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The family of Goode first became represented in this country by two brothers who, on account of their adhesion to the king in the parliamentary wars, were exiled by Cromwell in 1648. They settled at Norfolk, Virginia where some member of the family has resided to the present day. The original home of the family was at Whitby, Yorkshire, England (Pictorial and genealogical record of Greene County, Missouri: Together with Biographies of Prominent Men of other portions of..., pp. 227-228).
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Richard Goode was born in England in about 1580-1600. His parents were Richard Goode and Joan Downe. He had two sons, John and Richard, who emigrated and settled in Henrico County, Virginia and Rappahannock County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky (The Goode family of Virginia, Georgia and Kentucky: a supplement to the genealogy and history of the Stewart family of Halifax County, Virginia, Caswell and Person Counties, North Carolina, Trigg County, Kentucky, by Martha Jane Stone).
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John Goade - Baptism: 1630, Devon, England.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1047574?availability=Family%20History%20Library
"England, Devon, Parish Registers, 1538-1912", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KC9D-82M : 29 July 2021), John Goade, 1630.
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John Goode died before 1 Mar 1709, at which time Allanson Clerke and Capt. Giles Webb served as securities for heirs Robert Good and John Goode for the will of their father (Henrico County Wills and Deeds 1706-1709, p. 163).
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John Goode of Whitby (1632-1709)
In a Henrico County, Virginia Court deposition dated 2 Oct 1704, John Goode of Whitby Plantation gave his age as seventy-two years, meaning he was born about 1632 (Henrico County, Deeds and Wills, 1697-1704, p. 426). Although information about his early life is vague and scarce, according to family legend he left home during Cromwell's revolt against King Charles I. Oral tradition has it that our ancestor was a Cavalier or Royalist sympathetic to the King, which made it uncomfortable for him to remain in England.
Other family lore indicates that the Goode family first came to be represented in the United States by two brothers who, on account of their support of the King Charles I in the parliamentary wars, were exiled by Cromwell in 1648. They reportedly settled at Norfolk, Virginia where some member of the family has resided to the present day. According to this account, the ancestral home of this branch of the Goode family was Whitby, Yorkshire, England.
The English civil war began in 1642 and lasted until King Charles I was beheaded in 1649. It is during this period that John Goode is thought to have left England. Barbados had an extensive colony of Loyalists, which made it a natural attraction during the Cromwell era. Two ships carrying passenger John Goode to and from Barbados have been identified, the first in 1650 to Barbados and the second in 1659 to Virginia, meaning he left home at eighteen and arrived in Virginia age twenty-seven.
While in Barbados John Goode married his first wife, Frances Mackarness, who is said to have died leaving a child named Frances Goode. Frances Goode-Bridgewater, eldest child of John Goode and wife of Samuel Bridgewater, gave a deposition in 1690, stating she was thirty-two years old, placing her birth about 1657. Allowing for the marriage of her parents at least ten months earlier, John Goode would have first married by 1656.
A couple years later John Goode, merchant, received merchandise in Barbados from England, which was shipped by Samuel Eames the elder of London and was being brought by his partner, Samuel Eames, the younger. The younger Eames died at sea on May 1, 1659.
Later that same year, in the last Will & Testament of John Mackerness, cooper, written August 8, 1659 and proved 24 Sep 1659, John Goode about 27 years old at the time, was referred to as "friend." Family members of John Mackerness named in this will included his unmarried daughter Mary Mackerness among others.
Shortly thereafter, however, on October 15, 1659, there is a listing of John Goode and Mary Goode as headright passengers traveling to the American colonies. Some researchers have suggested, therefore, that after the death of his first wife, business partner and friend, John Goode married the latter's daughter Mary Mackerness, before making his way to Virginia.
On the voyage from Barbados to Virginia, John Goode is said to have been accompanied by his wife Mary Mackerness, infant son Samuel and a serving maid. Given that daughter Frances Goode is not mentioned in this report, however, its accuracy is questionable. In any case, the name entered on the passenger list was "John Goode, Gentleman."
When he first arrived in America at Jamestown, John lost no time in buying five-hundred acres of virgin land on the upper James River from Captain Matthew Gough (also spelled Goche, Gouche, Gouge, Gooch), a former burgess from Henrico County (1642-1643) who had received a land grant from the Crown.
This land is situated on the south side of the James River, about four miles from the city of Manchester. The location of the "Whitby" homestead (built about 1673) has been established to be in the southeastern corner of present day Manchester Township, Chesterfield County, Virginia (just south of Richmond at what is now the Tidewater Quarry), by way of land patents secured by his son Samuel Goode in 1698.
This part of Chesterfield County shares a border with both Richmond and Varina Township, Henrico County, Virginia. The site was an eminence on the west bank of the James River and is now located within the Richmond city limits. The colonial frontier Whitby plantation house was one of, if not the first built so far from the Jamestown and Williamsburg settlements, along the James River nearly opposite Powhatan, which is where Captain John Smith first met an Indian chief of the same name.
Goode's Rock in the James River is said to be in front of the place where Whitby once stood. It has been dangerous enough that navigators have sought to steer clear of it for three centuries. One report has it located near Richmond's Deepwater Terminal. Goode's Creek runs through what was once John Goode's plantation and empties into the James River, although during his time it was called Stoney Creek. This was the "Whitby" seat of the Goode family for more than 200 years.
Although exactly when it was built remains uncertain, Whitby was an English type dwelling with dormer windows and brick chimney at each end (see sketches above), located on high ground overlooking the river, and the original plantation at one time included 5,000 acres. Several generations of the Goode family bred fine racehorses and it was at Whitby they built one of, if not the first, private racecourse in the county.
The Whitby Plantation house was last used as a Confederate hospital, though, and subsequently destroyed toward the end of the Civil War. The surrounding property, however, remained in the Goode family until 1876. The remnants of a stone barn falling prey to the elements was still standing near the former Goode homestead in 1954. Today, the only trace of the former plantation is a street named to commemorate the family and their ties to the location. The land itself is now a federal mine operated on Deepwater Terminal Road.
Sometime after settling into their new surroundings, though, John's second wife Mary Mackerness is said to have died. While the details concerning her death remain unclear, it has been suggested she might have died giving birth to his second son Robert Goode. Whatever the date or cause, though, she was apparently unable to survive the privations of frontier life. Despite such hardships, after several years of trading between England and the colonies from Barbados, and arriving in Virginia, John Goode soon settled down into the occupation of tobacco planter, father, good neighbor, and infrequent church attendee at the local congregation.
By 1667, for example, and again in 1678, records indicate he received merchandise in Virginia aboard the ships "Rebecca," "Humphrey & Elizabeth," and "William & John" of London. A John Goode, of London, also engaged attorney Francis Washington, to represent him at the court of Charles City, seeking relief for debts due him, an agreement witnessed by one Rice Hooe. John Goode was also a witness to the last Will & Testament of Jeremiah Benskin dated April 13, 1670, along with son-in-law Samuel Bridgewater. By January 15, 1677 John Goode had agreed with neighbor William Byrd that Stoney Creek was the boundary between their properties, an agreement made legal August 1, 1678, in Henrico County Court.
And to work this property, four free white males sixteen years and older (i.e., tythables) in the Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia household of Mr. John Goode as of June 2, 1679, meaning three of his sons (i.e., Samuel, Robert and John) were by then young men capable of riding a horse and bearing arms. And unsurprisingly, for a man busy providing for and protecting a growing family on the Indian frontier, Thomas Howlett presented John Goode before the grand jury on January 2, 1684, for having "been sixteen years in ye parish and never at church!" The penalty was fifty pounds of tobacco.
From the scant information available, the most likely conclusion seems to be that John Goode and Anne Bennett were married about 1662 and their eldest son John Bennett Goode was born ten months later in 1663. The new bride is said to have been born in England, migrated to Virginia by way of Holland, and died at Whitby, Henrico, Virginia before 29 Nov 1708, when John wrote his will. The plantations located around the falls of the James River, however, were then on the Indian frontier. The Indians, while nominally at peace with the colony, perpetrated many outrages against the settlers on the outlying farms. Tensions escalated to the point that western landowners made a concerted demand that troops be sent to the frontier to quell them.
From the comfort and security of Jamestown, Royal Governor Sir William Berkeley denied the necessity of such action and refused to act to protect those living further west. As their demands became more insistent, he threatened them as malcontents and seditionists. When conditions reached a point the frontier settlers considered intolerable, Nathaniel Bacon, seconded by John Goode, decided upon direct action.
They formed their own forces and marched against the Indians and gave them such a severe whipping, that the problem of Indian depredations was resolved for decades. John accompanied these expeditions between May and September of 1676 and is said to have represented the Goode family name with distinction, while defending hearth and kin.
Having accomplished their mission, Bacon and his supporters returned to their normal pursuits. What they soon discovered, though, was that Governor Berkley was enraged on account of them taking the law into their own hands. His threats of reprisal infuriated them to the point that they were soon talking about marching against the capital at Jamestown and removing the governor by force.
Governor Berkeley was unprepared for such a possibility, though, and after a fierce battle Jamestown fell to the rebels and was burned. It seems at least possible, if not likely, that many of Bacon's own men had amazed themselves by what they had done.
The weight of public opinion and whatever armed force the governor could muster being against them, though, support for Bacon and his supporters soon dissipated as he and his chief lieutenants found themselves fugitives from the law. Bacon then became ill and while its driving force was ill, the rebellion quickly collapsed.
He died in hiding and is reputed to have been buried under the main road at Gloucester Court House, in hope that his body would not be dug up and drawn-and-quartered, as the law of the day provided. His chief supporters were captured and hung.
John Goode was a leading citizen of the western marches of the colony, with sufficient courage to align himself early on with opponents of the reactionary government. While the Virginia colony at large had applauded the Bacon expeditions against the Indians, though, an armed rebellion against the King's government, no matter how corrupt and ineffective, was another matter altogether. Fortunately for his descendants, John Goode decided against joining the uprising and remained at Whitby, while Bacon's Rebellion proceeded to Jamestown.
Thus, John Goode's wisdom, patriotism, loyalty, intuition or whatever his motive was in drawing the distinction between fighting the Indians against the orders of Governor Berkeley and fighting against the King's government itself, can be said to have saved him from the noose, thereby allowing him to continue propagating future generations of proud Americans.
Although John sold two-hundred acres of his land in 1681, he secured a patent to another 888 acres also on the south side of the James in Henrico County by 1690, as well as 2,270 acres in Chesterfield County, and was a surveyor of the highways for Henrico County by 1683, indicating he remained quite active well into his sixth decade.
By April 1690, though, Mr. John Goode described himself to the Henrico County Court as "now ancient" and the highway surveyor work "burdensome," when nominating William Blackman as his successor. John Good(e), Sr. paid quit rent on six-hundred acres in Henrico County in 1704 and John Trent sold him 109 acres on the north side of Falling Creek later that same year.
At seventy-two years of age, though, he must have begun to reflect on quite a feat. He had certainly been through a lot. After leaving the green hills of England as a teenager for semi-tropical Barbados, surviving a civil war in both and the plague in the latter; John Goode then moved to the frontier of Virginia, established an English-style estate in the wilderness of the upper James River, withstood Indian attacks, and skirted a rebellion, all while rearing and educating fourteen children.
As an important and well-regarded frontiersman of the Virginia colony a century before the American Revolution, the battles John Goode and like-minded neighbors had with Indians, were so well executed and success so phenomenal, as to allow decades to pass before a more permanent uprising of the people became necessary.
Since they left the task of helping build a new country to their children and descendants, it is interesting to note that the assembly providing the ways and means for John Goode and Nathaniel Bacon to suppress the Indians met in June of 1676, and exactly one-hundred years later to the month, resolutions were made directing Virginia delegates to declare colonial freedom and independence.
After being born in England during the reign of King Charles I, John Goode of Whitby made his way to a wilderness called Jamestown, Virginia twenty-seven years later, with the spirit, courage, determination and foresight needed to pursue a dream and vision that has come to be known as America. He wrote his will November 29, 1708 and departed this world February 1709.
