Joseph GODDARD

Family/Spouse: Deborah TREADWELL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John GODDARD was born in 1699; died on 26 Jun 1785.

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William, seventh son of Edward, a citizen and grocer of London, traded largely at wholesale, met with great losses at sea, lived too expensively (as his son was afterwards informed by a friend) and by these means became vey much reduced. His mother-in-law, Mrs. foot, in hr widowhood, lent L100 sterling to a brother of hers in New England, who, for her security, mortgaged his house and land; but though he lived many years afterward, yet paid neither principal nor interest. Consequently, at his death, his mother gave him the debt, and he coming over for it in 1665, found nothing to be had, except the housing and lands mortgaged. His contracted circumstances and the plague then raging in London added to the foresaid consideration, was probably the occasion of his concluding to tarry here and sending for his wife and children who came over in 1666.

William married Elizabeth MILES. Elizabeth died in 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Benjamin Miles