William Goddard

Bef 1628 - 1691  (> 63 years)

• Name	William Goddard
  Birth	Bef 28 Feb 1628	Inglesham, Wiltshire, England   [1]
  Baptism	28 Feb 1628	Inglesham, Wiltshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Oct 1691	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I15061	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	30 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	Edward Goddard,   b. Abt 1584, of Lower Upham in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England d. Bef 12 Aug 1647 (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	Priscilla Doyley,   b. Bef 11 Aug 1594, Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, England d. Bef 15 Jun 1681, Box, Wiltshire, England (Age < 86 years)
  Marriage	13 Aug 1612	Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, England   [1]
  Family ID	F9477	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Miles,   b. Abt 1631   d. 8 Feb 1698, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 67 years)
  Children	+ 1. Josiah Goddard   d. 14 Nov 1720, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F9475	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Oct 2017

  
  

• Notes

  One of JTSs eleven proven "gateway ancestors." Citizen and grocer of London. He came to New England in 1665 with power-of-attorney of his mother-in-law, to collect on a debt owed her by her brother Ephraim Child, who had died in New England in 1662. He was disappointed in this mission, finding nothing to his uncle's estate but further debt. According to a written-out memoir left by William Goddard's son Edward (b. 1675 in Watertown), "his contracted circumstances and the plague then raging in London...was probably the occasion of his continuing to tarry here and sending for his wife and children who came over in 1666."

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.