The Last Will & Testament of John Goode
In the name of God, Amen! The 29th day of November, in the year of our Lord God, seventeen-hundred-and-eight, I, John Goode of the County; and Parish of Henrico, in Virginia, Gent., being sick and weak of body, but of sound and perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for it, do make, ordain, constitute and appoint this to be my last will and testament, in manner following:
Imprimis, I resign my soul into the hands of God who gave it, trusting through the merits of Jesus Christ my blessed Lord and Savior to obtain free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins; and my body to the earth, to be decently interred, at the discretion of my Executor, hereafter named.
Item, That my debts and funeral charges be first paid.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my son Robert Goode, one hundred acres of my land, lying next, and adjoining to the river, and north by the lands of William Byrd, Esq. To him the said Robert and his heirs forever.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my son John Goode, one hundred acres of my land lying next to the James River, and adjoining the land of my son, Samuel Goode, to him the said John and his heirs forever.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my sons Thomas Goode and Joseph Goode, my tract of land lying in the woods on the north side of Stony Creek, and at the heads of the aforementioned lands, estimated to be four hundred acres, more or less, to be equally divided between them when they shall come to lawful age: and my will is, that if either the said Thomas or Joseph shall decease in their nonage, the survivor of them shall have, hold, occupy, possess and enjoy the aforesaid tract of land, containing four hundred acres, to him and his heirs forever. But if my two sons shall arrive to lawful age, then my will is that Thomas enjoy two hundred acres of the aforementioned land, to him and his heirs forever, and that Joseph enjoy the other two hundred acres, to him the said Joseph and his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Katherine Roberts, two thousand pounds of tobacco.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Blackman, two thousand pounds of tobacco.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Susanna Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco to be paid when she comes to age or is married.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Anna Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco, to be paid when she comes to age or is married.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco when he comes to lawful age.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Joseph Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco to be paid when he comes of lawful age.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Robert, two negroes, by name, Jupiter and Moll, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son John, two negroes, by name George and Sabrina, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas, two negroes, Abraham and Ned, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Joseph, one negro woman, by name Rose, with her increase, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Katherine Roberts, besides the two thousand pounds of tobacco already given, one thousand pounds of tobacco more, to be paid four years after my decease.
Item, I give to my son Samuel, ten shillings, and a way for the cart and horse on the outside of the low-grounds by long swamp, during the term of his natural life.
Item, I give to my daughter Frances, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Mary, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Martha, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Ursula, one shilling.
All the rest of my goods and chattels I give and bequeath to my two sons Robert and John, and do make my said two sons Robert and John whole and sole Executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made and done.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal this day and year first written.
Item, my will is, that if Thomas and Joseph should die before they come to lawful age, their estate to be equally divided between their own brothers.
Signature, JOHN GOODE (seal)
Signed, sealed, delivered and acknowledged as his last will and testament in presence of us, Thomas Byrd, Giles Webb, All., Clerke, Mary Forest.
Henrico County, Virginia April 1, 1709. The aforegoing will was this day proved in open Court by the oaths of the subscribed witnesses. Teste: James Cocke, Cl. Cur (Virginia Cousins, George Brown Goode, 1887).
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John Goode arrived in Barbados about 1650 (Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657, Meredith B. Colket, Jr., Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America: distributed by Founders Project, 1975)
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John Goode embarked from Barbados for Virginia 15 Oct 1659 (The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660, Peter Wilson Coldham, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987, p. 471).
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Samuel Bridgewater and John Goode appeared with Ann Higgleday as witnesses to the will of Jeremiah Benskin, dated April 13, 1670. Henrico County Wills and Deeds
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John Goode, of London, makes John Wallis and Francis Washington, atty. at the court of Charles City, for debts due him. Wit.: Rice Hooe and Otho? Soulcott (Surry County Records, Book I, 1652-1672, p. 68).
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John Goode was in the Virginia colonial forces 1675-76 (Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri Biographical Record, 1896, Memorial Record, p. 571).
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Boundary agreement between John Goode & William Byrd - Signed: 15 Jan 1677; Recorded: 1 Aug 1678, Varina, Henrico County Court.
At a Court Holden at Varina for the County of Henrico the first day of August by his Majesties Justices of the peace for the said county in the thirtieth year of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God Great Brittaine france and Ireland defender of the faith, etc., etc., and in the yeare of our good lord God 1678.
Wee the subscribers doe for ever for us our heirs assigns and legatees Acknowledge confirme and agree that a West and by south Course from the Mouth of Stony Creek and into the Woods shall be a dividing line of our lands on the north side of the plantation of the subscribed John Good and that the said Good shall himselfe and heirs for Ever hold his land by a West course into the Woods for his south line, bounding upon the land of Richard Peirse, according as it hath been surveyed Markt and laid out by Coll Thomas Lygon, hereby intending that the partyes subscribed shall be at a certainty in the knowledge of the bounds between them, and that the said Good may have his full complement of five hundred acres of land. Witnesse our hands the fifteenth day of January in the year of our lord sixteene hundred seventy seven. It is likewise agreed between the partyes subscribed that this agreement shall be entered upon record in Henrico County Court.
Witnesse: Wm. Harris; Richard Lygon; Wm. Byrd; John Goode
Henrico County Record Book 2, 1678-1693 (Orders and Wills), abstracted by Julia M. Case, Virginia Genealogical Quarterly, Volume 29, Number 3, Aug 1991, pp. 165-166
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John Goode's letter regarding Nathaniel Bacon to Sir William Berkeley, 30 Jan 1677.
At a Court Holden at Varina for the County of Henrico the first day of August by his Majesties Justices of the peace for the said county in the thirtieth year of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God Great Brittaine france and Ireland defender of the faith, etc., etc., and in the yeare of our good lord God 1678.
Hon'd Sr.: In obedient submission to your honours command directed to me by Capt. William Bird I have written the full substance of a discourse Nath: Bacon, deceased, propos'd to me on or about the 2d day of September last, both in order and words as followeth:
Bacon: There is a report Sir William Berkeley hath sent to the King for 2,000 Red Coates, and I doe believe it may be true, tell me your opinion, may not 500 Virginians beat them, wee having the same advantages against them the Indians have against us.
Goode: I rather conceive 500 Red Coats may either Subject or ruine Virginia.
Bacon: You talk strangely, are not we acquainted with the country, can lay ambussadoes, and take trees and putt them by, the use of their discipline, and are doubtless as good or better shott than they.
Goode: But they can accomplish what I have sayd without hazard or coming into such disadvantages, by taking Opportunities of landing where there shall be noe opposition, firing out-houses and Fences, destroying our Stocks and preventing all trade and supplyes to the country.
Bacon: There may be such prevention that they shall not be able to make any great progresse in Mischeifes, and the country or Clime not agreeing with their constitutions, great mortality will happen amongst them in their Seasoning which will weare and weary them out.
Goode: You see Sir that in a manner all the principall men in the Country dislike your manner of proceedings, they, you may be sure will joine with the red Coates.
Bacon: But there shall none of them bee (allowed).
Goode: Sir, you speake as though you design'd a totall defection from Majestic, and our Native Country.
Bacon: Why (smiling) have not many Princes lost their dominions soe.
Goode: They have been such people as have been able to subsist without their Prince. The poverty of Virginia is such, that the major part of the Inhabitants can scarce supply their wants from hand to mouth, and many there are besides can hardly shift, without Supply one year, and you may bee sure that this people which soe fondly follow you, when they come to feele the miserable wants of food and rayment, will bee in greater heate to leave you, then they were to come after you, besides here are many people in Virginia that receive considerable benefitts, comforts and advantages by Parents, Friends and Correspondents in England, and many which expect patrimonyes and Inheritances which they will by no means decline.
Bacon: For supply I know nothing: the country will be able to provide it selfe withall in a little time, save ammunition and Iron, and I believe the King of France or States of Holland would either of them entertaine a Trade with us.
Goode: Sir, our King is a great Prince, and his Amity is infinitely more valuable to them, then any advantage they can reape by Virginia, they will not therefore provoke his displeasure by supporting his Rebells here; besides I conceive that your followers do not think themselves engaged against the King's authority, but against the Indians.
Bacon: But I think otherwise, and am confident of it, that it is the mind of this Country, and of Mary Land and Carolina also, to cast off their Governor and the Governors of Carolina have taken no notice of the People, nor the People of them, a long time; and the people are resolv'd to own their Governor further: And if wee cannot prevaile by Armes to make our conditions for Peace, or obtaine the Priviledge to elect our own Governour, we may retire to Roanoke.
And here bee fell into a discourse of seating a Plantation in a great Island in the River, as a fitt place to retire to for Refuge.
Goode: Sir, the prosecuting what you have discoursed will unavoidably produce utter ruine and distruction to the people and Countrey, & I dread the thoughts of putting my hand to the promoting a designe of such miserable consequence, therefore hope you will not expect from me.
Bacon: I am glad I know your mind, but this proceeds from mere Cowardlynesse.
Goode: And I desire you should know my mind, for I desire to harbour noe such thoughts, which I should fear to impart to any man.
Bacon: Then what should a Gentleman engaged as I am, doe, you doe as good as tell me. I must flay or hang for it.
Goode: I conceive a seasonable Submission to the Authority you have your Commission from, acknowledging such Errors and Excesse, as are yett past, there may bee hope of remission.
I perceived his cogitations were much on this discourse, bee nominated Carolina, for the watch word.
Three days after I asked his leave to goe home, hee sullenly answered, you may goe, and since that time, I thank God, I never saw or heard from him.
Here I most humbly begg your Honours pardon for my breaches and neglects of duty, and that Your Honour will favourably consider in this particular, I neither knew any man amongst us, that had any means by which I might give intelligence to your honour hereof, and the necessity thereof, I say by your honors, prudence, foresight and Industry may bee prevented. So praying God to bless and prosper all your Councells and Actions I conclude.
Your Honours dutifull servant,
John Goode
http://www.newrivernotes.com/topical_books_1909_virginia_firstnativemartyrs.htm
Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Vol. II., XI. Bacon's Rebellion, pp. 96-97
Colonial Entry Book, lxxi, 232-240.
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Tax List of Inhabitants in Turkey Island, Varina, Henrico County in 1679 included in the household of Mr. John Goode, 4 tythables (free white males 16 years and above) capable of riding a horse and bearing arms, in compliance with "An act for the defence of the country against the incursions of the Indian Enemy."
Henrico County, Virginia: Beginnings of Its Families: Part I, William Clayton Torrence, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2 (October 1915), Omohundro Center of Early American History and Culture, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1914991, 19-12-2017 16:57 UTC, p. 131
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In 1681 John and Ann sold a 200-acre portion of "Whitby" to William Stowers and William Giles (Henrico County, Deeds and Wills, 1677-92, page 189).
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John Goode was a surveyor of the highways in 1683 (Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Volume. 30, p. 30).
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"On Jan. 2, 1684 Thomas Howlett presented before the grand jury John Goode, who had been sixteen years in ye parish and never at church! The penalty was 50 lbs. of tobacco."
The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers, Vol. 3, p. 1518 [I'm uncertain if this is the correct citation for this excerpt]
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John Stowers and John Goode secured a patent to 888 acres on the south side of the James in Henrico County 23 October 1690 (Virginia Land Patent Book 8, p. 124).
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Upon the peticon of Mr. Jno Goode one of ye surveyors of ye highways for this County that the said Office is burdensome unto him being now ancient & presenting severall others as persons fit to execute ye said Office, the Court being sencible of his condicon have granted his said request & out of those persons by him nominated have made Choice of Wm. Blackman who in ye said Good's place office and precincts is putt and appointed.
John served as a road surveyor until April 1690 when he recommended William Blackman to succeed him. John described himself as "being now ancient."
Henrico County Record Book No. 2, 1678-1693, Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, 1 May 1994, p. 139
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John Goode Sr. paid quit rents on 600 acres in Henrico County in 1704 (English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records, des Cognets, p. 217).
Later that year John Trent sold him 109 acres on the north side of Falling Creek (Henrico County, Virginia Deeds and Wills, 1697-1704, p. 432).
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Good, John, Senr - 600 acres - Henrico County Rent Roll - April 1705
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Contributor: David Goode (49372965)
The family of Goode first became represented in this country by two brothers who, on account of their adhesion to the king in the parliamentary wars, were exiled by Cromwell in 1648. They settled at Norfolk, Virginia where some member of the family has resided to the present day. The original home of the family was at Whitby, Yorkshire, England (Pictorial and genealogical record of Greene County, Missouri: Together with Biographies of Prominent Men of other portions of..., pp. 227-228).
