter of Deacon Simon Stone and Mary Whipple) was born on 4 Nov 1675 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 4 Feb 1754 in Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Religion: 27 Apr 1701, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; She joined the First Church Watertown.
• Religion: 9 Apr 1718, Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; Edward and Susanna were admitted to the church in Framingham.

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• Living: 1695, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; He acting for Edmund Rice.
• History: 12 Nov 1703; In a petition to the General Court of 12 November 1703, he requested an allowance as "he having, in 1690, been detached into service against the Indian enemy, was engaged in the bloody fight near Oyster River, New Hampshire, wherein Captain Noah Wiswell and divers others were slain and wounded; that he then had his left arm broken and his right hand much shot, so that he endured great pain and narrowly escaped with his life; that he was thereby much disabled for labor and getting his livelihood" The Court granted him five pounds.
• Will: 10 Jun 1760, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; He mentions his children: John, Joseph, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Hepzibah, and Huldah.
• Inventory: 30 Oct 1763; His inventory was valued at £533 2/3d.
• Probate/Proved: 31 Oct 1763, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Thomas married Judith Barker about 1693 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Judith (daughter of John Barker and Judith Symonds) was born on 9 Sep 1671 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 15 Aug 1759 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1647, London, England; He was a citizen and grocer in London, England. He suffered in the Great Fire of London.
• Immigration: 1665, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; He came to New England and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. His wife and surviving children came over the following year.
• Offices Held: 1668 to 1669; He served as a selectman in 1668 and 1669.
• Occupation: say 1670, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; He was hired by the town to instruct the children in Latin.
• Freeman: Dec 1677, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
• Religion: 8 Jan 1687/88, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; William was admitted to the First Church Watertown.

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William married Elizabeth MilesEngland. Elizabeth (daughter of Benjamin Miles and Elizabeth Child) was born about 1631 in England; died on 8 Feb 1697/98 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigration: 1666; She came over with her sons, Joseph, Robert, and William. Her husband had come over a year earlier.

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• Immigration: 15 Apr 1635; He embarked at London, England, 15 April 1635 on board the ship, Increase, Robert Lea, Master with his parents.
• Will: 7 Sep 1665; He is mentioned in his father's will.
• Offices Held: 1678, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; Simon was the Representative to the Massachusetts General Court from Watertown in 1678-84, 86, 89, and 90.

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Simon married Mary Whipple. Mary (daughter of John Whipple and Sarah) was born about 1634 in England; died on 2 Jun 1720 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was 86 when she died.

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• Passenger List: 30 May 1656, Gravesend, Kent, England; Shadrack appears, at age 14, on the passenger list of the Speedwell bound for New England, Robert Lock Master.
• Legal: 26 Jun 1666; Shadrack Habgood deposed giving his age as 22 years, and that he had lived with his cousin, Peter Noyes for seven years.
• Inventory: 2 Sep 1675; Shadrack's estate was inventoried and valued at £145 2/.

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Died:
According to Ward (1851), he was one of a troop of twenty men, who accompanied Capt. Hutchinson to Quaboag (Brookfield) to treat with the Indians, and was there, with four others, suddenly shot down by the treacherous enemy, lurking in ambush, and killed on the spot.

Shadrack married Elizabeth Treadway on 21 Oct 1664 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Nathaniel Treadway and Sufferance Hayes) was born on 3 Apr 1646 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her birth date was recorded as 3 (2) 1646.

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• Will: 14 Mar 1710/11, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
• Probate/Proved: 21 Apr 1718, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

John married Judith Symonds on 9 Dec 1668. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1995; There needs to be much work done here as most of the Symonds records do not list Judith. Pope (1900) lists a daughter BAKER.

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