Family of Edmund Goodenow

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1.  CAPT. EDMUND2 GOODENOW  (THOMAS A.1) was born Abt. 1611 in Dunhead, St. Andrews, Wiltshire, England, and died April 03, 1688 in Wayland, Middlesex Co., MA.  He married ANNA HANNAH BARRY April 29, 1656 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA.  She was born Bet. 1607 - 1608 in Dunhead, St. Andrews, Wiltshire, England.

 

Notes for CAPT. EDMUND GOODENOW:

From Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild:

 

Ship: CONFIDENCE

 

Departing: Southampton, England

Arriving: 24 Apr 1638, Boston

Master, John Jobson

Ship description: 200 tons.

Edmund Goodenow was 27 when he arrived, wife Ann, sons John and Thomas, servant: Richard Sanger.

John Goodenowe was 42, wife Jane, daughters Lydia and Jane.

Thomas Goodenowe was 30, wife Ann, son Thomas, 1 yr old and sister Ursula.

Above data transcribed by Patty MacFarlane Prather for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, 10 Mar 1999.

 

Five members of the Goodenowe family came to America from the South of England in 1638. Three brothers, John, Thomas and Edmund, and their sisters, Ursula and Dorothy. The brothers had lived nearby each other in England: John in Semley, Thomas in Shaftsbury, and Edmund in Dunhead, in the neighboring shires of Dorset and Wilts.

 

In 1638, they sailed from Southampton to Boston aboard the 200 ton Ship Confidence. Shortly after their arrival, they joined others to settle the 19th town in Massachusetts. To this day the name is well known there, and the Goodenow Library stands as a tribute to the descendant of the line of Edmund Goodenow.

 

The oldest brother, John, had only daughters, thus ending the name in his line. Edmund, the youngest, was by far the most distinguished of the three, being prominent in Sudbury town affairs all his life. His death in 1688 is still commemorated by an ancient tombstone in the old Sudbury Cemetery in Wayland, Massachusetts. Three grandsons by his son John, has sizable families are the ancestors of about half the families in America today.

 

The remaining brother, Thomas, stayed in Sudbury until 1656, when he joined a group that pushed westward to settle the town of Marlboro, Massachusetts. The name is well known in that area from the loss of one of his granddaughters.  On the highway west of town stands a marker in memory of Mary Goodenow.

 

Edmund's descendents remained in Sudbury for many generations; those of the family in eastern Massachusetts today are largely descended from his line. Abraham, of the 8th generation, was the first of his line to migrate westward, circa 1795, finally settling in what is today, Tioga County, New York. The first of our ancestors to be buried in Appalachin, Tioga County, is Chauncey Goodenow. This is a mere seven or eight miles west of Endicott, New York on the banks of the Susquahanna River.

 

As the families pushed westward, they left behind them an interesting heritage. Goodenow Mountain and Goodenow River in the Adirondacks, Goodenow, Illinois and Goodenow Hills in Washington stands as mute evidence of the advance of this family. A Goodenow founded Maquoketa, Iowa and another founded Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Some were prominent, but most were just plain common folks.

 

Goodenow family data was contributed by Donald B. Goodenow."

 

 

More About CAPT. EDMUND GOODENOW:

Immigration: April 24, 1638, Ship-Confidence; Southampton, Eng=> Boston, MA

 

More About ANNA HANNAH BARRY:

Immigration: April 24, 1638, Ship-Confidence; Southampton, Eng=> Boston, MA

 

More About EDMUND GOODENOW and ANNA BARRY:

Marriage: April 29, 1656, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA

     

Children of EDMUND GOODENOW and ANNA BARRY are:

              i.   JOHN3 GOODENOW.

 

More About JOHN GOODENOW:

Immigration: April 24, 1638, Ship-Confidence; Southampton, Eng=> Boston, MA

 

              ii.   THOMAS GOODENOW.

 

More About THOMAS GOODENOW:

Immigration: April 24, 1638, Ship-Confidence; Southampton, Eng=> Boston, MA

 

             iii.   HANNAH GOODENOW, b. November 28, 1639, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA; d. April 05, 1688, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA; m. CAPT. JAMES PENDLETON 1, April 29, 1656, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; b. Abt. 1628, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England; d. November 29, 1709, Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island.