William Ephrem Goodrich

  General Notes:

Ensign William Goodrich died 1676 , aged -. Mrs. Sarah Goodrich , alias Curtis , died at Stratford , near the close of the year 1702 . She left a will, which is dated October 21, 1697 , and was exhibited into, and approved by the Court of Probate, January 7, 1702-3.

Children of Ensign William Goodrich , and Sarah , his wife:
I. William , born August 8, 1649 . Died in childhood.
II. John , born May 20, 1653 .
III. Elizabeth , born 1658 .
IV. William , born February 8, 1661 .
V. Ephraim , born June 2, 1663 .
VI. David , born May 4, 1667 .
VII. Sarah , born


May 15, 1662 was deputy from Wethersfield in General Court held in
Hartford, CT.
Was an Ensign in the Train Band of Wethersfield, following the close of
King Phillips War.
William and his brother John were orphans and came to this country from
South Wales with their mother's brother, William Stillman, and first
settled in the New Haven Colony. In 1635 Vol.I, pg.29 Stiles: This
authority states that William and his brother arrived in Wethersfield in
1635 or the year following.
1637 Stiles credits William as being one of the 26 soldiers of
Wethersfield who took part in the capture of the Indian Fort at Mystic,
in the Pequot campaign. Referred by Stiles as " a hero of the Pequot
Campaign".
October 4, 1648, he married Sara Marven, of Hartford, CT.
July 2, 1663, vol III pg.5 C C: William Goodrich is one of the jury which
tries Elizabeth Seger on a charge of witchcraft and with breaking also
the first and seventh commandments. The jury finds "the prisoner Guilty
of the inditement in that perticuler" relating only to the seventh
commandment.
His parents were John Goodrich and Marjerie Howe.
Ref. 2
William came to Wethersfield, as one of the first settlers, with his
brother, John, 1643, and was made a Freeman in Wethersfield, CT, 15 May
1656.
Inventory dated 14 Nov 1676; presented and signed 30 Jan 1677. All of his
children, excepting William who had died young, were listed at time of
the inventory. Daughters were all md. by this time.

William married Sarah Marvin, daughter of Matthew Marvin and Elizabeth Elizaphatt Gregory, on 4 Oct 1648 in Hartford, Hartford, CT. (Sarah Marvin was born on 27 Dec 1631 in Great Bentley, Essex, England, christened on 27 Dec 1631 in Great Bentley, Essex, England and died on 16 Jan 1702 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT.)