Anderson-Sipple Family Tree » Stephen Goodyear (1598-1657)

Persönliche Daten Stephen Goodyear 

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Familie von Stephen Goodyear

(1) Er ist verheiratet mit Mary Gibbard.

Sie haben geheiratet im Jahr 1620 in England, er war 21 Jahre alt.Quellen 3, 22


Kind(er):

  1. Rebecca Goodyear  1626-1681 
  2. Stephen Goodyear  1628-????
  3. Mary Goodyear  < -1705
  4. Stephen Goodyear  1631-????
  6. Hannah Ann Goodyear  1635-1721 
  7. Lydia Goodyear  1645-1700
  8. Andrew Goodyear  ± 1634-????
  9. Sarah Goodyear  1639-1639


(2) Er ist verheiratet mit Margaret Lewen.

Sie haben geheiratet rund 1648 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.Quellen 3, 5, 16, 18


Kind(er):

  1. Esther Goodyear  1654-???? 
  2. Andrew Goodyear  1634-± 1670


Notizen bei Stephen Goodyear

THE PARISH OF MONKEN HADLEY.

As the ancient home of the Goodyears in England, from whom the family
in America descends, the parish of Monken Hadley, County Middlesex,
England, possesses the greatest interest to all of the descendants of
Governor Stephen Goodyear of the New Haven Colony. The following sketch of
the parish is taken from the work, "Monken Hadley. By Frederick Charles
Cass, M.A., of Balliol College, Oxford, Rector of Monken Hadley,
Middlesex." (1880)

"Men sometimes interest themselves in speculating upon the feelings
with which their progenitors might be animated could they revisit the
scenes which they once inhabited, and muse over the changed aspect of
localities with which they were in lifetime familiar.
Assuredly, in many instances, there would remain little beyond the more
prominent features of the landscape to recall the memory of events in
which they took part, or of places in which they lived and moved and had
their being.
On the other hand, there can be no doubt of the fascination which past
occurrences exercise over the minds of many of the living, nor of the
vivid interest which impels them to repeople, in imagination, the
neighbourhoods in which they dwell with the form and features of those who
have preceded them.
Hume, in well known words, places this sentiment in the very forefront
of his history: "The curiosity entertained by all civilized nations, of
inquiring into the exploits and adventures of their ancestors, commonly
excites regret that the history of remote ages should always be so much
involved in obscurity, uncertainty and contradiction. Passing occurrences,
if not noted at the time they happen, leave so transient an impression
upon most minds, that it is extremely difficult to gather up in a
connected form the short and simple annals that constitute a village
history, and the memory of the conventional 'oldest inhabitant,' even if
well stored with facts, is seldom to be relied upon implicitly, when the
object is to arrange these facts in chronological succession. "
The country lying immediately to the north of London was covered, we
are told, at the earliest known period by extensive forests, through which
the communications must have been mere tracks only suitable for
pedestrians or pack animals.
In describing the state of England in 1685, Lord Macauley writes that
'at Enfield, hardly out of sight of the capital, was a region of five and
twenty miles in circumference, which contained only three houses, and
scarcely any inclosed fields.' It was known as the Park or Chace of
Enfield, and was only dischased towards the close of the last century
(1777) by Act of Parliament.
The Tudor and first Stuart sovereigns frequently visited it for the
purpose of sport.
Tradition asserts that the ancient manorhouse of Enfield, in the time
of the Mandevilles, was situated near the middle of the Chace, not far
from the west lodge, where there is still a large square quadrangular
area, surrounded by a deep moat, called Camlet moat, overgrown with briars
and bushes.
In Gunton and Rolfe's map (1658) Camlet or Camelot way is distinctly laid
down as the road between Hadley church and the elevated ground known as
the Ridgeway. It ran past Camlet moat, an old hunting lodge immortalized
by Sir Walter Scott in "The Fortunes of Nigel".
Upon the edge or outskirt of this royal hunting ground lay the little
parish of Hadley, otherwise known as Monken Hadley, owing to its early
connection with the Benedictine monastery of Walden in Essex, dedicated to
the honour of God, St. Mary, and St. James, to which the church of
Enfield, together with others in the neighbourhood, likewise belonged.
They were comprised in the lordships with which Geoffrey, first Earl of
Essex, grandson of Geoffrey de Mandeville or Magnaville, a companion in
arms of the Conqueror, endowed the abbey in the year 1136
It is probable that, from a very early date, a line of dwellings
fringed the eastern aide of the road leading to Barnet and of the present
Hadley Green, looking westward over the open heath or moor where the great
battle (of Barnet) was fought.
On the level plain, of which Hadley Green now forms a portion, was
fought on Easter Day, April 14, 1471, the decisive battle which assured
the re-establishment of Edward IV. upon the throne, and which, even
without the subsequent victory of Tewkesbury three weeks later, gave a
final blow to the hopes of the Lancastrian party.
The line occupied by Warwick's men was drawn nearer to Barnet,
extending in the direction of Hadley church eastward, and crossing what is
now Hadley Green in the contrary direction. The moated manorhouse of Old
Fold, belonging to the Frowykes, may have been an important feature in the
conflict.
The great abbey of Walden was surrendered in 1538, and with the manor
of Hadley, which had continued to form a part of its possessions, was
granted, March 14,1538-39, to Sir Thomas Audley knt., then Chancellor.
Lysons states that Lord Audley resurrendered it to the King four years
after the original grant, and it was granted by Queen Mary, in 1557, to
Sir Thomas Pope, the founder of Trinity College, Oxford; but, at a
previous date, there is evidence of the GOODERE family having possessed an
interest in it. In his will of December 15, 1546 (P.C.C Book Alen 45),
Francis Goodere, esquire, imposes a condition upon his younger son Thomas
that, quietly and without any molestation or interruption, he permit and
suffer William Stanford, esq., his heirs and assigns, to have, to hold,
and to enjoy the manor of Hadley and the parsonage of South Mimms with
their appurtenances in the County of Middlesex. On December 3, 1538, Joan
or Jane Wroth, widow, his mother, had presented pro hac vice to the
vicarage of South Mimm (Jane Hawte, after the death of her first husband,
Thomas Goodere, in 1518, had married Robert Wroth of Durante, Enfield, who
died 27 Hen. VIII).
From the Gooderes the manor passed to Sir William Staunford, in whose
hold thereof Queen Elizabeth slept in the old manorhouse of the Gooderes
on Nov. 22, 1558,óas Macyn wrote: "The xxiij day of November the Queen
Elisabeth('s) grace toke here gorney from Hadley beyond Barnet toward
London, unto my Lord's plase (the Charterhouse), with a M and mor of
lordes, knyghtes, and gentyllmens, ladies, and gentyllwomen; and ther lay
V days."
The church of Monken Hadley, formerly at the very edge of the parish
and chace, stands at an elevation of 426 ft. 9 in. above sea level. From
the summit of its tower, reached by a turret staircase of 61 steps, a very
charming and extensive view, over & country well wooded for many miles
around, rewards an ascent. The spreading branches of trees intercept a
coup d'oeil over the neighboring battlefield, but further away to the
northwest the eye can detect St. Alban's, to the east Waltham Abbey beyond
the Lea, with the low line of Essex hills to the south of it, and, in
clear weather, the river Thames with its shipping, in the vicinity of
Woolwich."
A "Tree" of the Goodyear family in England dating between 1307 and 1670
can be seen by clicking HERE. This is a very large file and may take a few
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THE GOODYEAR NAME IN ENGLAND

The Rev. Fred. Chas. Cass writes: "The Gooderes came originally from
Cumberland, close to the Scotch border, settled at Monken Hadley and
remained connected with it for two or three centuries. They afterward
became widely scattered throughout the country under the names Goodere,
Goodier, Goodair, Goodyer, Goodyere, Goodyeere, Goodyeare and Goodyear."
Geo. F. Tuttle states: "In early times uniformity in such matters was
discarded, and the same person signed his name to the most important
documents, as deeds, conveyances and wills, in divers ways."
In the will of Zacharye Goodyeare, of London, the name is spelled in
three ways in the one document; Goodyeare-yere-yeere.
The crest, with its ear (sometimes spelled ("ere") of wheat, may
indicate the original spellingóthe crest often implying a play on the
family name.
The name of the Deputy Governor in America was variously spelled
Goodyeare, Goodyere and Goodyear, but most frequently in the last fashion,
and that early became the settled American style for his descendants.
The Goodiers of Western New York are undoubtedly of the same English
descent.

Of the arms and crest Burke has the following:
"Goodere (Gloucestershire) Gu., a fesse between two chevrons vaire. Crest:
a partridge holding in its beak an ear of wheat, all ppr. Motto: "Possuni
quid posse videntur."
"Goodyear (Hythorpe, Co. Oxford; Polesworth, Co. Warwick) Gu., a fesse
between two chevrons vaire.
"Goodyer or Goodier (Windsor, Co. Berks; St. Albans, Co. Hertford, and
Cos. Middlesex and Oxford, granted 1579) Gu., a fesse between two
chevrons vaire. Crest: a partridge holding in the beak three ears of
wheat, all proper."
"Goodyere (Hertfortshire; Hadley, Co. Middlesex) Gu., a fesse between two
chevrons vaire."

The arms, which must, in England, be legally issued, are identical,
showing the many families to have been one. In the matter of crests,
individual selection is permitted. The crest with the three ears of wheat
probably designated a younger branch of the family than that using but the
one ear in the beak of the partridge.
In Jas. Macveigh's "English Crests" is given: "Goodear and Goodyearóa
lion's head, erased, imperially crowned." This may have been adopted with
a marriage of rank.
On the memorial in Hadley Church to John Goodyere, who died 1404, are
two shieldsó"Gu., a fesse between two chevrons vaire;" and another, "a
fesse between three lions passant."
The crest of the family of Goodier, of Western New York, was also,
according to their records, that of the partridge. In the seventeenth
century it was united, on account of a marriage with the Turner family,
with the crest of that family, a "lion passant," and the Goodiers have
since used the united crests. Their motto, "Robur cum Fide," is similar in
meaning to the motto of the Goodyears.
The arms of the family of Goodhue are similar to those of Goodyear.
From an early date, how early has not been learned, the crest of the
partridge and the arms "Gu., a fesse between two chevrons vaire," have
been used by the American branch, and have been verified in the "College
of Arms" in London.

