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Données personnelles John Goode 

• Noms alternatifs: John Goad, John "the Immigrant" (John "the Immigrant") Goode
• Il est né en l'an 1632 dans Whitby, North Yorkshire, England.Source 5
• Immigré(e)(s) entre le 1645 et le 1650.Source 5
• (Alt. Birth) : Bronwell, Whitby, England.Source 6
• (Alt. Birth) en l'an 1625: Whitley, England.Source 4
• (Alt. Death) en l'an 1709.Source 4
• (Alt. Death) en l'an 1709: Old Rappahannock Co, Virginia, USA.Source 6
• Il est décédé avant le 1 avril 1709 dans Whitby Estate, Henrico Co, Virginia, Verenigde Staten.Source 5
• Répartition des actifs le 1 avril 1709.
• Testament le 9 novembre 1708.Source 5
• Un enfant de Robert Downe Goode et Frances Whitley
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 4 décembre 2022.

Famille de John Goode

(1) Il est marié avec Frances Martha Mackerness.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1650 à St. Michael's Parish, Barbados, il avait 18 ans.Source 7

Enfant(s):

1. Samuel Edward Goode  1655-1735
2. Robert Goode  ± 1658-1718 

(2) Il est marié avec Anne Bennett.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1666, il avait 34 ans.Les sources 3, 8

Enfant(s):

1. Catherine Goode  1668-????
2. Elizabeth M. Goode  1669-1736
3. Frances Goode  1670-????
4. Anne Goode  1673-????
5. Martha Goode  ± 1674-????
6. John Bennett Goode  1675-1725
7. Thomas Goode  1677-1718
8. Mary Goode  ± 1680-????
9. Susanna Goode  ± 1687-1756
10. Ursula Goode  ± 1690-> 1743
11. Joseph Goode  ± 1694-< 1761
12. Robert Goode  

Notes par John Goode

[David Carpenter.ged]

The Complete Book of Emigrants, p. 471 - John Goode, Barbados, 1659
Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657.  Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975 - John Goode, Barbados, 1650, p. 123

John Goode was born about 1632 as he swore he was 72 years of age in 1704 (Henrico Co., Deeds and Wills, 1697-1704, p. 426).  He moved to Barbados in 1645-50 where he married Martha, traditionally Martha Mackarness, for that is what their only known son named a child.

John married second Ann, said to be Ann Bennett, for the name Bennett appeared in later generations. John and Ann lived at Whitby in Henrico County and were the parents of several children.

With William Hatcher, John was an ardent supporter of Nathaniel Bacon (Chesterfield, An Old Virginia Co., 1607-1954, Francis Lutz, pp. 54-55).

The tithable list of Henrico County for 1679 included Mr. John Goode. The list was made to comply with an act for the defence of the country against the incursions of the Indian Enemy.

In 1681 John and Ann sold a 200-acre portion of Whitby to William Stowers and William Giles (Henrico Co., Deeds and Wills, 1677-92, p. 189).  John Stowers and John Goode secured a patent to 888 acres on the south side of the James in Henrico County 23 October 1690 (Virginia Land Patent Book 8, p. 124).  Among the headrights were Martha and John Goode.  Yet no mention was made of Samuel, so perhaps he was born in Virginia and not Barbados.  This son Samuel would later hold this tract.

John served as a road surveyor until April 1690 when he recommended William Blackman to succeed him (Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 32, p. 139).  John described himself as being now ancient.

John Goode Sr. paid quit rents on 600 acres in Henrico County in 1704 (English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records, des Cognets, p. 217). Later that year John Trent sold him 109 acres on the north side of Falling Creek (Henrico Co., Virginia Deeds and Wills, 1697-1704, p. 432).  Goode was a surveyor of the highways in 1683 (Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 30, p. 30).

John Goode died in Henrico County.  His will was dated 9 Nov 1708 and recorded 1 April 1709 (Henrico Co., Virginia Deeds and Wills, 1706-09, p. 156).  His wife, Ann, was still living.

