John Goodyear

1651 - 1702  (50 years)

• Name	John Goodyear  [1]
  Birth	8 Mar 1651	New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States of America   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Jan 1702	New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States of America   [1]
  Burial	New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States of America   [1]
  Person ID	I27544	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2024

  
  

  Father	Stephen Goodyear,   b. Bef 26 Nov 1598, St Gregory By St Paul, London, England d. 7 May 1658, London, England (Age > 59 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Margaret Lewen,   b. Bef 28 Mar 1613, London England d. Aft 4 Nov 1670, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA (Age > 57 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1648	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  Family ID	F8759	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Abigail Gibbard,   b. 18 Aug 1660, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA d. 1718, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States of America (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	26 Jun 1683	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  Children	1. John Goodyear   d. 1709  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Obedience Goodyear   d. Bef 1717  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Nathaniel Goodyear,   b. 1690  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 4. Capt Theophilus Goodyear,   b. 25 Dec 1698   d. 22 Apr 1757 (Age 58 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Abigail Goodyear,   b. Abt 1700  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Andrew Goodyear,   b. Abt 1702  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F8754	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 26 Jun 1683 - New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Biography from wikitree.com: Lieutenant John Goodyear, born 8 March 1650, in New Haven; married on 26 June 1683, Abigail, daughter of William and Ann (Tapp) Gibbard, born 18 August 1660. William Gibbard, died 9 August 1662, leaving Samuel, Mary, Phoebe, Sarah, Rebecca, Timothy, Abigail and Hannah. His will, dated 1 August 1662, and probated 30 April 1663, mentions brother Lieutenant John Nash (who probably married his wife's sister) and leaves land in Tamsworth, Warwickshire, England. He appoints Mr. Francis Smith, of Stratford-on-Avon, and Mr. Robert Newman to be overseers of his estate in England. His brother resided in Calaowne House, near Coventry, Warwickshire. John Goodyear died 14 January 1702. His estate was inventoried 4 December 1703, and amounted to ~756 5s 6d., wife Abigail, administratrix. Recorded New Haven Probate Records, 663-16-06. His wife Abigail died before 1717. John Goodyear is genve the title of "Lieutenant" in the Colonial Records." Stephen Goodyear b. 1 May 1684 in New Haven; died without issue before 1716. John, ___________. Estate inventoried Dec. 26, 1709 Nathaniel, b. 1690; m. Sarah Woodin Obedience, _____; d. before 1717 Esther b. 1694 m. first, Ebenezer Bryan; second, Thomas Gibbs. Theophilus b. 1698; m. Esther Sperry. Abigail b. between 1698 and 1701 being of full age in 1719, giving receipt to Nathaniel Heaton for his guardianship; m., Jan 12, 1726, Samuel, son of Lieutenant Samuel and Sarah (Fenn) Burwell, of Milford, Conn. Andrew, b. 1702; m. first, Jane Gilbert; second, Esther Morris.[1] John Goodyear was the seventh and last son of Stephen Goodyear (1598-1658). His father passed away in London, when he was seven years old.He was the only son of Stephen Goodyear (1598-1658) who grew up, married, and had children of his own. John Goodyear married Abigail Gibbard (1660-1718) on 26 June 1683 in New Haven. [2]John Goodyear was born in the New Haven Colony on March 8th, and christened on March 13th, 1651. He was the youngest son of Stephen Goodyear (1598-1658). His mother was named Margaret (Lewen) Lamberton Goodyear (1614 - after 4 Nov, 1670). Her dates of birth and death are found in "The Goodyear Genealogy" on page 65 paragraph 3, and page 67 paragraph 3. When John Goodyear was seven years of age in New Haven, his father passed away overseas, and was buried in London. John Goodyear's father has FindAGrave Memorial Number 139993092 as a burial marker page, and Memorial Numbers 17501582 and 28844665 as cenotaph marker pages. John Goodyear was the only son who lived long enough to marry, and to have children of his own. All of his stepbrothers and his brother Andrew appear to have died young. Without John Goodyear, the family name would have been lost in America. John Goodyear and his wife had five sons, but only their sons named Theophilus and Andrew passed down the family name to their own children. In the early colonial years in America, the family's last name was spelled in different ways. John Goodyear's father was christened in London as Stephen Goodyere, and known as Stephen Goodyeare in the New Haven Colony town records of 1657 and 1658. John Goodyear was also known by the last name of Goodyeare, in the town records. John Goodyear (1651-1702) married Abigail Gibbard (1660-1718) on June 26, 1683 in New Haven. Their three daughters were named Obedience, Esther, and Abigail. The headstones for the girls have not been found. Here is a listing of the five sons in the family: 1) Stephen (1684-before 1717), has no known headstone; 2) John (unknown-1709), has no known headstone; 3) Nathaniel (1690-1752), 15933058, has a headstone reading "Goodyear"; 4) Theophilus (1698-1757), 20664381, has a headstone reading "Goodyar"; 5) Andrew (1703-1781), has no known headstone. Nathaniel appears to be one of the first people in the family to spell his last name as "Goodyear", as shown on his headstone from 1752. There was only one cemetery in New Haven at the time of John Goodyear's death. Most of the cemetery was located to the rear of the "Meeting House" on the commons square, which is now called the "Center Church on the Green". No headstones for John Goodyear or his wife can be found at any site. While many of the graves for the "Center Church on the Green" remain in place under the grass on the commons square, and a few graves remain under the church in the undercroft, all of the remaining headstones and graves from the grassy area surrounding the church were moved to the Grove Street Cemetery or elsewhere by 1821. The ground was then leveled, and seeded with new grass, to create a lawn for the community commons square. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven_Green John Goodyear died in 1702, at the age of 50. Sources ↑ Genealogy of the Goodyear Family by Grace Goodyear Kirkman: Goodyear Family ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=126775226 Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven (Clarence D. Smith, Rome, New York, 1922-1932) Volumes 1-9 AGBI: American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT, USA Find A Grave: Memorial #126775226: Center Church on the Green Churchyard, New Haven, New Haven County, CT Kirkman, Grace Goodyear. Genealogy of the Goodyear Family (Cubery & Co., San Fancisco, 1899) Page 55

  
  

• Sources

  [S31] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Record for Capt Theophilus Goodyear https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=94385968&indiv=try