JOHNSON and SCHAUFELBERGER GENEALOGY
GOODENOW Research
"ThomGOODNOW, Thomas, ae. 30, with wife Jane, son Thomas, ae. 1 yr. and sister Ursula, came from Shasbury, Eng., in the Confidence April 11, 1638. He settled at Sudbury, proper. 1639; selectman, 1639, etc. Rem. to Marlborough. Ch. Mary b. 25 (6) 1640, Abigail b. 11 (1) 1642, Susanna b. 20 (11) 1643, Sarah d. 7 April 1654, Samuel b. 26 (12) 1645, Susanna b. 21 (10) 1647, Elizabeth d. 28 (10) 1653. The sister Ursula d. at S. 23 (2) 1653. He d. in 1666. Will dated Sept. 29, prob. 24 (8) 1666, beq. to daus. Susanna and Jane, loveing yoak fellow Joane, son Samuel and all his gr. children; bros. John Rudduck, Edmund G. and old bro. Ward overseers."
“Parish registers of Donhead St. Andrew begin in 1622. A search of surrounding parishes has not yet revealed birth date or marriage date of husband and wife nor birth dates of any of their children. Will of Thomas lists children in different order from which they are shown on this family group sheet. However, will of Ursula lists them in order they are shown: i.e., Ralph, my eldest son; John my second son; Simon, my third son; Nathaniel, my fourth son; Ursula and Dorothy my daughters and then Edmund, my son. Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New England says that John was the eldest of the three Goodenow brothers to come to America in 1638.
(1) Probate Document (wd 20 Dec 1617) (will registered 19 Mar 1617/18) Archdeaconry Court of Sarum G wills 1546-1629 (GSF 97448) (2) Sudbury Vital Records 974.44/n1 V2n (printed volume) (3) Sudbury Vital Records GSF 25418 (handwritten microfilm) (4) Sudbury Records (GSF 185453-25416) (5) Middlesex County Probates for Ursula (daughter), John and Thomas (6) Puritan Village by by Sumner Chilton Powell (7) Middlesex County Land Records GSF532454 Grantees index and 532492 Grantors index.”
From egoodenow
“[Edmund Goodenow was a]lso reprimanded in 1637 for going to church in Shaftesbury, where his brother, Thomas, lived….Joined by Walter Haines of Sutton Mandeville and William Kerley of Ashmore, a large Goodnow tribe headed for embarkation to New England aboard the Confidence. Ralph and Simon remained at home. But Edmund and John and Thomas were never again to stand humbled before an archdeacon's authority. From 1638 onward they were determined to establish the true path to God, narrow though it might be." (Puritan Village The Formation of a New England Town - Powell).”