Francis Lutz, in Chesterfield Co., an Old Virginia County (pp. 56-57), describes Whitby and the Goodes who owned it as follows.

The nearest of these neighbors [in Chesterfield County] was John Goode who owned property adjoining the Falls Plantation.  There he subsequently built a dwelling and gave the estate the name, Whitby.

The two estates were separated by stony Creek, which subsequently was named Goode's Creek.  The first Goode had reached Virginia in 1650 and was on of the ardent Baconists.  Just when he erected his Chesterfield home is not recorded.

'Whitby' was an English type dwelling house with dormer windows and brick chimney at each end.  The original house, which was used as a Confederate hospital was destroyed about the end of the Civil War, was on high ground overlooking the river and the original plantation contained 5,000 acres at one time.  At 'Whitby' several generations of Goodes bred fine racehorses and there they built on of Chesterfield's earliest private racecourses.  A stone barn, now falling prey to the elements, still stands near the former seat of the Goodes, whose contributions to Chesterfield history are outstanding.

Not reported in Virginia Cousins is the 1659 Barbados will of John Mackarness who mentions 'friend John Goode.'

He married in Barbados, 1650 to 1660, a lady named Frances Mackarness, who accompanied him to Virginia, where she soon died, leaving one son, Samuel.  John had 13 children - 12 after marrying one Anne Bennett, from Holland. ; Traditions concerning John Goode are vague and few. The Honorable Gamett Andrews of Georgia has preserved the reminiscence that he was "an old, fox-hunting English squire," and in several branches of the family, the story has been handed down that he was a Cavalier, loyal to King Charles, and driven from home as a political exile after the death of his sovereign.  This tradition also has it that after the restoration of the Stewarts, his loyalty was rewarded by large grants of land to him and his descendants in Virginia, but no evidence is found in either Colonial records or family history.   It is further related that upon the voyage from Barbados to Virginia, John Goode was accompanied by his wife (born Mackarness), an infant son; Samuel, and a serving maid, and that his name was entered upon the passenger list under the style of "John Goode, Gentleman."

John Goode, after his arrival in Virginia, soon settled down into the occupation of a tobacco planter, and after the death of his first wife, married Anne Bennett, a recent arrival from Holland, who bore him 12 children.  He was a man well advanced in years when he remarried, probably in 1668 to 1670.  His first-born son was several years of ago at this time, a mischievous youth, who delighted to play practical jokes upon his old father's young wife.  She became estranged from her stepson and gained influence over her husband in his old age and was instrumental in the disinheritance of his firstborn.  We may well imagine that the old gentleman might have had cause for just wrath, and if we of later generations have inherited our temperaments from these forefathers, we know that young Samuel was too independent on many occasions.  The estrangements necessarily followed the disinheritance of the elder son and the two branches of the family soon lost sight of each other.  Of the sons of Samuel Goode, some stayed near Richmond, others (or their descendants) moved to the western part of the staler and some ultimately further to the unsettled regions to the west (Kentucky).

The history of the family for the first half-century centers around Whitby on the James River, where John Goode seems to have become established soon after his arrival in Virginia.  He landed at Jamestown, then made his way to the frontier where he bought 500 acres of land from Captain Matthew Gough.  The old house, the first one built on the James River, lies nearly opposite Powhattan," the very place where Captain John Smith had his first interview with the great Indian wereowances whose descendants have, in several instances, intermarried with those of John Goode.

John Goode bought 500 acres of virgin land on the upper James River from Captain Matthew Gough, one of the burgesses from Henrico Co. (now Chesterfield Co.) in 1642.  Gough had received a grant of land from the Crown earlier, and this is probably what became "Whitby" the seat of the Goode family for more than 200 years (Kentucky Cousins, pp. 35-36, 1).

