Goodnow Thomas b. d. 1664

- 1664

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Gender Male

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Died 1664 [1]

Person ID I5503 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Family 1 Jane

Married Y [1]

Children

Family ID F2364 Group Sheet

Family 2 Joanna

Married Y [1]

Family ID F2365 Group Sheet

Notes	This name is found under several different spellings in the early Colonial records of New England. Among these spellings were: Goodnough. Good- enough. Goodno, -and so on. There were several ancestors and they have left a numerous progeny, which is largely represented in New Hampshire and is scattered throughout New England and the United States. In quality of citizenship they have compared well with their neighbors. (I) Thomas Goodenow was a brother of Edmund and John, all being pioneer settlers in Massachusetts. Thomas was one of the proprietors of Sudbury, and was living there as early as 1638. He was made a freeman in 1643, and was one of the petitioners for Marlboro, Massachusetts, in 1656, removing to that town with its early settlers. H1s house lot there was next to the homestead of Joseph Rice. He wasa selectman of that town in 1661-62 and again in 1664. His death occurred in the last named year. His first wife Jane was the mother of his children. The christian name of his second wife was Joanna.The children were: Thomas. Mary, Abigail, Samuel, Susanna and two daughters who died in childhood. The eldest son died about the age of twenty-five years ; the second daughter became the wife of Thomas Barnes.

[S232] Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Lewis publishing company, Chicago, (Name: The Lewis publishing company, 1908;), 1344, vol 3 (Reliability: 3).