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Richard Goode was born in England in about 1580-1600. His parents were Richard Goode and Joan Downe. He had two sons, John and Richard, who emigrated and settled in Henrico County, Virginia and Rappahannock County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky (The Goode family of Virginia, Georgia and Kentucky: a supplement to the genealogy and history of the Stewart family of Halifax County, Virginia, Caswell and Person Counties, North Carolina, Trigg County, Kentucky, by Martha Jane Stone).
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John Goade - Baptism: 1630, Devon, England.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1047574?availability=Family%20History%20Library
"England, Devon, Parish Registers, 1538-1912", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KC9D-82M : 29 July 2021), John Goade, 1630.
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John Goode died before 1 Mar 1709, at which time Allanson Clerke and Capt. Giles Webb served as securities for heirs Robert Good and John Goode for the will of their father (Henrico County Wills and Deeds 1706-1709, p. 163).
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John Goode of Whitby (1632-1709)
In a Henrico County, Virginia Court deposition dated 2 Oct 1704, John Goode of Whitby Plantation gave his age as seventy-two years, meaning he was born about 1632 (Henrico County, Deeds and Wills, 1697-1704, p. 426). Although information about his early life is vague and scarce, according to family legend he left home during Cromwell's revolt against King Charles I. Oral tradition has it that our ancestor was a Cavalier or Royalist sympathetic to the King, which made it uncomfortable for him to remain in England.
Other family lore indicates that the Goode family first came to be represented in the United States by two brothers who, on account of their support of the King Charles I in the parliamentary wars, were exiled by Cromwell in 1648. They reportedly settled at Norfolk, Virginia where some member of the family has resided to the present day. According to this account, the ancestral home of this branch of the Goode family was Whitby, Yorkshire, England.
The English civil war began in 1642 and lasted until King Charles I was beheaded in 1649. It is during this period that John Goode is thought to have left England. Barbados had an extensive colony of Loyalists, which made it a natural attraction during the Cromwell era. Two ships carrying passenger John Goode to and from Barbados have been identified, the first in 1650 to Barbados and the second in 1659 to Virginia, meaning he left home at eighteen and arrived in Virginia age twenty-seven.
While in Barbados John Goode married his first wife, Frances Mackarness, who is said to have died leaving a child named Frances Goode. Frances Goode-Bridgewater, eldest child of John Goode and wife of Samuel Bridgewater, gave a deposition in 1690, stating she was thirty-two years old, placing her birth about 1657. Allowing for the marriage of her parents at least ten months earlier, John Goode would have first married by 1656.
A couple years later John Goode, merchant, received merchandise in Barbados from England, which was shipped by Samuel Eames the elder of London and was being brought by his partner, Samuel Eames, the younger. The younger Eames died at sea on May 1, 1659.
Later that same year, in the last Will & Testament of John Mackerness, cooper, written August 8, 1659 and proved 24 Sep 1659, John Goode about 27 years old at the time, was referred to as "friend." Family members of John Mackerness named in this will included his unmarried daughter Mary Mackerness among others.
Shortly thereafter, however, on October 15, 1659, there is a listing of John Goode and Mary Goode as headright passengers traveling to the American colonies. Some researchers have suggested, therefore, that after the death of his first wife, business partner and friend, John Goode married the latter's daughter Mary Mackerness, before making his way to Virginia.
On the voyage from Barbados to Virginia, John Goode is said to have been accompanied by his wife Mary Mackerness, infant son Samuel and a serving maid. Given that daughter Frances Goode is not mentioned in this report, however, its accuracy is questionable. In any case, the name entered on the passenger list was "John Goode, Gentleman."
When he first arrived in America at Jamestown, John lost no time in buying five-hundred acres of virgin land on the upper James River from Captain Matthew Gough (also spelled Goche, Gouche, Gouge, Gooch), a former burgess from Henrico County (1642-1643) who had received a land grant from the Crown.
This land is situated on the south side of the James River, about four miles from the city of Manchester. The location of the "Whitby" homestead (built about 1673) has been established to be in the southeastern corner of present day Manchester Township, Chesterfield County, Virginia (just south of Richmond at what is now the Tidewater Quarry), by way of land patents secured by his son Samuel Goode in 1698.
This part of Chesterfield County shares a border with both Richmond and Varina Township, Henrico County, Virginia. The site was an eminence on the west bank of the James River and is now located within the Richmond city limits. The colonial frontier Whitby plantation house was one of, if not the first built so far from the Jamestown and Williamsburg settlements, along the James River nearly opposite Powhatan, which is where Captain John Smith first met an Indian chief of the same name.
Goode's Rock in the James River is said to be in front of the place where Whitby once stood. It has been dangerous enough that navigators have sought to steer clear of it for three centuries. One report has it located near Richmond's Deepwater Terminal. Goode's Creek runs through what was once John Goode's plantation and empties into the James River, although during his time it was called Stoney Creek. This was the "Whitby" seat of the Goode family for more than 200 years.
Although exactly when it was built remains uncertain, Whitby was an English type dwelling with dormer windows and brick chimney at each end (see sketches above), located on high ground overlooking the river, and the original plantation at one time included 5,000 acres. Several generations of the Goode family bred fine racehorses and it was at Whitby they built one of, if not the first, private racecourse in the county.
The Whitby Plantation house was last used as a Confederate hospital, though, and subsequently destroyed toward the end of the Civil War. The surrounding property, however, remained in the Goode family until 1876. The remnants of a stone barn falling prey to the elements was still standing near the former Goode homestead in 1954. Today, the only trace of the former plantation is a street named to commemorate the family and their ties to the location. The land itself is now a federal mine operated on Deepwater Terminal Road.
Sometime after settling into their new surroundings, though, John's second wife Mary Mackerness is said to have died. While the details concerning her death remain unclear, it has been suggested she might have died giving birth to his second son Robert Goode. Whatever the date or cause, though, she was apparently unable to survive the privations of frontier life. Despite such hardships, after several years of trading between England and the colonies from Barbados, and arriving in Virginia, John Goode soon settled down into the occupation of tobacco planter, father, good neighbor, and infrequent church attendee at the local congregation.
By 1667, for example, and again in 1678, records indicate he received merchandise in Virginia aboard the ships "Rebecca," "Humphrey & Elizabeth," and "William & John" of London. A John Goode, of London, also engaged attorney Francis Washington, to represent him at the court of Charles City, seeking relief for debts due him, an agreement witnessed by one Rice Hooe. John Goode was also a witness to the last Will & Testament of Jeremiah Benskin dated April 13, 1670, along with son-in-law Samuel Bridgewater. By January 15, 1677 John Goode had agreed with neighbor William Byrd that Stoney Creek was the boundary between their properties, an agreement made legal August 1, 1678, in Henrico County Court.
And to work this property, four free white males sixteen years and older (i.e., tythables) in the Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia household of Mr. John Goode as of June 2, 1679, meaning three of his sons (i.e., Samuel, Robert and John) were by then young men capable of riding a horse and bearing arms. And unsurprisingly, for a man busy providing for and protecting a growing family on the Indian frontier, Thomas Howlett presented John Goode before the grand jury on January 2, 1684, for having "been sixteen years in ye parish and never at church!" The penalty was fifty pounds of tobacco.
From the scant information available, the most likely conclusion seems to be that John Goode and Anne Bennett were married about 1662 and their eldest son John Bennett Goode was born ten months later in 1663. The new bride is said to have been born in England, migrated to Virginia by way of Holland, and died at Whitby, Henrico, Virginia before 29 Nov 1708, when John wrote his will. The plantations located around the falls of the James River, however, were then on the Indian frontier. The Indians, while nominally at peace with the colony, perpetrated many outrages against the settlers on the outlying farms. Tensions escalated to the point that western landowners made a concerted demand that troops be sent to the frontier to quell them.
From the comfort and security of Jamestown, Royal Governor Sir William Berkeley denied the necessity of such action and refused to act to protect those living further west. As their demands became more insistent, he threatened them as malcontents and seditionists. When conditions reached a point the frontier settlers considered intolerable, Nathaniel Bacon, seconded by John Goode, decided upon direct action.
They formed their own forces and marched against the Indians and gave them such a severe whipping, that the problem of Indian depredations was resolved for decades. John accompanied these expeditions between May and September of 1676 and is said to have represented the Goode family name with distinction, while defending hearth and kin.
Having accomplished their mission, Bacon and his supporters returned to their normal pursuits. What they soon discovered, though, was that Governor Berkley was enraged on account of them taking the law into their own hands. His threats of reprisal infuriated them to the point that they were soon talking about marching against the capital at Jamestown and removing the governor by force.
Governor Berkeley was unprepared for such a possibility, though, and after a fierce battle Jamestown fell to the rebels and was burned. It seems at least possible, if not likely, that many of Bacon's own men had amazed themselves by what they had done.
The weight of public opinion and whatever armed force the governor could muster being against them, though, support for Bacon and his supporters soon dissipated as he and his chief lieutenants found themselves fugitives from the law. Bacon then became ill and while its driving force was ill, the rebellion quickly collapsed.
He died in hiding and is reputed to have been buried under the main road at Gloucester Court House, in hope that his body would not be dug up and drawn-and-quartered, as the law of the day provided. His chief supporters were captured and hung.
John Goode was a leading citizen of the western marches of the colony, with sufficient courage to align himself early on with opponents of the reactionary government. While the Virginia colony at large had applauded the Bacon expeditions against the Indians, though, an armed rebellion against the King's government, no matter how corrupt and ineffective, was another matter altogether. Fortunately for his descendants, John Goode decided against joining the uprising and remained at Whitby, while Bacon's Rebellion proceeded to Jamestown.
Thus, John Goode's wisdom, patriotism, loyalty, intuition or whatever his motive was in drawing the distinction between fighting the Indians against the orders of Governor Berkeley and fighting against the King's government itself, can be said to have saved him from the noose, thereby allowing him to continue propagating future generations of proud Americans.
Although John sold two-hundred acres of his land in 1681, he secured a patent to another 888 acres also on the south side of the James in Henrico County by 1690, as well as 2,270 acres in Chesterfield County, and was a surveyor of the highways for Henrico County by 1683, indicating he remained quite active well into his sixth decade.
By April 1690, though, Mr. John Goode described himself to the Henrico County Court as "now ancient" and the highway surveyor work "burdensome," when nominating William Blackman as his successor. John Good(e), Sr. paid quit rent on six-hundred acres in Henrico County in 1704 and John Trent sold him 109 acres on the north side of Falling Creek later that same year.
At seventy-two years of age, though, he must have begun to reflect on quite a feat. He had certainly been through a lot. After leaving the green hills of England as a teenager for semi-tropical Barbados, surviving a civil war in both and the plague in the latter; John Goode then moved to the frontier of Virginia, established an English-style estate in the wilderness of the upper James River, withstood Indian attacks, and skirted a rebellion, all while rearing and educating fourteen children.
As an important and well-regarded frontiersman of the Virginia colony a century before the American Revolution, the battles John Goode and like-minded neighbors had with Indians, were so well executed and success so phenomenal, as to allow decades to pass before a more permanent uprising of the people became necessary.
Since they left the task of helping build a new country to their children and descendants, it is interesting to note that the assembly providing the ways and means for John Goode and Nathaniel Bacon to suppress the Indians met in June of 1676, and exactly one-hundred years later to the month, resolutions were made directing Virginia delegates to declare colonial freedom and independence.
After being born in England during the reign of King Charles I, John Goode of Whitby made his way to a wilderness called Jamestown, Virginia twenty-seven years later, with the spirit, courage, determination and foresight needed to pursue a dream and vision that has come to be known as America. He wrote his will November 29, 1708 and departed this world February 1709.
The Last Will & Testament of John Goode
In the name of God, Amen! The 29th day of November, in the year of our Lord God, seventeen-hundred-and-eight, I, John Goode of the County; and Parish of Henrico, in Virginia, Gent., being sick and weak of body, but of sound and perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for it, do make, ordain, constitute and appoint this to be my last will and testament, in manner following:
Imprimis, I resign my soul into the hands of God who gave it, trusting through the merits of Jesus Christ my blessed Lord and Savior to obtain free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins; and my body to the earth, to be decently interred, at the discretion of my Executor, hereafter named.