Henrico County Record Book No. 2, 1678-1693, Virginia Genelogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXIX, No. 3, 1 Aug 1991, p. 165-166

At a Court Holden at Varina for the County of Henrico the first day of August by his Majesties justices of the peace for the said County in the thirtieth day of the reigne of our sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God Great Britaine, France and Ireland King defender of the faith etc. etc. and in the yeare of our lord God 1678.

Wee the subscribers doe for ever for us our assigns and legatees Acknowledge confirme and agree that a West and by south Course from the Mouth of Stony Creek into the Woods shall be a dividing line of our lands on the north side of the plantation of the subscribed John Good and that the said Good shall himselfe and Heirs for Ever hold his land by a West course into the Woods for his south line, bounding upon the land of Richard Peirse, according as it hath been surveyed Markt and laid out by Coll Thomas Lygon, hereby intending that the partyes subscribed shall be at a certainty in the knowledge of the bounds between them, and that the said Good may have his full complement of five hundred acres of land.  Witnesse our hands the fifteenth day of January in the year of our lord sixteene hundred seventy seven.  It is likewise agreed between the partyes subscribed that this agreement shall be entered upon record in Henrico County Court.

Witnesse: Wm. Harris, Richard Lygon

Signed: William Byrd, John Goode

'Henrico County Record Book No. 2, 1678-1693,' Virginia Genelogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, 1 May 1994, p. 139

Mr. John Goode one of ye surveyors for ye highways for this county of Henrico this day returned his warrant for clearing ye same executed.

Upon the peticon of Mr. Jno Goode one of ye surveyors of ye highways for this County that the said Office is burdensome unto him being now ancient & prsenting severall others as persons fit to execute ye sd Office, the Court being sencible of his condicon have granted his sd request & out of those prsons by him nominated have made Choice of Wm. Blackman who in ye said Good's place office and precincts is putt and appointed.

William & John Blackman and their trail to Sampson & Johnson Counties, N.C. by Donald E. Collins

John Goode immigrated to Virginia by way of Barbados before 1660.  His plantation lay a short distance north of the Blackmans where Goode's Creek (then called Stony) enters the James River.  (Near where highway I-95 now crosses the James on the south side of the river).  Goode's genealogy is traced in G. Brown Goode's Virginia Cousins.  John Goode was involved in Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 and attempted to dissuade Nathaniel Bacon from continuing his revolt.  The conversation between John Goode and Bacon is frequently mentioned in histories of the rebellion and is published in its entirety in Virginia Cousins.  His grandson Bennett Goode married Martha Jefferson, sister of Peter Jefferson.

The Will of John Goode

In the name of God, Amen!  The 29th day of November, in the year of our Lord God, seventeen-hundred-and-eight, I, John Goode of the County; and Parish of Henrico, in Virginia, Gent., being sick and weak of body, but of sound and perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for it, do make, ordain, constitute and appoint this to be my last will and testament, in manner following:
Imprimis, I resign my soul into the hands of God who gave it, trusting through the merits of Jesus Christ my blessed Lord and Savior to obtain free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins; and my body to the earth, to be cecently interred, at the discretion of my Executor, hereafter named.
Item, That my debts and funeral charges be first paid.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my son Robert Goode, one hundred acres of my land, lying next, and adjoining to the river, and north by the lands of William Byrd, Esq. To him the said Robert and his heirs forever.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my son John Goode, one hundred acres of my land lying next to the James River, and adjoining the land of my son, Samuel Goode, to him the said John and his heirs forever.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my sons Thomas Goode and Joseph Goode, my tract of land of land in lying in the woods on the north side of Stony Creek, and at the heads of the aforementioned lands, estimated to be four hundred acres, more or less, to be equally divided between them when they shall come to lawful age: and my will is, that if either the said Thomas or Joseph shall decease in their nonage, the survivor of them shall have, hold, occupy, possess and enjoy the aforesaid tract of land, containing four hundred acres, to him and his heirs forever.  But if my two sons shall arrive to lawful age, then my will is that Thomas enjoy two hundred acres of the aforementioned land, to him and his heirs forever, and that Joseph enjoy the other two hundred acres, to him the said Joseph and his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Katherine Roberts, two thousand pounds of tobacco.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Blackman, two thousand pounds of tobacco.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Susanna Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco to be paid when she comes to age or is married.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Anna Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco, to be paid when she comes to age or is married.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco when he comes to lawful age.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Joseph Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco to be paid when he comes of lawful age.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Robert, two negroes, by name, Jupiter and Moll, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son John, two negroes, by name George and Sabrina, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas, two negroes, Abraham and Ned, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Joseph, one negro woman, by name Rose, with her increase, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Katherine Roberts, besides the two thousand pounds of tobacco already given, one thousand pounds of tobacco more, to be paid four years after my decease.
Item, I give to my son Samuel, ten shillings, and a way for the cart and horse on the outside of the low-grounds by long swamp, during the term of his natural life.
Item, I give to my daughter Frances, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Mary, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Martha, one shilling.
Item,I give to my daughter Ursula, one shilling.

