Richard Godfrey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1735 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: Between 1800 and 1816 - Orrington, Maine
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: George Godfrey (Cir 1707-1768) 1
Mother: Mercy Knowles (1717-1758) 2
Spouses and Children
1. *Lydia Doane (25 May 1741 - )
Marriage: 23 Dec 1756 - Chatham, Massachusetts 3
Status:
Children:
1. Doane Godfrey (1759- )
2. Joseph Godfrey (1763- )
3. Molly Godfrey (1766- )
4. Richard Godfrey (1769- )
5. George Godfrey (1771- )
6. Polly Godfrey (1773- )
7. Lydia Godfrey (1775- )
8. Dorcas Godfrey (1777- )
9. James Godfrey (1779-1844)
10. Benjamin Godfrey (1782- )
Richard Godfrey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Aug 1769 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Richard Godfrey (Cir 1735-Between 1800)
Mother: Lydia Doane (1741- )
Richard Godfrey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1620 - England
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
Richard Godfrey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1724 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: Bef 6 May 1760 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Death, bef 6 May 1760 in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia
Parents
Father: Moses Godfrey (1667-1743) 4
Mother: Deborah Cook (1678-1734)
Spouses and Children
1. *Azuba Collins (10 Jun 1733 - Cir 1787)
Marriage: 10 Jan 1751 - Chatham, Massachusetts 5
Status:
Richard Godfrey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 11 Jun 1677 - Eastham, Plymouth Colony 6
Baptism:
Death: After May 1741 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: George Godfrey (Est 1640- )
Mother: Hannah (Est 1640- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Lydia Freeman (Cir 1680 - ) 7
Marriage: 4 Feb 1702 - Eastham, Massachusetts 8
Status:
Children:
1. Hannah Godfrey (1703-1781)
2. Elizabeth Godfrey (1704- )
3. Mary Godfrey (1705- )
4. Lidea Godfrey (1706- )
5. Phebe Godfrey (1707- )
6. Rebecca Godfrey (1709- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Lydia Freeman)
Children, in Harwich
Hannah Godfrey b: 26 JAN 1701/02
Elizebeth Godfrey b: 20 DEC 1704
Mary Godfrey b: 23 AUG 1706
Lidea Godfrey b: 27 JUL 1707
Phebe Godfrey b: 24 JUN 1708
Rebakah Godfrey b: 7 JUL 1709
Ruth Godfrey
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1720 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 22 Jul 1796 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Burial: in Chatham, Massachusetts
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jonnathan Godfrey (1682-1765) 6
Mother: Mercie Mayo (1685-Bef 1765) 9
Spouses and Children
1. *Thomas Merrick (10 Feb 1718 - )
Marriage: 2 Aug 1750 - Chatham, Massachusetts 10
Status:
2. John Gould (21 Jun 1718 - 1746)
Marriage: 1739 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. John Gould (1741-1816)
2. Thomas Gould (1743-Bef 1785)
3. Grace Gould (1746- )
Notes
General:
stone:
In Memory of
Mrs RUTH MIRICK
Wife of
Mr THOMAS MIRICK
of Harwich died July 22d
1790 in the 77th Year
of her Age 11
Ruth Godfrey
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1 Jan 1675 - Eastham, Plymouth Colony 6
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: George Godfrey (Est 1640- )
Mother: Hannah (Est 1640- )
Sally Godfrey
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Dec 1795 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: David Godfrey (1775-1795) 12
Mother: Ruth Higgins (1772- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Jesse Sparrow (13 Oct 1790 - )
Marriage: 4 Apr 1816 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Jesse Sparrow (Cir 1822- )
2. Ruth H Sparrow (Cir 1824- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Jesse Sparrow)
Children
Isaac Sparrow b: 6 Jan 1817 in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Olive Smith Sparrow b: 8 Feb 1819 in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Jesse Sparrow b: 11 Jun 1821 in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Ruth Higgins Sparrow b: 7 Jul 1823 in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Sally Godfrey Sparrow b: 7 Dec 1825 in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Sparrow b: 14 May 1828 in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Hannah C. Sparrow b: 11 Apr 1831 in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Daughter Sparrow b: 21 Feb 1835 in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Adline Sparrow b: 21 Feb 1835 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
David G. Sparrow b: 3 Feb 1837 in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts
(kiwidave)
Samuel Godfrey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1705 - Monomoit (Chatham), Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1768 - Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Moses Godfrey (1667-1743) 6
Mother: Deborah Cook (1678-1734)
Spouses and Children
