Person:Edward Goffe (1)
Edward Goffe
b.Bef 1604
d.26 Dec 1658 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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  • H.  Edward GoffeBef 1604 - 1658
  • W.  Joyce UnknownBef 1609 - 1638
m. Bef 1629
  1. Samuel GoffeAbt 1629 - Aft 1682
  2. Lydia GoffeAbt 1631 - 1715
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m. 1639
  1. Hannah Goffe1643 - 1697
  2. Abiah Goffe1646 - 1718
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Name[1] Edward Goffe
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1604 Based on estimated date of first marriage.
Marriage Bef 1629 to Joyce Unknown
Emigration[1] 1635
Residence[1] 1635 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[1] 1636 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Other[1] 25 May 1636 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Marriage 1639 to Margaret Wilkinson
Will[1] 26 Jun 1657 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesDated 26 June 1657 but signed 2 April 1657.
Occupation[1] Planter. Yeoman.
Death[1] 26 Dec 1658 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[1] 28 Dec 1658 Will proved.
Estate Inventory[1] 18 Jan 1658/59 Untotalled, the real estate totalling £619 10s.
References
  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Edward Goffe, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    3:92-98.

    ORIGIN: Unknown.
    MIGRATION: 1635 (in his narration of the failed attempt to sail for New England in late 1634, Rev. Thomas Shepard {1635, Cambridge} included among his shipmates "my dear friends then with me, viz: brother Champney, Frost, Goff, and divers others" [Young's First Planters 538-39]; all of these named men sailed successfully in 1635).
    OCCUPATION: Planter [MLR 1:34]. Yeoman [MLR 1:225, 2:31].
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Watertown church prior to 25 May 1636 implied by freemanship.
    FREEMAN: 25 May 1636 [MBCR 1:372].

  2.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862).


    2:267; GOFFE; EDWARD; "* EDWARD, Cambridge, came from Ipswich in Co. Suffk. by the Great Hope, embark. late in 1634, or very early in 1635, with Rev. Thomas Shepard, who left this sh. and some mos. later took another pass. from London. He was first at Watertown, certain. had ld. there 1637; brot. w. Joyce, and ch. Samuel and Lydia; here had Nathaniel, b. Feb. 1638, wh. prob. d. young. His w. d. Nov. 1638, and he m. Margaret, d. of wid. Isabel Wilkinson (wh. surv. him and m. 1662, John Witchfield of Windsor), by her had Deborah, b. 15 Dec. 1639; Mary, prob. wh. was bur. 23 Apr. 1646; Hannah, 23 Mar. 1644; and ... Dec. 1658, aged 64. A vexatious rec. in Geneal. Reg. IX. 169, makes Nathaniel b. 23 Aug. 1645 by his w. Joyce, wh. d. near seven yrs. bef. when he was, of course, ; s. of Margaret; beside enrich. him with w. Judith, that he never kn. It must always be borne in mind, that the volume from wh. these ..."

    2:268; GOFFE; SAMUEL; "SAMUEL, Cambridge, s. of Edward, came with his f. 1635, m. 25 June 1656, Ann, d. of wid. of John Barnard of Watertown, had Hannah, b. 12 May 1657; Edward, 28 Nov. 1658; Deborah, 22 Jan. 1661, d. 27 Dec. 1690; Samuel, 1 Jan. 1663; Lydia, 7 Jan. 1665; John, 11 Nov. 1666; Elizabeth 6 Oct. 1668, d. 15 ..."

    4:617-618; WITCHFIELD; JOHN; "... rem. with first sett. to Windsor, where his w. d. 26 Apr. 1659. He m. next, 1662, Margaret, wid. of Edward Goffe of Cambridge, but had no ch. by either. The sec. w. d. a. the end of June 1669 at Cambridge, where she had, 21 Apr. 1663, made her will, giving a piece of plate to W. her h. small legacies to the childr. ..."

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