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Burial records spell his name "Goodyer", and other records in London spell it "Goodier".

This is the actual burial of this New England Colonist and First Deputy Governor of New Haven Colony, who died following a voyage to old England. (NEHGR 168 (2014):271)

Cenotaphs for him are found in two different cemeteries, here (New Haven,CT) and here (Hamden,CT). These cenotaph memorials each contain detailed history and several family links and links to other colonists.

Son of Zachary Goodyear and Susanna (Baxter) Goodyear.

He married, first, by 1626, Mary Gibbard. She died at sea on the Lamburton ship in 1646.

He married, second, after Dec 1646, Margaret (Lewen) Lamberton. She was the widow of George Lamberton, captain of the same ship that went down in 1646.

Children(by first marriage): Rebecca Goodyear Bishop, Stephen Goodyear, Mary Goodyear Lake, Stephen Goodyear, Thomas Goodyear, Andrew Goodyear, Hannah Goodyear Wakeman Burr, Sarah Goodyear, Stephen Goodyear, and Lydia Goodyear.

Children(by second marriage): Andrew Goodyear, John Goodyear, and Esther Goodyear.

Family links:
Spouses:
Mary Gibbard Goodyear (1603 - 1646)*
Margaret Lewen Goodyear (1613 - ____)*

Children:
Mary Goodyear Lake (1629 - 1705)*
Stephen Goodyear (1641 - 1642)*
Lydia Goodyear Watts (1645 - 1700)*
Andrew Goodyear (1649 - 1670)*
John Goodyear (1651 - 1702)*
Esther Goodyear Smith (1654 - 1691)*

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Stephen Goodyear born to Zachary and Susanna (Baxter) Goodyear of London was baptized at Saint Gregory, London, England about 1598. The time of his arrival in America is unknown, but it is known that he owned the vessel, ST. JOHN, that sailed from Bristol to New Haven, licensed to transport 250 persons and he was listed as a passenger.

He was a merchant, large land-owner, and trader who lived in New Haven. His estate in 1643 was worth at 100 pounds, and he owned land totaling approx. 939 acres in the meadow and the neck. His tax rate for that year was 9-19-02. The location of his actual farm was north of New Haven in the neighborhood of Pine Rock.

On July 1, 1644, he was administered the Oath of Fidelity by Theophilus Eaton who was chosen Governor of New Haven Colony annually for many years along with Stephen Goodyear who was chosen Deputy Governor. "They had no salary but served the people for the honor of it and the general good." He also served as commissioner for United Colonies from 1643-46.

In 1644 he built a trading post on "Goodyear's Island" at the cove below Falls Mountain for the purpose of trading with the Indians. He was assigned in a town meeting to judge whether Indian money also known as wampum (strings of beads & shells -- white beads were worth twice as much as black beads) was good or not and if a value should be assigned to it.

Mr. Goodyear was a member of "The Company of Merchants of New Haven" or "The Ship Company" which was established direct trade with the mother country (England). Their plan was to build a ship filled with goods for trading and sail it to London. In January, 1646, the ship was ready to embark on the voyage and 70 New Haven citizens were aboard, including Mrs. Goodyear (his wife), Mr. Lamberton and Mr. Gregson. The New Haven harbor was frozen and the ice had to be cut with saws for three miles in front of the ship. Month after month, with no word from the ship, dispair set in with the inhabitants of New Haven. In November, 1647, the estates of those lost in what was also called "The Phantom Ship" were settled, and they were recorded as deceased. This of course included Stephen Goodyear's wife, Mary. He married second, Margaret (Lewen) Lamberton, widow of George Lamberton, who was also lost in the Phantom Ship.

His ownership of 150 acres near Sterling, now Greenport, was acknowledged in 1649. The first iron works in Connecticut was established in the town of East Haven in 1655 by Stephen Goodyear and continued for about 25 years.

On June 2, 1653, he sold the 150 acres to John Ketcham. He was a grantee of the Earl of Stirling of Shelter Island in the Long Island Sound and sold the island to Sylvester Constant, a merchant in London, at Barbados in 1657 for sixteen hundred pounds of good merchantable muscovado sugar.

Stephen Goodyear died in England in 1658, leaving an "entangled estate". His inventory filed on Oct. 15th, 1658 valued at 800 pounds, 9 shillings, 10 pence plus part of the iron works which was unapprized and minus some debts in Barbados.

“Genealogy of the Goodyear Family”

STEPHEN GOODYEAR.
The first positive knowledge we have of Stephen Goodyear is when his name
appears as the forty-second in order in the original list of all the Freemen of
New Haven, prepared in 1638. He was also accorded his proportion of land as
soon as the town site was laid out. (See map of New Haven. 1641, for his lot). He
also acquired the adjoining lot of William Hawkins, so it is certain he was one of
the original company and he doubtless came from London with Davenport and
Eaton on the Hector, in 1(337. The historian Arwater has previously been quoted
on the subject. In early records Stephen Goodyear is referred to as " one of the
London merchants originally associated together to form a colony in New
England." It appears that he returned at an early date to London, as we nest
find mention of him in London in Volume 10. No. 53, Colonial State Papers
—
" January 20. 1639-40, an order was made on the petition of Stephen Goodyere.
merchant, and Richard Russell, part owner and master of the ship St. John, of
London, of the burthen of 320 tons, who are desirous to employ the ship in a
voyage to Newfoundland and Spayne, and for easing of their profit and charge
of the voyage to carry passengers and goods to New England. Addressed to the
Lord High Treasurer < >f England. Oaths i >f allegiance to be taken at Gravesend."
Among the London "grants" is found that the city council of London,
January 20. 103!). gave permission for the ship St. John, of 320 tons burthen.
Richard Russ«*ll. master and partner, Stephen Goodyear, merchant and owner.
to transport 2.30 passengers to New England.
Turning to New England records we find in Leachford's manuscript note
book, p. 315:
—
" Boston, in New England, July 10, 1G40.
"Upon five days' sight of this, my first bill of exchange, my second and
third not being payd, I pray you to pay to Mr. Goodyear, who came over this
year in the ship St. John, or his assigns, the value of twelve pounds, etc.
" To Mr. William James, at Quinapeage."
For earlier English records of Stephen Goodyear, merchant of London, see
page 32.
In the schedule prepared in New Haven in 1641, Stephen Goodyear is
recorded as one of the largest land owners, having i.' 1,000 invested in the
company, three hundred and sixty acres of land, and nine persons in his family,
including servants. That his daughter Mary married previous to 1650 is proof
that he married in England and his hrst children were born there. Of his first
wife, Mary, tradition says she was a woman of large estates in London, possessing
property now famous as Grosvenor Square and surroundings. Some fifty
years ago lawyers in London wrote to members of the Goodyear family in
America, telling of an estate of a Mrs. Goodyear which remained unclaimed in
London courts. Some enquiries were made, with what results if any we have
not learned. The care of this property', or relatives at home, led Mary Goodyear
to leave her family in this country for a visit home and she embarked for
England, January, 10-46, on the unfortunate ship which was never again heard
from.
The company of merchants who chartered the ship consisted of Stephen
Goodyear, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Gregson and Richard Malbon and the
ship's captain was George Lamberton. Winthrop says: " She was laden with
pease and some wheat, all in bulk, with about two hundred AVest India hides
and store of beaver and plate, so as it was estimated in all at five thousand
pounds. There were in her seventy passengers, whereof divers were of very
precious account, as Mr. Gregson, one of their magistrates, the wife of Mr. Goodyear,
another of their magistrates (a right godly woman), Capt. Turner, Mr.
Lamberton, master of the ship, and some seven or eight others, members of the
church there. The ship never went voyage before and was very crank-sided, so
as it was conceived she was overset in a great tempest which happened soon after
she put to sea, for she was never heard of after." In June, 1648, he wrote:
" There appeared over the harbor at New Haven, in the evening, the form of the
keel of a ship with three masts, to which were suddenly added the tackling and
sails and presently after, upon the top of the poop, a man standing with one
hand akimbo under his left side, and in his right hand a sword stretched out
toward the sea. Then from the side of the ship which was from the town arose
a great smoke which covered all the ship, and in that smoke she vanished away,
but some saw her keel sink into the water. This was seen by many men and
women and it continued about a quarter of an hour." So originated the name,
" The Phantom Ship."
Dr. Bacon has described the departure of the vessel as follows :
—
" In the month of January, 1646, the harbor being frozen over, a passage is
cut through the ice with saws, for three miles, and the 'great ship,' on which so
much depends, is out upon the waters and ready to begin her voyage. Mr.Davenport and a great company of the people go out upon the ice to give the last
farewell to their friends. The pastor in solemn prayer commends them to the
protection of God and they depart. The winter passes away ; the ice-bound
harbor breaks into ripples before the soft breezes of the spring. Vessels from
England arrive on die coast, but they bring no tidings of the New Haven ship.
Vain is the solicitude of wives and children, of kindred and friends. Vain are
all enquiries.
' They ask the waves and ask the felon winds,
And question every gust of rugged wings
That blows from off each beaked promontory.'
" Month after month, hope waits for tidings. Affection, unwilling to believe
the worst, frames one conjecture and another to account for the delay. Perhaps
they have been blown out of their track upon some undiscovered shore, from
which they will by and by return, to surprise us with their safety; perhaps they
have been captured, and are now in confinement. How many prayers are offered
for the return of that ship with its priceless treasures of life and affection ! At
last anxiety gradually settles down into despair. Gradually they learn to speak
of the wise and public spirited Gregson, the brave and soldier-like Turner, the
adventurous Lambertou. that ; right godly woman,' the wife of Mr. Goodyear,
and the others, as friends whose faces are never more to be seen among the living.
In November, 1047, their estates are settled and they are put upon record as
deceased."
In 1648, Deputy Governor Stephen Goodyear married Margaret Lambertou.
born 1614. widow of Captain Geo. Lamberton, who was lost on the "Phantom
Ship." Captain Lambertou and his wife came from Yorkshire, England, to
Boston in the company of Ezekiel Rogers, and later joined Davenport's party in
founding the New Haven Colony. He ranked but fifth among the planters in
the amount of their estates, and was a man of marked influence in the colony.
His children were: 1. Elizabeth; m. Dan"l Selevant. 2. Hannah; m. 1st Sam'l
Mills; 2d John Allyn. 3. Deliverance. 4. Mercy, baptised Jan. 17, 1640, in
New Haven. 5. Desire, baptised Mch. 14, 1642. 6. Obedience, baptised Feb. 9,
1644. These children of Mrs. Goodyear are of interest to all her descendants,
but their lines are not carried out in this work.
In the " seating of the Meeting House," which was attended with formality
and strict attention to rank, we find in the seating of 1646, in the front seat for men,
"The Governor and Deputy Governor," with no mention of Mr. Goodyear's
family, but Mrs. Lamberton occupied the third seat for women. In the nestseating in 1655. we find the front seat for men, the same as in 1646, and in the
front cross seat for women "Mrs. Allerton the elder,—Mr. Goodyear's daughters,"
and in 1661 the front for women is marked " Mrs. Goodyear. Mrs. Gilbert."
Only a few women are given the title " Mrs.*'—" Goodwife " and " Sister " being
the usual form.
We find mention of Mrs. Goodyear in the settlement of Governor Goodyear's
estate and frequently hi the land records of New Haveu. Dr. Stiles in his
"History of the Judges'' says: "Mr. Goodyear had bought of the town of New
Haven the rich plain lying west of West Rock, about 1,200 acres, and on this
land planted his Farmer. Eichard Sperry. * * * In records April
23, 1660, I find mention of Mrs. Goodyear and her Farmer, Sperry. Mrs.
Goodyear had built on this tract a house for Sperry, and about one mile southwest
stood the house of Ralph Lines, the only house in 1661 westward from New
Haven, between West Rock and Hudson River; except a few at Derby, all was
wilderness."
The last mention we find of Mrs. Goodyear is in an aifidavit, reading
" Margaret Goodyeare of New Haven, in New England, widow, aged about 5G
years, testifieth that Mary Dunck * * * came over from England
with one Mrs. Brewster. * * * (Dated) 4th November, 1670, taken
upon oath before me, Wm. Joanes, Assistant."
Deputy Governor Goodyear went to England in 1658, and died there that
year. The news of his death had been received by fall, and his estate was
inventoried, Oct. 15, 1658. This inventory is recorded in the New Haven Probate
Records, Book I, part I, pages 78 and 79, and is headed, " An inventory of the
estate of the Right Worshipful Stephen Goodyear, Esquire, the late Deputie
Gouvernour of this Colony." After a long list of household furniture and
personal effects, the list of the real estate is given, and after cattle, horses, and
other stock are the following items, showing the semi-slavery of the day: "1
man servant, 5 yrs. yet to serve," " 2 boys about 11 yrs., yet to serve." The total
value of the estate was i.'804, 19s. lOd. " besides interest in the Iron works, and
property at Barbadoes and elsewhere, not known how much, yet to be appraised."
This other property must have added materially to the estate, for although in
the final settlement there were debts against the estate of £2,403, Mrs. Goodyear
received over £300 upon the distribution of the estate.
The important political life of Stephen Goodyear is best given in the
following sketch prepared for the New Haven Historical Society by Henry
White, Esq., at the request of William B. Goodyear.

