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Abraham Goad and Katherine Williams ABRAHAM GOAD was born Bef. 16601, and died April 11, 1734 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond Co., VA.2. He married KATHERINE WILLIAMS
Bef. 1693 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia3, daughter of
JOHN WILLIAMS and
EVE. She was born Abt.
1674 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia4, and died May 23, 1741 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond Co., VA.5.More About ABRAHAM GOAD:
Probate: July 01, 1734, North Farnham Parish, Richmond Co., Virginia6 A Discussion on the Abraham Goads Appearing in Various 16th Century Nothern Neck Documents In
The Goads - A Frontier Family, p. 6, Ken Haas states:
Mr. Alderman further found that Abraham Goad was in Lancaster County by 1682 and moved a little further up the Northern Neck into Richmond County (formed in 1692 from Old Rappahannoc) where he married Katherine Williams,
date uncertain, but likely in the very early 1690s. For Abraham to appear in any record by 1682 would seem to indicate his birth prior to 1665 so he was likely at least seventy years of age at his death at 1734.
A number of documents may push this date earlier or otherwise confuse the issue.
On October 23, 1661, an ABRAHAM GOADE appeared on a list of tithable people, with a tithe of one pound of tobacco and a year
later, on October 20, 1662, an ABRAM: GOADE
tithed the same amount.
In November, 1663, the Lancaster County Court found "that ABRAHAM GOADE stands indebted to JOHN SIMPSON in the quantitie of One hndred seaventie & three pounds of tob: and ca: by bill."
The next appearance in the Lancaster County Court Records comes when a WILLIAM BENDALL is arrested "att the suitte of ABRAHAM GOARDE" on
November 2, 1674, with "the saide GOARD" to bear court costs. Nine days later
the court found against Abraham and that he was indebted to BENDALL for 340 pounds of tobacco.
Thus far, I haven't seen any documentation of any ABRAHAM GOAD or GOARD in Lancaster or Old Rappahannock counties
between 1674 and 1680. An individual who was a "fee holder" rather than a "house-keeper" or indentured servant might have been living or working in other areas. In the Vestry Book of Petsworth Parish
in Glouster County, an ABRAHAM GOOD tithed 50 pounds of tobacco in September 1677. Glouster County is south of Lancaster County, with the Piankatatank and Rappahannock rivers and Middlesex County between them.
Back in Lancaster County, a bill of
ABRAHAM GOARDs appeared on the inventory of the estate of ROBERT BRIAN, deceased, on November 27, 1680
.
On November 9, 1687, Lancaster County ordered a levy of every Tithable person in the county, including ABRAHAM GOADE. On December 14, an account of all persons able to bear arms for both horse and foot was returned to the county court.
Among 101 individuals appointed for foot service was ABRA: GOARD. The account of the "Freeholders and House Keepers" of the county also found "that many of them are very poore, dispicable persons."
The earliest record is 1661. Given the previous logic of him being at least 17 years old to appear in any record, this Abraham would likely have been born before1645.
If he is the same as
our Abraham, then he would have been around 90 at the time of his death. This would have been an extraordinary age in a time and place where most children lost their fathers before they reached adulthood.
Possible parents of Abraham:
Abraham Goad - The earliest recorded date that I have been able to find for the name Abraham Goad is
October 23, 1661
on a list of tithable persons in Lancaster County, Virgina. Assuming that this Abraham was probably sixteen to eighteen years old to appear on such a list, he would have been born no later than 1645, about the time that the Northern Neck of Virginia was first being settled. If this Abraham is the Abraham who died in North Farnham Parish in 1734, he would have lived to a most extraordinary age, nearly 90 or older, with the very high mortality rates of the Chesapeake tidewater rivers of Virginia and Maryland in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. It is likely that this is another Abraham. Given the propensity of later generations to use the name Abraham and this early appearance of an Abraham in multiple records in Lancaster County (Abraham and Katherine’s land was in that portion of the Old Rappahannock County which became Richmond County near its border with Lancaster County), if there was actually an earlier Abraham, he may well have been the later Abraham’s father. If not his father, such an Abraham might be an uncle.
Richard Goode and Sarah Parker - unlikely given the evidence.
