link Pertinent text, pp. 67-69:
"25- Samuel4 Goldthwaite (Samuel3, Samuel2, Thomas1), of Salem, baptized there May 30, 1702 1st ch. Rec.), married 1st (int. pub. Oct. 24, 1730), MARY PULSIFER{a} of Gloucester. After her death he married, Aug. 22, 1738, ABIGAIL PROCTOR of Salem, daughter of John Proctor.{b} The home of Samuel was the south end of the house his father had kept as an inn and fronting on the present Foster street, then called 'a way leading from the meeting-house to Boston road.' This he sold Dec. 18, 1752, to his brother-in-law, Gideon Foster, who lived in the north end of the house, and about that time he bought out the other heirs of his wife's father, John Proctor, and removed to the latter's homestead, which is described as 50 acres with mansion house, barn, etc., bounded east on the Ipswich road, south by the Reading road, etc. Proctor's Brook, still so called, helps to mark its location.
"Samuel last appears in the parish tax-list in 1771, dying, therefore, probably in 1772, when 70 years of age. His wife was living in 1762. The old Goldthwaite record of 1829 says of Samuel that he " left no male heirs." Pie must have had, however, the two following sons, who died without issue, leaving the name extinct in his line not many years after his death. If he had daughters, they have not come to light. Children, by 1st wife:
"69 SAMUEL5, b. ____; it is only known of him that he was in the company of Capt. John Tapley (enlisted at Salem, Beverly, etc.), which was in the capitulation of Fort William Henry, Aug. 9, 1757, and that he is marked 'dead' on the roll, perhaps having perished in the massacre by the Indians which followed the surrender of the fort. He is credited with service of 23 weeks, 4 days, having entered March 9. His home is given as Danvers, and he must have been past 21, since no parent or guardian is mentioned against his name, as is the case with those under age (Mass. Archives, Vol. 95, p. 51).
"By 2d wife:
"70 JONATHAN, b. 1738 ; m. July 2, 1770, Rebecca Trask. He enlisted at the age of 18 in Capt. Andrew Fuller's company, Col. Ichabod Plaisted's regiment, serving at Fort Edward from Mar. 30 to Dec. 1, 1756. The roll shows his age, his birth at Danvers, and that he was then apprenticed to Thorndike Proctor (blacksmith). He again enlisted Apr. 2, 1759, in one of Gen. Amherst's regiments. He served also in the Revolution, in Capt. Benjamin Ward's company, stationed at Salem for the defense of the sea-coast, from Jan. 22 to Nov. 18, 1776. He died in 1778, in which year, July 15th, administration of estate of Jonathan Goldthwait, late of Danvers, mariner, was granted to his widow, Rebecca. "
Pertinent footnotes, p. 68:
{a} "Babson, in his history of Gloucester, mentions John Pulcifer,. or Pulsever, who, according to tradition, settled about 1650 on the old road leading to Coffin's Beach, and in 1688 had a piece of land given to the house where he then lived. He was the son of Benedict Pulsifer of Ipswich, and married, Dec, 31, 1684, Joanna, dau. of Thomas Kent. They had, among other children, as I am told by Mr. W. H. Dolliver of Gloucester, a Mary, baptized, 1st ch., Aug. 17, 1707, who may very probably have been the wife of Samuel Goldthwaite."
{b} "Abigail Proctor had sisters: Hannah, wife of John Balcum of Mansfield, Conn.; Mary, wife of Abraham Pierce of Salem; Rachel, who m. 1st, Jonathan Mackmallin, and 2d, Nath'l Massey; Elizabeth, unmarried, 1750; and a brother, John Proctor, 3d, who m. Mary Collier of Marblehead, and died in 1747 without issue."
