Wife of William Goodwin & John Shephard First Generation 1. Susannah FRUEN was born in 1635 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Marriage intention was recorded on 3 AUG 1691 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut, Descendants of William and Ozias Goodwin, Complied for James Junius Goodwin, by Frank Farnsworth Starr, Hartford, Conn. Published by Brown and Gross, 1891. p. 115. Widow Susanna Goodwin married, about August, 1691, John Shepard, of Hartford, as his second wife, as would appear by a marriage contract between them, as follows: Know all men by these presents that whereas there is a marriage intended to be had & made shortly between us John Shepard Senr of hartford in New England & Susanna Goodwin of the sam Harford Widdow; he the sayd John Shepard doe upon some considerations grant the desire of the afforsayd susanna Goodwin which is, that the estate that she inherrittes by the will of her late husband William Goodwin deceased or that she stands now possessed of befor marriage with the affo-sayd John Shephard shall be hers to dispose of as she pleas, without any molestation from him the afforsayd John Shepard his heirs, executors, or assigns to be at her despose when & how she will notwithstanding the vertue or force of the sayed marriage; also it is grantted, by the aforesayed Susanna that what estate soever she bringes to the hous of of the aforsayed John Shephard, this to abid so long as she pleas, that the sayed John shephard shall not be bound any ways to mak up any dammage don to any of that estatt, by any providence or casualthy or any wayes that may be don. in witness and for confirmation whereof the said John Shephard and Susanna Goodwin have to this pressence putt to ther hand this third day of agust one thousand sixe hundred ninety on. John Shephard Susanna her X mark Goodwin Signed & delivered in presence of William Goodwin Nathaniell Goodwin She died on 12 APR 1698 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Susannah FRUEN and William GOODWIN were married. The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut, Descendants of William and Ozias Goodwin, Complied for James Junius Goodwin, by Frank Farnsworth Starr, Hartford, Conn. Published by Brown and Gross, 1891. p. 110. The date of his (William Goodwin) marriage is not known, nor who his wife was, except that she had a sister Sarah Fruen, who was betorthed to Thomas Greenhill, but, he dying before coming of age, the marriage was not consummated. William GOODWIN (son of Ozias GOODWIN and Mary WOODWARD) was born in 1629. Susannah FRUEN and William GOODWIN had the following children: +2 i. Susanna GOODWIN. +3 ii. William GOODWIN (born about 1658). +4 iii. Nathaniel GOODWIN (born about 1669). Susannah FRUEN and John SHEPARD were married about AUG 1691 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.