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Connections between two very prominent Collier and Goode families were made when three Collier sisters married three Goode brothers in Prince Edward County, Virginia in the 1700's. The Collier sisters were Sarah Collier, Elizabeth lronmonger Collier, and Mary Collier, daughters of John Collier and his wife, Elizabeth (Meredith) Collier. The Goode brothers were Robert Goode, Philip Goode, and Samuel Goode, sons of Samuel Goode and his wife, Susannah Burwell Goode ("The Collier/Goode Connection," Leroy Collier, The Longhunter, Volume XV, Number 1, Spring 1992, p. 29 ).

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Robert Goode was commissioned by Governor Patrick Henry as a magistrate on the first county court after independence, serving from 1776 to 1794. Hence, he served in this capacity all during the Revolution (Kentucky Cousins, p. 55).
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"Virginia Militia in the Revolution: Prince Edward County," by Alfred J. Morrison in the Virginia Magazine of History, April 1913, taken from records of officers appointed and commissioned in May, June and July, 1777, indicate that Robert Goode was a 2nd Lieutenant.
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Robert Goode, 2nd Lieut., Prince Edward Militia, 1777.

"United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-G6TS : 18 March 2018), Robert Goode, 1777.

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In 1778, there is record of his having provided corn and other provisions to soldiers' families. For this he was paid 63 pounds, 14 shillings in one instance, and 23 pounds in another by the Commonwealth (Kentucky Cousins, p. 55).
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Robert Good, 1779 340 acres, Prince Edward, Virginia (Virginia County Records, Vol. VII, Prince Edward County, Book A).
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Freeman Lewelling, Prince Edward, Virginia, Feb 1780, Cert. #648

Freeman Lewelling, John Goulding, Charles Howall & James Foster came into Court and proved by their oath, that they were severally regular soldiers (privates) in the late War...& that they now assign all their right & title to their Claim to Lands unto Robert Goode, Gentleman. Frank Watkins DC.

Charles Howall further proves by his own oath that he served two Campaigns & that it included the time of two Enlistments. F. Watkins DC

[Cert 647 to John Goulding; 645-646 to Charles Howall and 644 to James Foster].

"French & Indian War Land Bounty Certificates," Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXXIV, number 4, 1 Nov 1996, p. 315
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Jeremiah Penix, heir at law to his brother Edward Penix, dec., who was a private under William Byrd and died after he returned home, assigned the right to Robert Goode. 21 Feb 1780, Virginia Colonial Soldiers, Bounty Land Applications, p. 263
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1782 Continental Census, Prince Edward, Virginia - Robert Goode, 13 white souls, 19 blacks, 1 dwelling, 9 other bldgs., p. 101
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Heads of Families - Virginia, 1783 - Prince Edward County - Robert Goode, 11 white, 10 black
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17 Jun 1797 - Samuel Winston , of Amelia Co. deed from Abner Watkins and George Eggleston of Cumberland Co. and Robert Goode, Josiah Perkerson, Christopher Walthall, Richard Pincham, Thomas Gibson, William Worsham and John L. Crute, of Prince Edward Co. Trustee of the town of James Town . $97,00 curr. of Va. 2 lots of ½ acre each on the Appomattox River in Prince Edward County. June 17, 1797 (The Valentine Papers, Vol 1-4, 1864-1908, Winston Family, Prince Edward County Records).

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Kentucky Land Grants

Robt Goode, 100 acres, survey date 17 Apr 1784, Jefferson Co., watercourse: Lick Br. S. Fk. Nolinn, book, 5

Robt. Goade, 500 acres, survey date: 14 Dec 1785, Nelson Co., watercourse: Green River (Kentucky Land Grants, Volume I, Part I, Chapter II, Virginia Land Grants, 1782-1792, The Counties of Kentucky, p. 56, Book 9)

Robt Goode, 1000 acres, survey date 15 Sep 1798, Hardin Co., watercourse: Rough Cr.
Robt Goode, 40 acres, survey date 5 Jul 1815, Warren Co., watercourse: none, book 19
Robt Goode, 94 acres, survey date 26 Mar 1812, Christian Co., watercourse: Muddy Fk. book 19

