Stephen Goodrich, son of William Goodrich and Rachel Savage, was born on May 2, 1732 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut in the region known as Nayaug in South Glastonbury.
Stephen married Dorothy Treat, daughter of neighbors Thomas Treat and Mary Hopson of South Glastonbury, and with her had 5 sons and 5 daughters, all born in Glastonbury from 1755-1774. There is no record of the marriage of Stephen and Dorothy in the Glastonbury Town Records, and the one published date of their marriage in The Goodrich Family in America, January 1, 1754 (page 59), is not sourced and does not include the maiden surname of Dorothy, which is also absent in all known genealogies in which she is included.
Her full maiden name Dorothy Treat is revealed in her capacity as the namesake of a granddaughter, Dorothy Treat Goodrich (1807-1807; baptized with two sisters on August 23, 1807 in Middlebury Church of Christ Baptismal Records, 1:20), daughter of the first-cousin marriage of her youngest daughter Mary Goodrich and her nephew Jehiel Goodrich Jr., son of Stephen's younger brother Jehiel Goodrich Sr. and Prudence Miller. Similarly, another child of Jehiel and Mary Goodrich was named Prudence Miller Goodrich (1801-1802; tombstone inscription in Washington Street Cemetery, Middlebury, Vermont) after her namesake paternal grandmother Prudence (Miller) Goodrich.
Stephen received his first 100 acres of land in South Glastonbury from his father William Goodrich on December 19, 1754 (GLR 6:359). This land was in the Three Mile Lots on the east side of the Connecticut River; adjacent north of the Four Score Acre Lots. Stephen and his family lived on this farm until April 23, 1759 when he exchanged the west 60 acres of it (GLR 6:536) for the farm of Richard Fox adjacent south of the southeast corner of the Four Score Acre lots (6:529), about 6 miles from the Glastonbury First Congregational parish, and later sold the remaining east 40 acres to cousin Thomas Goodrich on January 11, 1760 (GLR 6:552).
Stephen was one of the Connecticut soldiers in the Revolutionary War, initially in the Continental Army (1775-1776). In 1775, he was 1st-Lieutenant in the 9th Company of Captain John Chester in the 2nd Continental Regiment of Colonel Samuel Wyllys under Brigadier General Joseph Spencer, which engaged in the Siege of Boston, including the Battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill on June 17, 1775, and the following year he was 1st-Lieutenant in the Company of Captain Samuel Wright in the 22nd Continental Regiment of Colonel Samuel Wyllys under Brigadier General Joseph Spencer, which continued in the Siege of Boston through the evacuation of the British on Mary 17, 1776 and later engaged in the Battle of Long Island and Retreat from Long Island from August 27-30, 1776 and the Battles of Harlem Heights, White Plains, Fort Washington and Trenton from September 16-December 26, 1776.
Stephen left the Continental Army in 1777 and was a Lieutenant in the Company of Captain Thomas Lawson in the Connecticut State Militia Regiment of Colonel Thaddeus Cook that was placed under the command of the Continental Army Brigade of Brigadier General Enoch Poor in the Battles of Freemans Farm and Bemis Heights and the capture of British General John Burgoyne in the Battles of Saratoga from September 19, 1777 to October 17, 1777. In another tour of duty with the Connecticut State Militia, Stephen was a Lieutenant in the 6th Company of Captain Elizur Hale in the 6th Regiment of Colonel Thomas Belden in the aftermath of the surprise British attack and raid in the New Haven Alarm of July 4, 1779. Stephen was finally commissioned as Captain of the 3rd Company of the Alarm List in the 6th Connecticut State Militia Regiment of Colonel Howell Woodbridge from May 20, 1780 through the end of the war.