STEPHEN GOODYEAR.
Deputy Governor of the New Haven Colony from 1643 to 1658. As derived
from the Old Colony records and prepared for the New Haven
Historical Society.
To give anything like an accurate biographical sketch of a person living
more than two centuries before our own time is manifestly a most difficult task
to undertake, even with the most complete materials at our command. But when
such materials are scanty, with only here and there a fact of marked significance
to aid us in our undertaking, the work of preparing such a paper as we now
submit to this society will be recognized as one of no slight magnitude. We
have this thought, however, to encourage us, that in all ages of the world, and
especially in those times when new states and empires are to be struck out in the
path of advancing civilization, public men are measured by what they actually
do, rather than by what they seem to be—by what they effectually accomplish
for their fellow men. rather than by what they assume from mere rank or
position in society to have accomplished for them. And in this respect a contemporaneous
public opinion is not always—indeed, it is seldom —the true
standard of measurement for determining the value of public services in the day
and time in which they are rendered. The very name which our own country
and continent bears is a striking exemplification of this truth, since it was derived
from a contemporaneous public judgment in which the pretentions of an adventurer
were received as paramount in claim to the highest example of individual
merit the world has ever seen. Time, however, with its ever-recurring sense of
right and justice in all human premises, has amply indicated the name and fame
of America's great discoverer, while the contemporaneous public judgment is set
aside as one which only belittled the age that rendered it.
In the original list of names of all the freemen of the court of New Haven,
prepared probably in 1638, and still preserved in the handwriting of Thomas
Fugill, that of Stephen Goodyear appears as the forty-second in their order.with no further mention of him in the records of the colony until the following
year, when articles of fundamental agreement were made and entered into by
the " Free Planters," as they called themselves, at a meeting held on the fourth
of June, for "determining about and settling civil government according to God."
In these articles of agreement the names of eleven of the principal "Free
Planters " are mentioned as fit persons for the foundation work of the church,
or to regulate and administer public affairs '-impartially and in the fear of God,"
but that of the subject of this sketch is not among them. The names of one
hundred and eleven planters are attached to these fundamental articles as subscribing
or assenting thereto, while that of Mr. Goodyear is the sixty-fourth in
order, though the first in autographic signature.
From this time on. with a public court held as often at least as once a month,
and sometimes much oftener. no mention is made of his name in the public
records until 1641 (if we except a mere reference in an order of court to one of
his servants), when it was ordered by the general court that Mr. Goodyear
should " have his upland in a place he had chosen beyond the AVest Rocks." In
the same year at a court, held on the fourth of August, a slander case was referred
to him for his determination and judgment, in which he was to admonish the
slanderer to the satisfaction of the person whose good name had been defamed.
It also appears that as early as 16-41, Mr. Goodyear had purchased and offered
to the town, Farrett's Island, now called Shelter Island, and that a vote was
taken not to accept that purchase. The title of this island was in Mr. Goodyear's
name for about ten years, when he sold it to Mr. Thomas Middleton and
others " for 1600 pounds of good, merchantable Muscovado sugar."
During the first four years of the settlement, but little or any reference
seems to have been made in the colony records to the "modest London merchant"
who was soon to take a more prominent part in the affairs of the colony than
any other freeman in it, with the single exception of Theophilus Eaton, who had
from the first taken the lead in the civil magistracy. In the various public
meetings, as well as in the general courts of the colony, other parties came
forward at first to take the more prominent parts to which public opinion
assigned them; but the first appearance of Mr. Goodyear is as a referee of the
General Court and as a voluntary purchaser of territory for the plantation colony.
In October, 1641, however, his fellow townsmen seem to have recognized for
the first time his great personal merit and worth and at a general court of
election, held in that month he was chosen with Mr. Eaton to the civil
magistracy of the town. From this time forward he appears to have taken aprominent part in the management of public affairs, more prominent in fact in
some respects than Mr. Eaton himself. In October. 1642. he was again chosen
magistrate with Mr. Eaton, while men like Mr. Gregson, Mr. Malbon, Mr.
Newman, Mr. Gilbert and others took subordinate positions in the civil
magistracy of the town. In 1643. Mr. Goodyear was chosen Deputy Governor
for the jurisdiction, as it was called, embracing the government of New Haven.
Miford, Guilford, Stamford, and Yenicott (L. I.), still holding the position of
magistrate of the town with Governor Eaton; and this office of Deputy Governor
he continued to hold until 1658, when he died in London, where he had gone
on a visit.
As early as 1643 the duty of conducting in part the diplomatic correspondence
of the colony seems to have been assigned to Mr. Goodyear, and it
will .^ppenr ns wo pr.ic^od in this paper, that this duty was discharged by him
with very marked ability. At a court held on the 6th of July of that year lie was
desired to write to the inhabitants of Yenycott (L. I.) to let them know the
equity of the proceedings of the court in rating all men impartially within the
liberties of the plantation. Again, in the same year, when two commissioners
were ordered to be appointed for the jurisdiction of Xew Haven, to unite with
those of the other colonies of New England in the formation of articles of
confederation, whereby the united colonies might form and enter into a firm and
perpetual league of friendship and amity, although Mr. Goodyear was not
appointed one of the commissioners for the reason no doubt that he was Deputy
Governor of the colony and could not well be absent at the time with the
-Governor; still Governor Eaton and Mr. Gregson, who were appointed the
commissioners, were directed to confer and advise with him and others, the
better to prepare them for the weighty business upon which they were to enter.
These articles of agreement, as concluded by the commissioners of the several
colonies form the first written compact or constitution ever entered into in this
country and embody many of the more striking features of the constitution of
1787. We have reason to believe that in some of the commercial features of this
compact of 1643 the suggestions of Mr. Goodyear, as made to the New Haven
commissioners, were liberally entertained and embodied in that instrument.
Mr. Goodyear was at this time successfully conducting his commercial
enterprises in New Haven, and was rated in his real estate tax higher than any
other freeman in the plantation, with the single exception of Governor Eaton, whose
tax was only 13s. lOd. more than that of the Deputy Governor. At a General Court
held in New Haven for the jurisdiction on the twenty-seventh day of October,1643, Mr. Goodyear and Mr. Gregson were chosen alternate commissioners for
the jurisdiction to meet in Hartford, agreeably to the articles of confederation
for the New England Colonies, relating to several jurisdictions embraced therein.
It will be seen, therefore, that in the course of three years Mr. Goodyear was
called to fill several of the most important positions in the colony and that over
those whose names have heretofore, for some reason or other, filled a much more
conspicuous place in our local history. This circumstance can only be explained
in the theory (which we assume) that Mr. Goixlyear, while a man of conspicuous
merit, was nevertheless so modest in his personal character and address that he
rarely pushed himself where the public exigencies did not demand his presence.
Directly the reverse of this was true of Governor Eaton, who, though a man of
marked ability and influence for his time, was not as retiring and unassuming
in his habits and demeanor as was the Deputy Governor. In all matters of
serious debate and moment, whether of local concern or more general public
interest in the colony, Mr. Goodyear seems to have been almost the first person
consulted. A careful perusal of the old colony records will show this, while in
matters of lesser concern and moment, he seems to have been relieved from
public duty as a consequence of the more pressing business engagements upon
his hands.
In 1644, when a proposition was debated to turn the channel of Mill River,
we find that Mr. Goodyear was appointed chairman of the committee to view the
river exactly to see what advantages or disadvantages they might discern, which
might either encourage or discourage the work, and also to view the bridge over
the river and report to the court what they discern or conceive is most meet to
be done concerning the premises. So in 1645, Mr. Goodyear was placed at the
head of the auditing committee, to examine and audit the accounts of the former
treasurers of the town, and was also appointed by the General Court to fix the
value of wampum, and settle all questions that might arise in relation to the
same, as it was then ordered to be received " as current pay in this plantation, in
any payment under twenty shillings." In this latter capacity Mr. Goodyear
served for many years, the order to that effect having been embodied in the
general order book of the court. Mr. Goodyear was also one of the committee
of five in 1645, who were desired by the court "to agitate the business concerning
the enlargement of the liberties of the patent for this jurisdiction." It will be
recollected that it was in view of this enlargement that Mr. Gregson was
desired to go to England and that upon his voyage there he lost his life in the
famous " Phantom Ship " of that time.In the celebrated trial of Mrs. Brewster for speaking contemptuously
of a sermon of the Rev. Mr. Davenport, saying that he (Mr. Davenport)
"made the people believe that to come into the church was as much as the
receiving of Christ," and in asking what rule there was for " going to the high
altar," Mr. Goodyear took a prominent, though by no means as bigoted a part,
as some of the other actors in that semi-ecclesiastical investigation and trial.
It was manifestly a piece of very high impertinence on the part of Mrs.
Brewster to question the tenets of her clergyman in that day, and especially
one invested with so much reverence and authority as Mr. Davenport, and it is
not at all surprising that Mr. Goodyear, though not distinctively one of the
"seven pillars of the church," should be intolerant of all such impertinence as
that shown by this strong-minded woman in carping at the teachings of her
"learned London divine."
A still more striking instance of the independence and unbiased judgment
of Mr. Goodyear is to be found in the part he took in the trial of Mrs. Elizabeth
Goodman, who was accused of witchcraft, the prevalent female crime
of that day. It seems that lie had himself suffered from the malign power of
this woman, or had stiangely fallen into a swoon (one of the unmistakable
evidences of the influence of witchcraft) after he had expounded some
passage of scripture in her presence, which she took as applicable to herself
and consequently flung herself out of the room in a fit of ungovernable rage,
giving Mr. Goodyear a fierce look as she left. The effect of this "fierce look"
was to throw him into a "deep swoon," from which he only recovered after a
due relief from her evil influence. Had his mind not been above the universal
weakness of his time in respect to witchcraft, it is evident this woman, with
the other evidence against her, and especially that of Goodwife Thorp, whose
chickens she had so bewitched that they " were all consumed in ye gizzard to
water," would have been condemned and hanged for her most heinous offense
and miscarriage. But the court in which Mr. Goodyear sat withstood all
appeals for conviction, notwithstanding the Rev. Mr. Davenport authoritatively
declared that a " discontented frame of spirit," such as Madam Goodman
