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- RESEARCH NOTES:
1. Elizabeth Goodwin and John Crow are mentioned in the following excerpt of William Goodwin's biography: "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III:
"William Goodwin
Origin: Braintree, Essex
Migration: 1632 on Lyon [Hotten 150] First Residence: Cambridge Removes: Hartford 1636, Hadley by 1659, Farmington by 1670... Estate: ...In the Hartford land inventory of February 1639 "Mr. William Goodwing elder there in Christ Church" held twenty-two parcels, seven of which had been granted to him: three acres with dwelling house, outhouses, yards and gardens; one acre, one rood and ten perches in the Little Meadow; thirty acres, three roods and twelve perches of meadow and swamp in the North Meadow; four acres and thirty-four perches on the east side of the Great River; fourteen acres in the Old Oxpasture; eight acres in the Cowpasture; and twenty-eight acres, three roods and twenty-eight perches on the west side of the Little River. Among the remaining parcels, acquired by purchase, was "one parcel belonging to Mr. Goodwin & to John Crow jointly lying on the east side of the Great River," which they had bought from several persons, totalling seven hundred sixty-six acres [HaBOP 23-28]. On 26 March 1645 "Mr. William Goodwin of Hartford upon Connecticut River, ruling elder in the Church of Christ there, and John Crow of the same town, planter," sold to "Thomas Newell of Tunkses Sepos [Farmington] and John Standly of Hartford ... all our buildings and dividend or dividends of land made or to be made at Tunkses Seposs" [Farmington LR 1:54]... Marriage: (1) Shalford, Essex, 7 November 1616 Elizabeth White, daughter of Robert White of Messing, Essex [NEHGR 55:24]; she died before January 1669/70. (2) After 7 December 1654 and by January 1669/70 Susan (Garbrand) Hooker, widow of Rev. Thomas Hooker; she died at Farmington 17 May 1676 [Farm VR Barbour 58, citing FarmLR 2:141]. Child: With first wife
i Elizabeth, b. say 1620; m. by about 1640 John Crow of Hartford (probably as his second wife, since his eldest daughter Esther was born about 1628 and so was too old to be daughter of Elizabeth Goodwin) [Goodwin Gen 105-07]. In 1674 "Ozias Goodwin aged 78 years and W[illia]m Goodwin aged about 45 years" testified that "Mr. W[illia]m Goodwin deceased and Mr. John Crow his son-in-law ... were copartners in their buyings and sellings" [Goodwin Gen 107-08, citing Connecticut Archives, Private Controversies, Volume One].
Associations: William Goodwin's first wife, Elizabeth White, was sister of Mary White, wife of Joseph Loomis of Braintree, and of Anna White, wife of John Porter of Windsor [NEHGR 55:22-31]... Bibliographic Note: The family of William Goodwin has been especially well treated in print, due mostly to the patronage of James Junius Goodwin and the research of Frank Farnsworth Starr. In 1891 a number of authors, at the behest of James Junius Goodwin, wrote lengthy chapters which were gathered as "The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut, Descendants of William and Ozias Goodwin," (Hartford 1891), cited herein as Goodwin Gen. A biographical account of William Goodwin himself was prepared by Rev. George Leon Walker (pp. 77-94), and a similar treatment of Ozias Goodwin was done by Charles J. Hoadly (pp. 97-102). Frank Farnsworth Starr compiled the genealogies of the descendants of these two immigrants (pp. 105ff.). James Junius Goodwin then commissioned Starr to compile an account of some of his ancestral lines, which did not include any Goodwin material, presumably since that had already been published in 1891 ("Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut," 2 volumes [Hartford 1915], cited herein as Goodwin Anc). Finally, the same team produced a massive three-volume set based on decades of research on the Goodwin name in England ("English Goodwin Family Papers, Being Material Collected in the Search for the Ancestry of William and Ozias Goodwin, Immigrants of 1632 and Residents of Hartford, Connecticut," 3 volumes [Hartford 1921], cited herein as Goodwin Papers). The material of most interest to descendants of William Goodwin may be found in Volume Two (pp. 1123-24, 1171-77)."
2. NEHGS Register, Vol. 55, pages 22-31, 1901, see notes of Robert White for full transcript of article from which the following partial excerpt is taken:
"The children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor. By a Descendant...
William Goodwin and his wife Elizabeth left but one child, a daughter Elizabeth, who married John Crow, an early settler of Hartford. The date of her birth is not known, but it could not have been earlier than 1617, nor has the date of her marriage been found..."
3. The book, "Ancestors & Descendants of Clark Proctor Nichols and Sarah (Sally) Stoughton in England and America, 1620-2001, by Clara Pierce Olson Overbo (2002), pp. 158-59:
"JOHN CROW, born perhaps at Braintree, co. Essex, England; died at Hartford, Connecticut 18 January 1686; married ELIZABETH GOODWIN, daughter of William Goodwin. (See Goodwin Family)
John Crow probably came to New England with the group from Braintree under the leadership of William Goodwin in 1632 on The Lyon. This was the group that later was called "Hooker's Company." John, together with his father-in-law, William Goodwin, came to own a very large amount of land at Hartford. In fact, John Crow was considered the largest landowner. He had come to Hartford with the group from Newtown in 1636.
John, his wife, and family removed to Hadley in 1659 with the group of dissenters from the First Church of Hartford, which was at that time under the leadership of the Reverend Samuel Stone. Differences in opinion as to baptism and qualifications for church membership were the reasons for the exodus to Hadley. Sometime later, the Hartford church again split and the dissenters established a church in South Hartford.