All the rest of my goods and chattels I give and bequeath to my two sons Robert and John, and do make my said two sons Robert and John whole and sole Executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made and done.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal this day and year first written.

Item, my will is, that if Thomas and Joseph should die before they come to lawful age, their estate to be equally divided between their own brothers.

Signature,

John GOODE (seal)

Signed, sealed, delivered and acknowledged as his last will and testament in presence of us, Thomas Byrd, Giles Webb, All., Clerke, Mary Forest

Henrico Co., April 1st,  Ano. 1709

The aforegoing will was this day proved in open Court by the oaths of the subscribed witnesses.

Teste: James Cocke, Cl. Cur

(Kentucky Cousins, Cecil Goode, p. 45; Virginia Cousins, G.B. Goode)

1 Mar 1708/9 - Allanson Clerke was security along with Capt. Giles Webb for Robert Good and John Goode on the will of their father John Goode. (Henrico County Wills and Deeds 1706-1709, p. 163)

"The English pedigree ascribed to John Goode, of Henrico, in Virginia Cousins was doubtless constructed by George Brown Goode without sufficient data at hand to really prove the points he makes.  It should not be accepted without a most critical examination.

A clue to the correct English ancestry of John Goode is given, no doubt, by the will of Marmaduke Goode, of Ufton, in Berkshire, Clerk, dated 5 Sept 1678, proved 20 Feb 1678, which mentions brother Samuel Goode; niece Mary, daughter of brother John Goode; brother John Goode, citizen of London and Susanna, his now wife; nephew Marmaduke Goode, son of said John Goode, and his (Marmaduke's, the nephew) sisters Elizabeth, Susannah and Anne Goode; brother William Goode and his son Robert Goode, and Robert's two sisters, Elianor and Mary; my sister Mary Haines and her two maiden daughters; "my brother John Goode, in Virginia ten pounds within twelve months after my decease according to the appointment of my brother John Goode, citizen of London"; brother Thomas Goode in Ireland; sister Anne Wickens; servants Alice Payne and Henry Larkum; joint executors brother Samuel Goode and niece Mary Goode.  For a full abstract of this will see Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England, I, p. 26."

Robert was a priest at Ufton, Berkshire Parish, ordained in 1610.  He received his Bachelor of Science from Cambridge in 1606 and his Master of Arts in 1610.  He is buried just outside the front entrance of the church at Ufton.  Source: Nancy Goode Page - (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)

According to Henrico Co., Virginia court depositions, John Goode's age on October 2, 1704 is given as 72, thus putting his birth at abt. 1632.  A tradition among the Goodes and Prides of Amelia, VA suggests John Goode and his wife were a runaway couple from England (John) and Scotland (Martha Mackerness), and that they were heirs to a large estate in the old country (Virginia Cousins).  This possibility is supported by the marriage of John Goode and Ms. Mackaness about 1633 in Scotland (Six Hundred Years With the Mackaness Family in Northamptonshire).  According to another family tradition, John arrived in Virginia with a wife and infant son, Samuel, together with a serving maid (Kentucky Cousins, p. 1).