disclosed in her conduct, was a fit subject for ye devil to work upon in that way.
The trial was ended some two years after the first accusations were made by a
caution to her to cease going from house to house to give offense; but to carry
herself orderly in her own house and to give security for her future good
behavior. It is safe to say that the evidence in this case of the " power of her
evil eye," of her producing swoons, of her muttering discontent, and throwingpersons into terrible sweats, of her bewitching chickens, and bedeviling beer
barrels, was strong enough to have hanged a dozen witches in Salem, had they
given evidence of only a tithe of her seemingly infernal craft. The fact that
Mr. Goodyear was a Deputy Governor of the jurisdiction at the time and sat as
one of the magistrates in the trial, after he had himself been thrown (as was
supposed) into a deep swoon by her machinations, is evidence that be placed
but little faith in the power of her evil eye, and was broad-minded enough to
set all such weak superstitions as were formulated against her hrrnly aside.
There is, we think, satisfactory if not conclusive evidence to be found in
tbe old colony records that Mr. Goodyear was the first person to successfully
open up a trade with the Barbadoes and other West Indian Islands. As early
as 1647 we rind him purchasing a large Dutch vessel for the purpose of
prosecuting this trade. Th ; s vessel was called the Zicoll and was contracted
for by him. with the authorities at Fort Amsterdam, to be delivered in New
Haven at a stated time. It appears that under a pretest of conveying this
vessel in safety to New Haveu, the Dutch authorities placed a large number of
armed soldiers on board to seize a ship in our harbor belonging to a Mr.
Westerhouse, and called the St. Beninio, which they did seize and carry away
to New Amsterdam. As Mr. Goodyear had not yet paid over the money for
the Zwoll, Mr. Westerhouseu made application to the court for an arrest of
the money in Mr. Goodyear's hands, by reason of his ship being thus seized
and taken away by the Dutch. Additional evidence of the purchase of this
ship to carry on the trade opened by Mr. Goodyear with the Barbadoes, is to be
found in Thompson's History of Long Island, in which he gives the number of
guns the ship carried, her quota of men, and the character of her cargo, while
Mr. Goodyear himself states in a letter to Governor Stuyvesant, under date of
November 22, 1647, that he was necessitated to furnish him (the Governor)
with a great part of the beef which he had designed for the Barbadoes.
This shows conclusively, that as early as 1647, the Deputy Governor was
actively engaged in trade with those islands, and there is no doubt he was
the first person in the colony, if not in all New England, to open up this
trade — one that has been continued ever since with invaluable returns in
commercial prosperity to our city. When we consider that this was scarcely
nine years from the first settlement of the colony, with all the disadvantages
which the settlers had to encounter in their new forest homes, the enterprise
of Mr. Goodyear in inaugurating and successfully pushing forward
this important trade will be recognized as an achievement of no smallmagnitude for his time. In fact, we can point to nothing in the career of
Governor Eaton, confessedly valuable as his services were to the infant colony,
or any of the other settlers, which can in any respect be compared in importance
to the future welfare of our city, with this one successful undertaking of
Governor Goodyear. It is evident that he was the leading commercial spirit
of the colony, if not of New England, at the time and that he. more than any
other man, set a true value upon the commercial enterprises of that early day.
Deputy Governor Goodyear no doubt projected and largely aided in
building and fitting out the "Great Ship" for England iu 1646-7. This
unfortunate vessel had a capacity of one hundred and fifty tons aud was
freighted with the best part of the commercial estate of its projector when it
sailed for England, with Mr. Gregson, Captain Turner, Mr. Lamberton, Mrs.
Goodyear (the wife of the Deputy Governor) and several others on board.
The ship was never heard of after it sailed and probably foundered at sea in a
storm. The apparition of this ship in the air, which was believed to have been
seen several months after it sailed by some curious observers, who represented
it as sailing up from the harbor's mouth just after a fierce thunder-storm had
swept the sound, gave it the name of the " Phantom Ship " which it has since
traditionally borne in our local history.
The loss of this ship, with its very valuable cargo, and the still more
valuable lives on board, was a serious one to the colony, and more so to Governor
Goodyear than to any other single person. Aside from the domestic affliction
it brought upon him, he had so largely embarked his commercial means in the
vessel, that it is questionable whether he ever fully recovered from the financial
shock he experienced in its loss. As an evidence, however, of the general
thrift of Mr. Goodyear after the loss of the " Big Ship," as well as the success
attending his numerous financial ventures, we find that he is still accumulating
real estate and seeking to retrieve the fortunes of the past. At a court held on
the first day of May, 1649, an order was passed transferring to him the 110
acres of land in the second division of the town, belonging to Mr. Thomas
Trowbridge, who died in England and whose estate was sold by order of the
General Court.
We have spoken of Mr. Goodyear having repeatedly been called upon to
adjust the more delicate aud complicated relations of the colony in matters of
diplomacy, where differences of a serious nature existed between the people of
one settlement or section and those of another, and that in such cases his
services were generally called into requisition for an amicable adjustment ofdifficulties. So it seems that when, in 1653, a mutinous and unquiet spirit was
found to exist in the settlement of Stamford, the people there being " full of
discontent with the present government,"' pleading that tliey might have their
"free votes in the choice of civil officers,"" making '"objections against the rates
and claiming that certain local expenses should be borne by the jurisdiction,"
Mr. Goodyear was sent there with Air. Newman to settle a right understanding
of the difficulties and disquietudes with the people of that settlement. Mr.
Goodyear stated that on his aiTival there be found the people in a very
mutinous way and unwilling to have their matters settled by any two
magistrates, but would have them issued in a full court.
A public meeting of the planters was called, at which one Robert Bassett
and John Chapman made "turbulent speeches and full of complaints against
the present government." These complaints were, however, met by Mr.
Goodyear in the calm and deliberate manner iu which he dealt with all
agitating questions, and after " much debate which did little prevail " with the
people, he read an order of the committee of Parliament in England,
"requiriug them to submit to the government they were under," which, he
Btates, "did somewhat allay their spirits for the present," when they desired
further time for considering the questions of difference and agreed to
communicate with the Governor in writing. The matters in dispute were
afterwards adjusted, but not without summoning both Chapmau and Bassett
before the General Court at New Haven, to answer such charges as should be
preferred against them.
In the delicate and threatening relations existing between the New Haven
Colony and that of the New Netherlands, in 1647-8, the part taken by the
Deputy Governor shows him to have been a true statesman and diplomat.
The correspondence growing out of these relations was opened by Governor
Eiton with Peter Stuyvesant, the Governor of the Dutch Colony; and related to
the apprehension and return of prisoners escaping from one jurisdiction into
the other, the capture by armed men from Manhattan of a vessel in the New
Haven harbor, and the making on the part of the Dutch Governor of unjust
claims to the lands and plantations of the New Haven colony.
It was at first so ungraciously, if not offensively, conducted by Governor
Eaton that the sturdy old Governor of the Dutch Colony took high umbrage at
the language used by him and treated his correspondence with no small
contempt, even answering in Low Dutch (a very undiplomatic language at that
time) and not in the "stately Latin" to which the ears of the New HavenGovernor were better accustomed. Governor Eaton complains of this as one of
the evidences of au unfriendly disposition on the part of Governor Stuyvesant;
saying in his letter of October 8, 1647, that he had lately "received two letters,
the one sealed and the other opened, but neither of them written either in
Latin (as Governor Stuyvesant's predecessor used to write), or in English as
he (Stnyvesnnt) had formerly clone, but both in Low Dutch, whereof I understand
little," and he adds, "nor would your messenger, though desired,
interpret anything in them; so that in part, they must lie by me till I meet
with an interpreter." He takes occasion to say, however, further along in the
correspondence, that though he does not fully and particularly understand the
contents of the letters, yet " the sound and sense of them are offensive."
The Deputy Governor, it seems, was obliged to come to the aid of the
Governor at this st^go of diplomatic matters, and he accordingly addresses a
note to the "Right Worshipful Peter Stuyvesant" in terms not only eminently
courteous and respectful, but so emphatic and decisive in the demands made
that the old autocrat of the " West India Companie " (as he was wont to style
himself) was immediately brought to more reasonable terms. The following
sentence from the Deputy Governor's letter will show both the style and spirit
in which his correspondence with the Dutch Governor was conducted: "We
purpose, neither have we anything in our hearts but love and neighborly
correspondence with you; and in nothing are, nor I hope shall he, injurious to
you or any of yours, but if we shall be requited with the contrary, I doubt not,
but through God's assistance you will find us able to maintain our just rights
and not in the least to fear the sword or threats of any adversary; but if you
still desire our neighborly correspondence (as you desired it when I was with
you) you shall find us ready to our utmost."
It would seem from the above parenthetical reference in this letter that
Governor Goodyear had been dispatched to Governor Stuyvesant with a view
to an adjustment of these difficulties, or some of them at least, in advance of
the correspondence upon which he here enters with the irate Governor of the
New Netherlands, who had manifestly taken high umbrage at the undiplomatic
language addressed him by Governor Eaton.
The letter of Governor Stuyvesant to Deputy Governor Goodyear is
especially noticeable for the courteous terms in which it is couched. In
referring to the seizure of the vessel of Mr. Westerhousen within the waters
of the New Haven Colony, he says in speaking of that person : " What he hath
divulged 1 know not, yet sure am I, I was desirous to carry it as inoffensivelyto my neighbor there as I could, however they may apprehend; yet you ami
yours shall really find me as cordially willing at all times and all occasions to
endeavour a continuance of all friendly and neighborly amity between us,
although haply many vain rumors may arise whereby jealousies and discontents
may be fomented."
From the concluding paragraphs of this letter it appears that Governor
Goodyear was at that time engaged in furnishing the government at New
Amsterdam with commercial supplies, not only by a direct trade with Governor
Stuyvesant, but by furnishing his agents with provisions for which the Governor
returns his personal thanks.
As an evidence that the Deputy Governor was on especial terms of intimacy
with Governor Stuyvesant at this time, he concludes a business letter to him
thus familiarly: "I dcsiiv we may attend peace and neighborly love and
correspondence one -with another; and if in anything we may pleasure, I shall
be ready in my utmost to show it in any friendly or neighborly way to do it.
I rejoice to hear of the late blessing in the little one given you, and of your
wife's strength; so committing you and your weighty affairs to God's goodness,
I rest yours, in the office of love to my power."
In December, 1618, Governor Stuyvesant addresses a most important
letter to Deputy Governor Goodyear in which he details the grievances he has
