Son of Ozias Goodwin & Mary Woodward First Generation 1. William GOODWIN was born in 1629. He signed a will on 25 JUN 1689 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. 111-112. At a County Court held at Hartford, Nov. 6, 1689, by adjournment from Sep 5, 89: The Last Will & Testment of Wm Goodwin Senr of Hartford was exhibited in Court & an Inventory of his estate both which were proved in Court & approved by the Court & ordered to be recorded. In the Name off God Amen. I William Goodwine Senior off Hartford in New England beeing under sum Infirmety off Body but off good memrey and understanding; considring my own frailty & mortallety do make this my Last Will & Testament hereby revoking and utterly nulling all other & foremer wills and testaments whatsoever: In primas: I doe Committ my spirrett into the hands of god as my faythfull Creator hopeing ffor Salvation through the grace & merrets off Jesus Christ my deere redeemer & my Body to Comely Christian Buriall when the Lord shall please to put an ende to my Natural Liffe: and as ffor that portion off Worldly Goods which the Lord hath been pleased to Bestow uppon mee I doe dispose thereoff in manner ffollowing: first my will is that all my just debts and ffuneral Charges be duly payed and discharged: allso my will is and I doe hereby give and bequeath unto my Loving Wife Susana Goodwine partt off my homelott and House or Housing uppon itt not givne to my son Nathaniell withall the Libertys and privelages belonging thereunto dureing the terme off her Naturall Liffe and allso give her liberty to make sale off the same ffor her maintinance iff neede so require allways provided the sale off said part off Housing & Land shall firstly be offered unto my Son Nathaniell Goodwine or his heires beffore itt bee sold unto any others and not to bee sold or Alianated from him or his Heirs without Reall neede off selling itt as above mentioned. Allso i do give unto my beloved wife all my movable estate that I stand possessed off att my desease unless itt bee one Cow to bee att her own dispose as shee shall se cause att her desease shee paying my just debts and the legacy givne to my daughter Susana Goodwine att my desease. Allso i give unto my Loving wife Twenty Shillings p. yeare to bee payed her in Currant Country pay by my Son William Goodwine or his Heires out off that estate I have givne him in this my Last Will & Testament dureing the Terme off her Naturall Liffe; and Twenty Shillings p yeare more I give unto my said wife to bee payed her yearly by my Son Nathaniell Goodwine or his Heires ffor the Improvement off my Two acres off Meadow Land on the East side the Great River in Hartford in Currant Country pay dureing the time off her Naturall Liffe. Allso I do give unto my Loving Son William Goodwine the House and home Lott that was foremerly my uncle John Morrices in Hartford unto him and his Heires ffor ever affter my desase he paying Twenty Shillings p yeare unto his mother iff she se cause to demand itt dureing her natural Liffe. Allso I give unto my son William Goodwine and his Heires all my upland on the East side of Coneticutt River att my desease which parcell of upland abutteth uppon Sergt Nath Goodwins Land on the South and uppon Richard Gillsmans Land uppon the North. I give & Bequeath unto my Loving Son Nathaniell Goodwine and his Heires fforever the Remaining partt off my House & hom lott in Hartford not allready givne unto him affter my desease and the desease off my wife iff shee hath not neede to sell it ffor her maintinance to him and his forever; allso i give unto my son Nathaniell Goodwine two acres off Meadow land on teh East side off Coneticutt River to him and his heires forever affter my desease and the desease off my wife without my wife should have neede to sell that Land ffor her maintinance; hee paying Twenty Shhillings p yeare unto his mother in Courrant Country pay dureing her Liffe and paying five pounds unto his sister Susana pratt within one yeare affter the desease off his mother viz: unto his said sister or her Heires that shall bee then surviving I do allso give unto my Loving Daughter Susana pratt one Cow to bee payed her by my executricks att my desease. I do allso give unto my daughter Susana pratt ffive pounds to bee payed unto her or her Heires by her Brother Nathaniell Goodwine or his Heires in Currant Country pay within one yeare affter the Desease off his mother Susana Goodwine. Allso I do hereby make my beloved wife Susana Goodwin Sole Executricks off this my Last Will and Testament ffor Confermation & establishement off all which i have hereunto put my had and scale this 25th June in the yeare off our Lorde One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty and Nine. Signed sealed and declared by William Goodwine Senior to be his Last Will and Testament before us. William Goodwin (Seal) Nathanell Goodwin Caleb Stanly He died on 15 OCT 1689 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Inventory of estate was completed on 5 NOV 1689 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. 113. An Inventory of the estate of Wm Goodwin deceased October the 15, 1689. Itemized on pages 113 - 114. Totaled 196 pounds, 19 shillings, 06 pence. This Inventory taken by us this 5th of November 1689. John Marsh Zachariah Sandford Hartford, Conn., Probate Records, Vol. 5. 