A copy of a passenger manifest notarized by the Records Office in London indicates that one John GOODE of  Cornwall, was on the ship "EXPEDITION" that departed from Gravesend in London bound for Barbados, date--1635.  There were two sailings of the Expedition. Both went to Barbados.

John Goode first landed in America at Jamestown and lost no time in buying 500 acres of virgin land on the upper James River from Captain Matthew Gough, one of the burgesses from Henrico Co. (now Chesterfield Co.) in 1642. Gough had received a grant of land from the Crown earlier, and this is probably what became "Whitby" the seat of the Goode family for more than 200 years (Kentucky Cousins, pp. 35-36, 1).

Whitby was first built and settled when few people lived that far from the established settlements around Jamestown and Williamsburg (Kentucky Cousins, p. 1).  It must have been quite a feat to journey up the James River with the necessary supplies and equipment to establish a substantial home in the wilderness.  Not long after settling in the new home, John's wife died.  The exact date of death is unknown, but perhaps she died giving birth to their second son, Robert (Kentucky Cousins, p. 36).

The location of John Goode's "Whitby" homestead established about has been established to be in southeastern corner of present day Manchester Twp., Chesterfield Co., Virginia 1673 (just south of Richmond at what is now the Tidewater Quarry), by way of land patents secured by his son Samuel Goode in 1698.  This part of Chesterfield County shares a border with both Richmond and Varina Twp., Henrico Co., Virginia.

Whitby was one of, if not the first permanent residence in the area (Kentucky Cousins, p. 36).  The site was an eminence on the west bank of the James River and is now located within the Richmond city limits, although John Goode had been dead 28 years before Richmond was founded (Kentucky Cousins, p. 1).

John Goode having eleven children, four of whom were still minors at the writing of his will in 1708, suggests he probably married Anne in the early 1670s, when Samuel must have been about twenty years of age (Kentucky Cousins, p. 42).

By 1690, John Goode had acquired 688 acres of land in Henrico County and 2270 acres in Chesterfield County.  He died at Whitby in 1709. The old home was tore down sometime after 1800.  The plantation remained in the Goode family until 1876.

John Goode of Whitby was the leading citizen of the western marches of the colony, and was of sufficient courage to early align himself with the opponents of the reactionary government of the Royal governor, Sir William Berkley. ; The leader of this movement was Nathaniel Bacon.

The plantations located around the falls of the James River were then on the Indian frontier.  The Indians, while nominally at peace with the colony, perpetrated many outrages against the settlers on the outlying farms.  This came to such a point that the western landowners made a concerted demand on the governor that troops be sent to the frontier to quell them.

Sir William Berkley, from the comfort and security of Jamestown, denied the necessity of such action, and refused to move for the protection of the Westerners.  As their demands became more insistent, he threatened them as malcontents and seditionists.  When conditions reached a point the frontier settlers considered unbearable, Nathaniel Bacon, seconded by John Goode of Whitby, decided upon direct action. They formed their own forces and marched against the Indians and gave them a severe whipping, so severe as to solve the problem of Indian depredations for a number of decades.

John Goode of Whitby accompanied this expedition and fought gallantly.  Their mission accomplished, they returned to the settlements and attempted to resume their normal pursuits.  They found, however, that Sir William Berkley was in a fine rage on account of their having taken the law in their own hands, and the air was thick with threats of reprisal against them.

Bacon and many of his supporters were infuriated about this and were soon talking about marching against the capital at Jamestown and removing the governor by force.  John Goode, fortunately for his descendants, decided against joining this movement, and remained at Whitby while Bacon proceeded with his forces against Jamestown.  The governor was unprepared for such a move, and after a pitched battle Jamestown fell to the rebels and was burned.