Item, That my debts and funeral charges be first paid.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my son Robert Goode, one hundred acres of my land, lying next, and adjoining to the river, and north by the lands of William Byrd, Esq. To him the said Robert and his heirs forever.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my son John Goode, one hundred acres of my land lying next to the James River, and adjoining the land of my son, Samuel Goode, to him the said John and his heirs forever.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my sons Thomas Goode and Joseph Goode, my tract of land lying in the woods on the north side of Stony Creek, and at the heads of the aforementioned lands, estimated to be four hundred acres, more or less, to be equally divided between them when they shall come to lawful age: and my will is, that if either the said Thomas or Joseph shall decease in their nonage, the survivor of them shall have, hold, occupy, possess and enjoy the aforesaid tract of land, containing four hundred acres, to him and his heirs forever. But if my two sons shall arrive to lawful age, then my will is that Thomas enjoy two hundred acres of the aforementioned land, to him and his heirs forever, and that Joseph enjoy the other two hundred acres, to him the said Joseph and his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Katherine Roberts, two thousand pounds of tobacco.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Blackman, two thousand pounds of tobacco.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Susanna Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco to be paid when she comes to age or is married.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Anna Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco, to be paid when she comes to age or is married.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco when he comes to lawful age.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Joseph Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco to be paid when he comes of lawful age.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Robert, two negroes, by name, Jupiter and Moll, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son John, two negroes, by name George and Sabrina, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas, two negroes, Abraham and Ned, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Joseph, one negro woman, by name Rose, with her increase, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Katherine Roberts, besides the two thousand pounds of tobacco already given, one thousand pounds of tobacco more, to be paid four years after my decease.
Item, I give to my son Samuel, ten shillings, and a way for the cart and horse on the outside of the low-grounds by long swamp, during the term of his natural life.
Item, I give to my daughter Frances, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Mary, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Martha, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Ursula, one shilling.
All the rest of my goods and chattels I give and bequeath to my two sons Robert and John, and do make my said two sons Robert and John whole and sole Executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made and done.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal this day and year first written.
Item, my will is, that if Thomas and Joseph should die before they come to lawful age, their estate to be equally divided between their own brothers.
Signature, JOHN GOODE (seal)
Signed, sealed, delivered and acknowledged as his last will and testament in presence of us, Thomas Byrd, Giles Webb, All., Clerke, Mary Forest.
Henrico County, Virginia April 1, 1709. The aforegoing will was this day proved in open Court by the oaths of the subscribed witnesses. Teste: James Cocke, Cl. Cur (Virginia Cousins, George Brown Goode, 1887).
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John Goode arrived in Barbados about 1650 (Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657, Meredith B. Colket, Jr., Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America: distributed by Founders Project, 1975)
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John Goode embarked from Barbados for Virginia 15 Oct 1659 (The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660, Peter Wilson Coldham, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987, p. 471).
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Samuel Bridgewater and John Goode appeared with Ann Higgleday as witnesses to the will of Jeremiah Benskin, dated April 13, 1670. Henrico County Wills and Deeds
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John Goode, of London, makes John Wallis and Francis Washington, atty. at the court of Charles City, for debts due him. Wit.: Rice Hooe and Otho? Soulcott (Surry County Records, Book I, 1652-1672, p. 68).
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John Goode was in the Virginia colonial forces 1675-76 (Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri Biographical Record, 1896, Memorial Record, p. 571).
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Boundary agreement between John Goode & William Byrd - Signed: 15 Jan 1677; Recorded: 1 Aug 1678, Varina, Henrico County Court.
At a Court Holden at Varina for the County of Henrico the first day of August by his Majesties Justices of the peace for the said county in the thirtieth year of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God Great Brittaine france and Ireland defender of the faith, etc., etc., and in the yeare of our good lord God 1678.
Wee the subscribers doe for ever for us our heirs assigns and legatees Acknowledge confirme and agree that a West and by south Course from the Mouth of Stony Creek and into the Woods shall be a dividing line of our lands on the north side of the plantation of the subscribed John Good and that the said Good shall himselfe and heirs for Ever hold his land by a West course into the Woods for his south line, bounding upon the land of Richard Peirse, according as it hath been surveyed Markt and laid out by Coll Thomas Lygon, hereby intending that the partyes subscribed shall be at a certainty in the knowledge of the bounds between them, and that the said Good may have his full complement of five hundred acres of land. Witnesse our hands the fifteenth day of January in the year of our lord sixteene hundred seventy seven. It is likewise agreed between the partyes subscribed that this agreement shall be entered upon record in Henrico County Court.
Witnesse: Wm. Harris; Richard Lygon; Wm. Byrd; John Goode
Henrico County Record Book 2, 1678-1693 (Orders and Wills), abstracted by Julia M. Case, Virginia Genealogical Quarterly, Volume 29, Number 3, Aug 1991, pp. 165-166
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John Goode's letter regarding Nathaniel Bacon to Sir William Berkeley, 30 Jan 1677.
At a Court Holden at Varina for the County of Henrico the first day of August by his Majesties Justices of the peace for the said county in the thirtieth year of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God Great Brittaine france and Ireland defender of the faith, etc., etc., and in the yeare of our good lord God 1678.
Hon'd Sr.: In obedient submission to your honours command directed to me by Capt. William Bird I have written the full substance of a discourse Nath: Bacon, deceased, propos'd to me on or about the 2d day of September last, both in order and words as followeth:
Bacon: There is a report Sir William Berkeley hath sent to the King for 2,000 Red Coates, and I doe believe it may be true, tell me your opinion, may not 500 Virginians beat them, wee having the same advantages against them the Indians have against us.
Goode: I rather conceive 500 Red Coats may either Subject or ruine Virginia.
Bacon: You talk strangely, are not we acquainted with the country, can lay ambussadoes, and take trees and putt them by, the use of their discipline, and are doubtless as good or better shott than they.
Goode: But they can accomplish what I have sayd without hazard or coming into such disadvantages, by taking Opportunities of landing where there shall be noe opposition, firing out-houses and Fences, destroying our Stocks and preventing all trade and supplyes to the country.
Bacon: There may be such prevention that they shall not be able to make any great progresse in Mischeifes, and the country or Clime not agreeing with their constitutions, great mortality will happen amongst them in their Seasoning which will weare and weary them out.
Goode: You see Sir that in a manner all the principall men in the Country dislike your manner of proceedings, they, you may be sure will joine with the red Coates.
Bacon: But there shall none of them bee (allowed).
Goode: Sir, you speake as though you design'd a totall defection from Majestic, and our Native Country.
Bacon: Why (smiling) have not many Princes lost their dominions soe.
Goode: They have been such people as have been able to subsist without their Prince. The poverty of Virginia is such, that the major part of the Inhabitants can scarce supply their wants from hand to mouth, and many there are besides can hardly shift, without Supply one year, and you may bee sure that this people which soe fondly follow you, when they come to feele the miserable wants of food and rayment, will bee in greater heate to leave you, then they were to come after you, besides here are many people in Virginia that receive considerable benefitts, comforts and advantages by Parents, Friends and Correspondents in England, and many which expect patrimonyes and Inheritances which they will by no means decline.
Bacon: For supply I know nothing: the country will be able to provide it selfe withall in a little time, save ammunition and Iron, and I believe the King of France or States of Holland would either of them entertaine a Trade with us.
Goode: Sir, our King is a great Prince, and his Amity is infinitely more valuable to them, then any advantage they can reape by Virginia, they will not therefore provoke his displeasure by supporting his Rebells here; besides I conceive that your followers do not think themselves engaged against the King's authority, but against the Indians.
Bacon: But I think otherwise, and am confident of it, that it is the mind of this Country, and of Mary Land and Carolina also, to cast off their Governor and the Governors of Carolina have taken no notice of the People, nor the People of them, a long time; and the people are resolv'd to own their Governor further: And if wee cannot prevaile by Armes to make our conditions for Peace, or obtaine the Priviledge to elect our own Governour, we may retire to Roanoke.
And here bee fell into a discourse of seating a Plantation in a great Island in the River, as a fitt place to retire to for Refuge.
Goode: Sir, the prosecuting what you have discoursed will unavoidably produce utter ruine and distruction to the people and Countrey, & I dread the thoughts of putting my hand to the promoting a designe of such miserable consequence, therefore hope you will not expect from me.
Bacon: I am glad I know your mind, but this proceeds from mere Cowardlynesse.
Goode: And I desire you should know my mind, for I desire to harbour noe such thoughts, which I should fear to impart to any man.
Bacon: Then what should a Gentleman engaged as I am, doe, you doe as good as tell me. I must flay or hang for it.
Goode: I conceive a seasonable Submission to the Authority you have your Commission from, acknowledging such Errors and Excesse, as are yett past, there may bee hope of remission.
I perceived his cogitations were much on this discourse, bee nominated Carolina, for the watch word.
Three days after I asked his leave to goe home, hee sullenly answered, you may goe, and since that time, I thank God, I never saw or heard from him.
Here I most humbly begg your Honours pardon for my breaches and neglects of duty, and that Your Honour will favourably consider in this particular, I neither knew any man amongst us, that had any means by which I might give intelligence to your honour hereof, and the necessity thereof, I say by your honors, prudence, foresight and Industry may bee prevented. So praying God to bless and prosper all your Councells and Actions I conclude.
Your Honours dutifull servant,
John Goode
http://www.newrivernotes.com/topical_books_1909_virginia_firstnativemartyrs.htm
Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Vol. II., XI. Bacon's Rebellion, pp. 96-97
Colonial Entry Book, lxxi, 232-240.
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Tax List of Inhabitants in Turkey Island, Varina, Henrico County in 1679 included in the household of Mr. John Goode, 4 tythables (free white males 16 years and above) capable of riding a horse and bearing arms, in compliance with "An act for the defence of the country against the incursions of the Indian Enemy."
Henrico County, Virginia: Beginnings of Its Families: Part I, William Clayton Torrence, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2 (October 1915), Omohundro Center of Early American History and Culture, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1914991, 19-12-2017 16:57 UTC, p. 131
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In 1681 John and Ann sold a 200-acre portion of "Whitby" to William Stowers and William Giles (Henrico County, Deeds and Wills, 1677-92, page 189).
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John Goode was a surveyor of the highways in 1683 (Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Volume. 30, p. 30).
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"On Jan. 2, 1684 Thomas Howlett presented before the grand jury John Goode, who had been sixteen years in ye parish and never at church! The penalty was 50 lbs. of tobacco."
The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers, Vol. 3, p. 1518 [I'm uncertain if this is the correct citation for this excerpt]
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John Stowers and John Goode secured a patent to 888 acres on the south side of the James in Henrico County 23 October 1690 (Virginia Land Patent Book 8, p. 124).
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Upon the peticon of Mr. Jno Goode one of ye surveyors of ye highways for this County that the said Office is burdensome unto him being now ancient & presenting severall others as persons fit to execute ye said Office, the Court being sencible of his condicon have granted his said request & out of those persons by him nominated have made Choice of Wm. Blackman who in ye said Good's place office and precincts is putt and appointed.
John served as a road surveyor until April 1690 when he recommended William Blackman to succeed him. John described himself as "being now ancient."
Henrico County Record Book No. 2, 1678-1693, Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, 1 May 1994, p. 139
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John Goode Sr. paid quit rents on 600 acres in Henrico County in 1704 (English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records, des Cognets, p. 217).
Later that year John Trent sold him 109 acres on the north side of Falling Creek (Henrico County, Virginia Deeds and Wills, 1697-1704, p. 432).
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Good, John, Senr - 600 acres - Henrico County Rent Roll - April 1705
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Contributor: David Goode (49372965)
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The family of Goode first became represented in this country by two brothers who, on account of their adhesion to the king in the parliamentary wars, were exiled by Cromwell in 1648. They settled at Norfolk, Virginia where some member of the family has resided to the present day. The original home of the family was at Whitby, Yorkshire, England (Pictorial and genealogical record of Greene County, Missouri: Together with Biographies of Prominent Men of other portions of..., pp. 227-228).
