Mr Robert Goodale

• General Notes
  • ROBERT GOODELL was born in England in 1604. This is calculated from the only known contemporary account of his age. He was recorded as age 30 by the Customs House when he came to this country in 1634. There has been much speculation as to who Robert's parents were, but their identity has not been proven. One current theory, as suggested by George E. Williams in his book, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Goodale/ Goodell of Salem, Massachusetts, states that Robert Goodell was the son of Robert and Joan (Artys) Goodell, who was born in 1601 and was baptized 16 Aug 1601 in Dennyngton, Suffolk Co., England. There are other families with sons named Robert of his generation, but in no case do the few known facts go together correctly.
    
    He died in 1683 in Salem, Essex Co., MA (LDS/AF, 4 Apr 1683) (Versailles). The will of Robert Goodell was dated 12 Oct 1682 and was probated 24 Jun 1683 in Salem, Essex Co., MA. His will reads as follows:
    
    I Robert Goodell being now aged & weake, in body as alsoe my wife and my daughter Elizabeth Bennett, hath taken care of me and therefor my will & desire is & I doe will & bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Bennet & my grand child, John Smith, my house & the orchard & all the meadowes that I now posess with the pasture which is about eight acres of upland be more or lesse, all which house land & meadowes my daughter Elizabeth Bennett, and my grand child John Smith, shall enjoy after the lease, or terme, that it is now let for, is expired, they or either of them paying as much rent, yearly which is to the value of twenty shillings in currant pay, dated the twelfth of October one thousand six hundred eighty two; & after my daughter Elizabeth's decease, the whole lands shall be my grand child's John Smith. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal
    
    He married (1) KATHERINE KILHAM (or Catherine) about 1628/29 in England (b.of ch.). Katherine was born about 1606 (age 28, 1634) in England and is said to have died in 1645 in Salem, Essex Co., MA.
    
    Robert married (2) MARGARET LAZENBY of Exeter, NH in 1669 (Torrey, marriage contract 1669) (The History of Salem, Mass.) (LDS/AF, 30 Aug 1669) (Williams, 1647). He entered into an agreement with her to settle on twelve acres of her land and build a house there. He also promised two cows and a riding horse for the property. His son, Jacob, was to inherit this property after Margaret's death. Margaret was mentioned in Robert's will of 1682.
    
    
    
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    Robert, his wife Katherine and three children, sailed from the port of Ipswich, Suffolk Co., England on 30 Apr 1634 on the ship "Elizabeth" in charge of Captain, Mr. Andrews. They took the oath of allegiance and supremacy at his Majesties Customs House on 12 Nov 1634 at Ipswich MA. Sailing on the same ship was Margerie Washburn, the wife of John Washburn and their two sons, John and Philip. They were the ancestors of the Putney, Vermont Washburns who married into the Goodell family in the 9th generation. Also, on board were John and Anne Crosse, who were probably the ancestors of Hannah Cross, who married John Munroe. John Munroe was the great grandfather of Minnie Jane (Monroe) Scott, and three of her children married into the Goodell family.
    
    According to Bowen's account and the History of Salem, they made their home at Salem, "in the field northeasterly of Cold Spring in North Salem," where he was granted a house lot and an acre of land in 1636. He obtained another 20 acres in 1639 and 1652. By 1651, he had 480 acres of land in Salem. On 15 Mar 1660, he sold 50 acres to Giles Corey called the "Corey Farm." He gave generous acreages of land to his sons and daughters as wedding gifts. George E. Williams gives the following account of his land:
    
    ...the first record of the Goodells in America [at Salem], indicated that they settled at Great Cove in the North Fields. This Spring, so often mentioned in the early records in what was later called Liberty Hill Park, was on Robert Goodell's farm and was known for the first half century of Salem's history as Goodell's Spring. It is not recorded how he acquired this first farm. However, in 1636 and in 1638 he received grants of twenty acres each in that portion of the town which became known as Salem Village, and he gradually acquired by purchase similar grants made to other early settlers, until by 1651, he was the owner of a tract of land at Bald Hill comprising four hundred and eighty acres, which was confirmed to him by a town grant on November 7, 1651. He probably moved to this new property at about that time, and, as opportunity offered, disposed of his Great Cove farm, deeding the house and a portion of the land to his son-in-law, John Smith in 1658. Another lot was conveyed to Nicholas Manning in 1667, and a third conveyance was probably made to John Orne, who owned a part of the property, hitherto unconveyed in 1684.
    
    Robert was a farmer. "He was a man of piety, of education, of considerable wealth, of great strength of character, a helper in all important matters --- such was our ancestor, Robert Goodell" (Versailles). In 1670, the people of Salem petitioned for a church of their own and Robert Goodell's signature is on that document. Robert does not appear to have taken part in govenment affairs.

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