Crow returned to Hartford in 1677/78, probably becoming a member of the South Hartford Church. He lived at Hartford until his death 16 January 1686.
Elizabeth, his wife, died at Farmington but the date is not known.
Children of John and Elizabeth (Goodwin) Crow:
i. Esther Crow, born about 1628, married, Giles Hamlen.
ii. John Crow, a merchant in Fairfield, Connecticut; died at sea.
iii. Samuel Crow, killed at Turner's Falls 11 May 1676 in an Indian skirmish', married 1671, Hannah Lewis.
iv. Nathaniel Crow, resided in Hartford; died 2 July 1695.
v. SARAH CROW (Lineal Ancestor. See g 2 below)
vi. Anna Crow, born 13 July 1649, married 7 March 1668, Thomas Dickinson.
vii. Elizabeth Crow, born about 1650, married about 1679, William Warren of Hartford and Hadley. They removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut.
viii. Mehitable Crow, born about 1652; married 24 September Samuel Partridge of Hadley.
ix. Mary Crow, married 1666, Noah Colonique of Hartford.
x. Ruth Crow, married 21 December 1671, William Gaylord of Windsor.
xi. Daniel Crow, born about 1656 resided at Hartford.
SARAH CROW, born at Hartford, Connecticut 1 March 1646/47; died 26 June 1710; married at Hatfield, Massachusetts 1 November 1661, DANIEL WHITE. (See White Family for children.)
References:
Barbour, Families of Early Hartford.
Boltwood, Genealogies of Hadley.
Collingwood, Deryck, Thomas Hooker, Father of American Democracy
Goodwin, Descendants of William Oziah Goodwin.
Olney, Passengers on the Lyon.
Starr, Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy Morgan Goodwin.
Walker, Leon, History of the First Church in Hartford."
4. The book, "Ancestors & Descendants of Clark Proctor Nichols and Sarah (Sally) Stoughton in England and America, 1620-2001, by Clara Pierce Olson Overbo (2002), pp. 160-61:
"WILLIAM GOODWIN, born probably at Braintree, co. Essex, England about 1591; died at Farmington, Massachusetts 11 March, 1673; married (I) ELIZABETH WHITE, daughter of Robert White of Messing, co. Essex, England; (see White Family) (2) SUSANNAH HOOKER, widow of Reverend Thomas Hooker.
Certainly William Goodwin's early life was spent at Braintree in co. Essex where he was living at the time he became the leader of the company which migrated to the New World. It is not known just how William Goodwin and Thomas Hooker became such close friends. Some have conjectured that Hooker may have lived with the Goodwins at Braintree for a time after he was evicted from his clergy position and before he found it necessary to flee to Holland to save his life. Hooker was an ardent and eloquent orator, well known throughout the entire area, and drew crowds to hear him speak. Naturally the Braintree group would wish for Hooker to come to New England and be their preacher which he did a year later.
The Braintree group of twenty-four, under the leadership of William Goodwin, arrived in New England September 1632 aboard The Lyon. They settled in a spot that they called Wollaston, but were soon ordered by the General Court of Massachusetts to remove to Newtown, which later became known as Cambridge.
Elder Goodwin, as he was called, became their church leader in the months that followed. Hooker and Stone arrived a year later amidst much rejoicing.
Reverend Thomas Hooker was then ordained as their pastor and Samuel Stone as their teacher. William Goodwin remained as the elder, which was a very important position in the church. At least he made it an important position.
Goodwin and his family were among the hundred or so people who left Newtown and trudged the long distance to their new home in Connecticut. There he assumed leadership in the establishing of the Hartford church and the body politic.
After Hooker's death in 1647, Reverend Stone became the clergyman of the Hartford church. Stone's ideas were somewhat different than Hooker's, and by 1659, a group under the leadership of Goodwin had moved back to Massachusetts and settled in the town of Hadley.
By 1670, the Goodwin family was living at Farmington where Samuel Hooker was the minister. Sometime after the Reverend Thomas Hooker's death, his widow, Susannah, married William Goodwin, becoming his second wife. This was probably in 1670 as Goodwin's wife had died in 1669/70. The reason for William and Susannah moving to Hadley may very well have been that Susannah's son, Samuel, was the minister of the church there.
William Goodwin died at Farmington 11 March 1673 after a life well spent in doing what he felt was right for him and for the colony of which he was a part.
Child of William Goodwin and Elizabeth (White) Goodwin:
i. ELIZABETH GOODWIN (Lineal Ancestor. See #2 below)
"ELIZABETH GOODWIN, born at Braintree, co. Essex about 1620; died at Farmington, Connecticut; married at Hartford about 1640, JOHN CROW, becoming his second wife. (See Crow Family for children.)
References:
Anderson, The Great Migration
Boltwood, Genealogies of Hadley.
Goodwin, The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut
Olney. Passengers on The Lion.
Starr, Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy Morgan Goodwin.
Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin & Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut."
MARRIAGE:
1. From the book "New England Marriages Prior to 1700,' by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, copy in the Windsor, CT., Historical Society Library, p. 195:
Crow, John (1606-1685/6) and 1/wf ___(-ca 1644?); in Eng, b. 1628? (doubtful); Hartford, CT.
Crow, John (1606-1686) and 2/wf Elizabeth (Goodwin) (-1686+); ca 1645?, b 1628?; Hartford/Hadley.
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