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Richard Goode was born in England in about 1580-1600. His parents were Richard Goode and Joan Downe. He had two sons, John and Richard, who emigrated and settled in Henrico County, Virginia and Rappahannock County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky (The Goode family of Virginia, Georgia and Kentucky: a supplement to the genealogy and history of the Stewart family of Halifax County, Virginia, Caswell and Person Counties, North Carolina, Trigg County, Kentucky, by Martha Jane Stone).
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John Goade - Baptism: 1630, Devon, England.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1047574?availability=Family%20History%20Library
"England, Devon, Parish Registers, 1538-1912", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KC9D-82M : 29 July 2021), John Goade, 1630.
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John Goode died before 1 Mar 1709, at which time Allanson Clerke and Capt. Giles Webb served as securities for heirs Robert Good and John Goode for the will of their father (Henrico County Wills and Deeds 1706-1709, p. 163).
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John Goode of Whitby (1632-1709)
In a Henrico County, Virginia Court deposition dated 2 Oct 1704, John Goode of Whitby Plantation gave his age as seventy-two years, meaning he was born about 1632 (Henrico County, Deeds and Wills, 1697-1704, p. 426). Although information about his early life is vague and scarce, according to family legend he left home during Cromwell's revolt against King Charles I. Oral tradition has it that our ancestor was a Cavalier or Royalist sympathetic to the King, which made it uncomfortable for him to remain in England.
Other family lore indicates that the Goode family first came to be represented in the United States by two brothers who, on account of their support of the King Charles I in the parliamentary wars, were exiled by Cromwell in 1648. They reportedly settled at Norfolk, Virginia where some member of the family has resided to the present day. According to this account, the ancestral home of this branch of the Goode family was Whitby, Yorkshire, England.
The English civil war began in 1642 and lasted until King Charles I was beheaded in 1649. It is during this period that John Goode is thought to have left England. Barbados had an extensive colony of Loyalists, which made it a natural attraction during the Cromwell era. Two ships carrying passenger John Goode to and from Barbados have been identified, the first in 1650 to Barbados and the second in 1659 to Virginia, meaning he left home at eighteen and arrived in Virginia age twenty-seven.
While in Barbados John Goode married his first wife, Frances Mackarness, who is said to have died leaving a child named Frances Goode. Frances Goode-Bridgewater, eldest child of John Goode and wife of Samuel Bridgewater, gave a deposition in 1690, stating she was thirty-two years old, placing her birth about 1657. Allowing for the marriage of her parents at least ten months earlier, John Goode would have first married by 1656.
A couple years later John Goode, merchant, received merchandise in Barbados from England, which was shipped by Samuel Eames the elder of London and was being brought by his partner, Samuel Eames, the younger. The younger Eames died at sea on May 1, 1659.
Later that same year, in the last Will & Testament of John Mackerness, cooper, written August 8, 1659 and proved 24 Sep 1659, John Goode about 27 years old at the time, was referred to as "friend." Family members of John Mackerness named in this will included his unmarried daughter Mary Mackerness among others.
Shortly thereafter, however, on October 15, 1659, there is a listing of John Goode and Mary Goode as headright passengers traveling to the American colonies. Some researchers have suggested, therefore, that after the death of his first wife, business partner and friend, John Goode married the latter's daughter Mary Mackerness, before making his way to Virginia.
On the voyage from Barbados to Virginia, John Goode is said to have been accompanied by his wife Mary Mackerness, infant son Samuel and a serving maid. Given that daughter Frances Goode is not mentioned in this report, however, its accuracy is questionable. In any case, the name entered on the passenger list was "John Goode, Gentleman."
When he first arrived in America at Jamestown, John lost no time in buying five-hundred acres of virgin land on the upper James River from Captain Matthew Gough (also spelled Goche, Gouche, Gouge, Gooch), a former burgess from Henrico County (1642-1643) who had received a land grant from the Crown.
This land is situated on the south side of the James River, about four miles from the city of Manchester. The location of the "Whitby" homestead (built about 1673) has been established to be in the southeastern corner of present day Manchester Township, Chesterfield County, Virginia (just south of Richmond at what is now the Tidewater Quarry), by way of land patents secured by his son Samuel Goode in 1698.
This part of Chesterfield County shares a border with both Richmond and Varina Township, Henrico County, Virginia. The site was an eminence on the west bank of the James River and is now located within the Richmond city limits. The colonial frontier Whitby plantation house was one of, if not the first built so far from the Jamestown and Williamsburg settlements, along the James River nearly opposite Powhatan, which is where Captain John Smith first met an Indian chief of the same name.
Goode's Rock in the James River is said to be in front of the place where Whitby once stood. It has been dangerous enough that navigators have sought to steer clear of it for three centuries. One report has it located near Richmond's Deepwater Terminal. Goode's Creek runs through what was once John Goode's plantation and empties into the James River, although during his time it was called Stoney Creek. This was the "Whitby" seat of the Goode family for more than 200 years.
Although exactly when it was built remains uncertain, Whitby was an English type dwelling with dormer windows and brick chimney at each end (see sketches above), located on high ground overlooking the river, and the original plantation at one time included 5,000 acres. Several generations of the Goode family bred fine racehorses and it was at Whitby they built one of, if not the first, private racecourse in the county.
The Whitby Plantation house was last used as a Confederate hospital, though, and subsequently destroyed toward the end of the Civil War. The surrounding property, however, remained in the Goode family until 1876. The remnants of a stone barn falling prey to the elements was still standing near the former Goode homestead in 1954. Today, the only trace of the former plantation is a street named to commemorate the family and their ties to the location. The land itself is now a federal mine operated on Deepwater Terminal Road.
Sometime after settling into their new surroundings, though, John's second wife Mary Mackerness is said to have died. While the details concerning her death remain unclear, it has been suggested she might have died giving birth to his second son Robert Goode. Whatever the date or cause, though, she was apparently unable to survive the privations of frontier life. Despite such hardships, after several years of trading between England and the colonies from Barbados, and arriving in Virginia, John Goode soon settled down into the occupation of tobacco planter, father, good neighbor, and infrequent church attendee at the local congregation.
By 1667, for example, and again in 1678, records indicate he received merchandise in Virginia aboard the ships "Rebecca," "Humphrey & Elizabeth," and "William & John" of London. A John Goode, of London, also engaged attorney Francis Washington, to represent him at the court of Charles City, seeking relief for debts due him, an agreement witnessed by one Rice Hooe. John Goode was also a witness to the last Will & Testament of Jeremiah Benskin dated April 13, 1670, along with son-in-law Samuel Bridgewater. By January 15, 1677 John Goode had agreed with neighbor William Byrd that Stoney Creek was the boundary between their properties, an agreement made legal August 1, 1678, in Henrico County Court.
And to work this property, four free white males sixteen years and older (i.e., tythables) in the Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia household of Mr. John Goode as of June 2, 1679, meaning three of his sons (i.e., Samuel, Robert and John) were by then young men capable of riding a horse and bearing arms. And unsurprisingly, for a man busy providing for and protecting a growing family on the Indian frontier, Thomas Howlett presented John Goode before the grand jury on January 2, 1684, for having "been sixteen years in ye parish and never at church!" The penalty was fifty pounds of tobacco.
From the scant information available, the most likely conclusion seems to be that John Goode and Anne Bennett were married about 1662 and their eldest son John Bennett Goode was born ten months later in 1663. The new bride is said to have been born in England, migrated to Virginia by way of Holland, and died at Whitby, Henrico, Virginia before 29 Nov 1708, when John wrote his will. The plantations located around the falls of the James River, however, were then on the Indian frontier. The Indians, while nominally at peace with the colony, perpetrated many outrages against the settlers on the outlying farms. Tensions escalated to the point that western landowners made a concerted demand that troops be sent to the frontier to quell them.
From the comfort and security of Jamestown, Royal Governor Sir William Berkeley denied the necessity of such action and refused to act to protect those living further west. As their demands became more insistent, he threatened them as malcontents and seditionists. When conditions reached a point the frontier settlers considered intolerable, Nathaniel Bacon, seconded by John Goode, decided upon direct action.
They formed their own forces and marched against the Indians and gave them such a severe whipping, that the problem of Indian depredations was resolved for decades. John accompanied these expeditions between May and September of 1676 and is said to have represented the Goode family name with distinction, while defending hearth and kin.
Having accomplished their mission, Bacon and his supporters returned to their normal pursuits. What they soon discovered, though, was that Governor Berkley was enraged on account of them taking the law into their own hands. His threats of reprisal infuriated them to the point that they were soon talking about marching against the capital at Jamestown and removing the governor by force.
Governor Berkeley was unprepared for such a possibility, though, and after a fierce battle Jamestown fell to the rebels and was burned. It seems at least possible, if not likely, that many of Bacon's own men had amazed themselves by what they had done.
The weight of public opinion and whatever armed force the governor could muster being against them, though, support for Bacon and his supporters soon dissipated as he and his chief lieutenants found themselves fugitives from the law. Bacon then became ill and while its driving force was ill, the rebellion quickly collapsed.
He died in hiding and is reputed to have been buried under the main road at Gloucester Court House, in hope that his body would not be dug up and drawn-and-quartered, as the law of the day provided. His chief supporters were captured and hung.
John Goode was a leading citizen of the western marches of the colony, with sufficient courage to align himself early on with opponents of the reactionary government. While the Virginia colony at large had applauded the Bacon expeditions against the Indians, though, an armed rebellion against the King's government, no matter how corrupt and ineffective, was another matter altogether. Fortunately for his descendants, John Goode decided against joining the uprising and remained at Whitby, while Bacon's Rebellion proceeded to Jamestown.
Thus, John Goode's wisdom, patriotism, loyalty, intuition or whatever his motive was in drawing the distinction between fighting the Indians against the orders of Governor Berkeley and fighting against the King's government itself, can be said to have saved him from the noose, thereby allowing him to continue propagating future generations of proud Americans.
Although John sold two-hundred acres of his land in 1681, he secured a patent to another 888 acres also on the south side of the James in Henrico County by 1690, as well as 2,270 acres in Chesterfield County, and was a surveyor of the highways for Henrico County by 1683, indicating he remained quite active well into his sixth decade.
By April 1690, though, Mr. John Goode described himself to the Henrico County Court as "now ancient" and the highway surveyor work "burdensome," when nominating William Blackman as his successor. John Good(e), Sr. paid quit rent on six-hundred acres in Henrico County in 1704 and John Trent sold him 109 acres on the north side of Falling Creek later that same year.
At seventy-two years of age, though, he must have begun to reflect on quite a feat. He had certainly been through a lot. After leaving the green hills of England as a teenager for semi-tropical Barbados, surviving a civil war in both and the plague in the latter; John Goode then moved to the frontier of Virginia, established an English-style estate in the wilderness of the upper James River, withstood Indian attacks, and skirted a rebellion, all while rearing and educating fourteen children.
As an important and well-regarded frontiersman of the Virginia colony a century before the American Revolution, the battles John Goode and like-minded neighbors had with Indians, were so well executed and success so phenomenal, as to allow decades to pass before a more permanent uprising of the people became necessary.
Since they left the task of helping build a new country to their children and descendants, it is interesting to note that the assembly providing the ways and means for John Goode and Nathaniel Bacon to suppress the Indians met in June of 1676, and exactly one-hundred years later to the month, resolutions were made directing Virginia delegates to declare colonial freedom and independence.
After being born in England during the reign of King Charles I, John Goode of Whitby made his way to a wilderness called Jamestown, Virginia twenty-seven years later, with the spirit, courage, determination and foresight needed to pursue a dream and vision that has come to be known as America. He wrote his will November 29, 1708 and departed this world February 1709.
The Last Will & Testament of John Goode
In the name of God, Amen! The 29th day of November, in the year of our Lord God, seventeen-hundred-and-eight, I, John Goode of the County; and Parish of Henrico, in Virginia, Gent., being sick and weak of body, but of sound and perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for it, do make, ordain, constitute and appoint this to be my last will and testament, in manner following:
Imprimis, I resign my soul into the hands of God who gave it, trusting through the merits of Jesus Christ my blessed Lord and Savior to obtain free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins; and my body to the earth, to be decently interred, at the discretion of my Executor, hereafter named.