After the Revolutionary War, Captain Stephen Goodrich purchased in 1784 the south 100 acres of a forfeited 200 acre Loyalist claim in Middlebury, Addison, Vermont and sold his properties in Glastonbury, Connecticut in a series of deeds culminating in the December 26, 1786 sale of the homestead he had purchased in 1759 from Richard Fox in two portions: the south 25 acres to son Stephen Goodrich Jr. (GLR 9:305) and the north 25 acres, including the homestead, to Joseph Bidwell (GLR 9:306), who shared the house and homestead with the growing family of his son-in-law and daughter Stephen and Lois (Bidwell) Goodrich Jr. from 1787-1795, as can be deduced from the household roster of Joseph Bidwell in the 1790 US Census of Glastonbury, Connecticut.
Samuel Swift's 1859 history of Middlebury notes that following his purchase of acreage in Middlebury, Stephen Goodrich returned the following year with his family, "having a cart and oxen, five cows and five or six hogs. The hogs followed the cart, lying under it at night, and were fed with milk, which was not needed by the family... after the family had used what milk they wished, the remainder was put into the churn on the cart, and the motion churned it; and thus the family, on their way, were supplied with butter as well as milk."
In 1799, Captain Stephen Goodrich sold his first property in Middlebury, Vermont to four buyers, including son-in-law Jehiel Goodrich Jr., and on December 24, 1799 he purchased from Gamaliel Painter, one of the four buyers of his first property, a 205 acre farm on the border between Middlebury and Salisbury (MLR 3:311). Stephen later sold the 205 acre farm to his son Amos Goodrich on February 19, 1805 (MLR 9:50) and lived out the remainder of his life there.
After the death of his first wife Dorothy (Treat) Goodrich on January 19, 1811, widower Captain Stephen Goodrich married on April 13, 1812 as his second wife the twice-widowed Hannah (Reynolds-Story) Smalley, who is better known as the Revolutionary War heroine Ann Story. Stephen and Hannah lived together in Middlebury until the death of Hannah on April 5, 1817 followed by the death of Stephen on September 23, 1823.
Stephen, first wife Dorothy and second wife Hannah, son Amos Goodrich and daughter-in-law Millicent (Sage) Goodrich, and daughter Rachel (Goodrich) Smalley, wife of Alfred Smalley, are buried together in a family plot in Seeley Cemetery in Middlebury, Vermont.
Stephen married Dorothy Treat, daughter of neighbors Thomas Treat and Mary Hopson of South Glastonbury, and with her had 5 sons and 5 daughters, all born in Glastonbury from 1755-1774. There is no record of the marriage of Stephen and Dorothy in the Glastonbury Town Records, and the one published date of their marriage in The Goodrich Family in America, January 1, 1754 (page 59), is not sourced and does not include the maiden surname of Dorothy, which is also absent in all known genealogies in which she is included.
Her full maiden name Dorothy Treat is revealed in her capacity as the namesake of a granddaughter, Dorothy Treat Goodrich (1807-1807; baptized with two sisters on August 23, 1807 in Middlebury Church of Christ Baptismal Records, 1:20), daughter of the first-cousin marriage of her youngest daughter Mary Goodrich and her nephew Jehiel Goodrich Jr., son of Stephen's younger brother Jehiel Goodrich Sr. and Prudence Miller. Similarly, another child of Jehiel and Mary Goodrich was named Prudence Miller Goodrich (1801-1802; tombstone inscription in Washington Street Cemetery, Middlebury, Vermont) after her namesake paternal grandmother Prudence (Miller) Goodrich.
Stephen received his first 100 acres of land in South Glastonbury from his father William Goodrich on December 19, 1754 (GLR 6:359). This land was in the Three Mile Lots on the east side of the Connecticut River; adjacent north of the Four Score Acre Lots. Stephen and his family lived on this farm until April 23, 1759 when he exchanged the west 60 acres of it (GLR 6:536) for the farm of Richard Fox adjacent south of the southeast corner of the Four Score Acre lots (6:529), about 6 miles from the Glastonbury First Congregational parish, and later sold the remaining east 40 acres to cousin Thomas Goodrich on January 11, 1760 (GLR 6:552).