received at the hands of Governor Eaton and which bears this most significant
heading: "This underwritten is in answer to Mr. Eaton"s letter, being directed
to the Deputy Governor. Mr. Goodyear: the honorable gentleman thinking it
inconvenient to answer Mr. Eaton in respect of his (Eaton's) unjust charges."
This letter is a long one and bears date, "Fort Amsterdam in New Netherlands.
December the ICth, 16-47," and it shows conclusively that, in the estimation of
Governor Stuyvesant, the Deputy Governor of the New Haven Colony was in no
respect the inferior of Governor Eaton, and that of the two he was the more
courteous and honorable gentleman to deal with.
We should regard this paper as incomplete in its historical value to this
society were we not given the substance, in part, of this letter of the Governor
to Mr. Goodyear, since it shows not only the spirit in which the much
abused Dutch Governor desired to conduct his long negotiations with the
English Colony of New Haven, but the reciprocal wish on the part of the Deputy
Governor to amicably arrange all matters in dispute between the two colonies.
In the opening sentences of his letter Governor Stuyvesant gives his
reasons why he does not reply directly to Governor Eaton, saying that " he(Eaton) writes him (Stuyvesant) as if he were a schoolboy, and not as one of like
degree with himself," and that "his (Eaton's) charges are so vain and by me
so sufficiently answered that I shall be silent and only instance two or three of
the chiefest of them."
He acknowledges the letter of the Deputy Governor and freely and frankly
answers its complaints; but of Governor Eaton's letter, the receipt of which he
also acknowledges, he says: " In mine to your Governor I had thought I had
given sufficient satisfaction, and expected the like from him; but contrary to my
expectations aud opinion of his wisdom, his letter was full of complaints and
pretended injuries." He then goes on to say that, " so far as he had set up any
claims to territorial right they were no just grounds of complaint, but were
matters to be lawfully and rightfully adjudicated by their respective sovereigns.
Claims to pretended rights Lire no injuries and give me no lawful propriety to
what I claim, unless lawfully adjudged (in which neither he, Governor Eaton,
nor I can be competent judges), and I suppose that you aud he well know that
many protests and passages in this nature are only pro forma; and therefore,
for whatsoever I have done in that kind, I have not as I conceive, wronged him
or the rights of his countrymen there, unless I had sought to make good my
claim by force of arms, the which I have not, as yet, so much as thought of."
The other complaints to which Governor Eaton had formally called the
attention of Governor Winthrop, of the Massachusetts Colony, are all answered
by Governor Stuy vesant in the same spirit as the above in this letter to Governor
Goodyear. In regard to exacting excessive duties or customs of the traders
of the New Haven Colony, he says: "I only answer that every state hath
power to make what and impose what customs in their own precincts they shall
think expedient, without being regulated or prescribed by others; yet, notwithstanding,
we have been so favorable to your countrymen trading here (in New
Amsterdam > that they pay eight per cwt. less than our own people."
In reference to the charge that he (Governor Stuyvesant) had threatened
to burn down the trading houses of the New Haven colonists and incite the
Indians against the English, of which hostile intentions rumor had charged
him, he replies: "I had thought he (Governor Eaton) had more noble worth,
being a Governor, or charity as he is a Christian (hearing such reports of one
of like quality as himself), not to have given credit to them, but rather have
imprisoned the reporters, unless they could have sufficiently proved it: and I
take it to be as great an injury tome (to have such reports raised and believed)
as possibly may be."The whole letter is as creditable in its character and spirit to Governor
Stuyvesant, as it is honorable in its terms and temper to Governor Goodyear.
It is concluded as handsomely as any diplomatic correspondence of that day
well could be. Referring at its close to Governor Eaton's letter, he says: -His
conclusion is indifferent fail", but I shall not beg it from him. If I meet in the
spring with the Governors of Boston and Plymouth. I hope we shall do our best
for the reconciling of all differences. To put anything to them as arbitrators I
am not yet resolved, but shall willingly comply with them m what they shall
think convenient: and. whereas, he (Eaton) is so full of his retaliation, according
to his own words and practices, he must give us leave to give liberty to any that
shall fly from vour jurisdiction, to remain under our protection untd our fugitives
are dehvered. which as soon as done. I shall endeavor to send yours back, bo,
cir vith lnvin- re=pe^ I take leave, and r^st your assured friend. lnis
correspondence; the most important in some respects that passed between the
two colonies, makes good our estimate of Mr. Goodyear's character and his
services to the Xew Haven Colony.
It should be borne in mind that Governor Stuyresant was what our colonial
history incontestably makes him, one of the most remarkable men of his time.
Washington Irving' has not overestimated his character in the many pleasing
reminiscences he has given of him. He was every inch a colonial Governor, and
while he ruled with a just regard to the rights of his own colony, he was not
without a just pretext for his actions toward others. He read men as readily as
an expert scholar does books, almost at a glance at their title pages His
opinion of Governor Eaton, though in many respects unjust, was nevertheless
correctly formed in the main. In all of Governor Eaton's letters to him the
pronominal "I" is in marked contrast with the more modest and unpretentious
bearing of the Deputy Governor. This, together with his captious and querulous
manner of writing and his constant intimation that the Dutch Governor was
seeking unrighteous and unneighborly correspondence with him, was. no doubt,
what impressed Governor Stuyvesant so unfavorably as to his character.
On the other hand Mr. Goodyear was actively engaged in commerce with
the Dutch Colony and had no doubt met Governor Stuyvesant often. Ineir
business transactions were numerous and their relations friendly, if not intimate,
as evidenced by his congratulatory note to the Governor on "the late blessing m
the little one given him, and his wife's strength," and the Dutch Governor was
no doubt glad to drop an unprofitable correspondence with Governor Eaton and
enter upon one more fruitful with the Deputy Governor. This he did, and enoughof the correspondence remains to show that the Deputy Governor had a far truer
comprehension of the duties devolving on him—of the unfriendly relations
unfortunately existing at the time between the two colonies, and the issues
involved in their amicable settlement—than the Governor had, with all his
superior learning and accomplishments as adjuncts to the diplomatic correspondence
he conducted.
The action taken by Mr. Goodyear, in relation to the English plantations on
the Delaware Bay, affords another marked contrast with that of Governor Eaton,
as well as other leading men of the colony, at the time when their jurisdiction
was virtually surrendered to the lands purchased there with a view to a permanent
settlement by a company from New Haven. This company, which was
under the protection of the New Haven Colony, had been not only greatly
annoyed by the Swedish settlers in Delaware, but had suffered severely at their
hand's. In 1654 they petitioned the General Court for redress, asking that " two
great guns and powder and what belongs to them might be granted.'' with
additional men. in order that the work of a successful planting of a colony there
might not fall through for the want of means to establish it.
The colony had given these settiers. then numbering some sixty persons,
encouragement to begin their work in this settlement, and the question presented
to the General Court was one involving the entire abandonment of the enterprise.
if the aid asked for was not promptly granted. Li this emergency Mr. Goodyear
came forward and proposed that, notwithstanding the discouragement in the way.
if a sufficient number would accompany him, he would go to the Bay himself and
adventure his entire fortune in the enterprise. After much debate and no little
hesitation on the part of the other leading men of the colony, including the
Governor himself. Mr. Goodyear was sent with others to treat with the Swedes
about a peaceful settlement of the difficulties and the establishment of the rights
of the New Haven settlers there. This commission was fulfilled by Mr. Goodyear,
but it was afterwards thought advisable, owing to the want of men and
estate to carry on the settlement, not to undertake the enterprise unless a sufficient
number of men came forward to embark in it, in which case the General
Court declared its willingness to further it.
We have thus briefly given from the meager incidents related in the Old
Colony Records, with the limited references here and there to the Deputy Governor
of the Colony, what will appear as the more prominent features of his public life.
The last meeting of the General Court of magistrates at which he was present
was held on the 30th of June, 1657. He went that year to England (the sameyear that Governor Eaton died) and on the 26th of May following, Mr. Francis
Newman was chosen Governor of the jurisdiction and Mr. William Leet, Deputy
Governor. Deputy Governor Goodyear died shortly after reaching London,
leaving several children in New Haven, from whom all the families of that name
in this state are descended.
He was in many respects a remarkable man, entering with spirit and
generally with success into many of the more important business enterprises of
his day. He was among the first to favor the establishment of a college here,
long before the foundations of Yale College were laid. He was actually the first
to embark in ship building and commerce; he was identified with the first
iron foundry in the colony, the early iron works of East Haven; and generally
took a prominent part in all the more leading public enterprises of the day.
The promptness with which he attended all the General Courts of the jurisdiction,
especially when matters of importance were to be considered by that body, shows
not only his alacrity in business, but the importance to the colony of his
deliberations.
Few men can attentively read the New Haven Colony records without
agreeing with us in the estimation we place upon the character and public
services of STEPHEN GOODYEAE.
To show the estimation in which Deputy Governor Stephen Goodyear is held
by the historians of Connecticut, these extracts are appended from their
works :
—
" Governor Eaton died suddenly in January, 1658. As he had been elected
annually to the Chief Magistracy from the institution of the colonial government,
so Stephen Goodyear had for several years been chosen Deputy Governor.
Naturally he would have succeeded to the place vacated by the death of Eaton,
but his absence on a visit to England obliged the freemen to look elsewhere for
a Chief Magistrate. Mr. Goodyear was so naturally regarded as second only to
Governor Eaton in all the qualifications requisite for that office, that if he had
lived to return he would probably have been called as soon as an election
occurred to the high position for which his only disqualification in May, 1658,
was his absence from the colony. His death occurred in London not longafterward, the melancholy tidings of it having been received before October 20th,
at which time proceedings were commenced for the settlement of his estate."
—(Bacon's History of New Haven.)
"Stephen Goodyear, who from the organization of the civil government of New
Haven till his death, stood almost uniformly in the office of Deputy Governor,
appears to have been one of the merchants who followed Mr. Davenport from
London to this country, and whose commercial habits and tastes determined the
location of the colony and the plan of the town. Among other specimens of his
activity and public spirit, we find him in 1655 forward in proposing and getting
up the iron works at East Haven, which he thought would be a great advantage
to the town. He died in London in 1658. He was obviously considered by the
colonists n= second only to Eaton in qualifications for the service of the
commonwealth.''—(History of Connecticut, by Trumbull.)