Item, That my debts and funeral charges be first paid.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my son Robert Goode, one hundred acres of my land, lying next, and adjoining to the river, and north by the lands of William Byrd, Esq. To him the said Robert and his heirs forever.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my son John Goode, one hundred acres of my land lying next to the James River, and adjoining the land of my son, Samuel Goode, to him the said John and his heirs forever.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my sons Thomas Goode and Joseph Goode, my tract of land lying in the woods on the north side of Stony Creek, and at the heads of the aforementioned lands, estimated to be four hundred acres, more or less, to be equally divided between them when they shall come to lawful age: and my will is, that if either the said Thomas or Joseph shall decease in their nonage, the survivor of them shall have, hold, occupy, possess and enjoy the aforesaid tract of land, containing four hundred acres, to him and his heirs forever. But if my two sons shall arrive to lawful age, then my will is that Thomas enjoy two hundred acres of the aforementioned land, to him and his heirs forever, and that Joseph enjoy the other two hundred acres, to him the said Joseph and his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Katherine Roberts, two thousand pounds of tobacco.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Blackman, two thousand pounds of tobacco.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Susanna Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco to be paid when she comes to age or is married.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Anna Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco, to be paid when she comes to age or is married.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco when he comes to lawful age.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Joseph Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco to be paid when he comes of lawful age.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Robert, two negroes, by name, Jupiter and Moll, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son John, two negroes, by name George and Sabrina, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas, two negroes, Abraham and Ned, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Joseph, one negro woman, by name Rose, with her increase, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Katherine Roberts, besides the two thousand pounds of tobacco already given, one thousand pounds of tobacco more, to be paid four years after my decease.
Item, I give to my son Samuel, ten shillings, and a way for the cart and horse on the outside of the low-grounds by long swamp, during the term of his natural life.
Item, I give to my daughter Frances, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Mary, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Martha, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Ursula, one shilling.
All the rest of my goods and chattels I give and bequeath to my two sons Robert and John, and do make my said two sons Robert and John whole and sole Executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made and done.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal this day and year first written.
Item, my will is, that if Thomas and Joseph should die before they come to lawful age, their estate to be equally divided between their own brothers.
Signature, JOHN GOODE (seal)
Signed, sealed, delivered and acknowledged as his last will and testament in presence of us, Thomas Byrd, Giles Webb, All., Clerke, Mary Forest.
Henrico County, Virginia April 1, 1709. The aforegoing will was this day proved in open Court by the oaths of the subscribed witnesses. Teste: James Cocke, Cl. Cur (Virginia Cousins, George Brown Goode, 1887).
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John Goode arrived in Barbados about 1650 (Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657, Meredith B. Colket, Jr., Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America: distributed by Founders Project, 1975)
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John Goode embarked from Barbados for Virginia 15 Oct 1659 (The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660, Peter Wilson Coldham, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987, p. 471).
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Samuel Bridgewater and John Goode appeared with Ann Higgleday as witnesses to the will of Jeremiah Benskin, dated April 13, 1670. Henrico County Wills and Deeds
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John Goode, of London, makes John Wallis and Francis Washington, atty. at the court of Charles City, for debts due him. Wit.: Rice Hooe and Otho? Soulcott (Surry County Records, Book I, 1652-1672, p. 68).
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John Goode was in the Virginia colonial forces 1675-76 (Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri Biographical Record, 1896, Memorial Record, p. 571).
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Boundary agreement between John Goode & William Byrd - Signed: 15 Jan 1677; Recorded: 1 Aug 1678, Varina, Henrico County Court.
At a Court Holden at Varina for the County of Henrico the first day of August by his Majesties Justices of the peace for the said county in the thirtieth year of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God Great Brittaine france and Ireland defender of the faith, etc., etc., and in the yeare of our good lord God 1678.
Wee the subscribers doe for ever for us our heirs assigns and legatees Acknowledge confirme and agree that a West and by south Course from the Mouth of Stony Creek and into the Woods shall be a dividing line of our lands on the north side of the plantation of the subscribed John Good and that the said Good shall himselfe and heirs for Ever hold his land by a West course into the Woods for his south line, bounding upon the land of Richard Peirse, according as it hath been surveyed Markt and laid out by Coll Thomas Lygon, hereby intending that the partyes subscribed shall be at a certainty in the knowledge of the bounds between them, and that the said Good may have his full complement of five hundred acres of land. Witnesse our hands the fifteenth day of January in the year of our lord sixteene hundred seventy seven. It is likewise agreed between the partyes subscribed that this agreement shall be entered upon record in Henrico County Court.
Witnesse: Wm. Harris; Richard Lygon; Wm. Byrd; John Goode
Henrico County Record Book 2, 1678-1693 (Orders and Wills), abstracted by Julia M. Case, Virginia Genealogical Quarterly, Volume 29, Number 3, Aug 1991, pp. 165-166
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John Goode's letter regarding Nathaniel Bacon to Sir William Berkeley, 30 Jan 1677.
At a Court Holden at Varina for the County of Henrico the first day of August by his Majesties Justices of the peace for the said county in the thirtieth year of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God Great Brittaine france and Ireland defender of the faith, etc., etc., and in the yeare of our good lord God 1678.
Hon'd Sr.: In obedient submission to your honours command directed to me by Capt. William Bird I have written the full substance of a discourse Nath: Bacon, deceased, propos'd to me on or about the 2d day of September last, both in order and words as followeth:
Bacon: There is a report Sir William Berkeley hath sent to the King for 2,000 Red Coates, and I doe believe it may be true, tell me your opinion, may not 500 Virginians beat them, wee having the same advantages against them the Indians have against us.
Goode: I rather conceive 500 Red Coats may either Subject or ruine Virginia.
Bacon: You talk strangely, are not we acquainted with the country, can lay ambussadoes, and take trees and putt them by, the use of their discipline, and are doubtless as good or better shott than they.
Goode: But they can accomplish what I have sayd without hazard or coming into such disadvantages, by taking Opportunities of landing where there shall be noe opposition, firing out-houses and Fences, destroying our Stocks and preventing all trade and supplyes to the country.
Bacon: There may be such prevention that they shall not be able to make any great progresse in Mischeifes, and the country or Clime not agreeing with their constitutions, great mortality will happen amongst them in their Seasoning which will weare and weary them out.
Goode: You see Sir that in a manner all the principall men in the Country dislike your manner of proceedings, they, you may be sure will joine with the red Coates.
Bacon: But there shall none of them bee (allowed).
Goode: Sir, you speake as though you design'd a totall defection from Majestic, and our Native Country.
Bacon: Why (smiling) have not many Princes lost their dominions soe.
Goode: They have been such people as have been able to subsist without their Prince. The poverty of Virginia is such, that the major part of the Inhabitants can scarce supply their wants from hand to mouth, and many there are besides can hardly shift, without Supply one year, and you may bee sure that this people which soe fondly follow you, when they come to feele the miserable wants of food and rayment, will bee in greater heate to leave you, then they were to come after you, besides here are many people in Virginia that receive considerable benefitts, comforts and advantages by Parents, Friends and Correspondents in England, and many which expect patrimonyes and Inheritances which they will by no means decline.
Bacon: For supply I know nothing: the country will be able to provide it selfe withall in a little time, save ammunition and Iron, and I believe the King of France or States of Holland would either of them entertaine a Trade with us.
Goode: Sir, our King is a great Prince, and his Amity is infinitely more valuable to them, then any advantage they can reape by Virginia, they will not therefore provoke his displeasure by supporting his Rebells here; besides I conceive that your followers do not think themselves engaged against the King's authority, but against the Indians.
Bacon: But I think otherwise, and am confident of it, that it is the mind of this Country, and of Mary Land and Carolina also, to cast off their Governor and the Governors of Carolina have taken no notice of the People, nor the People of them, a long time; and the people are resolv'd to own their Governor further: And if wee cannot prevaile by Armes to make our conditions for Peace, or obtaine the Priviledge to elect our own Governour, we may retire to Roanoke.
And here bee fell into a discourse of seating a Plantation in a great Island in the River, as a fitt place to retire to for Refuge.
Goode: Sir, the prosecuting what you have discoursed will unavoidably produce utter ruine and distruction to the people and Countrey, & I dread the thoughts of putting my hand to the promoting a designe of such miserable consequence, therefore hope you will not expect from me.
Bacon: I am glad I know your mind, but this proceeds from mere Cowardlynesse.
Goode: And I desire you should know my mind, for I desire to harbour noe such thoughts, which I should fear to impart to any man.
Bacon: Then what should a Gentleman engaged as I am, doe, you doe as good as tell me. I must flay or hang for it.
Goode: I conceive a seasonable Submission to the Authority you have your Commission from, acknowledging such Errors and Excesse, as are yett past, there may bee hope of remission.
I perceived his cogitations were much on this discourse, bee nominated Carolina, for the watch word.
Three days after I asked his leave to goe home, hee sullenly answered, you may goe, and since that time, I thank God, I never saw or heard from him.
Here I most humbly begg your Honours pardon for my breaches and neglects of duty, and that Your Honour will favourably consider in this particular, I neither knew any man amongst us, that had any means by which I might give intelligence to your honour hereof, and the necessity thereof, I say by your honors, prudence, foresight and Industry may bee prevented. So praying God to bless and prosper all your Councells and Actions I conclude.
Your Honours dutifull servant,
John Goode
http://www.newrivernotes.com/topical_books_1909_virginia_firstnativemartyrs.htm
Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Vol. II., XI. Bacon's Rebellion, pp. 96-97
Colonial Entry Book, lxxi, 232-240.
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Tax List of Inhabitants in Turkey Island, Varina, Henrico County in 1679 included in the household of Mr. John Goode, 4 tythables (free white males 16 years and above) capable of riding a horse and bearing arms, in compliance with "An act for the defence of the country against the incursions of the Indian Enemy."
Henrico County, Virginia: Beginnings of Its Families: Part I, William Clayton Torrence, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2 (October 1915), Omohundro Center of Early American History and Culture, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1914991, 19-12-2017 16:57 UTC, p. 131
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In 1681 John and Ann sold a 200-acre portion of "Whitby" to William Stowers and William Giles (Henrico County, Deeds and Wills, 1677-92, page 189).
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John Goode was a surveyor of the highways in 1683 (Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Volume. 30, p. 30).
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"On Jan. 2, 1684 Thomas Howlett presented before the grand jury John Goode, who had been sixteen years in ye parish and never at church! The penalty was 50 lbs. of tobacco."
The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers, Vol. 3, p. 1518 [I'm uncertain if this is the correct citation for this excerpt]
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John Stowers and John Goode secured a patent to 888 acres on the south side of the James in Henrico County 23 October 1690 (Virginia Land Patent Book 8, p. 124).
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Upon the peticon of Mr. Jno Goode one of ye surveyors of ye highways for this County that the said Office is burdensome unto him being now ancient & presenting severall others as persons fit to execute ye said Office, the Court being sencible of his condicon have granted his said request & out of those persons by him nominated have made Choice of Wm. Blackman who in ye said Good's place office and precincts is putt and appointed.
John served as a road surveyor until April 1690 when he recommended William Blackman to succeed him. John described himself as "being now ancient."
Henrico County Record Book No. 2, 1678-1693, Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, 1 May 1994, p. 139
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John Goode Sr. paid quit rents on 600 acres in Henrico County in 1704 (English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records, des Cognets, p. 217).
Later that year John Trent sold him 109 acres on the north side of Falling Creek (Henrico County, Virginia Deeds and Wills, 1697-1704, p. 432).
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Good, John, Senr - 600 acres - Henrico County Rent Roll - April 1705
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Contributor: David Goode (49372965)
The family of Goode first became represented in this country by two brothers who, on account of their adhesion to the king in the parliamentary wars, were exiled by Cromwell in 1648. They settled at Norfolk, Virginia where some member of the family has resided to the present day. The original home of the family was at Whitby, Yorkshire, England (Pictorial and genealogical record of Greene County, Missouri: Together with Biographies of Prominent Men of other portions of..., pp. 227-228).
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Richard Goode was born in England in about 1580-1600. His parents were Richard Goode and Joan Downe. He had two sons, John and Richard, who emigrated and settled in Henrico County, Virginia and Rappahannock County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky (The Goode family of Virginia, Georgia and Kentucky: a supplement to the genealogy and history of the Stewart family of Halifax County, Virginia, Caswell and Person Counties, North Carolina, Trigg County, Kentucky, by Martha Jane Stone).