1. *Thankful Knowles (Cir 1705 - Bef Nov 1779)
Marriage: Est 1725
Status:
Children:
1. Susannah Godfrey (1730- )
2. Josiah Godfrey (1728-1790)
3. Mary Godfrey (1732- )
4. Thankful Godfrey (Cir 1734-1815)
5. Phebe Godfrey (Cir 1734- )
6. Prince Godfrey (Cir 1740-1814)
7. Alexander Godfrey (Cir 1742- )
8. Bethiah Godfrey (Cir 1743-1800)
Notes
General:
Probate: 30 AUG 1768 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, CAN
Will: 4 FEB 1765
Samuel Godfrey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Jan 1664 - Eastham, Plymouth Colony 6
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: George Godfrey (Est 1640- )
Mother: Hannah (Est 1640- )
Sarah Godfrey
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 9 May 1757 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 5 Apr 1815 - Barrington, Nova Scotia
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joseph Godfrey (1733-Bef 1761)
Mother: Mehitable Hamilton (1735-1777) 13
Spouses and Children
1. *Isaac Kenney (1755 - 2 Feb 1829)
Marriage: 10 Jun 1775 - Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Isaac Kenney)
Children
John G. KENNEY
Heman KENNEY b: 10 JUL 1776 in Barrington, Shelburn, NS
Mehitable KENNEY b: 26 JUN 1778 in Barrington, Shelburn, NS
Nancy Ann KENNEY b: 14 OCT 1780 in Barrington, Shelburn, Nova Scotia
Joseph KENNEY b: 03 JUN 1783 in Barrington, Shelburn, NS
Isaac KENNEY b: 21 SEP 1785 in Barrington, Shelburn, NS
Isaac KENNEY b: 23 SEP 1787 in Barrington, Shelburn, NS
James KENNEY b: 23 SEP 1787 in Barrington, Shelburn, NS
Sarah KENNEY b: 10 OCT 1789 in Cape Sable, NS
Polly KENNEY b: 1792
Heman KENNEY b: 03 NOV 1796 in Cape Sable, NS
Marcy KENNEY b: 01 JAN 1798
Solomon KENNEY b: 25 JAN 1802 in Cape Sable, NS
(mewingnut)
Sarah Godfrey
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1734 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 9 Jun 1797
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jeptha Godfrey (Abt 1710-Bef 1763)
Mother: Bathsheba Eldredge (Abt 1713-1797)
Spouses and Children
1. *Acus Tripp (7 Oct 1731 - 26 Mar 1807)
Marriage: 3 Sep 1754 - Chatham, Massachusetts 14
Status:
Children:
1. Margaret Tripp (Cir 1756- )
2. Jonathan Tripp (1758-1807)
3. Jeptha Tripp (Cir 1764- )
4. Samuel Tripp (1764-1832)
5. Reuben Tripp (1766-1798)
6. Godfrey Tripp (Cir 1766- )
7. William Tripp (1770-1843)
Sarah Godfrey
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1750 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: George Godfrey (Cir 1707-1768) 1
Mother: Mercy Knowles (1717-1758) 2
Spouses and Children
1. *Jonathan Nickerson (11 Apr 1747 - 1810)
Marriage:
Status:
Sears Godfrey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1760
Baptism:
Death: Bef 1796
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Rhoda Snow (11 Dec 1767 - 30 Apr 1816)
Marriage: 17 Aug 1788 - Harwich, Massachusetts 15
Status:
Children:
1. Enos Godfrey (1788-1835)
Notes
General:
of Harwich, 1788
Susannah Godfrey
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 3 Apr 1730 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth, cir 1727 in Chatham, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Samuel Godfrey (Est 1705-1768)
Mother: Thankful Knowles (Cir 1705-Bef 1779)
Spouses and Children
1. *Richard Cole (Est 1725 - Bef Oct 1761)
Marriage: 20 Oct 1749 - Chatham, Massachusetts 16
Status:
2. Nathan Nickerson (Est 1728 - Abt 1793)
Marriage: 8 Oct 1761 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Nathan Nickerson)
Children
Charles NICKERSON b: ABT 1760/1763 in Sambro, Nova Scotia
Sarah NICKERSON b: in Nova Scotia
Susannah NICKERSON b: 21 Oct 1770 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia
(irish)
Thankful Godfrey
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1734 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1815
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Samuel Godfrey (Est 1705-1768)
Mother: Thankful Knowles (Cir 1705-Bef 1779)
Spouses and Children
1. *David Smith (1718 - Abt 1795)
Marriage: 16 Jul 1764 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Zara Smith (1768-1843) 13
2. Aram Smith (1770- ) 13
3. Elizabeth Smith (1776-1856) 13
4. Warren Smith (Est 1764- )
5. Obediah Smith (1772- )
6. Jesse Smith (1774- )
7. Thankful Smith (1778- )
2. John Reynolds (Est 1730 - Bef 1755)
Marriage: 21 Feb 1753 - Chatham, Massachusetts 17
Status:
Notes
General:
1st marriage John Reynolds?Marriage Notes (David Smith)
Father: Samuel GODFREY
David & Thankful moved to Barrington NS about 1762. He was a grantee at Barrington NS, settling at Sherose Island in the mid 1760s. He was not shown on the "Return of Inhabitants and Stock in the Township of Barrington 1 Jul 1762". David's brothers Elkanah, Jonathan, and Solomon also settled in Barrington. 18 19
Thomas Godfrey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1708 - Monomoit (Chatham), Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1778 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jonnathan Godfrey (1682-1765) 6