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=patchildress&id=I6274

(Originally shared on Find-a-Grave by Jerri Eoff Sudderth on January 16, 2007))

Birth: Unknown Death: 1658, England

Stephen Goodyear born to Zachary and Susanna (Baxter) Goodyear of London was baptized at Saint Gregory, London, England about 1598. The time of his arrival in America is unknown, but it is known that he owned the vessel, ST. JOHN, that sailed from Bristol to New Haven, licensed to transport 250 persons and he was listed as a passenger. He was a merchant, large land-owner, and trader who lived in New Haven. His estate in 1643 was worth at 100 pounds, and he owned land totaling approx. 939 acres in the meadow and the neck. His tax rate for that year was 9-19-02. The location of his actual farm was north of New Haven in the neighborhood of Pine Rock.

On July 1, 1644, he was administered the Oath of Fidelity by Theophilus Eaton who was chosen Governor of New Haven Colony annually for many years along with Stephen Goodyear who was chosen Deputy Governor. "They had no salary but served the people for the honor of it and the general good." He also served as commissioner for United Colonies from 1643-46. In 1644 he built a trading post on "Goodyear's Island" at the cove below Falls Mountain for the purpose of trading with the Indians. He was assigned in a town meeting to judge whether Indian money also known as wampum (strings of beads & shells -- white beads were worth twice as much as black beads) was good or not and if a value should be assigned to it.

Mr. Goodyear was a member of "The Company of Merchants of New Haven" or "The Ship Company" which was established direct trade with the mother country (England). Their plan was to build a ship filled with goods for trading and sail it to London. In January, 1646, the ship was ready to embark on the voyage and 70 New Haven citizens were aboard, including Mrs. Goodyear (his wife), Mr. Lamberton and Mr. Gregson. The New Haven harbor was frozen and the ice had to be cut with saws for three miles in front of the ship. Month after month, with no word from the ship, dispair set in with the inhabitants of New Haven. In November, 1647, the estates of those lost in what was also called "The Phantom Ship" were settled, and they were recorded as deceased. This of course included Stephen Goodyear's (first) wife, Mary.

He married second, Margaret (Lewen) Lamberton, widow of George Lamberton, who was also lost in the Phantom Ship. His ownership of 150 acres near Sterling, now Greenport, was acknowledged in 1649. The first iron works in Connecticut was established in the town of East Haven in 1655 by Stephen Goodyear and continued for about 25 years. On June 2, 1653, he sold the 150 acres to John Ketcham. He was a grantee of the Earl of Stirling of Shelter Island in the Long Island Sound and sold the island to Sylvester Constant, a merchant in London, at Barbados in 1657 for sixteen hundred pounds of good merchantable muscovado sugar.

Stephen Goodyear died in England in 1658, leaving an "entangled estate." His inventory filed on Oct. 15th, 1658 valued at 800 pounds, 9 shillings, 10 pence plus part of the iron works which was unappraised and minus some debts in Barbados. This is a cenotaph since the place of his burial is unknown.

Family links:

Spouses:
Mary Gibbard Goodyear )1612 - 1646); Margaret Lewen Lamberton Goodyear (1613 - 1655)

Children:
Rebecca Goodyear Bishop (1626 - 1681)*
Mary Goodyear Lake (1630 - 1705)
John Goodyear (1650 - 1702)
*Calculated relationship

Inscription: "In Memoriam Stephen Goodyear First Deputy Governor of the Colony of New Haven and one of the earliest members of this Church Died in London England 1658 Erected by his descendent Wm. B. Goodyear"

Burial: Center Church on the Green Churchyard New Haven, New Haven County Connecticut, USA
Maintained by: Nareen, et. al.
Originally Created by: Jerri Eoff Sudderth
Record added: Jan 16, 2007 Find A Grave Memorial# 17501582

ON THE PLAQUE IN THE CENTRAL BURYING GROUND IN HAMDEN, the following inscription appears on the back of the William B. Goodyear stone:

"Stephen Goodyear, a merchant of London, came to New Haven in 1638 (?), was chosen magistrate or Deputy Governor of the Colony and thereafter till his death at London in 1658. He was the ancestor of all in America who bear his name. John Goodyear, only son of Stephen, was father of Nathaniel, Theophilus and Andrew. Andrew Goodyear was the father of Timothy and Titus. Titus Goodyear was father of Andrew, John and Miles, also of Esther and Sybil. Andrew Goodyear was father of William, Titus, Miles and Andrew, also of Eliza and Polly."

FROM Wikipedia: THE PHANTOM SHIP

In the first years of the colony it only had ships capable of coastal travel. Trade with England was done with the Massachusetts Bay Colony as the middleman. In 1645 the Colony built an 80-ton ocean-going ship to be captained by George Lamberton, of New Haven, Connecticut who was a merchant gentleman and a sea captain from London, England. He, and in the company of others, tried to establish a settlement in Delaware, but were resisted by the Swedes who had settled there. He was one of the original founders of the Colony of New Haven. He was allotted land in block 7 and owned over 266 acres. Captain Lamberton and others from New Haven built one of the first ships out of New England for a commercial venture to the West Indies. The ship disappeared in 1646, whose fate is the theme of Longfellow's poem "The Phantom Ship".