Stephen was one of the Connecticut soldiers in the Revolutionary War, initially in the Continental Army (1775-1776). In 1775, he was 1st-Lieutenant in the 9th Company of Captain John Chester in the 2nd Continental Regiment of Colonel Samuel Wyllys under Brigadier General Joseph Spencer, which engaged in the Siege of Boston, including the Battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill on June 17, 1775, and the following year he was 1st-Lieutenant in the Company of Captain Samuel Wright in the 22nd Continental Regiment of Colonel Samuel Wyllys under Brigadier General Joseph Spencer, which continued in the Siege of Boston through the evacuation of the British on Mary 17, 1776 and later engaged in the Battle of Long Island and Retreat from Long Island from August 27-30, 1776 and the Battles of Harlem Heights, White Plains, Fort Washington and Trenton from September 16-December 26, 1776.
Stephen left the Continental Army in 1777 and was a Lieutenant in the Company of Captain Thomas Lawson in the Connecticut State Militia Regiment of Colonel Thaddeus Cook that was placed under the command of the Continental Army Brigade of Brigadier General Enoch Poor in the Battles of Freemans Farm and Bemis Heights and the capture of British General John Burgoyne in the Battles of Saratoga from September 19, 1777 to October 17, 1777. In another tour of duty with the Connecticut State Militia, Stephen was a Lieutenant in the 6th Company of Captain Elizur Hale in the 6th Regiment of Colonel Thomas Belden in the aftermath of the surprise British attack and raid in the New Haven Alarm of July 4, 1779. Stephen was finally commissioned as Captain of the 3rd Company of the Alarm List in the 6th Connecticut State Militia Regiment of Colonel Howell Woodbridge from May 20, 1780 through the end of the war.
After the Revolutionary War, Captain Stephen Goodrich purchased in 1784 the south 100 acres of a forfeited 200 acre Loyalist claim in Middlebury, Addison, Vermont and sold his properties in Glastonbury, Connecticut in a series of deeds culminating in the December 26, 1786 sale of the homestead he had purchased in 1759 from Richard Fox in two portions: the south 25 acres to son Stephen Goodrich Jr. (GLR 9:305) and the north 25 acres, including the homestead, to Joseph Bidwell (GLR 9:306), who shared the house and homestead with the growing family of his son-in-law and daughter Stephen and Lois (Bidwell) Goodrich Jr. from 1787-1795, as can be deduced from the household roster of Joseph Bidwell in the 1790 US Census of Glastonbury, Connecticut.
Samuel Swift's 1859 history of Middlebury notes that following his purchase of acreage in Middlebury, Stephen Goodrich returned the following year with his family, "having a cart and oxen, five cows and five or six hogs. The hogs followed the cart, lying under it at night, and were fed with milk, which was not needed by the family... after the family had used what milk they wished, the remainder was put into the churn on the cart, and the motion churned it; and thus the family, on their way, were supplied with butter as well as milk."
In 1799, Captain Stephen Goodrich sold his first property in Middlebury, Vermont to four buyers, including son-in-law Jehiel Goodrich Jr., and on December 24, 1799 he purchased from Gamaliel Painter, one of the four buyers of his first property, a 205 acre farm on the border between Middlebury and Salisbury (MLR 3:311). Stephen later sold the 205 acre farm to his son Amos Goodrich on February 19, 1805 (MLR 9:50) and lived out the remainder of his life there.
After the death of his first wife Dorothy (Treat) Goodrich on January 19, 1811, widower Captain Stephen Goodrich married on April 13, 1812 as his second wife the twice-widowed Hannah (Reynolds-Story) Smalley, who is better known as the Revolutionary War heroine Ann Story. Stephen and Hannah lived together in Middlebury until the death of Hannah on April 5, 1817 followed by the death of Stephen on September 23, 1823.
Stephen, first wife Dorothy and second wife Hannah, son Amos Goodrich and daughter-in-law Millicent (Sage) Goodrich, and daughter Rachel (Goodrich) Smalley, wife of Alfred Smalley, are buried together in a family plot in Seeley Cemetery in Middlebury, Vermont.
Stephen Goodrich, son of William Goodrich and Rachel Savage, was born on May 2, 1732 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut in the region known as Nayaug in South Glastonbury.