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John Goade - Baptism: 1630, Devon, England.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1047574?availability=Family%20History%20Library
"England, Devon, Parish Registers, 1538-1912", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KC9D-82M : 29 July 2021), John Goade, 1630.
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John Goode died before 1 Mar 1709, at which time Allanson Clerke and Capt. Giles Webb served as securities for heirs Robert Good and John Goode for the will of their father (Henrico County Wills and Deeds 1706-1709, p. 163).
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John Goode of Whitby (1632-1709)
In a Henrico County, Virginia Court deposition dated 2 Oct 1704, John Goode of Whitby Plantation gave his age as seventy-two years, meaning he was born about 1632 (Henrico County, Deeds and Wills, 1697-1704, p. 426). Although information about his early life is vague and scarce, according to family legend he left home during Cromwell's revolt against King Charles I. Oral tradition has it that our ancestor was a Cavalier or Royalist sympathetic to the King, which made it uncomfortable for him to remain in England.
Other family lore indicates that the Goode family first came to be represented in the United States by two brothers who, on account of their support of the King Charles I in the parliamentary wars, were exiled by Cromwell in 1648. They reportedly settled at Norfolk, Virginia where some member of the family has resided to the present day. According to this account, the ancestral home of this branch of the Goode family was Whitby, Yorkshire, England.
The English civil war began in 1642 and lasted until King Charles I was beheaded in 1649. It is during this period that John Goode is thought to have left England. Barbados had an extensive colony of Loyalists, which made it a natural attraction during the Cromwell era. Two ships carrying passenger John Goode to and from Barbados have been identified, the first in 1650 to Barbados and the second in 1659 to Virginia, meaning he left home at eighteen and arrived in Virginia age twenty-seven.
While in Barbados John Goode married his first wife, Frances Mackarness, who is said to have died leaving a child named Frances Goode. Frances Goode-Bridgewater, eldest child of John Goode and wife of Samuel Bridgewater, gave a deposition in 1690, stating she was thirty-two years old, placing her birth about 1657. Allowing for the marriage of her parents at least ten months earlier, John Goode would have first married by 1656.
A couple years later John Goode, merchant, received merchandise in Barbados from England, which was shipped by Samuel Eames the elder of London and was being brought by his partner, Samuel Eames, the younger. The younger Eames died at sea on May 1, 1659.
Later that same year, in the last Will & Testament of John Mackerness, cooper, written August 8, 1659 and proved 24 Sep 1659, John Goode about 27 years old at the time, was referred to as "friend." Family members of John Mackerness named in this will included his unmarried daughter Mary Mackerness among others.
Shortly thereafter, however, on October 15, 1659, there is a listing of John Goode and Mary Goode as headright passengers traveling to the American colonies. Some researchers have suggested, therefore, that after the death of his first wife, business partner and friend, John Goode married the latter's daughter Mary Mackerness, before making his way to Virginia.
On the voyage from Barbados to Virginia, John Goode is said to have been accompanied by his wife Mary Mackerness, infant son Samuel and a serving maid. Given that daughter Frances Goode is not mentioned in this report, however, its accuracy is questionable. In any case, the name entered on the passenger list was "John Goode, Gentleman."
When he first arrived in America at Jamestown, John lost no time in buying five-hundred acres of virgin land on the upper James River from Captain Matthew Gough (also spelled Goche, Gouche, Gouge, Gooch), a former burgess from Henrico County (1642-1643) who had received a land grant from the Crown.
This land is situated on the south side of the James River, about four miles from the city of Manchester. The location of the "Whitby" homestead (built about 1673) has been established to be in the southeastern corner of present day Manchester Township, Chesterfield County, Virginia (just south of Richmond at what is now the Tidewater Quarry), by way of land patents secured by his son Samuel Goode in 1698.
This part of Chesterfield County shares a border with both Richmond and Varina Township, Henrico County, Virginia. The site was an eminence on the west bank of the James River and is now located within the Richmond city limits. The colonial frontier Whitby plantation house was one of, if not the first built so far from the Jamestown and Williamsburg settlements, along the James River nearly opposite Powhatan, which is where Captain John Smith first met an Indian chief of the same name.
Goode's Rock in the James River is said to be in front of the place where Whitby once stood. It has been dangerous enough that navigators have sought to steer clear of it for three centuries. One report has it located near Richmond's Deepwater Terminal. Goode's Creek runs through what was once John Goode's plantation and empties into the James River, although during his time it was called Stoney Creek. This was the "Whitby" seat of the Goode family for more than 200 years.
Although exactly when it was built remains uncertain, Whitby was an English type dwelling with dormer windows and brick chimney at each end (see sketches above), located on high ground overlooking the river, and the original plantation at one time included 5,000 acres. Several generations of the Goode family bred fine racehorses and it was at Whitby they built one of, if not the first, private racecourse in the county.
The Whitby Plantation house was last used as a Confederate hospital, though, and subsequently destroyed toward the end of the Civil War. The surrounding property, however, remained in the Goode family until 1876. The remnants of a stone barn falling prey to the elements was still standing near the former Goode homestead in 1954. Today, the only trace of the former plantation is a street named to commemorate the family and their ties to the location. The land itself is now a federal mine operated on Deepwater Terminal Road.
Sometime after settling into their new surroundings, though, John's second wife Mary Mackerness is said to have died. While the details concerning her death remain unclear, it has been suggested she might have died giving birth to his second son Robert Goode. Whatever the date or cause, though, she was apparently unable to survive the privations of frontier life. Despite such hardships, after several years of trading between England and the colonies from Barbados, and arriving in Virginia, John Goode soon settled down into the occupation of tobacco planter, father, good neighbor, and infrequent church attendee at the local congregation.
By 1667, for example, and again in 1678, records indicate he received merchandise in Virginia aboard the ships "Rebecca," "Humphrey & Elizabeth," and "William & John" of London. A John Goode, of London, also engaged attorney Francis Washington, to represent him at the court of Charles City, seeking relief for debts due him, an agreement witnessed by one Rice Hooe. John Goode was also a witness to the last Will & Testament of Jeremiah Benskin dated April 13, 1670, along with son-in-law Samuel Bridgewater. By January 15, 1677 John Goode had agreed with neighbor William Byrd that Stoney Creek was the boundary between their properties, an agreement made legal August 1, 1678, in Henrico County Court.
And to work this property, four free white males sixteen years and older (i.e., tythables) in the Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia household of Mr. John Goode as of June 2, 1679, meaning three of his sons (i.e., Samuel, Robert and John) were by then young men capable of riding a horse and bearing arms. And unsurprisingly, for a man busy providing for and protecting a growing family on the Indian frontier, Thomas Howlett presented John Goode before the grand jury on January 2, 1684, for having "been sixteen years in ye parish and never at church!" The penalty was fifty pounds of tobacco.
From the scant information available, the most likely conclusion seems to be that John Goode and Anne Bennett were married about 1662 and their eldest son John Bennett Goode was born ten months later in 1663. The new bride is said to have been born in England, migrated to Virginia by way of Holland, and died at Whitby, Henrico, Virginia before 29 Nov 1708, when John wrote his will. The plantations located around the falls of the James River, however, were then on the Indian frontier. The Indians, while nominally at peace with the colony, perpetrated many outrages against the settlers on the outlying farms. Tensions escalated to the point that western landowners made a concerted demand that troops be sent to the frontier to quell them.
From the comfort and security of Jamestown, Royal Governor Sir William Berkeley denied the necessity of such action and refused to act to protect those living further west. As their demands became more insistent, he threatened them as malcontents and seditionists. When conditions reached a point the frontier settlers considered intolerable, Nathaniel Bacon, seconded by John Goode, decided upon direct action.
They formed their own forces and marched against the Indians and gave them such a severe whipping, that the problem of Indian depredations was resolved for decades. John accompanied these expeditions between May and September of 1676 and is said to have represented the Goode family name with distinction, while defending hearth and kin.
Having accomplished their mission, Bacon and his supporters returned to their normal pursuits. What they soon discovered, though, was that Governor Berkley was enraged on account of them taking the law into their own hands. His threats of reprisal infuriated them to the point that they were soon talking about marching against the capital at Jamestown and removing the governor by force.
Governor Berkeley was unprepared for such a possibility, though, and after a fierce battle Jamestown fell to the rebels and was burned. It seems at least possible, if not likely, that many of Bacon's own men had amazed themselves by what they had done.
The weight of public opinion and whatever armed force the governor could muster being against them, though, support for Bacon and his supporters soon dissipated as he and his chief lieutenants found themselves fugitives from the law. Bacon then became ill and while its driving force was ill, the rebellion quickly collapsed.
He died in hiding and is reputed to have been buried under the main road at Gloucester Court House, in hope that his body would not be dug up and drawn-and-quartered, as the law of the day provided. His chief supporters were captured and hung.
John Goode was a leading citizen of the western marches of the colony, with sufficient courage to align himself early on with opponents of the reactionary government. While the Virginia colony at large had applauded the Bacon expeditions against the Indians, though, an armed rebellion against the King's government, no matter how corrupt and ineffective, was another matter altogether. Fortunately for his descendants, John Goode decided against joining the uprising and remained at Whitby, while Bacon's Rebellion proceeded to Jamestown.
Thus, John Goode's wisdom, patriotism, loyalty, intuition or whatever his motive was in drawing the distinction between fighting the Indians against the orders of Governor Berkeley and fighting against the King's government itself, can be said to have saved him from the noose, thereby allowing him to continue propagating future generations of proud Americans.
Although John sold two-hundred acres of his land in 1681, he secured a patent to another 888 acres also on the south side of the James in Henrico County by 1690, as well as 2,270 acres in Chesterfield County, and was a surveyor of the highways for Henrico County by 1683, indicating he remained quite active well into his sixth decade.
By April 1690, though, Mr. John Goode described himself to the Henrico County Court as "now ancient" and the highway surveyor work "burdensome," when nominating William Blackman as his successor. John Good(e), Sr. paid quit rent on six-hundred acres in Henrico County in 1704 and John Trent sold him 109 acres on the north side of Falling Creek later that same year.
At seventy-two years of age, though, he must have begun to reflect on quite a feat. He had certainly been through a lot. After leaving the green hills of England as a teenager for semi-tropical Barbados, surviving a civil war in both and the plague in the latter; John Goode then moved to the frontier of Virginia, established an English-style estate in the wilderness of the upper James River, withstood Indian attacks, and skirted a rebellion, all while rearing and educating fourteen children.
As an important and well-regarded frontiersman of the Virginia colony a century before the American Revolution, the battles John Goode and like-minded neighbors had with Indians, were so well executed and success so phenomenal, as to allow decades to pass before a more permanent uprising of the people became necessary.
Since they left the task of helping build a new country to their children and descendants, it is interesting to note that the assembly providing the ways and means for John Goode and Nathaniel Bacon to suppress the Indians met in June of 1676, and exactly one-hundred years later to the month, resolutions were made directing Virginia delegates to declare colonial freedom and independence.
After being born in England during the reign of King Charles I, John Goode of Whitby made his way to a wilderness called Jamestown, Virginia twenty-seven years later, with the spirit, courage, determination and foresight needed to pursue a dream and vision that has come to be known as America. He wrote his will November 29, 1708 and departed this world February 1709.
The Last Will & Testament of John Goode
In the name of God, Amen! The 29th day of November, in the year of our Lord God, seventeen-hundred-and-eight, I, John Goode of the County; and Parish of Henrico, in Virginia, Gent., being sick and weak of body, but of sound and perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for it, do make, ordain, constitute and appoint this to be my last will and testament, in manner following:
Imprimis, I resign my soul into the hands of God who gave it, trusting through the merits of Jesus Christ my blessed Lord and Savior to obtain free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins; and my body to the earth, to be decently interred, at the discretion of my Executor, hereafter named.
Item, That my debts and funeral charges be first paid.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my son Robert Goode, one hundred acres of my land, lying next, and adjoining to the river, and north by the lands of William Byrd, Esq. To him the said Robert and his heirs forever.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my son John Goode, one hundred acres of my land lying next to the James River, and adjoining the land of my son, Samuel Goode, to him the said John and his heirs forever.