Robert Goode, 50 acres, survey date 30 Jun 1827, Butler Co., watercourse: Green R, book V
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The son of Samuel Goode, Samuel Goode II settled in Prince Edward County. I suspect he married a daughter of Samuel Gaines (Prince Edward Deed Book, 31 Aug 1764). His son Robert Goode married Sally (Prince Edward will dated 8 Apr 1804) [letter from Richard Bland dated 18 Sep 2001].
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Robert Goode lived his entire life in Prince Edward County where he operated a large plantation, was active in county affairs, served in the militia during the Revolution, helped to organize Hampden-Sydney College, and participated in founding a new town on the Appomattox, named Jamestown. Three of his sons, Robert, John Collier, and Samuel, moved westward to Warren County, Kentucky (Kentucky Cousins, p. 2)

The two generations that lived in Prince Edward County lived near the juncture of Prince Edward with Amelia and Cumberland counties (Kentucky Cousins, p. 47) [Lockett Twp. Prince Edward Co., near the intersection of present-day Prince Edward, Amelia and Nottoway County lines].

Robert Goode was a neighbor of Patrick Henry in Prince Edward County, after the latter retired from the governorship of Virginia in 1786. Robert seems to have been a man of responsibility and principle, having served in the Virginia Militia during the Revolution, and decreed that children of his slaves would be born free after his death (Kentucky Cousins, p. 48).

There was a Mackarness Goode in the county in 1765 and 1767. In 1765 he was the surety for Robert Goode's marriage bond. At this time, Robert's brother Mackarness was too young to serve in that capacity, so this Mackarness must have been his uncle or cousin (Kentucky Cousins, p. 52).

Robert Goode, b. 1745 probably in Chesterfield County near Whitby, d. August 17, 1804, m. Sarah (Sally) Collier, January 24, 1765 [Catherine Knorr, Prince Edward County Marriages 1754-1810 (1950); Prince Edward County Marriage Records; John Collier Goode Family Bible] (Kentucky Cousins, p. 53).

Children: (1) Robert, m. Martha (Patsy) Drake, daughter of James and Mary Drake, September 9, 1803 (according to Mrs. Jeanie Raab of Arnold, Maryland); (2) John Collier Goode, b. November 20, 1765, d. 1844; (3) Susannah, m. John Hendrick Osborne, July 2, 1798; (4) Mary (Polly), m. Byrd Brown, March 4, 1795; Lucy, m. Richard Haden; (5) Sarah, m. John Walthall, December 15, 1798; (6) Frances, m. Stith Farley, August 10, 1804; (7) Anne; (8) Elizabeth; (9) Joseph; (10) Thomas, b. 1780, d. 1865; (11) Samuel, d. May 5, 1820; (12) William, m. Agnes Holloway (widow of Nathaniel Holloway and daughter of Charles Venable, December 24, 1794 (Kentucky Cousins, pp. 53-54).

Robert was the second of our line to be born near the original seat in Chesterfield County, but he was very young when his family moved westward toward the new frontier. He was six years old or younger when his family settled in what became Prince Edward County, but he had probably lived at other frontier places before arriving in Prince Edward County (Kentucky Cousins, p. 54).

In Bradshaw's History of Prince Edward County it indicates that Robert took his place in family and civic responsibility early; he married at 20 and had thirteen children. The county court charged him with contracting for construction of a bridge by the time he was 22. At 30 he was appointed to a committee to raise money for a new college and at 31 he became a magistrate on the first county court after Virginia became a commonwealth independent of England (Kentucky Cousins, p. 54).

Robert grew up on the frontier just beyond the seaboard cluster of early colonial settlements, but most of his life was spent in Prince Edward County. He married Sarah (Sally) Collier, the daughter of John Collier of "Porto Bello," when he was 20 years of age (January 24, 1765). Sarah Collier was under age, too, because James Scott gave consent for her marriage. Both were listed as residents of Chesterfield County, but that probably indicated their place of birth rather than their most recent residence (Catherine L. Knorr, op. cit.). Robert probably had been living at home with his parents in Prince Edward County. Since Robert's brother Samuel married another Collier girl, Mary, the Colliers must have been living nearby in Prince Edward County too. Brother Philip must have married a third Collier girl because one of his sons was named John Collier Goode (Kentucky Cousins, p. 54).

Robert Goode was evidently a part of the Prince Edward establishment during his mature life. He lived only to age 59, but was a substantial planter, member of the county government, churchman, and showed an active interest in civic betterment and welfare. He was in his early 30s at the start of the Revolution. The elite did not serve in the military except as officers; Robert did serve as a lieutenant in the county militia, which participated actively in the army during emergencies. Records show that he was sworn in as a lieutenant in 1777 (Kentucky Cousins, p. 55).

