Thomas Goodrich, son of John Goodrich the Alderman of Bury St. Edmunds, was baptized there at St. Mary parish on 14 Apr 1615. Though the baptismal record named only the father, it is likely Thomas was the son of widow Martha (Smith) Goodrich named in the 25 Jun 1625 will of John Goodrich the Alderman, since John belonged to St. Mary parish from 1595 onward, and no second marriage could be found for John at either the St. Mary or St. James parishes in Bury St. Edmunds, or anywhere else in County Suffolk, from 1595-1625.

Mr. Thomas Goodrich; who shared the prefix title with his father Mr. John Goodrich the Alderman, immigrated to America, arriving in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia probably by 1645, where he likely married Ann Thresh, daughter of Clement Thresh soon afterward and there had 3 sons born ~1647-1652, and then relocated to Old Rappahannock County; now Essex County, Virginia by 14 Apr 1656, when Clement Thresh sold to Thomas Goodrich a 500 acre property, that Clement Thresh had bought from Bartholomew Hoskins on 01 Aug 1652, in what was then Old Rappahannock County (until 1692) and is now rural Tappahannock, Essex, Virginia, with an additional 100 acres granted to Thomas Goodrich on 10 Jun 1657 for transporting persons to Virginia. Soon afterward, Clement Thresh named Thomas Goodrich and Ann Goodrich in his will dated 16 Feb 1656/7 in Old Rappahannock County; the sale of the 500 acre property by Clement Thresh to Thomas Goodrich nearly a year earlier was not mentioned in the will.

Thomas Goodrich, Esquire was also a practicing attorney, acting in this capacity on behalf of Job Beasley in the matter of a confiscated boat and oars that was lost in requesting payment for the loss at a court held in Lower Norfolk, Virginia on 16 Jun 1651, and later on behalf of John Green in the matter of the attempted sale on 31 Jul 1662 of the 600 acres adjacent north of the 500 acres sold to Thomas Goodrich by Clement Thresh on 14 Apr 1656 and the added 100 acres granted to Thomas Goodrich on 10 Jun 1657. "Thomas Goodrich, Esquire" drafted a new deed of sale for John Green that included provisions for collecting payment for the sale, which had been intended in the original deed of sale to be completed by 31 Jul 1663. (reference: Essex (Old Rappahannock) County, Virginia Land Records, vol. 3, pages 161-166): https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9P6-3667?cat=413447%2F

Thomas Goodrich and his eldest son Benjamin Goodrich joined other planters in Bacon's Rebellion of 1676. The planters were protesting government corruption, depressed tobacco prices and oppressive taxes, and attacks by Native Americans that the Royal Governor, Sir William Berkeley, was handling ineffectively. The planters, led by Nathaniel Bacon, took matters into their own hands and attempted to overthrow the Royal Governor before order was restored, in the first American civil war.

Thomas Goodrich died soon after Bacon's Rebellion. His will, proved 03 Apr 1679, left 10,000+ acres to wife Ann (Thresh) Goodrich; who was named with Thomas in the 1657 will of her father Clement Thresh of Old Rappahannock, Virginia, and their children Benjamin, Joseph, Charles, Anne, Peter and Katherine. Only the likely general location of his burial is known; no surviving tombstone in a specific cemetery exists for Thomas or his widow Ann, though it is known that Thomas had a dwelling house in what is now rural Tappahannock, Essex, Virginia at the time of his death.

Next-generation-sequencing (NGS) Y-SNP testing established in 2015 that Y-descendants of immigrants William-1 Goodrich/Goodridge of Watertown, MA and William-1 Goodrich of Wethersfield, CT; first-cousins who share common Y-ancestor William Goodrich I of Hessett (~1545-1631), share the Y-SNP mutation E-L1019, and an additional 37 Y-SNP mutations after E-Z16242, with Y-descendants of immigrant Thomas-1 Goodrich of Old Rappahannock, VA; a second cousin who shares common Y-ancestor Robert Goodrich of Felsham (~1505-1570).

The first son of William Goodrich II of Hessett; believed to be William Goodrich III of Hessett and later the immigrant William Goodridge of Watertown, MA is the only Y-descendant of William Goodrich I of Hessett capable of bringing about this order of Y-SNP relationship.