Item, I give, bequeath and devise to my sons Thomas Goode and Joseph Goode, my tract of land lying in the woods on the north side of Stony Creek, and at the heads of the aforementioned lands, estimated to be four hundred acres, more or less, to be equally divided between them when they shall come to lawful age: and my will is, that if either the said Thomas or Joseph shall decease in their nonage, the survivor of them shall have, hold, occupy, possess and enjoy the aforesaid tract of land, containing four hundred acres, to him and his heirs forever. But if my two sons shall arrive to lawful age, then my will is that Thomas enjoy two hundred acres of the aforementioned land, to him and his heirs forever, and that Joseph enjoy the other two hundred acres, to him the said Joseph and his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Katherine Roberts, two thousand pounds of tobacco.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Blackman, two thousand pounds of tobacco.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Susanna Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco to be paid when she comes to age or is married.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Anna Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco, to be paid when she comes to age or is married.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco when he comes to lawful age.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Joseph Goode, two thousand pounds of tobacco to be paid when he comes of lawful age.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Robert, two negroes, by name, Jupiter and Moll, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son John, two negroes, by name George and Sabrina, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas, two negroes, Abraham and Ned, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Joseph, one negro woman, by name Rose, with her increase, and to his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Katherine Roberts, besides the two thousand pounds of tobacco already given, one thousand pounds of tobacco more, to be paid four years after my decease.
Item, I give to my son Samuel, ten shillings, and a way for the cart and horse on the outside of the low-grounds by long swamp, during the term of his natural life.
Item, I give to my daughter Frances, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Mary, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Martha, one shilling.
Item, I give to my daughter Ursula, one shilling.
All the rest of my goods and chattels I give and bequeath to my two sons Robert and John, and do make my said two sons Robert and John whole and sole Executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made and done.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal this day and year first written.
Item, my will is, that if Thomas and Joseph should die before they come to lawful age, their estate to be equally divided between their own brothers.
Signature, JOHN GOODE (seal)
Signed, sealed, delivered and acknowledged as his last will and testament in presence of us, Thomas Byrd, Giles Webb, All., Clerke, Mary Forest.
Henrico County, Virginia April 1, 1709. The aforegoing will was this day proved in open Court by the oaths of the subscribed witnesses. Teste: James Cocke, Cl. Cur (Virginia Cousins, George Brown Goode, 1887).
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John Goode arrived in Barbados about 1650 (Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657, Meredith B. Colket, Jr., Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America: distributed by Founders Project, 1975)
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John Goode embarked from Barbados for Virginia 15 Oct 1659 (The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660, Peter Wilson Coldham, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987, p. 471).
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Samuel Bridgewater and John Goode appeared with Ann Higgleday as witnesses to the will of Jeremiah Benskin, dated April 13, 1670. Henrico County Wills and Deeds
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John Goode, of London, makes John Wallis and Francis Washington, atty. at the court of Charles City, for debts due him. Wit.: Rice Hooe and Otho? Soulcott (Surry County Records, Book I, 1652-1672, p. 68).
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John Goode was in the Virginia colonial forces 1675-76 (Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri Biographical Record, 1896, Memorial Record, p. 571).
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Boundary agreement between John Goode & William Byrd - Signed: 15 Jan 1677; Recorded: 1 Aug 1678, Varina, Henrico County Court.
At a Court Holden at Varina for the County of Henrico the first day of August by his Majesties Justices of the peace for the said county in the thirtieth year of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God Great Brittaine france and Ireland defender of the faith, etc., etc., and in the yeare of our good lord God 1678.
Wee the subscribers doe for ever for us our heirs assigns and legatees Acknowledge confirme and agree that a West and by south Course from the Mouth of Stony Creek and into the Woods shall be a dividing line of our lands on the north side of the plantation of the subscribed John Good and that the said Good shall himselfe and heirs for Ever hold his land by a West course into the Woods for his south line, bounding upon the land of Richard Peirse, according as it hath been surveyed Markt and laid out by Coll Thomas Lygon, hereby intending that the partyes subscribed shall be at a certainty in the knowledge of the bounds between them, and that the said Good may have his full complement of five hundred acres of land. Witnesse our hands the fifteenth day of January in the year of our lord sixteene hundred seventy seven. It is likewise agreed between the partyes subscribed that this agreement shall be entered upon record in Henrico County Court.
Witnesse: Wm. Harris; Richard Lygon; Wm. Byrd; John Goode
Henrico County Record Book 2, 1678-1693 (Orders and Wills), abstracted by Julia M. Case, Virginia Genealogical Quarterly, Volume 29, Number 3, Aug 1991, pp. 165-166
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John Goode's letter regarding Nathaniel Bacon to Sir William Berkeley, 30 Jan 1677.
At a Court Holden at Varina for the County of Henrico the first day of August by his Majesties Justices of the peace for the said county in the thirtieth year of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God Great Brittaine france and Ireland defender of the faith, etc., etc., and in the yeare of our good lord God 1678.
Hon'd Sr.: In obedient submission to your honours command directed to me by Capt. William Bird I have written the full substance of a discourse Nath: Bacon, deceased, propos'd to me on or about the 2d day of September last, both in order and words as followeth:
Bacon: There is a report Sir William Berkeley hath sent to the King for 2,000 Red Coates, and I doe believe it may be true, tell me your opinion, may not 500 Virginians beat them, wee having the same advantages against them the Indians have against us.
Goode: I rather conceive 500 Red Coats may either Subject or ruine Virginia.
Bacon: You talk strangely, are not we acquainted with the country, can lay ambussadoes, and take trees and putt them by, the use of their discipline, and are doubtless as good or better shott than they.
Goode: But they can accomplish what I have sayd without hazard or coming into such disadvantages, by taking Opportunities of landing where there shall be noe opposition, firing out-houses and Fences, destroying our Stocks and preventing all trade and supplyes to the country.
Bacon: There may be such prevention that they shall not be able to make any great progresse in Mischeifes, and the country or Clime not agreeing with their constitutions, great mortality will happen amongst them in their Seasoning which will weare and weary them out.
Goode: You see Sir that in a manner all the principall men in the Country dislike your manner of proceedings, they, you may be sure will joine with the red Coates.
Bacon: But there shall none of them bee (allowed).
Goode: Sir, you speake as though you design'd a totall defection from Majestic, and our Native Country.
Bacon: Why (smiling) have not many Princes lost their dominions soe.
Goode: They have been such people as have been able to subsist without their Prince. The poverty of Virginia is such, that the major part of the Inhabitants can scarce supply their wants from hand to mouth, and many there are besides can hardly shift, without Supply one year, and you may bee sure that this people which soe fondly follow you, when they come to feele the miserable wants of food and rayment, will bee in greater heate to leave you, then they were to come after you, besides here are many people in Virginia that receive considerable benefitts, comforts and advantages by Parents, Friends and Correspondents in England, and many which expect patrimonyes and Inheritances which they will by no means decline.
Bacon: For supply I know nothing: the country will be able to provide it selfe withall in a little time, save ammunition and Iron, and I believe the King of France or States of Holland would either of them entertaine a Trade with us.
Goode: Sir, our King is a great Prince, and his Amity is infinitely more valuable to them, then any advantage they can reape by Virginia, they will not therefore provoke his displeasure by supporting his Rebells here; besides I conceive that your followers do not think themselves engaged against the King's authority, but against the Indians.
Bacon: But I think otherwise, and am confident of it, that it is the mind of this Country, and of Mary Land and Carolina also, to cast off their Governor and the Governors of Carolina have taken no notice of the People, nor the People of them, a long time; and the people are resolv'd to own their Governor further: And if wee cannot prevaile by Armes to make our conditions for Peace, or obtaine the Priviledge to elect our own Governour, we may retire to Roanoke.
And here bee fell into a discourse of seating a Plantation in a great Island in the River, as a fitt place to retire to for Refuge.
Goode: Sir, the prosecuting what you have discoursed will unavoidably produce utter ruine and distruction to the people and Countrey, & I dread the thoughts of putting my hand to the promoting a designe of such miserable consequence, therefore hope you will not expect from me.
Bacon: I am glad I know your mind, but this proceeds from mere Cowardlynesse.
Goode: And I desire you should know my mind, for I desire to harbour noe such thoughts, which I should fear to impart to any man.
Bacon: Then what should a Gentleman engaged as I am, doe, you doe as good as tell me. I must flay or hang for it.
Goode: I conceive a seasonable Submission to the Authority you have your Commission from, acknowledging such Errors and Excesse, as are yett past, there may bee hope of remission.
I perceived his cogitations were much on this discourse, bee nominated Carolina, for the watch word.
Three days after I asked his leave to goe home, hee sullenly answered, you may goe, and since that time, I thank God, I never saw or heard from him.
Here I most humbly begg your Honours pardon for my breaches and neglects of duty, and that Your Honour will favourably consider in this particular, I neither knew any man amongst us, that had any means by which I might give intelligence to your honour hereof, and the necessity thereof, I say by your honors, prudence, foresight and Industry may bee prevented. So praying God to bless and prosper all your Councells and Actions I conclude.
Your Honours dutifull servant,
John Goode
http://www.newrivernotes.com/topical_books_1909_virginia_firstnativemartyrs.htm
Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Vol. II., XI. Bacon's Rebellion, pp. 96-97
Colonial Entry Book, lxxi, 232-240.
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Tax List of Inhabitants in Turkey Island, Varina, Henrico County in 1679 included in the household of Mr. John Goode, 4 tythables (free white males 16 years and above) capable of riding a horse and bearing arms, in compliance with "An act for the defence of the country against the incursions of the Indian Enemy."
Henrico County, Virginia: Beginnings of Its Families: Part I, William Clayton Torrence, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2 (October 1915), Omohundro Center of Early American History and Culture, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1914991, 19-12-2017 16:57 UTC, p. 131
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In 1681 John and Ann sold a 200-acre portion of "Whitby" to William Stowers and William Giles (Henrico County, Deeds and Wills, 1677-92, page 189).
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John Goode was a surveyor of the highways in 1683 (Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Volume. 30, p. 30).
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"On Jan. 2, 1684 Thomas Howlett presented before the grand jury John Goode, who had been sixteen years in ye parish and never at church! The penalty was 50 lbs. of tobacco."
The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers, Vol. 3, p. 1518 [I'm uncertain if this is the correct citation for this excerpt]
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John Stowers and John Goode secured a patent to 888 acres on the south side of the James in Henrico County 23 October 1690 (Virginia Land Patent Book 8, p. 124).
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Upon the peticon of Mr. Jno Goode one of ye surveyors of ye highways for this County that the said Office is burdensome unto him being now ancient & presenting severall others as persons fit to execute ye said Office, the Court being sencible of his condicon have granted his said request & out of those persons by him nominated have made Choice of Wm. Blackman who in ye said Good's place office and precincts is putt and appointed.
John served as a road surveyor until April 1690 when he recommended William Blackman to succeed him. John described himself as "being now ancient."
Henrico County Record Book No. 2, 1678-1693, Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, 1 May 1994, p. 139
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John Goode Sr. paid quit rents on 600 acres in Henrico County in 1704 (English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records, des Cognets, p. 217).
Later that year John Trent sold him 109 acres on the north side of Falling Creek (Henrico County, Virginia Deeds and Wills, 1697-1704, p. 432).
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Good, John, Senr - 600 acres - Henrico County Rent Roll - April 1705
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Contributor: David Goode (49372965)
Family Members
Children
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Frances Goode Bridgewater
1657 – unknown
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Samuel Goode
1658–1735
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Robert Goode
1660–1718
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Martha Goode Branch Taylor Osborne Edwards
1662–1729
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John Bennett Goode
1663–1725
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Ursula Goode Branch Scott
1665 – unknown
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Frances Goode Branch
1669 – unknown
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John Goode Jr
1675–1725
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Elizabeth M Goode Blackman
1678–1736
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Katherine Goode Roberts Gee
1680–1722
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Mary Goode Booker
1680–1750
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Thomas Goode
unknown–1718
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Susannah Bennett Goode Ballew
unknown–1756
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William Joseph Goode
unknown–1764
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Anna Goode
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