Mother: Mercie Mayo (1685-Bef 1765) 9
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Covel (Est 1732 - )
Marriage: 8 Mar 1753 - Eastham, Massachusetts 21
Status:
2. Bethiah Eldredge (Est 1712 - Abt 1753)
Marriage: 7 Jun 1733 - Chatham, Massachusetts 22
Status:
Children:
1. Hannah Godfrey (Est 1737-After 1779)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Bethiah Eldredge)
Children:
i. Nathaniel Godfrey (1734, Massachusetts - 1778, Massachusetts)
ii. Thomas Godfrey (1736, Massachusetts - 1763, Massachusetts)
iii. Hannah Godfrey (1738, Massachusetts - 1779, Provincetown)
iv. Richard Godfrey (1740, Massachusetts - 1779)
v. Jerusha Godfrey (1748, Massachusetts - 1830, Massachusetts)
vi. Bethia Godfrey (1750, Massachusetts - 1779, Massachusetts)
Warren H Godfrey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1 Dec 1830 - Brewster, Massachusetts 23
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Enos Godfrey (1788-1835)
Mother: Reliance Hopkins (1794- )
Major General William Goffe
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1610 - Essex, England 24
Baptism:
Death: Cir 1680 - Hadley, Massachusetts Bay
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Frances Whalley (Est 1620 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Notes
General:
"GOFFE, WILLIAM (fl. 1642-1660), English parliamentarian, son of Stephen Goffe, puritan rector of Stanmer in Essex, began life as an apprentice to a London salter, a zealous parliamentarian, but on the outbreak of the civil war he joined the army and became captain in Colonel Harleys regiment of the new model in 1645. He was imprisoned in 1642 for his share in the petition to give the control of the militia to the parliament. By his marriage with Frances, daughter of General Edward Whalley, he became connected with Oliver Cromwells family and one of his most faithful followers. He was a member of the deputation which on the 6th of July 1647 brought up the charge against the eleven members. He was active in bringing the king to trial and signed the death warrant. In 1649 he received the honorary degree of M.A. at Oxford. He distinguished himself at Dunbar, commanding a regiment there and at Worcester. He assisted in the expulsion of Barebones parliament in 1653, took an active part in the suppression of Penruddocks rising in July 1654, and in October 1655 was appointed major-general for Berkshire, Sussex and Hampshire. Meanwhile he had been elected member for Yarmouth in the parliament of 1654 and for Hampshire in that of 1656. He supported the proposal to bestow a royal title upon Cromwell, who greatly esteemed him, was included in the newly-constituted House of Lords, obtained Lamberts place as major-general of the Foot, and was even thought of as a fit successor to Cromwell. As a member of the committee of nine appointed in June 1658 on public affairs, he was witness to the protectors appointment of Richard Cromwell as his successor. He supported the latter during his brief tenure of power and his fall involved his own loss of influence. In November 1659 he took part in the futile mission sent by the army to Monk in Scotland, and at the Restoration escaped with his father-in-law General Edward Whalley to Massachusetts. Goffes political aims appear not to have gone much beyond fighting to pull down Charles and set up Oliver ; and he was no doubt a man of deep religious feeling, who acted throughout according to a strict sense of duty as he conceived it. He was destined to pass the rest of his life in exile, separated from his wife and children, dying, it is supposed, about 1679." - Encyclopedia Britannica 1911
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"William Goffe, Major-General, Regicide, d.c 1680
The son of a Puritan clergyman, William Goffe was apprenticed to a London grocer and became a freeman of the Grocers' Company in 1642. He joined Parliament's army during the First Civil War and is listed as a captain in Colonel Harley's regiment at the formation of the New Model Army in April 1645. By his marriage to Frances, daughter of Edward Whalley, he became connected to Oliver Cromwell's family. Goffe was one of the most radical of the Army officers, both in politics and religion. On the first day of the Putney Debates in October 1647, he proposed a prayer meeting before the debates began. Quoting Biblical prophecy, he was the first of the Army officers openly to call for negotiations with King Charles to end, and
for the King to be brought to account. He repeated these demands at the Windsor prayer meeting of April 1648, where senior Army officers sought guidance to determine the causes of the troubles that continued to afflict the nation. Moved by Goffe's exposition of God's purpose, the officers resolved to bring the King to trial at the earliest opportunity. After the King's defeat in the Second Civil War, Goffe was appointed to the High Court of Justice and was a signatory of the death warrant.