John
Goode (Goade):
Zella
Armstrong, in Notable Southern Families9,
writes,
Vol. I,
Sevier Family
Valentine Sevier - Second of the name of record and perhaps
fourth or fifth even, married shortly after he landed in
Baltimore, a "Baltimore lady" as the quaint old records
say, some of them not mentioning her name. She was,
however, Joanna Goade, granddaughter of John Goade or
Goode, who emigrated by way of Barbadoes (sic) in 1650.
Valentine and Joanna Goode Sevier moved from Maryland,
following the train of emigration to the South. and
settled first, in Culpepper County, Virginia, and then in
Rockingham (Augusta) County, Virginia, early in the decade
between 1740 and 1750, for John Sevier, their eldest son.
was born there September 23, 1745.
Vol.
IV, Valentine Sevier II - The Emigrant and His Descendants
Valentine Sevier II married shortly after he landed in
Baltimore, by the family tradition, but he evidently did
not marry Joanna Goode until about 1744. The
tradition is that he married a "Baltimore Lady" which is a
bit indefinite for genealogical records. Other
statements indicate that he moved on from Maryland to
Virginia before his marriage. However he married
Jonna (sic) Goode or Goade (the name is frequently spelled
Goade). She was the grand daughter of John Goode or
Goade who had emigrated by way of the Barbados in 1650.
Bishop Hoss says that Valentine II met his future wife in
Augusta or Culpepper County, Virginia. The marriage
took place, I think, about the year 1744.
Sometimes a tradition is more nearly right than we
understand. Perhaps Valentine Sevier did marry a
"Baltimore Lady" shortly after landing. Perhaps his
marriage to Joanna Goode in 1744 (about), when he was at
least forty-two years of age, was a second marriage.
Valentine Sevier II and Joanna Goode Sevier settled
shortly after their marriage in Culpepper County,
Virginia, moving later to Rockingham County (Augusta),
where John Sevier, their oldest child and the most famous
member of the family, was born September 23, 1745.
Valentine Sevier was a member of Scholl’s Military
Company in 1742, (Waddell's Annals of Augusta County,
pages 45 and 47). Also, it is an indication that he
met Joanna Goode in Virginia as claimed by Bishop Hoss,
because, although he was in Virginia in 1742, the marriage
probably did not take place until 1744.
Conclusions and other information:
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- This
work may be one source, if not the source, for many pedigrees
holding that the father of Abraham Goad was named John.
However John was the name of Joanna's father, not identified in
Armstrong's work. Her grandfather was Abraham Goad of North Farnham Parish in Richmond County, Virginia. Interestingly,
the name Abraham shows up, in her line, as: grandfather,
uncle, son, and grandson.
- In Volume 1, Armstrong identifies Joanna Goade as the
"Baltimore Lady," which she then refutes in Volume IV,
completed several years later, saying that the
tradition
that Valentine Sevier married a Baltimore Lady is a "bit
indefinite for genealogical records" and that Valentine and
Joanna met years later in Virginia.
- That Joanna's name was Goad or Goade and not Good or Goode
is demonstrated by the name of John Sevier's daughter, Joanna
Goad Sevier, and his granddaughter, Joanna Goad
Windle. If the name had been Goode, then their names
would have reflected it.
- Armstrong does not offer any proof in her assertion that
Joanna Goad is the granddaughter of John Goode or Goade, an
emigrant by way of Barbados.
Her
assertion of a connection to a John Goode or Goade is more
than a "bit indefinite for genealogical records." She
simply offers it as a statement of fact, without any
attribution of its source.
- Finally,
the Sevier Family History, specifically identifies
Abraham Goad as the grandfather of Joanna Goad, through the
wills documented in the book.
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Good, Goode, Goad, Gourd
- Individuals listed as
"transportees" in land patents of Virginia from 1651 to 1656.
Unidentified - Most of the individuals coming to Virginia from England in the seventeenth century left no trace of their ancestry. Most were indentured servants coming into the unknown from a country in great economic
and political turmoil. Many were already uprooted from their home parishes before “volunteering” for an indenture to come to America
(
SEE ALSO JOE PAYNE'S WEB SITE INFORMATION ON ABRAHAM AND KATHERINE).