While the colony at large had applauded Bacon in his expedition against the Indians, armed rebellion against the King's government, however corrupt and ineffective, was another matter.  It is probable that many of Bacon's own men were appalled at what they had done.  The weight of public opinion, as well as such armed force as the governor could muster being against them, Bacon's force was soon dissipated, an he and his chief lieutenants found themselves fugitives from the law. Bacon was ill at the time and likely the lack of his fire and drive was a large factor contributing to the quick collapse of his rebellion.  He died in hiding, and is reputed to have been buried under the main road at Gloucester Court House, in hope that his body would not be dug up, drawn an quartered, as the law of the day provided.  His chief supporters were captured and hung.

Thus, John Goode's wisdom or patriotism or loyalty, or whatever his motive in drawing the distinction between fighting the Indians against the orders of the Royal governor and fighting against the king's government itself, can be said to have saved him from the noose, and to have saved him to propagate his admirable family.

(C.W. Tazewell, Anecdotes and Tidbits About the Goode Family of Virginia, ISSN 1073-1628, 1 Jan 1994).

There is no doubt now that John Goode of Whitby descends from Robert Goode of Ufton, Berkshire.  This is well documented in this report. If anyone would like a copy it can be purchased from Lineages, Inc, Five Triad Center, Suite 350, P.O. Box 417, Salt Lake City, UT, 84110, 801-531-9297.  I paid for having the document retyped so the cost should be lower than the $60 I paid.

In Vol. XXXIII of the Virginia Historical Magazine published in 1925, in addressing proprietors of the Northern Neck, Virginia, on p. 137, an outline of the life, death, and will of Thomas Culpeper of Wilmington, Sussex, England is found. The following quotes pertain:

"He (Culpeper) died, 1603, and was buried at Wilmington, 'aged 60;' leaving a will which was proved as P. C. C. Bolein, 102. He m. 1579, Elizabeth widow of John Gode of London, but described in the mar. lic. as 'of Harrietsham.' His will show he left no issue.

"His widow's will, proved in 1604 as P. C. C., Stafforde, 54, shows that she had children by her first husband, John Gode, 'merchant taylor,' viz: John Gode. 'of London, gent.;' Francis; Anne, wife of Cassian Cooper; Katheryn, wife of Robert Hampson, Alderman of London; and Mary, wife of John Leade, 'merchant taylor.'

"In 1643 one John Goode emigrated to Barbados and before 1660, removed to Virginia, where he left numerous descendants.  He is assumed (Goode, 'Virginia Cousins,' 1887, p. 24) to be of the family of John Goode of Whitstone, co. Corwall, M. P. for Camelford in 1604.  These Culpeper wills may be a clew to his more immediate 'provenance'."

This book has been compiled regarding the first appearance of various surnames on American soil in 1608 with Captain John Smith as part of the Jamestown, James City Co., Virginia settlement.  The surnames in this book are concentrated primarily in the Ann Arundel and St Mary's Co., MD areas, although there are some from VA.  The predominant surnames include "Goode

The book is entitled 'Ancestral Records' and can be obtained from Doris Armor Cochrane for $25.00 postpaid.  Please send queries to her at 8814 Lynnhurst Drive, Fairfax, VA. 22031.

Below is what has been obtained without purchasing the above-mentioned book.