Stephen married Dorothy Treat, daughter of neighbors Thomas Treat and Mary Hopson of South Glastonbury, and with her had 5 sons and 5 daughters, all born in Glastonbury from 1755-1774. There is no record of the marriage of Stephen and Dorothy in the Glastonbury Town Records, and the one published date of their marriage in The Goodrich Family in America, January 1, 1754 (page 59), is not sourced and does not include the maiden surname of Dorothy, which is also absent in all known genealogies in which she is included.
Her full maiden name Dorothy Treat is revealed in her capacity as the namesake of a granddaughter, Dorothy Treat Goodrich (1807-1807; baptized with two sisters on August 23, 1807 in Middlebury Church of Christ Baptismal Records, 1:20), daughter of the first-cousin marriage of her youngest daughter Mary Goodrich and her nephew Jehiel Goodrich Jr., son of Stephen's younger brother Jehiel Goodrich Sr. and Prudence Miller. Similarly, another child of Jehiel and Mary Goodrich was named Prudence Miller Goodrich (1801-1802; tombstone inscription in Washington Street Cemetery, Middlebury, Vermont) after her namesake paternal grandmother Prudence (Miller) Goodrich.
Stephen received his first 100 acres of land in South Glastonbury from his father William Goodrich on December 19, 1754 (GLR 6:359). This land was in the Three Mile Lots on the east side of the Connecticut River; adjacent north of the Four Score Acre Lots. Stephen and his family lived on this farm until April 23, 1759 when he exchanged the west 60 acres of it (GLR 6:536) for the farm of Richard Fox adjacent south of the southeast corner of the Four Score Acre lots (6:529), about 6 miles from the Glastonbury First Congregational parish, and later sold the remaining east 40 acres to cousin Thomas Goodrich on January 11, 1760 (GLR 6:552).
Stephen was one of the Connecticut soldiers in the Revolutionary War, initially in the Continental Army (1775-1776). In 1775, he was 1st-Lieutenant in the 9th Company of Captain John Chester in the 2nd Continental Regiment of Colonel Samuel Wyllys under Brigadier General Joseph Spencer, which engaged in the Siege of Boston, including the Battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill on June 17, 1775, and the following year he was 1st-Lieutenant in the Company of Captain Samuel Wright in the 22nd Continental Regiment of Colonel Samuel Wyllys under Brigadier General Joseph Spencer, which continued in the Siege of Boston through the evacuation of the British on Mary 17, 1776 and later engaged in the Battle of Long Island and Retreat from Long Island from August 27-30, 1776 and the Battles of Harlem Heights, White Plains, Fort Washington and Trenton from September 16-December 26, 1776.
Stephen left the Continental Army in 1777 and was a Lieutenant in the Company of Captain Thomas Lawson in the Connecticut State Militia Regiment of Colonel Thaddeus Cook that was placed under the command of the Continental Army Brigade of Brigadier General Enoch Poor in the Battles of Freemans Farm and Bemis Heights and the capture of British General John Burgoyne in the Battles of Saratoga from September 19, 1777 to October 17, 1777. In another tour of duty with the Connecticut State Militia, Stephen was a Lieutenant in the 6th Company of Captain Elizur Hale in the 6th Regiment of Colonel Thomas Belden in the aftermath of the surprise British attack and raid in the New Haven Alarm of July 4, 1779. Stephen was finally commissioned as Captain of the 3rd Company of the Alarm List in the 6th Connecticut State Militia Regiment of Colonel Howell Woodbridge from May 20, 1780 through the end of the war.
After the Revolutionary War, Captain Stephen Goodrich purchased in 1784 the south 100 acres of a forfeited 200 acre Loyalist claim in Middlebury, Addison, Vermont and sold his properties in Glastonbury, Connecticut in a series of deeds culminating in the December 26, 1786 sale of the homestead he had purchased in 1759 from Richard Fox in two portions: the south 25 acres to son Stephen Goodrich Jr. (GLR 9:305) and the north 25 acres, including the homestead, to Joseph Bidwell (GLR 9:306), who shared the house and homestead with the growing family of his son-in-law and daughter Stephen and Lois (Bidwell) Goodrich Jr. from 1787-1795, as can be deduced from the household roster of Joseph Bidwell in the 1790 US Census of Glastonbury, Connecticut.