According to legend, six months later, following a June thunder shower near sunset, an apparition of the ship appeared on the horizon. Those on shore were said to have recognized their friends on deck. The ship's masts then appeared to snap, and in the pitch the passengers were thrown into the sea and the ship capsized. Town fathers were to say the event gave them closure.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem "The Phantom Ship" about the event which includes the lines:[11]

A ship sailed from New Haven,
And the keen and frosty airs,
That filled her sails at parting,
Were heavy with good men's prayers.
"O Lord! if it be thy pleasure"--
Thus prayed the old divine--
"To bury our friends in the ocean,
Take them, for they are thine!"
But Master Lamberton muttered,
And under his breath said he,
"This ship is so crank and walty
I fear our grave she will be!"

The disasters in Philadelphia and sinking of its ship were to weaken the Colony's future negotiating position.

FROM AN INTERNET POSTING ON GOOGLE SITES BY MARK WEBSTER:
1614: Citizen and vintner of London, was bound apprentice to Ralph Bowlton of Paternoster Row for seven years, and was freed 12 Nov. 1621; indicating that he was born in 1600. The will of Ralph Bowlton, citizen and merchant tailor of London, dated 3 Mar. 1648/9, state: "I forgive my kinsman Stephen Goodyear his debt of £100." (Donald Lines Jacobus, ìDeputy-Governor Stephen Goodyear of New Haven, Reverend John Bishop of Stamford, and the Lake and Watts Families of Boston,î The American Genealogist, v. 16, no. 4, Apr 1940)

He was probably a London merchant; here chosen assistant, and, in 1641, dep. gov., in which office he served until he went home; his wife embarked 1645 in Lambertonís ship for London, was lost with all of many passengers. He married Lambertonís widow, went home 1656 or 1657, and died soon in London. (Henry Whittemore, Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America, 1906, Google Books, reprinted 2001 for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.)

Mr. Goodyear was licensed 26 Jan. 1640 to carry 250 passengers to New England in the St. John of London.

Mr. Stephen Goodyear was an original proprietor of New Haven, and an early, but not original, subscriber to the Fundamental Agreement of 4 June 1639. He was chosen a deputy, May 1641, and was one of the two Magistrates of the Town chosen (with Mr. Eaton) 27 Oct. 1641 and 26 Oct. 1642. On 6 Apr. 1643 he was appointed member of an advisory committee to consult with the New Haven Commissioners of the United Colonies. In 1641 he was listed with nine heads in his household, and an estate of £1000.

He was chosen Deputy-Governor of New Haven Colony, 26 Oct. 1643, and held that office continuously until his death, being last elected 27 May 1657. He was Commissioner for the United Colonies, 1645 to 1647, and 1650 to 1651.

He was chosen a Town Auditor, 22 Oct. 1645. He was given liberty, 1 Feb. 1647, to brew beer for the Town. He was one of the six commissioners appointed for New Haven, 17 June 1650, to set the bounds between that town and Milford.

He was a merchant and ship-owner; on 18 May 1641 he bought Shelter Island of Mr. Farrett, and sold it 9 June 1651 for £1600 of merchantable sugar; in 1647 he attempted to buy the Zwoll from the authorities at Fort Amsterdam; and in 1651 was owner, with Edward Stanton, of five-eighths of the Swallow. On 10 Mar. 1651 he was appointed member of a committee on the settlement at Delaware Bay, and in 1655 he expressed his willingness to adventure his life and estate if a company could be induced to settle there. Between 1655 and 1657 he had an interest in the Iron Works at Stony River.

(Donald Lines Jacobus, "Deputy-Governor Stephen Goodyear of New Haven, Reverend John Bishop of Stamford, and the Lake and Watts Families of Boston," The American Genealogist, v. 16, no. 4, Apr 1940).

Dep. Gov. of New Haven Colony and Commissioner for United Colonies. (Peter Judd, "American Ancestry of Robert Foote Griggs (1868-1928)," draft 2/23/05 work in progress, sent to MDW 2005).

In 1645 four men built or purchased a large vessel identified in the records simply as the "Great Shippe." Theophilus Eaton, Stephen Goodyear, Thomas Gregson, and Richard Malbon, acting together as the Company of Merchants of New Haven, then chartered it for a transatlantic voyage.

George Lamberton, New Havenís most distinguished mariner, was appointed captain. Thomas Gregson, a veteran merchant, was made agent to sell the goods in England and to arrange for regular future trade. Captain Nathaniel Turner was put in general charge of the party, which was to number some 70 people. During the winter the ship was loaded with about 5,000 pounds worth of hides, lumber, peas, wheat, and other valuables. Enthusiasm ran high, and nobody was willing to delay departure until the clement weather came. In January 1646, a 3-mile channel was cut through the frozen harbor, and the "Great Shippe" moved out to sea, carrying the hopes of New Haven and a good part of its leadership and its remaining wealth. The "Great Shippe" was never heard from again. (Col. Floyd M. Shumway, "The Founders of New Haven," Connecticut Nutmegger, v. 22, 1988).

In 1653, Elizabeth Godman filed a complaint again Goodyear and his wife that they were accusing her of witchcraft. (Donald Lines Jacobus, "The First Wife of Deputy-Governor James Bishop," The American Genealogist, v. 12, 1935).

In the year 1655, Elizabeth Godman of New Haven was brought to trial. For two years this woman, a member of the Stephen Goodyear household, had behaved oddly, charging various persons with thinking her a witch. The evidence was held insufficient and she was released to live in the home of Thomas Johnson where she died in 1660. (Richard G. Tomlinson, "Connecticut Witches," Connecticut Nutmegger, v. 5, 1972).

The story of Mrs. Godman is told in greater detail by Diane Rapaport in New England Ancestors Magazine (v. 7.3, p. 51). "Mrs. Godman lived with Deputy Governor Stephen Goodyear and his family in a large house overlooking the central town green. Perhaps she was a friend or relative, and probably a woman of high social rank, judging from her own substantial estate and the ëMrs.' before her name. Single women and widows, however, no matter how prosperous, could not live alone in seventeenth-century New England -- the law required "family governance" -- so Mrs. Godman put her financial holdings into Stephen Goodyearís hands, and he granted her a room at the top of the stairs."

She was "outspoken and opinionated," and the townspeople associated her with strange happenings, such as illnesses and knowing things she shouldnít know. She new she would be summoned to defend herself, and she "decided to file her own preemptive complaint. She sued several New Haven residents for defamation -- even Deputy Governor Goodyear and his wife -- and declared that she would ëtrounce themí all." Governor Eaton called for hearings in 1653. Many people offered "circumstantial evidence against Mrs. Godman, but it was testimony by Stephen Goodyearís adolescent daughters that proved most damning. The girls slept in a second-floor bedroom just below Mrs. Godmanís chamber, and they maintained intense curiosity about their boarderís activities. Often they heard Mrs. Godman talking in her room, and once they tiptoed up the stairs to listen outside Mrs. Godmanís door. They clearly heard words like ëwill you goeí and ëwill you fetch me some beare,' as if Mrs. Godman entertained a visitor in her bedchamber. Then, one hot day when Mrs. Godman returned home from a walk and retired to her room, the girls decided to spy on her. They climbed up to the attic, to a spot directly above Mrs. Godmanís room, where they could peer through the floorboards. There they saw Mrs. Godman in bed, partially clothed, behaving as if someone (the Devil?) might be under the covers with her....Two days later, one of the girls ëheard a hedious noise,' felt someone pinching her, and fell into a ëdreadfull fittí and fever."

Needless to say, Mrs. Godman did not win her case (one of the judges was Stephen Goodyear). The judges told her they would keep an eye on her. She continued to live with Stephen Goodyear, and two years later she was back in court accused of witchcraft. In addition to the usual stories of dying farm animals and spoiled beer, the Goodyear daughters once again offered "...the most dramatic testimony. One night, the girls were ëawakened wth a great fumbling at the chamber dore.' Something came into their room. ë[I]t came nearer the bed and Hanah was afraid and called father, but he heard not, wch made her more affraide.' Then the intruder pulled at the bedcovers; the girls held on, and a tug-of-war ensued, which ëfrighted them so that Hanah Goodyeare called her father so loude as...might be heard to the meetinghouse.' The mysterious prowler had disappeared by the time Stephen Goodyear arrived on the scene, but Mrs. Godman, of course, was the prime suspect."

The judges did not think the charges were sufficient to take her life, but the Goodyears evicted her. She found another New Haven home with the Thomas Johnson family, where she lived out her life, dying in 1660.

"On 26 January 1640 Stephan Goodyear merchant tailor, owner of messuages and tenements near Paulís Cathedral in London, was licensed to carry two hundred and fifty passengers to New England in the ëSt John of London;' by 1642 with others he owned portions of the Long Island Shore opposite New Haven, including what later was named Shelter Island; as early as 1644 he was associated with others in New Haven in an attempt to build ocean-going vessels. He was a principal in the affairs of New Haven Colony, active in business affairs, in numerous government positions and served as Deputy Governor." [Judd, citing Calder.] (The Ancestry of Robert Foote Griggs, 1868-1928, Part II of The Ancestry of Peter Haring Judd, 1931-, by Peter Haring Judd, draft dated 15 Nov 2006).

"Atwater in his History of the Colony of New Haven as he describes the location of dwellings around the principal of the squares into which the settlement was divided writes:

" ëNext west of Mr. [Thomas] Gregson lived Stephen Goodyear, another of the London merchants originally associated together for the commencement of a plantation in New England. Here he was engaged in foreign commerce, sometimes in company with [Theophilus] Eaton, [Richard] Malbon, and Gregson, and sometimes adventuring largely on his individual responsibility. Having lost his first wife in [George] Lambertonís ship [see Gregson], he married the widow of Lamberton, thus uniting two families in one home with advantage to the children of each. Second only to Eaton in the colonial government, his absence in England when Eaton died was a sufficient reason why he was not then advanced to the chief magistracy; and his death in London not long afterward brought his useful and honorable career to an endí [Francis Atwater, Atwater History and Genealogy, 1901, Ancestry.com, pages 135-6].