1 NAME Mary /Goode/ 1 SEX F 1 FAMS @F212@ 0 @I635@ INDI

1 NAME John /Goode/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 PLAC Virginia 1 FAMS @F214@ 0 @I63

INDI 1 NAME Mary /Goode/ 1 SEX F 1 FAMS @F215@ 1 FAMC @F214@ 0 @I638@

INDI 1 NAME Martha /Goode/ 1 SEX F 1 FAMS @F216@ 1 FAMC @F214@ 0 @I639@

INDI 1 NAME Anna /Goode/ 1 SEX F 1 FAMS @F217@ 1 FAMC @F214@ 0 @I640@ INDI

VIRGINIA COUSINS

George Brown Goode states that twenty-four years ago, a boy of twelve, I stood one winter evening by the fireside, between my father's knees, and questioned him about his parents and his grandparents, and the ancestors of previous generations, until he told me of the earliest of them all -- that forefather who, loyal to King Charles, was driven from England and established a home in the wilderness at the falls of the James River.

The interval between the present and the earliest colonial days seems wonderfully short, when it can be spanned by two human lives: but this can be done in the direct line of my own descent.  I have talked with my own grandmother, Rebecca Goode, she had talked with her grandfather, Samuel Goode, and he, with his grandfather, John Goode, the original immigrant.  Thus, reflected by only two mirrors, I have seen the light of the eyes of a man who was born in England in the reign of James the First, when the two settlements at Jamestown and Plymouth were the only strongholds of the English in America -- the contemporary of Milton, Bunyan and Newton -- a man whose father might have seen Shakespeare on the stage, who lived through the days of the Cavaliers and the Roundheads, and came to America within thirty or forty years of its first colonization, and has been the progenitor of at least six or eight thousand Americans.

G. Brown Goode was born in New Albany, Indiana, on 13 February 1851. After his mother died only a year and a half later, his father remarried and in 1857 moved his family to Amenia, New York.

By far, the large number of the Goodes in America are descendants of John Goode, son of Richard Goode of Cornwall, who was born in England, 1620 to 1630, and removed to Barbados, one of the Caribean Islands, 1643 to 1650, and to Virginia prior to 1660.  He settled at a place on the Colonial frontier, four miles from the present site of Richmond, Virginia, which he named Whitley or Whitby, in memory of his English home, and where he died in 1709, the proprietor of a considerable plantation.
He married in Barbados, 1650 to 1660, a lady named Frances Mackarness, who accompanied him to Virginia, where she soon died leaving one son, Samuel.  John had 13 children 12 after marrying one Anne Bennett, from Holland.  Traditions concerning John goode are vague and few.  The honorable Garnett Andrews of Georgia has preserved the reminiscence that he was "an old, fox-hunting English squire:" and in several branches of the family, the story has been handed down that he was a Cavalier, loyal to King Charles, and driven from home as a political exile after the death of his sovereign.  This tradition also has it that after the restoration of the Stewarts, his loyalty was rewarded by large grants of land to him and his descendants in Virginia, but no evidence is found in either Colonial records or family history.  It is futher related that upon the voyage from Barbados to Virginia, John Goode was accompanied by his wife (born Mackarness), an infant son, Samuel, and a serving maid, and that his name was entered upon the passenger list, as it was also in his will, under the style of "John Goode, Gentleman."
John Goode, after his arrival in Virginia, soon settled down into the occupation of a tobacco planter, and after the death of his first wife, married Anne Bennett, a recent arrival from Holland, who bore him 12 children.  He was a man well advanced in years when he remarried, probably in 1668 to 1670.  His first born son was several years of age at this time, a mischievous youth, who delighted to play practical jokes upon his old father's young wife.  She became estranged from her stepson and gained influence over her husband in his old age and was instrumental in the disinheritance of his firstborn.  We may well imagine that the old gentleman might have had cause for just wrath, and if we of later generations have inherited our temperaments from these forefathers, we know that young Samuel was too independent on many occasions.  The estrangements necessarily followed the disinheritance of the elder son and the two branches of the family soon lost sight of each other.  Of the sons of Samuel Goode, some stayed near Richmond; others (or their descendants) moved to the western part of the state; and some ultimately futher to the unsettled regions to the west (Kentucky).
The history of the family for the first century centers around Whitby on the James River, where John Goode seems to have beco

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