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Capt David GODFREY

Male 1732 - 1813  (80 years)


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  • Name David GODFREY  [1, 2] 
    • The most accurate information that we have of Capt. David Godfrey is from a brief sketch of his life, written by his grandson, George Porter Godfrey, and read before a reunion of the Godfrey Family Association in Michigan at their first meeting in 1887: "...He and his brother, with ten or twelve other families emigrated from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia soon after the close of the French and Indian War in consequence of land bounties and other privileges offered by the king of England. there he lost his first wife and married our grandmother, Elizabeth Harris. Following this, he, and a part of the families who had accompanied him, abandoned their land and in 1769, procured an old sloop and turned its prow toward the Colonies. In his youth he was a sailor and made fourteen voyages to the west Indies and several to South America---how many as Captain we have no means of ascertaining..." Capt. David settled near what is now the town of Otisville where he built a house which is still standing in a good state of preservation.

      David Godfrey was a soldier in the Continental Army, serving as a Private in Capt. Abraham Cuddeback's Company, Col. James McClaghery's 2nd Regiment of Ulster County Milita. On Aug. 17, 1790, he was included in a large group of men several of whom were Revolutionary soldiers, who, by right of occupancy, were granted a 7000-acre tract of land in the town of Mamakating, ulster county. A Survey return, dated Sept. 10, 1791, lists him as one of the group owning 200 acres.

      The records of the OldSchool Baptist Church show that Elizabeth Godfrey was one of the original constituent members when it was organized in 1785. [1]
    Prefix Capt 
    Birth 18 Aug 1732  Cape Cod, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Fact Son of David Godfrey and Priscilla Baker Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Death 21 Jun 1813  Near New Vernon, Orange Co., New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Person ID I78578  Main Tree
    Last Modified 20 Aug 2022 

    Father David GODFREY,   b. 1709   d. 1790, Orange Co., New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Pirscilla BAKER 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 14 Oct 1731  Yarmouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Family ID F31597  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 ? UNKNOWN   d. Bef 1765 
    Children 
     1. David GODFREY, Jr.,   b. Abt 1755, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Oct 1801, Galen, Wayne County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years)  [Birth]
     2. Mary GODFREY,   b. 1757   d. 22 Nov 1838, Near New Vernon, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F31598  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Jul 2015 

    Family 2 Elizabeth HARRIS,   b. 22 Feb 1746, Colchester, New London Co. Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. New Vernon Old School Baptist Church Cemetery, Otisville, Orange Co., New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1765  Horton, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Children 
     1. Daniel GODFREY,   b. 21 Feb 1767, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Aug 1848, High View, Sullivan Co., New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)  [Birth]
     2. Elizabeth GODFREY,   b. 2 Oct 1771, Orange County, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Mar 1835, Near New Vernon, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)  [Birth]
     3. Harris GODFREY,   b. Abt 1772   d. Aft 1844 (Age 73 years)  [Birth]
     4. Jonathan GODFREY,   b. 1774, Near New Vernon, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jan 1852, Godfrey's Corners, Chenango Co., New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)  [Birth]
    +5. Sarah GODFREY,   b. 30 Apr 1776, Near New Vernon, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Apr 1865, New Vernon, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)  [Birth]
     6. Olive GODFREY,   b. 9 Jan 1785, New Vernon, Orange Co., New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Oct 1862, Near New Vernon, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)  [Birth]
    +7. Elijah GODFREY,   b. 7 May 1786, Orange County, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Nov 1862, Jackson County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)  [Birth]
     8. Lebbeus GODFREY,   b. 1789, New Vernon, Orange Co., New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Apr 1846, Byron, Genesee County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years)  [Birth]
     9. Charles GODFREY,   b. 6 Sep 1792, Near New Vernon, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Oct 1864, Dixon, Lee Co., Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F31594  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Jul 2015 

  • Sources 
    1. [S7506] The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 1945 Vol. 76 No. 3 July.

    2. [S3186] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1972, Vol. 126 October.


  

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