REFERENCE: 59 VA Cous
Bennet Goode, # 59 of Virginia Cousins of "Fine Creek" Powhatan Co., VA,
son of No. 34, John Goode of "Falls Plantation" Chesterfield Co., VA
(who) was born the son of John Goode, No 26 (His father John Goode # 26
appears at page 27 of Virginia Cousins) at Whitby, 1670-80, and was
killed by Indians, 1720-1730. He (John Goode # 34) left three sons and a
daughter, who removed with their widowed mother to the south-western
boundary of the colony, where they bought land and settled on the banks
of the Roanoke River. The date of this removal is not known, but it was
probably in 1738, or soon after, at which period colonization upon the
Roanoke was strongly encouraged by the colonial government, the region
"being for the most part unseated and uncultivated," (See Hening's
Statutes) and settlers were exempted for five years from all taxes and
tithes; though required to perform a share of the work of exterminating
the wolves. Traces of the pitfalls dug for the wolves by the early
settlers are visible to this day in Mecklenburg County. Virginia cousins,
p. 37.
Bennet Goode was born in Chesterfield Co., VA 1700-20, removed with his
mother to Mecklenburg Co., VA and subsequently settled in Powhatan, where
he was a prosperous planter. Married about 1740, Martha Jefferson, of
"Osbornes", aunt of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States.
Bennet Goode settled first at a place in Powhatan Co., VA near the mouth
of Genito Creek, doubtless the spot referred to in the Colonial Statutes
of 1742, establishing a ferry "from the land of Bennet Goode, across the
James River to the land of Colonel John Fleming, in Goochland Co." This
he sold in 1758-59, to a man named Jude, and it has since been known as
"Jude's Ferry." He then removed to a place on "Fine Creek," about five
miles distant, which was inherited by his son John. Sept. 5, 1768, 369
acres in Goochland Co., were granted to Bennet Goode. Virginia Land
Register, Book ccccxxvi., p. 875. Goochland at that time included what
became, in 1777, Powhattan Co.
Like his elder brother, Bennet Goode found his bride at "Osbornes," a
hamlet on the James River fifteen miles below Whitby, where his boyhood
was passed.
The Jefferson family of Virginia were from Wales. Their ancestor
emigrated from near Mount Snowdon, and was a representative of Flower de
Hundred in the Colonial Assembly, convened July 30, 1619, in the choir of
the church at Jamestown. His ancestor lived at "Osbornes" and had five
children: 1. Thomas d. yg. 2, Field, who emigrated to a place on the
Roanoke, near the Carolina line. 3. Colonel Peter, b. Feb 29, 1708, m.
1738, Jane Randolph; began life as a surveyor, settled in "Shadwell" an
estate including the present site of "Monticello. (An estimate of his
characther is given in Randall's Life of Thomas Jefferson, p. 13). 4.
Martha married Bennet Goode, and 5. Mary, m. Wm. Turpin, great
grandfather of Gen. Edward Johnson, CSA, uncle of Mary Turpin Goode, No.
34. Colonel Peter Jefferson's daughter Mary was grandmother of the wife
of Colonel Francis Goode, No. 91.
pp. 43 and 44 of Virginia Cousins
Bennet Goode, No. 59 in Va Cousins, is the 4th great-grandfather of Paul
Byrne Haring, Esq. and John Goode Haring, Esq.