Documents - abstracts and transcriptions:
- Will of John Phillips of Lancaster County VA, Jan 30, 1689/90, Witnessed by Abraham
Goard
- Deed, Wm. SMYTH and Abraham GOARD, 3-24-1699
, map
- Two Twelve Year Olds Ordered By County Court To Serve Abraham Goad, June 7, 1699
- Quit Rents of Virginia, 1704
- Abraham Goard in Petition to Settle Location of Beginning Corner Tree, December 7,
1704
- Will of William DOWNMAN, North Farnham Parish; 23 MAy 1711 (abstract), witnessed by Abraham and William
GOAD
- Bond of Anne Phillips, Abraham Goad, and Robert Reynolds for Inventory of the Estate of John
Phillips, July 7, 1714
- Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants for Goad or Mentioning Goad, 14 Feb 1704 - 10
May 1725
- Deed from Abraham and William Goad to William Downman, including Power of Attorney from Catherine
and Mary Goad to Thomas Deall - March, 1724
- North Farnham Parish Register - Listings for GOAD and Some Related Family Names
- The Will of Abraham Goad, March 7, 1733
- Will of Abraham GOAD, 7 March 1733 (abstract)
- Abstract of Will of Abraham Goad, abt 1734
- Abraham Goad's land - Mentioned as border May 4, 1734 in deed abstract, Tobias Phillips and Thom's
Dodson identified as witnesses
- Land sale mentioning lands of Abraham Goad and William, his son, Dec 1, 1735
Children of ABRAHAM GOAD and KATHERINE WILLIAMS are:
WILLIAM GOAD, b. August 1693, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County,
Virginia; d. January 18, 1731/32, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia.
HANNAH GOAD, b. November 1695, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County,
Virginia; d. Abt. 1788, Henry Co., VA.
JOHN GOAD, b. November 27, 1700, North
Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia; d. July 1771, Bedford County, Virginia.
- ELIZABETH GOAD, b. Abt. 1705, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia; d. 1799.
- ALICE GOAD, b. Abt. 1704, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia; d. September 07, 1767, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia.
- ABRAHAM GOAD, b. March 15, 1709/10, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia; d. August 1779, Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
- PETER GOAD, b. May 27, 1715, North Farnham Parish, Richmond Co., VA7; d. Abt. 1794, Richmond Co. VA8.
Endnotes 1. Smith, Janice Kinsler, "Goad
and Webb Family of Southwest Virginia, With Allied Families, Vol II, Goad Family", 1994 Revision, p. 406, (cites Sevier Family History, p. 525).2. King, George Harrison Sanford, "The
Registers of North Farnham Parish, 1663 - 1814, and Lunenburg Parish, 1783 -1800, Richmond County, Virginia", (Published Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1966). 3. Smith, Janice Kinsler, "Goad and
Webb Family of Southwest Virginia, With Allied Families, Vol II, Goad Family", 1994 Revision, p. 409, (appears to based on birth of oldest documented child). 4. Smith, Janice Kinsler, "Goad
and Webb Family of Southwest Virginia, With Allied Families, Vol II, Goad Family", 1994 Revision, 409, "estimated from marriage date, using 18 years at age of marriage."
5. King, George Harrison Sanford, "The Registers of North Farnham Parish, 1663 - 1814, and Lunenburg Parish, 1783 -1800, Richmond County, Virginia", (Published Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1966). 6. Smith, Janice Kinsler, "Goad and Webb Family of Southwest Virginia, With Allied Families, Vol II, Goad Family", 1994 Revision, p. 406, (cites Will Book #5 pp. 238-240 and North Farnham
Parish Register, Richmond COunty, Virginia). 7. King, George Harrison Sanford, "The Registers of North Farnham Parish, 1663 - 1814, and Lunenburg Parish, 1783 -1800, Richmond County, Virginia"
, (Published Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1966). 8. Haas, Kenneth F., "The Goads - A Frontier Family", (2nd Edition, 1995), p. 7.
9. Armstrong, Zella, "Notable Southern Families", Volume 1
originally published Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1918. (This work
was referenced on-line at Genealogy.com. The title pages and
publishing data page for Volume IV could not be accessed.
However, based on other text in volume IV, it was published in 1924
or later) |
