Nathaniel Goodhue

Nathaniel Goodhue[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]

Male 1670 - 1721  (50 years)


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  • Name Nathaniel Goodhue  [10, 11, 12, 13, 14
    Birth 24 Aug 1670  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 13
    Gender Male 
    Burial 1721  Essex, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Death 18 Aug 1721  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 12, 14
    Person ID I312684223751  Oswald Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

    Family Mercy Hawkes,   b. 14 Nov 1675, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Oct 1721, Ipswich, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years) 
    Marriage 28 Nov 1696  Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1670  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

  • Notes 
    • Inventory of the Estate of Nathaniel Goodhue, December 3, 1723
      The total of the inventory of the Estate of Nathaniel Goodhue, December 3, 1723:
      1100 pounds, 7 shillings, 6 pence($273,747--2025) To be divided as such:
      1. No names given, divided as such:Eldest Son(William)314 pounds, 8 shillings($78,189-2025)
      2nd Son(John)157 pounds, 4 shillings($39,094-2025)
      3rd Son(Ebenezer)157 pounds, 4 shillings($39,094-2025)
      Eldest Daughter(Sarah)157 pounds, 4 shillings($39,094-
      2025)
      2nd Daughter(Elizabeth)157 pounds, 4 shillings($39,094-
      2025)
      3rd Daughter(Hannah)157 pounds, 4shillings($39,094-
      2025)

      The Estate also had liabilities of 266 pounds, 16 shillings, and 1 pence($66,376-2025)
      The Estate was owed 79 pounds, 15 shillings, and 1 pence($19,840-2025)
      The Estate had personal property inventory of 195 pounds, 6 shillings, 4 pence($48,590-2025)
      The inventory would not have allocated any portions to the two children of Nathaniel who died at the same time as he and his wife, son Nathaniel and daughter Mercy.

      Nathaniel Goodhue titled Captain
      On Nathaniel Goodhue headstone, it states: "Here lyes the body of Capt Nathaniel Goodheu who died august ye 16th 1721 aged 51 years." Find A Grave

      !Grandson of Rev. Francis DANE of Andove
      !Grandson of Rev. Francis DANE of Andover.

      Nathaniel Goodhue 1st Cousin, 5 times removed of Grace Goodhue Coolidge.
      Nathaniel Goodhue was the 1st Cousin, 5 times removed of Grace Goodhue Coolidge, the wife of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States.

      Nathaniel Goodhue, the great grandson of Edmund Ingalls
      Nathaniel Goodhue was the great-grandson of Edmund Ingalls, one of the early settlers of Lynn, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

      Nathaniel Goodhue, Mercy Hawkes Goodhue, Mercy Goodhue, and Nathaniel Goodhue all die 1721,
      Nathaniel Goodhue(1670), Mercy Hawkes Goodhue(1675) Mercy Goodhue(1709)and Nathaniel Goodhue(1702)all die between August and October 1721 due to a smallpox epidemic which swept Ipswich that year.

      1st Cousins married Aunt and her Niece
      Nathaniel Goodhue and Francis Johnson were 1st Cousins, their mothers Hannah Dane Goodhue and Elizabeth Dane Johnson were sisters, the daughters of Elizabeth Ingalls Dane and the Reverend Francis Dane, and grandsons of Edmund Ingalls. Nathaniel Goodhue married Mercy Hawkes Goodhue who was the granddaughter of Adam Hawkes while Sarah Hawkes Johnson married Stephen Johnson and she was the daughter of Adam Hawkes, thus Mercy Hawkes Goodhue would be the niece of Sarah Hawkes Johnson.

  • Sources 
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      History and genealogy of the Goodhue family : in England and America to the year 1890
      by Goodhue, Jonathan Elbridge, 1824-1895

      Publication date 1891
      Pages 12-3.

    2. [S1173462465] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZVT-6HK : 15 January 2020), Nathaniell Goodhue in entry for Sarah Goodhue, 1701.

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