This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mAB.2ACE/1042.1668.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello John, I think that it would be great to get that info. If this may be of some help. I believe that there was a John Gothard Jr. and he had a brother named Robert Gothard. Also possibly a sister or two. I found those in the Virginia marriage info. The father of these were John L. Gothard that would have been there in 1802 for sure. I got that from the census. Robert was there at some point and then no longer in the census. In the story we were told was that there were two brothers and they came over and they some how got separated and that some of them changed the spelling to Goddard. I have not found any documents so far but am looking. I do believe that the families are tied together though. If you want my email address for further correspondense. Theresa Gothard