While the early Virginia Goodes were members of the established church, Robert must have been a dissenter by 1775, when he was 30 years old. His father had been a vestryman of St. Patrick's parish, but in 1775, Robert was made one of six trustees of a new church whose denomination was unspecified. The church was built on the main road near present-day Rice on land owned by William Rice. Six years later the Sailor's Creek Baptist Church was organized there, so at this point the Goodes probably became Baptist [Bradshaw, op. cit] (Kentucky Cousins, pp. 55-56).

In 1775, he was named a member of a committee to raise 400 pounds for books and equipment for a new academy that was then being organized. Apparently, they were not very successful, for the Rector, Samuel Stanhope Smith, provided 320 pounds of his own money. Prince Edward Academy came into being in 1776 and became Hampden-Sydney College in 1783 (Kentucky Cousins, p. 56).

Robert Goode had civic responsibility and a concern for the welfare of his neighbors. In 1789, he took the oath as an overseer of the poor. Under the urging of Thomas Jefferson, Virginia in 1786, disestablished the successor to the Church of England, removed taxes for the upkeep of the church, took the church out of governmental affairs such as processioning of land and looking after the poor, and permitted people to freely worship as they chose. All charitable activities had been carried on by the vestry of the church. Overseers of the poor were authorized to be elected; the county was divided into four districts with three supervisors for each district. Robert was elected one of these (Kentucky Cousins, p. 56).

A petition signed by many residents was presented to the General Assembly in 1796 for the chartering of a new town to be named Jamestown, after the first English settlement in Virginia. Robert was one of the signers. The petition was approved and a new town was laid out at Buffalo Falls on the Appomatox River. Laid out on the land of John Townes, the town had 50 half-acre lots. Robert was named one of the nine trustees. Later, it was flourishing and had several warehouses, a girls' school, some taverns and a church (Samuel Shepherd, The Statutes at Large of Virginia, AMS Press, New York, 1970, reprint of 1835 edition, VI, p. 31) (Kentucky Cousins, pp. 56-57).

Robert Goode died at a relatively young 59 years due to causes unknown. His wife must have lived many years after him because she may have been the Salley C. who witnessed her son Samuel's will in 1820 in Warren County, Kentucky. That he was a man of some means is indicated by his will. He gave his oldest son, Robert, 500 acres on the Green River in Kentucky; distributed more than 22 slaves to his survivors; directed that his estate be sold and the proceeds divided among his children, including the sums already paid to John C., Samuel, and William (Kentucky Cousins, p. 57).

The most unusual thing about this will other than its great piety is the almost unheard-of feeling of all yet-to-be-born slaves:

"….my positive will and desire is that all the unborn Negroes that may or shall be born of any of my Negroes after this date, be born free, though to be held in servitude by those legatees to whom they may fall till they arrive to the age of twenty-five years, provided those legatees to whom they may fall learn them to read and write, and in case any should refuse to educate them as much as that, my will is they be free at the age of twenty-one years, …" (Kentucky Cousins, p. 57).

The area in Prince Edward County where two generations of our forebears lived - Samuel and Robert - between Sailor's (Saylor's) Creek and Sandy Creek in the northeast corner of the county is a fertile and prosperous farming area. This was no doubt one of the most promising sections of the county, situated as it is between a quadrant bounded by the Appomatox River, Sailor's Creek, and Sandy Creek (Kentucky Cousins, p. 58).

The area was the scene of the last major battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Sayler's Creek fought on April 6, 1865. G. Brown Goode thought that Samuel Goode's plantation was the site of this battle (unpublished note in the Virginia State Library and Archives, Richmond) (Kentucky Cousins, p. 58).

In 1968 Townspeople in Rice told of an old Goode family cemetery 4 ½ miles away toward the Appomatox River. It is easy to spot some 50 yards from the road in the middle of a cultivated field. S. W. Vaughan was plowing nearby with a tractor confirmed it was the Goode cemetery, and indicated that his great-grandfather had bought the Goode plantation before the Civil War (Kentucky Cousins, p. 58).

There was only one grave marked with a Goode headstone, although the farmer indicated there were 15-20 unmarked graves. The headstone read: Thomas Goode, Died September 8, 1858, 73 years and 10 months old. This Thomas Goode was probably John Collier Goode's brother (Kentucky Cousins, p. 59).