"An important component of the purpose of New Haven Colony was mercantile and two other references from Atwater illustrate Goodyearís role, referring to the tensions between the young colony and the Dutch in New Amsterdam.

" ëStephen Goodyear, who in the prosecution of this commerce between the towns often visited Fort Amsterdam, purchased there of the Dutch governor a ship called the Zwoll, to be delivered in the harbor of New Haven. Under pretext of conveying the ship in safety, the Dutch put soldiers on board, who on a Sunday boarded and seized the St. Beninio, a Dutch vessel lying in the harbor of New Haven, and carried her away to Fort Amsterdam, where the vessel was confiscated as a smuggler, the owner having evaded payment of certain duties or "recognitions" claimed by his government. William Westerhouse, who owned the vessel, and Samuel Goodenhouse, another Dutch merchant in some way implicated in the business, were then sojoummg at New Haven, and, finding it more agreeable to remain than to follow the vessel which had been seized, placed themselves under the protection of the court, and became permanent residents. The settlement at New Haven of these strangers served to abate somewhat the commercial discouragement consequent on a succession of losses. The acquisition of Westerhouse was additionally pleasing, because he was not only a merchant, but a practitioner of medicine."

"Goodyear also opened up trade with the West Indies which from the seventeenth century to the Revolution provided the slave economy of the West Indies with grains and farm animals and in return rum and sugar for New England.

" 'The first mention of commerce between New Haven and Barbadoes occurs in a letter written by Deputy Gov. Goodyear, advising Gov. Stuyvesant of the delivery of beef, which Goodyear had contracted to deliver upon demand, probably in payment for the ship which the Dutch governor had sent to him at New Haven. The Dutch commissary having come for the beef at a time inopportune for Goodyear, the latter writes: "I was necessitated to furnish a great part out of what I had provided for the Bardadoes; but my endeavors are and shall be to my utmost to perform my covenants in all things. I desire we may attend peace and neighborly love and correspondency one with another." This letter dated Nov. 22, 1647, must have been written at a very early period in the history of the trade with Barbadoes; for sugar, the principal product of that island, began to be exported to England in 1646" [Francis Atwater, Atwater History and Genealogy, 1901, Ancestry.com, page 205].

There was also an ambitious mining project with John Winthrop, Jr. who was " ëinterested in mining, and Stephen Goodyear, interested in every enterprise which promised to be advantageous to New Haven, united in setting up a bloomery and forge, at the outlet of Saltonstall Lake. The people of New Haven favored the undertaking by contributing labor in building a dam, and by conceding the privilege of cutting on the common land all the wood needed for making charcoal. They hoped that the works would bring trade, and that Winthrop would fix his residence in New Haven. The ore was transported from North Haven, partly by beats down the Quinnipiac and up Farm River, and partly by carts. After two or three years, Goodyear having died, and Winthrop having ceased to think of New Haven as a place of residence, the works were leased....Iron continued to be made for some years, but the institution did not fulfill the hopes of its projectors, or of the publicí " (Francis Bacon Trowbridge, Trowbridge Genealogy, 1908).

Inventory taken 15 Oct 1658 by Henry Lindon, John Nash, Thomas Munson, and William Davis, valued at £804 [Early Probate Records of New Haven, NEHGS Register, v. 81, 1927].

Stephen married Mary (Unknown surname) circa 1625 and they had the following children:

i. Rebecca (ca 1626-)
ii. Mary (ca 1630-)
iii. Stephen (ca 1631-)
iv. Thomas (ca 1633-)
v. Andrew (ca 1634-1635)
vi. Hannah (ca 1637-1721)
vii. Sarah (ca 1639-1639)
viii. Stephen (ca 1641-)
ix. Lydia (ca 1645-1700)
x. Stephen ( -1628)

Stephen married Margaret Lewen, widow of George Lamberton, circa 1648 and they had the following children:

i. Andrew (ca1649-)
ii. John (1651-1702)
iii. Esther (1654-1691)

"Indeed, from one version of the tale to the next, one element is always rendered intact. Viewing the apparently less-than-seaworthy vessel as it embarked, accompanied by a full complement of his parishioners, the Reverend John Davenport is remembered to have spoken prophetically. In direct sight and hearing of the on-board crew and passengers, he is said to have uttered these words in prayer: ìLord, if it be thy pleasure to bury these our Friends in the bottom of the Sea, they are thine; save them!"

IMMIGRATION TO NEW ENGLAND
Arrival Year - 1638
Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012.

Source Citation
Place: New England; Year: 1638; Page Number: 34

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Andrew Goodyear
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Alice Parkyns
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William Baxter
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Margaret [Unknown]
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Stephen Goodyear
1598-1657

(1) 1620

Mary Gibbard
1603-1646

Rebecca Goodyear
1626-1681
Stephen Goodyear
1628-????
Mary Goodyear
< -1705
Stephen Goodyear
1631-????
Thomas Goodyear
Hannah Ann Goodyear
1635-1721
Lydia Goodyear
1645-1700
Andrew Goodyear
± 1634-????
Sarah Goodyear
1639-1639
(2) ± 1648

Margaret Lewen
1613-1655

Esther Goodyear
1654-????
Andrew Goodyear
1634-± 1670
John Goodyear

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    14. Gravestone for Stephen Goodyear (1598), Maintained by: Nareen, et al Originally Created by: Jerri Eoff Sudderth Record added: Jan 16, 2007  Find A Grave Memorial# 17501582
      Stephen Goodyear

      Birth:
      Nov. 26, 1598
      Monken Hadley
      London Borough of Barnet
      Greater London, England
      Death:
      May, 1658
      Greater London, England

      Burial:
      Center Church on the Green Churchyard
      New Haven
      New Haven County
      Connecticut, USA
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    15. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Ancestry.com, Place: New Haven, Connecticut; Year: 1620-1650; Page Number: 100
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    19. Cenotaph Info for Stephen Goodyear (1598), Maintained by: Nareen, et al Originally Created by: Jerri Eoff Sudderth Record added: Jan 16, 2007 Find A Grave Memorial# 17501582
      Stephen Goodyear

      Birth:
      Nov. 26, 1598
      Monken Hadley
      London Borough of Barnet
      Greater London, England
      Death:
      May, 1658
      Greater London, England

      Center Church on the Green Churchyard
      New Haven
      New Haven County
      Connecticut, USA
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    20. Boston Evening Transcript: Genealogy Pages, 1911-1940 / American Ancestors Org
    21. London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, Ancestry.com, London Metropolitan Archives, St Martin Ludgate, Composite register: baptisms 1558 - 1719, marriages 1559 - 1715, burials 1558 - 1719, P69/MTN1/A/002/MS10213
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    22. Grave info for Mary Goodyear Lake, Maintained by: Elizabeth Goodyear Originally Created by: P Fazzini Added: 20 Oct 2010 Find A Grave Memorial 60363154 SPONSORED BY Elizabeth Goodyear
      BIRTH
      Jan 1629
      City of London, Greater London, England
      DEATH
      8 Sep 1705 (aged 76)
      Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
      BURIAL
      Burial Details Unknown, Specifically: She may be interred at Copp's Hill cemetery along with her husband and son.
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      • 20. April » Der englische Admiral Robert Blake besiegt im Englisch-Spanischen Krieg in der Seeschlacht von Santa Cruz eine spanische Kriegsflotte vernichtend, womit die spanischen Schatzschiffe aus der Neuen Welt den englischen Freibeutern ausgeliefert sind.
      • 8. Mai » Oliver Cromwell, seit 1653 Lordprotektor von England, lehnt die ihm vom Parlament angebotene Königskrone ab.
      • 19. September » Im Vertrag von Wehlau erhält Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm die Souveränität über Preußen von Polens König Johann II. Kasimir.
      • 6. November » Im Vertrag von Bromberg erhält Brandenburg-Preußen die Lande Lauenburg und Bütow und, als Pfand für Geldhingabe, die Starostei Draheim vom polnischen König Johann II. Kasimir.
      • 10. November » Schwedens vormalige Königin Christina lässt ihren früheren Favoriten und Stallmeister Giovanni Monaldeschi unter dem Vorwurf des Hochverrats im französischen Schloss Fontainebleau töten.

    Tag der Beerdigung 7. Mai 1658

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      • 8. März » Im Frieden von Roskilde verliert Dänemark seine Besitzungen in Südschweden an Schweden, welches damit seine größte Ausdehnung erreicht.
      • 18. Juli » In Frankfurt am Main wird Leopold I. zum römisch-deutschen Kaiser gewählt.
      • 31. Juli » Aurangzeb setzt nach erfolgreichem Krieg mit den Brüdern seinen Vater Shah Jahan, den Bauherrn des Taj Mahal, gefangen und übernimmt die Herrschaft im Mogulreich.
      • 14. August » Der Erste Rheinbund entsteht als überkonfessionelles Defensivbündnis von Reichsfürsten gegen den deutschen Kaiser, den die Habsburger stellen. Frankreich schließt sich am 15. August an.
      • 8. November » In der Seeschlacht im Öresund im Zweiten Nordischen Krieg bleibt die niederländische Flotte der Republik der Sieben Vereinigten Provinzen gegenüber der schwedischen Flotte unter dem Befehl Carl Gustaf Wrangels siegreich.
      • 20. Dezember » Schweden und Russland schließen den Waffenstillstandsvertrag von Valiesar, nach dem Russland die von ihm eroberten Gebiete für drei Jahre behalten darf. Die formelle Beendigung des Russisch-Schwedischen Krieges erfolgt erst am 1. Juli 1661 durch den Frieden von Kardis.
    

    Gleicher Geburts-/Todestag

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