Samuel Swift's 1859 history of Middlebury notes that following his purchase of acreage in Middlebury, Stephen Goodrich returned the following year with his family, "having a cart and oxen, five cows and five or six hogs. The hogs followed the cart, lying under it at night, and were fed with milk, which was not needed by the family... after the family had used what milk they wished, the remainder was put into the churn on the cart, and the motion churned it; and thus the family, on their way, were supplied with butter as well as milk."
In 1799, Captain Stephen Goodrich sold his first property in Middlebury, Vermont to four buyers, including son-in-law Jehiel Goodrich Jr., and on December 24, 1799 he purchased from Gamaliel Painter, one of the four buyers of his first property, a 205 acre farm on the border between Middlebury and Salisbury (MLR 3:311). Stephen later sold the 205 acre farm to his son Amos Goodrich on February 19, 1805 (MLR 9:50) and lived out the remainder of his life there.
After the death of his first wife Dorothy (Treat) Goodrich on January 19, 1811, widower Captain Stephen Goodrich married on April 13, 1812 as his second wife the twice-widowed Hannah (Reynolds-Story) Smalley, who is better known as the Revolutionary War heroine Ann Story. Stephen and Hannah lived together in Middlebury until the death of Hannah on April 5, 1817 followed by the death of Stephen on September 23, 1823.
Stephen, first wife Dorothy and second wife Hannah, son Amos Goodrich and daughter-in-law Millicent (Sage) Goodrich, and daughter Rachel (Goodrich) Smalley, wife of Alfred Smalley, are buried together in a family plot in Seeley Cemetery in Middlebury, Vermont.
Stephen married Dorothy Treat, daughter of neighbors Thomas Treat and Mary Hopson of South Glastonbury, and with her had 5 sons and 5 daughters, all born in Glastonbury from 1755-1774. There is no record of the marriage of Stephen and Dorothy in the Glastonbury Town Records, and the one published date of their marriage in The Goodrich Family in America, January 1, 1754 (page 59), is not sourced and does not include the maiden surname of Dorothy, which is also absent in all known genealogies in which she is included.
Her full maiden name Dorothy Treat is revealed in her capacity as the namesake of a granddaughter, Dorothy Treat Goodrich (1807-1807; baptized with two sisters on August 23, 1807 in Middlebury Church of Christ Baptismal Records, 1:20), daughter of the first-cousin marriage of her youngest daughter Mary Goodrich and her nephew Jehiel Goodrich Jr., son of Stephen's younger brother Jehiel Goodrich Sr. and Prudence Miller. Similarly, another child of Jehiel and Mary Goodrich was named Prudence Miller Goodrich (1801-1802; tombstone inscription in Washington Street Cemetery, Middlebury, Vermont) after her namesake paternal grandmother Prudence (Miller) Goodrich.
Stephen received his first 100 acres of land in South Glastonbury from his father William Goodrich on December 19, 1754 (GLR 6:359). This land was in the Three Mile Lots on the east side of the Connecticut River; adjacent north of the Four Score Acre Lots. Stephen and his family lived on this farm until April 23, 1759 when he exchanged the west 60 acres of it (GLR 6:536) for the farm of Richard Fox adjacent south of the southeast corner of the Four Score Acre lots (6:529), about 6 miles from the Glastonbury First Congregational parish, and later sold the remaining east 40 acres to cousin Thomas Goodrich on January 11, 1760 (GLR 6:552).