The old plantation house was still standing, surrounded by numerous other wooden buildings typical of plantations of that day. The house and outbuildings were unpainted and well weathered (Kentucky Cousins, p. 59).

Robert Goode was appointed executor of his father Samuel Goode's last will and testament 19 Aug 1796 (Kentucky Cousins, p. 64).

Of Robert's five sons, three went to Kentucky and only two remained in Virginia. Robert Jr., John C., and Samuel all were settled in Warren County, Kentucky by 1810. John C. was about 45 years old when he moved to Kentucky. William and Thomas remained in Prince Edward County along with most of the sisters (Kentucky Cousins, p. 70).

Will of Robert Goode

IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN, I Robert Goode, of Prince Edward County, being, thro the abundant mercy and goodness of God, tho weak in body, yet of a sound and perfect understanding and memory, do constitute this my last will and testament, and desire to be received by all as such.

Imprimis, I most humbly bequeath my soul to God, my maker, beseeching his most gracious acceptance of it thro the all-sufficient merits and mediation of my most compassionate Redeemer, Jesus Christ, who gave himself to be an atonement for my sins, and is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them, and who I trust, will not reject me, a returning, penitent sinner, when I come to him for mercy. In this hope and confidence, I render up my soul with comfort, humbly beseeching the most Blessed and Glorious Trinity, one god, most holy, merciful and graciouis to prepare me for this time of my dissolution, and to take me to himself, unto that peace and rest, and comparable felicity which he has prepared for those that love and fear his holy name, Amen, blessed be God.

Imprimis, I give my body to the earth from whence it was taken, in full assurance of its resurrection from thence at the last day. As far as my burial, I desire it may be decent, without pomp or state, at the discretion of my dear wife and executors hereafter named, who I doubt not will manage it with all requisite prudence. As to my worldly estate, I will and positively order that all my just debts be paid.

Item, I given and bequeath to my son Robert Goode, all my tract of land lying in the state of Kentucky, upon Green River, containing five hundred acres, be the same more or less, which land I give to him and his heirs forever.

Here follow certain special bequests of slaves and money to the children.

Item, my positive will and desire is that after the death of my wife, Sally Goode, that the whole of my negroes, together with those that are or may be lent to any of my children (except all that shall be born of any of my negroes after this date) with eighty pounds of, cash, from my daughters Polly Brown, and forty pounds, do., from my daughter Susana Osborne be deposited into one general stock, all of which negroes (to wit.: Gloster, Pheby, Grace, Isabel, Sancho, Ephraim, Bird, Kit, Isham, Nat, Hannah, Jack, Patrick, Nathan, Martin, Judy, Nancy, Dilsey, Caty, and old Dilsey, Effy and Dinah,) and sums of money, I give to be equally divided between my sons and daughters-Susana Osborne, Polly Brown, Lucy Hatten, Sarah, Frances, Anne, Elizabeth G., Joseph and Thomas Goode, all of which I give to them and their heirs forever; also after the decease of my wife, my will and desire is that the whole of estate, both real and perishable (not before given or accepted) be sold at the discretion of my executors hereafter named, and the money arising from such sale, after paying to John C., Samuel and William Goode the several sums I have before given them, I give, to be equally divided between my sons and daughters, Susana Osborne, Polly Brown, Lucy Hatten, Sarah, Frances, Anne, Elizabeth G., Joseph and Thomas Goode, which legacy I give to them and their heirs forever.

Item, my positive will and desire is that all the unborn negroes that may or shall be born of any of my negroes after this date, be born free, thoiugh to be held in servitude by those legatees to whom they may fall till they arrive to the age of twenty-five years, provided those legatees to whom they may fall learn them to read and write, and in case any should refuse to educate them as much as that, my will is they be free at the age of twenty-one years, and I do hereby constitute my sons Joseph and William Goode executors, with my wife, Sallie Goode, executrix of this my last will and testament.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and four.

Signed, sealed and acknowledged:

John H. Osborne, Thomas Goode, Frances Goode, Susana Osborne, Philip Goode, Rebekah Goode, Ann Goode.

Robert Goode (signature and seal).

Source: Prince Edward County Will Book, Vol. III, pp. 370-372 (Kentucky Cousins, p. 66)
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American Geneological Biographical Index (AGBI)

Robert Goode, b. 175? In VA, Heads of Fams. At the first U.S. census, Washington, 1908, (189p.): 49, 59, 101

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