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- Source:Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 3, p. 1637, wants to have the Joseph and Susanna of Marlborough, and Joseph and Anna of Warwick, be the same couple, assuming, apparently, that the two town clerks merely had different interpretations of the wife's name. This is demonstrably incorrect. It appears to be two different Josephs for the following reasons beyond the discrepant names of their wives: The Marlborough couple, Joseph and Susanna, has children born in 1755, 1757 (named Joseph), and Oct 1760. Joseph Goodell of Marlborough wrote a will 15 Apr 1760 "Being Entered into the Publick Service", naming wife Susannah, children Susannah and Joseph (Martha, the 1760 child, hadn't been born yet), and this will was proved 17 Feb 1761 [Middlesex Probate 9308]. Clearly, this Joseph of Marlborough was not the same as the Joseph who lived in Warwick.
The Warwick couple, Joseph and Anna (Hopkins), are married in Oct 1760 in Holden, clearly incompatible with the birth of the Marlborough child in the same month of 1760, and their first child recorded in Warwick is named Joseph, b. 1761, indicating they are indeed a separate family since the other family already had a son Joseph who was still alive in 1761. After Joseph, there are other children born to the Warwick couple, including Cutter's subject, Zina Goodell. This Joseph of Warwick would have been too young to have married by 1755. But given that he died in Warwick in 1829 where Joseph and Anna were having their children, and his age at death indicates a birth in 1735-6 range, it is clear it was this Joseph who married Anna Hopkins. - ↑ Without a marriage record, it is hard to tell who Susannah is. She may be the Susannah Goodale who married 1764 in Petersham to David Marble, but nothing further has been discovered about this couple to argue either for or against this.
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