REFERENCE: 27 Va Cous
# 27 in Virginia Cousins. Tradition states that he and his older brother,
John Goode, the Immigrant, No. 26 in Virginia Cousins, settled first upon
the "eastern shore" and afterwards came to the James River. It may not be
possible to know whether or not John and Richard Goode were for a time
residents of Accomac. It is not known whether Richard accompanied his
brother to Barbados. It is possible that he may rather have come to
Virginia by way of New England. One Richard Goode was juryman at a court
in Massachusetts in 1646, who may have been the same, since there are no
subsequent traces of him in the more northern colony. In 1670, Richard
Goode received a grant of 250 acres of land in Virginia, "between the
Chickahominy River and the Great Swamp." This would appear from the land
register, to have been in the old Rappahannock county, abolished in 1690,
and now included in part in Essex, Richmond, Caroline, and Spottsylvania
counties. The records of this region, were in great part destroyed during
the civil war, but a portion of them is still preserved at Tappahannock,
and has enabled us to connect Richard Goode, the emigrant, with some, at
least, of his descendants. He died about 1719, at which time, July 19,
(1719,) his will is recorded. He would appear, therefore, to have been
younger than his brother, John. Children are Richard Goode, # 45, born
before 1680 and Edward Goode, #46, died about 1744. Virginia Cousins, p.
34.