Person:Richard Goldsmith (14)
Richard Goldsmith
b.Abt 1622
d.18 May 1673 Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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  • H.  Richard GoldsmithAbt 1622 - 1673
  • W.  Mary _____Bef 1623 - Bet 1684 & 1685
m. Bef 1643
  1. Thomas GoldsmithEst 1645 -
  2. Mary GoldsmithAbt 1648 - 1744
  3. Sarah Goldsmith1650 - 1674
  4. Hannah Goldsmith1657 -
  5. Zaccheus GoldsmithAbt 1662 - 1747
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Name[1][2] Richard Goldsmith
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1622
Marriage Bef 1643 to Mary _____
Death[1] 18 May 1673 Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesKilled by lightning.
Estate Inventory[1][3] 26 May 1673
Probate[1][3] 30 Sep 1673 Administration to the widow, inventory attested.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Richard1 Goldsmith, in Blair, Margaret. Richard Goldsmith of Wenham and Some Descendants. Essex Genealogist (Massachusetts) (Essex Society of Genealogists). (Feb, May, Aug, Nov 2006)
    26:31-33.

    "Richard1 Goldsmith was born probably ca. 1622. He died at Wenham on 18 May 1673. He married 1643, Mary_____. Mary married on 25 November 1674 John Abbey. … Richard was almost certainly the brother of Thomas Goldsmith. … Perley says Richard and his wife lived in Salem before removing to Wenham. However, it is possible that Richard and Mary did not actually move. Initially Wenham was set off from Salem along an uninhabited natural division but there wasn't agreement on the actual boundary until 1667. Perhaps they were just in the part of Salem that became Wenham. Richard was a shoemaker. … Richard's death was a sudden and unusual one. He was

    killed by lightning on Sunday, May 18, 1673, in the house of the parish minister, Rev. Mr. Newman, lately deceased, in the presence of Rev. Mr. Higginson, who supplied the pulpit for the day, and others. A dog under his chair was killed by the same stroke. Rev. Increase Mather alluded to the event in his work, Remarkable Providences. …

    Administration of Richard Goldsmith's estate was granted to his wife Mary. The estate was inventoried on 26 May 1673 by John 'Abye,' Sr., and Walter Fairfield. It amounted to £15 clear and was attested to by his widow Mary in Ipswich Court on 30 September 1673."

  2. ↑ Abbe, Cleveland, and Josephine Genung Nichols. Abbe-Abbey genealogy : in memory of John Abbe and his descendants. (New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Co, 1916)
    page 5.

    'John Abbe married (2) November 25, 1674, MRS. MARY GOLDSMITH, widow of Richard Goldsmith, who was killed by lightening, May 18, 1674 [error for 1673].'

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Estate of Richard Goldsmith of Wenham, in Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
    2:377-78.

    Administration on the estate of Richard Gouldsmith, intestate, granted Sept. 30, 1673, to Mary Gouldsmith, the widow, who brought in an inventory of the estate amounting to 15li., clear. Court ordered that the estate remain in her hands. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 231.

    Inventory taken 26: 3: 1673 [May 26, 1673], by John Abye, Sr. and Walter Fayerfield: a hous and Land, 30li.; two cows, one mare and on colte, 11li.; thre swine. 1li. 13s.; beads, beading, beadsteds and an old chest, 5li.; a pott, Iron were and wodden Lumber in the hous. 2li. 17s.; total, 501i. ,10s. There is also due, 4li. 5s.; 18s.; 21i. Debts from the estate: to Mr. Wilim brown, 121i. 3s. 4d.; farmor Porttor, 17li. 4s.; Captain Corwene, 31i. 7s.; Lote Cononte, 12s. 10d.; Mr. Wade, 1li. 4s.; Mr. Wainrite, 1li. 4s.; Goodman wodwar, 2li. 18s.; Mr. battor, 1li.; total, 391i. 13s. 4d.; clear estate, 16l1. 14s. 4d.

    Attested in Ipswich court Sept. 30. 1673 by Mary, the relict of Richard Gouldsmith. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 11,077."

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