- Richard Goodale settled in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1638 with his wife Dorothy, his two children, Ann and Richard and his mother, Elizabeth Goodale. The time of the migration and the vessel are not known.
He was called a planter and a turner, soon after settling in Newbury, moved across the Merrimac river to the new town, first called Colchester, and later called Salisbury, where he was an original grantee and as such received a grant of land. He was a recipient of further grants of land in 1639, 1643 and 1654. Tradition states that Richard was an outstanding great hunter. He had an Irish servant by the name of Cornelius Conner.
Richard made his will on June 7, 1666, which was proved on October 6, 1666. All of his goods, housings, lands, orchards, pastures, meadows, either marsh or upland, plow lands, and any other lands or cattle be left to be equally divided between his son Richard, the younger and his daughter Ann, wife of William Allen. Two exceptions were "to his granddaughter Hubbard, a cow named Primrose" and "to Cornelius Conner, formerly his servant, all of his wearing apparel, both woolens and linens". From the inventory, it appears if Richard had let his house to Joseph Lancaster and had gone to live with his daughter, Ann Goodale Allen in his last months before death. There was due to Ann's husband, William, payment for "diet and attendance" at ten shillings a week from May 3, 1666 to September 16, 1666. The property was divided between Richard Goodale, the younger, and William Allen, husband of Ann Goodale on December 4, 1666.
Richard and Dorothy only had the two children. Richard Goodale, the Younger, was born about 1616 at Yarmouth, Norfolk, England and died in 1676 at Middleton, Connecticut. He married 1640 at Salisbury, Massachusetts, Mary who died May 31, 1683 at Salisbury.
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