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Personal data Samuel Edward Goode 

• Alternative name: Samuel Goode
• He was born in the year 1655 in Saint Michael, Barbados.Source 5
• (Alt. Birth) about 1665: Barbados, Bermuda.Source 5
• (Alt. Death) in the year 1735: Virginia, USA.Source 5
• He died April 1735 in Henrico Co, Virginia, Verenigde Staten, he was 80 years old.Source 5
• A child of John Goode and Frances Martha Mackerness
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of Samuel Edward Goode

Notes about Samuel Edward Goode

[David Carpenter.ged]

SAMUEL GOODE  (#1)
Samuel Goode, the Barbadian son of John And Frances Mackarness Goode, born in the Island of Barbados, 1655 to 1658, came to Virginia with his parents and died after 1734. He Married Martha Jones. When Samuel Goode accompanied his parents from Barbados Islands to Virginia, there were at that time and for more than a century later, a considerable fleet of small vessels plying to and fro between the old Dominion and the islands in the Caribbean Sea - vessels of 20 to 50 tons, usally carrying a number of cannon, and under the convoy frequently of larger vessels.Samuel lost his mother at an early age. The mischiovous pranks by which the little West Indian made miserable his young stepmother, fresh from Holland, have been matters of tradition in the past, but their memory is now lost.Rev. Dr. Goode of Indiana writes: "Some amusing incidents were related of the ill-treatment of young Sam by his Pseudo-mother, and his rather savage revenges: finally her influence over the father, in old age, was so great that she induced him to leave all his considerable estate to her own children." Traditions agree with the testimony of the Henrico County records. We have seen that John Goode , although he had given land in 1698 to his son, Samuel, ignored him in his Will, except to memtion him in defining the boundaries of the tracts left to his brothers.
Samuel Goode received, April 20, 1694, a grant of 888 acres of land in Henrico Co., Virginia. (Virginia Land Register, page 380)
In 1734, when his Will was made, he devised 1900 acres to his several children, and gave to his wife and two daughters the remainder of his estate. It would appear from this that it must have been this same Samuel who, in 1730, received an additional grant of 2200 acres in Henrico County. Another grant was made on the same day, September 28,
to Samuel Goode, Probably the eldest son. Land grants were probably on the north side of the James River.
RALPH L. CARPENTER - 1965

Also, he copied the WILL OF SAMUEL GOODE I  1734

[David Carpenter.ged]

Indians were numerous and annoying, but Samuel Goode our progenitor, -who was fearless and decisive, kept them in awe; and when occasion required, drove them away from his home.  Old man Jones, his father-in-law (from Wales), was timid and yielding, and this led the Indians to trouble his family the more.  At length, in the absence of all but a grown son and daughter, an attack was made by several Indians, which culminated in a hand-to-hand fight in the house between young Jones and an Indian man.  Jones was wounded and fainting with loss of blood.  Still, he mastered the Indian and, seizing his long hair and winding it around a bedpost, he held him fast until his sister dispatched the Indian with a tomahawk.  This done, he said, âI have done what I can for you,"- and expired (Virginia Cousins).

Will of Samuel Goode, 1735

In the name of God, Amen!  I Samuel Goode, of the County of Henrico, being very sick and weak in body, but in perfect mind and memory, thanks be to Almighty God that gave it in full and certain hope of a joyful reserection at the last Day of our Lord Jesus Christ and my body to the earth to be decently buryed at the discretion of my executors hereafter named, and as for what worldly estates it hath pleased God to endow me with I give and bequeath as followeth:

Item, I give and bequeath to my son, Mackerness Goode, the uppermost part of my land at Middle creek, containing three hundred acres, bounding as followeth, to him and his heirs forever.

Item, I give and bequeath to my son, Samuel Good, three hundred acres of land joining to his brother, Mackarness, to him and his heirs forever.

Item, I give and bequeath to my son, William Goode, three hundred acres of land joining to his brother, Samuel Goode to him and his heirs forever.

Item, I give and bequeath to my son, Phillip Good, three hundred acres of land joining to his brother, Will Good, to him and his heirs forever.

Item, I give and bequeath to my son, John Good, three hundred acres of land joining to his brother, Phillip Good, to him and his heirs forever.

Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Frances Goode, the plantation at Winepeck, containing a hundred acres, to her and heirs forever; also it is my will and desire that three hundred acres of the lower part of my land joining to John Goode, may be sold to pay my debts at the discretion of my executors.

Impris, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Martha Goode, and my two daughters, Martha and Margaret Good, all the residue of my estate and negroes, to be equally divided when my said daughters shall be of age, twenty one, or at the day of marriage, nominating and appointing my wife to be my executrix of this my last will and testament.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my seal the 10th day of December,  1734.

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us, Thos. Jones, John Tillotson, Elizabeth Tillotson.

Samuel Goode (seal)

At a court held for Henrico the seventh day of April Anno Dom. 1735, this will was presented by Martha Goode upon oath, and proved by the oaths of the witnesses hereto whereupon it was admitted to record.

Test: Bowler Cocke, Ct. Cur.

Source: Virginia Cousins, G.B. Goode, p. 37

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