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. 108. William Goodwin, the eldest known child of Ozias was born about 1629, as he testifies in September, 1674, that he was aged about 45. The Test of Wm Goodwin aged about 45 years Saith thatt beeing one night about the beginning of this Hay-time in Long meadow with my brother Nath Goodwin and my son Wm Goodwin and having tarried there a while att length Lt john Stedman came there with a Teame and Cartt and one or Two of his Sons and layed uppon his Catt hay which stood beetwene the mere stones & the Brook which my said Brother for-bid him to doe nott with Standing which fforbiddling he the said Lt. Stedman layed up more my Brother forbid him Carrying itt away not with standing which he Carryed away the said hay and did moreover lay Claims to land thereon the west ward side the mere stones there which land my said Brother allso Claimmed. Wm Goodwin Junior aged 16 yeares Testifyeth the same with his ffather as above being then and theare present and ffurther Saith tthat the sayd hay was mowed and made by his uncle Nath Goodwin and his order. This owned by Lnt John Stedman in Court Sept 3 1674. Private Controversies, Vol. 1, Connecticut State Library. He was made freeman by the General Court, May 21, 1657. He was appointed chimney viewer in 1662, 65 and 71; and in this town votes under date of December 26, 1676, we find the following; The townsmen agreed with Wm Goodwin to sweep the meeting house, and ring the Bell Sabbaths and public meetings of the Town or Side and at nine of the Clock at night for which he is to hav seven pounds per annum. He is also to dig graves and warn publick meetings as the Townsmen shall appoint for which he shall be paid as Robert Sanford was. Unfortunately for the antiquarian, his record of four hundred and twenty burials is not is existence. Sept. 28, 1663, land in Hartford on Connecticutt belonging to Wm Goodwin & his heirs forever. One parcel of land, with a messuage or tenement standling thereon, which he bought of Wm Williams & was sometime ye land of Ralph Keeler, coneining halfe a acre (be it more or less), with all other buildings, fences, plants, fruit trees, appurtenances & priveledges belonging or any way apperteining to ye premises the sayd parcel of land, abutting on ye highway leading to ye pound hill on ye west, & John maynerds land on ye sowth & east & on Bartlemow Barnards land on ye North ye parcel conteins half an acre. One parcel weth a message or tenement standing thereon, which he bought of Caleb Standly containing by estimation one acre & a halfe be it more or less & abutts upon the highway North & upon Mr. Richard Lords land & the sayd Wm Goodwins land South & on John Gilberts land on the east & upon jarrads Spencers land on the West, as appears by his deed dated 25th of April 1682 & acknowledge january 12, 1682, recoreded Octobr 10, 1683, before John Allyn Assistant. one parcell of land which was his by distribution of his fathers estate which contanes by estimation one acre be it more or less with a message or tenement standing thereon, abutting on land now mr Lords south & sd lords land on the east & on his own land & Jarrad Spencers on the North & on the Hyway leading from the mill to the ox pasture on the Southwest. more, one parcell of land lyeing in the pine feilld which came to him by distribution of his fathers estate & containing by estimation three acres, be it more or less, abutting on the highway leading from the cow pasture into the country on the North & on a highway lyeing east & west in that feild on the South, & on land formerly Tho Roots on the east. more one parcell of land lyeing on the east side the great river which he had by distribution of his fathers estate containing by estimation two acres, be it more or less, & abuts on the great river west & on the long lotts on the east on Nath Goodwins land on the North & on John Bidwells on the South as appears in the records of the court, April 6, 1683, & recorded November 2d 1683. The date of his 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. the testimony of William Goodwin aged forty years or ther a boutt testifieth that he being well acquainted with tho: grenhill sometime befor his death did understand, by him the said grenhill that he was not twenty on years of age when he deseased and the occasion of his informing me thereof was because the sayed grenhill was about marrying with my wives Sister Sara Fruen and his father addams as he tould me was som thing against the mach but Thomas Grenhill did often say that the next year he should be of age to act for him self and that then his Land would allso com in to his had from his father addams but he dyed in that present yeare in which he used that Discourse and Lived not untill he was twenty on years of age - and further I testife that I being much with tho: grenhill in the tim of his Sicknes did wach with him on the Saboth day night befor he dyed and I playnly desarned by his words and actions that he was erationall and sencles by his words and actions that he was erationall and sencles by reason of his descas Lying in his head so that he could nott expres him self with understanding but very littell. Private Controversies, Vol. 2, Conn. State Library.