Stephen was one of the Connecticut soldiers in the Revolutionary War, initially in the Continental Army (1775-1776). In 1775, he was 1st-Lieutenant in the 9th Company of Captain John Chester in the 2nd Continental Regiment of Colonel Samuel Wyllys under Brigadier General Joseph Spencer, which engaged in the Siege of Boston, including the Battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill on June 17, 1775, and the following year he was 1st-Lieutenant in the Company of Captain Samuel Wright in the 22nd Continental Regiment of Colonel Samuel Wyllys under Brigadier General Joseph Spencer, which continued in the Siege of Boston through the evacuation of the British on Mary 17, 1776 and later engaged in the Battle of Long Island and Retreat from Long Island from August 27-30, 1776 and the Battles of Harlem Heights, White Plains, Fort Washington and Trenton from September 16-December 26, 1776.
Stephen left the Continental Army in 1777 and was a Lieutenant in the Company of Captain Thomas Lawson in the Connecticut State Militia Regiment of Colonel Thaddeus Cook that was placed under the command of the Continental Army Brigade of Brigadier General Enoch Poor in the Battles of Freemans Farm and Bemis Heights and the capture of British General John Burgoyne in the Battles of Saratoga from September 19, 1777 to October 17, 1777. In another tour of duty with the Connecticut State Militia, Stephen was a Lieutenant in the 6th Company of Captain Elizur Hale in the 6th Regiment of Colonel Thomas Belden in the aftermath of the surprise British attack and raid in the New Haven Alarm of July 4, 1779. Stephen was finally commissioned as Captain of the 3rd Company of the Alarm List in the 6th Connecticut State Militia Regiment of Colonel Howell Woodbridge from May 20, 1780 through the end of the war.
After the Revolutionary War, Captain Stephen Goodrich purchased in 1784 the south 100 acres of a forfeited 200 acre Loyalist claim in Middlebury, Addison, Vermont and sold his properties in Glastonbury, Connecticut in a series of deeds culminating in the December 26, 1786 sale of the homestead he had purchased in 1759 from Richard Fox in two portions: the south 25 acres to son Stephen Goodrich Jr. (GLR 9:305) and the north 25 acres, including the homestead, to Joseph Bidwell (GLR 9:306), who shared the house and homestead with the growing family of his son-in-law and daughter Stephen and Lois (Bidwell) Goodrich Jr. from 1787-1795, as can be deduced from the household roster of Joseph Bidwell in the 1790 US Census of Glastonbury, Connecticut.
Samuel Swift's 1859 history of Middlebury notes that following his purchase of acreage in Middlebury, Stephen Goodrich returned the following year with his family, "having a cart and oxen, five cows and five or six hogs. The hogs followed the cart, lying under it at night, and were fed with milk, which was not needed by the family... after the family had used what milk they wished, the remainder was put into the churn on the cart, and the motion churned it; and thus the family, on their way, were supplied with butter as well as milk."
In 1799, Captain Stephen Goodrich sold his first property in Middlebury, Vermont to four buyers, including son-in-law Jehiel Goodrich Jr., and on December 24, 1799 he purchased from Gamaliel Painter, one of the four buyers of his first property, a 205 acre farm on the border between Middlebury and Salisbury (MLR 3:311). Stephen later sold the 205 acre farm to his son Amos Goodrich on February 19, 1805 (MLR 9:50) and lived out the remainder of his life there.
After the death of his first wife Dorothy (Treat) Goodrich on January 19, 1811, widower Captain Stephen Goodrich married on April 13, 1812 as his second wife the twice-widowed Hannah (Reynolds-Story) Smalley, who is better known as the Revolutionary War heroine Ann Story. Stephen and Hannah lived together in Middlebury until the death of Hannah on April 5, 1817 followed by the death of Stephen on September 23, 1823.
Stephen, first wife Dorothy and second wife Hannah, son Amos Goodrich and daughter-in-law Millicent (Sage) Goodrich, and daughter Rachel (Goodrich) Smalley, wife of Alfred Smalley, are buried together in a family plot in Seeley Cemetery in Middlebury, Vermont.
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Cap.
Stephen Goodrich
died Sep. 23
in the 92 year
of his age.
His life was gentle and serene his mind
His morals pure in every action just
A husband dear and as a friend kind
As such he lies lamented in the dust
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