Goffe commanded Cromwell's own regiment during the invasion of Scotland in 1650 and fought with distinction at the battles of Dunbar and Worcester. He supported Cromwell's dissolution of the Rump Parliament in April 1653 and personally assisted in the expulsion of the radicals of the Nominated Assembly the following December. Goffe was elected MP for Yarmouth in the First Protectorate Parliament and was appointed a "Trier" to vet candidates for the clergy in 1654. He was involved in the suppression of Penruddock's Uprising in March 1655, which led to the imposition of direct military rule under the Rule of the Major-Generals, during which Goffe was appointed Major-General for Berkshire, Hampshire and Sussex. Despite his complaints of lack of funds, and a sense of his own unworthiness, Goffe worked hard to bring about a godly reformation in his region. He was extremely hostile to travelling Quakers, whom he regarded as subversive and dangerous. He threatened to beat George Fox when he came to Sussex, and demanded the death sentence on James Nayler when he was brought to trial for blasphemy in 1656.
Although he initially opposed the offer of the Crown to Cromwell in February 1657, Goffe may have become reconciled to the idea by the time Cromwell himself declined it in May. He was named to Cromwell's Upper House, and remained a loyal supporter until the Protector's death. Goffe transferred his loyalty to Richard Cromwell in 1658 and is said to have advised him to use military force to resist Fleetwood and Desborough. Goffe lost all influence when Richard fell from power.
With his father-in-law and fellow-regicide Edward Whalley, Goffe fled to New England at the Restoration and hid in the frontier town of Hadley, Massachusetts. With the help of sympathetic colonists, Whalley and Goffe evaded capture by Royalist agents sent to seek them out. Goffe entered colonial folklore as the "Angel of Hadley", reportedly emerging from the forest to lead the settlers in repelling an attack by hostile Native Americans in 1675." - David Plant, http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk
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"The reign of republicanism in England, under Oliver Cromwell and his son, was short. King Charles the First, after contending with the people for the royal prerogative and the throne for several years, was beheaded on a cold winter's morning in January, 1649, in front of his own palace of Whitehall. Royalty was then abolished. Late in May, 1660, the son of Kind Charles, who had been proclaimed monarch of England under the title of Charles the Second, rode into London on horseback between his brothers the Dukes of York and Gloucester, and took up his abode in the palace of Whitehall, while flags waved, bells rang, cannon roared, trumpets brayed, shouts rent the air and fountains poured out costly libations of wine as tokens of the public joy. After a struggle for about twenty years between royalists and republicans, the monarchy was restored, and the English people again became subjects of the head of the Scottish house of Stuart.
The members of the House of Commons had constituted a High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles the First, and many of them signed his death-warrant. These were hunted by the royal vengeance. Some perished on the scaffold. Among these were Hugh Peters and Henry Vane, who had figured conspicuously in New England more than twenty years before. Many fled and so escaped the fatal block. Among these were Edward Whalley and William Goffe, who went to New England and gave the first news of the restoration of monarchy. The former was a cousin of Cromwell and of Hampden, and a distinguished cavalry officer. He had been entrusted with the custody of the royal prisoner, and was one of the signers of his death-warrant. Cromwell appointed him one of the major-generals who assisted in the government of the commonwealth, and was one of his most active lieutenants. Goffe, a son of a Puritan clergyman, was Whalley's son-in-law, a colonel of infantry and member of the High Court who signed the death-warrant of the king. He, also, was one of Cromwell's ten major-generals.
Orders speedily followed the fugitives to New England for their arrest, and officers came from Old England for the same purpose. The "regicides," or king-killers, as they were called, were, after awhile, closely hunted, but the authorities and people of New England effectually concealed them from their enemies for years. When danger lowered, they fled from Boston to New Haven, and for a long time occupied a cave not far from that place. Finally they made their abode in the remote town of Hadley, where they were joined by Colonel John Dixwell, another "regicide," who finally settled in New Haven. In Hadley, Whalley died. Goffe survived him until after King Phillips war; but from the time when they took up their abode there, in disguise, they disappeared from public view. During that period, so terrible to New England settlers, Hadley was surrounded by hostile Indians. The people were in the meeting-house observing a fast day. They were armed, as usual, and sallied out to drive off the savages. At that moment a tall, venerable personage, with a white, flowing beard, clad in a white robe and carrying a glittering sword, suddenly appeared among the people, took the lead of the armed men, caused them to observe strict military discipline, and led them to victory. The people believed the stranger (who as suddenly disappeared) to be an angel sent by the Lord for their deliverance. The angel was General Goffe, who was stout in body and valiant in spirit. It is related that soon after his arrival in Boston, a fencing-master erected a stage on the Common, on which he walked several days, defying any man to fight him with swords. Goffe accepted the challenge. He wrapped a huge cheese in a linen cloth as a shield, and arming himself with a mop filled with muddy water from the gutter, he appeared on the platform. The fencing-master made a thrust at him, which Goffe received in the cheese in which he held the sword until he had smeared his antagonist with mud. The enraged fencing-master caught up a broad-sword, when Goffe exclaimed: "Stop, sir; hitherto, you see, I have only played with you, and not attempted to harm you but if you come at me now with the broadsword, know that I will certainly take your life." The alarmed fencing-master cried out, as he dropped his sword, "Who can you be? You must be either Goffe, or Whalley, or the Devil, for there were no other men in England who could beat me." - Benson J.Lossing, LL.D.
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JOHN FISK IN 1896 ON THE REGICIDES
"Charles had good reason to feel that the governments of New England were assuming too many airs of sovereignty. There were plenty of people at hand to work upon his mind. The friends of Gorton and Child and Vassall were loud with their complaints. Samuel Maverick swore that the people of New England were all rebels, and be could prove it. The king was assured that the Confederacy was "a war combination, made by the four colonies when they had a design to throw off their dependence on England, and for that purpose." The enemies of the New England people, while dilating upon the rebellious disposition of Massachusetts, could also remind the king that for several years that colony bad been coining and circulating shillings and sixpences with the name "Massachusetts" and a tree on one side, and the name "New England" with the date on the other. There was no recognition of England upon this coinage, which was begun in 1652 and kept up for more than thirty years. Such pieces of money used to be called "pine-tree shillings" but, so far as looks go, the tree might be anything, and an adroit friend of New England once gravely assured the king that it was meant for the royal oak in which his majesty hid himself after the battle of Worcester!
Against the colony of New Haven the king had a special grudge. Two of the regicide judges, who had sat in the tribunal which condemned his father, escaped to New England in 1660 and were well received there. They were gentlemen of high position. Edward Whalley was a cousin of Cromwell and Hampden. He had distinguished himself at Naseby and Dunbar, and had risen to the rank of lieutenant-general. He had commanded at the capture of Worcester, where it is interesting to observe that the royalist commander who surrendered to him was Sir Henry Washington, a cousin to the grandfather of George Washington. The other regicide, William Goffe, as a major-general in Cromwell's army, had won such distinction that there were some who pointed to him as the proper person to succeed the Lord Protector on the death of the latter. He had married Whalley's daughter. Soon after the arrival of these gentlemen, a royal order for their arrest was sent to Boston. If they had been arrested and sent back to England their severed heads would soon have been placed over Temple Bar. The king's detectives hotly pursued them through the woodland paths of New England, and they would soon have been taken but for the aid they got from the people. Many are the stories of their hairbreadth escapes. Sometimes they took refuge in a cave on a mountain near New Haven, sometimes they hid in friendly cellars; and once, being hard put to it, they skulked under a wooden bridge, while their pursuers on horseback galloped by overhead. After lurking about New Haven and Milford for two or three years, on hearing of the expected arrival of Colonel Nichols and his commission, they sought a more secluded hiding place near Hadley, a village lately settled far up the Connecticut river, within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. Here the avengers lost the trail, and the persuit was abandoned.The people of New Haven had been especially zealous in shielding the fugatives.Mr. Davenport had not only harboured them in his own house, but on the Sabbeth before their expected arrival he had preached a very bold sermon, openly advising the people to aid and comfort them as far as possible. The colony moreover did not officially recognize the restoration of Charles II to the throne till that event had been known on New England for more than a year. For these reasons the wrath of the king was especially roused against New Haven." - JOHN FISK, 1896
William Golder
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1726
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Phebe Skidmore (1739 - 22 Aug 1828) 25
Marriage:
Status: