SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD was born on October 4, 1796 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was a son of Joseph Goddard and Mary Aspinwall, both of whom were Brookline natives.
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was United States consul in Birmingham, England. He went to England in 1817, became an British citizen (by Act of the British parliament ref: HL/PO/PB/1/1839/2&3V1n249 - date: 1839) and made his home in England.
A first cousin of his mother, Col. Thomas Aspinwall (a son of Mary Aspinwall Goddard's uncle, Dr. William Aspinwall), served as United States consul in London, England from 1815 to 1853. Both men were closely related, by family and friendship, to John Quincy Adams, United States Ambassador to England from 1815 to 1817. President James Monroe was married to Aspinwall descendant Elizabeth Kortright, and the New York and Brookline branches of the Aspinwall family were very much in communication during this period in history. Thus it may be presumed Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was very much amongst his own family, and a close associate of American leaders, when he went to England.
On September 14, 1824, at Holy Trinity Church in Liverpool, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard married Miss Jemima Bachope, of Liverpool. She was the daughter of Captain James Bachope (1761-1799), of Soho Street, Liverpool, and his wife Hannah Chatburn (1762-1819). Captain Bachope had died his before daughter Jemima was born, and was buried in the church at Liverpool.
"Samuel Aspinwall Goddard came from Brookline, Massachusetts (a town near Boston), in the United States, but later moved to Birmingham, where he was a gun manufacturer and iron merchant, and wrote pamphlets on free trade and currency reform. He was the United States consul in Birmingham, and later became a naturalized British subject."
— Wikipedia entry for daughter Julia Bachope Goddard
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Goddard
Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
Office of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions.
Notice is hereby given that — 1639.
William Church of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Civil Engineer, and Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, aforesaid, Merchant and Gun Manufacturer, have given notice at the Office of Commissioners of their intention to proceed with their application for letters patent for the invention of "an improvement or improvements in ordnance". (1854)
https://books.google.com/books?id=o_JMAAAAcAAJ&q=Samuel+Aspinwall+Goddard+#v=snippet&q=Samuel%20Aspinwall%20Goddard&f=false
"He praises the work of his uncle, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, in opposing Southern influence in England and reports that Goddard is planning to publish some letters. May discusses at length the current state of the American and Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Societies."
— Letter from Samuel May, Leicester, Mass., to Richard Davis Webb, Jan. 25, 1867
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:dv1453297
"MR. H. B. SHERIDAN rose to call attention to the Petition of Mr. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, merchant and gun-maker of Birmingham [presented 24th April], stating his claims for inventions and improvements in the construction of breech-loading cannon. The Hon. Member said, that some years ago the Government had challenged the inventive power of the country to solve the problem as to having breech-loading cannon; and Mr. Goddard was one of the earliest to come forward, and he succeeded in making a breech-loading cannon."
— UK Parliament, Hansard archive. House of Commons: 16 July 1868, Commons Chamber Petition Of S A Goddard. Observations Volume 193: debated on Thursday 16 July 1868.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1868-07-16/debates/19bd6307-a1fb-4aea-828c-c5564fdb0fda/Observations
"It is now sixty-two years since the writer first left his native town, but he can truly say of it:
"Where'ere I roam, whatever climes to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee."
Birmingham, England, October 4th, 1873."
— from the author's introduction to "Recollections of Brookline — Being an Account of the Houses, the Families, and the Roads, in Brookline, in the Years 1800 to 1810", by Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, Birmingham, England. Printed by E. C. Osborne, New Street.
https://brooklinehistoricalsociety.org/history/publications/Outside/GoddardRecollections.html
His father Joseph Goddard, of Brookline, was a son of John Goddard (whom Gen. George Washington in March 1776 had named as Wagon Master General of the American Army) and his second wife, Hannah Seaver, daughter of Nathaniel Seaver and Hannah White. John Goddard's first wife was Sarah Brewer, daughter of Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo, of Roxbury.
His mother Mary Aspinwall was also from Brookline. Mary was a daughter of Samuel Aspinwall and his second wife, Mary Holbrook. Samuel Aspinwall's first wife Sybil Sparhawk was a daughter of Hon. Thomas Sparhawk and Mary Oliver, of Cambridge.
The Goddards and the Aspinwalls had lived in the town of Brookline, formerly a hamlet known as Muddy River, for many generations. Farms and bucolic estates were home to leading citizens and their families. Proximity to Boston (only 6 miles west) and an emphasis on education provided a cosmopolitan note to daily life in a town where everyone knew one another, and where cousins became spouses as well as being close friends and neighbors. These Brookline families were not isolated. They were involved in government at all levels and were active in military and other important affairs. Their number produced revolutionaries and even presidents. Connections extended far beyond the immediate area while Brookline itself remained small and idyllic, having only 605 residents in the year 1800. This was the Brookline of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's childhood.
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard (SAG) was aligned with the abolishionist cause. His cousin Susanna Aspinwall (sister of Col. Thomas Aspinwall, US consul in London) had married the prominent abolishionist Lewis Tappan. SAG's nephew Samuel May and others in the extended family were also involved in the anti-slavery movement. Tappan hired John Quincy Adams to represent the Amistad captives. President John Adams had lived in London, and his son John Quincy Adams (Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825, and sixth president of the United States in 1825-1829) was often in England. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was a cousin to the Adams family, and most certainly knew both father and son.
Reverend Samuel May, son of Mary Goddard (sister of SAG) and Samuel May, wrote to Irish abolishionist Richard Davis Webb about Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's efforts on behalf of the anti-slavery cause.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Webb
Henry Brinsley Sheridan, as a member of the House of Commons, spoke about Samuel Aspinwall Goddard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Brinsley_Sheridan
Goddard of Brookline, Massachusetts
• Joseph Goddard
Deborah Treadway
• John Goddard
Hannah Jennison
• John Goddard
Hannah Seaver
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
Works by Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
(A more complete list than found at Open Library also linked below.)
https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AGoddard%2C+Samuel+Aspinwall%2C&qt=hot_author
Books by Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The Depression of Business, by Goddard, Samuel Aspinwall; First published in 1868.
The American Rebellion; Letters on the American Rebellion; by Goddard, Samuel Aspinwall; First published in 1870.
Recollections of Brookline; Being an Account of the Houses, the Families, and the Roads, in Brookline, in the Years 1800 to 1810; by Goddard, Samuel Aspinwall; First published in 1873.
https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2498064A/Goddard_Samuel_Aspinwall.
To simplify the text, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard will sometimes be named using only his initials SAG.
Goddard
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's grandfather John Goddard was first married to Sarah Brewer, daughter of Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo. This Brewer family married with the same White family and Seaver family as the Goddard family of Brookline. Goddards and Seavers had married before John Goddard married Hannah Seaver. John's father John Goddard was first married to Lucy Seaver. The Brookline branch of the Aspinwall family married within this group almost exclusively, including also Gardner, Sparhawk and select other families. This marriage pattern becomes evident with the generations of Lt. Thomas Aspinwall and his children.
By the White family, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was a cousin of President John Adams. Joseph White, ancestor of SAG, was a brother of Benjamin White, ancestor of President Adams. Joseph White married Hannah Scarborough. Their daughter Hannah White married Nathaniel Seaver. Hannah Seaver, daughter of Hannah White and Nathaniel Seaver, married John Goddard. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was their grandson.
By the Gardner family, from whom he descends in both the maternal line and through his father, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was a cousin of President John Adams. Captain Caleb Gardner was a son of Thomas Gardner III, and father of SAG's grandmother Johanna Gardner Aspinwall. Andrew Gardner was a son of Thomas Gardner III, and brother of Caleb. They had a brother Benjamin and a brother Isaac, both of whom also married within this group of families, and whose descendants include Susanna Aspinwall (Mrs. Lewis Tappan, named above; relevant to SAG and his nephew Samuel May). These brothers were nephews of Mary Gardner who married Thomas Boylston. Andrew's daughter Sarah Gardner married John Seaver, and John's daughter Hannah Seaver married John Goddard. Hannah Seaver and John Goddard were the paternal grandparents of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard. Mary Goddard, sister of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, married Samuel May, a respected merchant of Boston. Samuel May was a descendant of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury by his son Peter Gardner, meaning Mary Goddard and her husband Samuel May were cousins in the Gardner family.
Maternal ancestor Johanna Gardner (Mrs. Lt. Thomas Aspinwall) and paternal ancestor Sarah Gardner (Mrs. John Seaver) bring the Gardner–Adams relationship to Samuel Aspinwall Goddard. Paternal ancestor Hannah White (Mrs. Nathaniel Seaver) brings the White–Adams relationship to Samuel Aspinwall Goddard.
While today being distant cousins might seem irrelevant, to SAG and his family these connections were not at all remote. They all knew one another as family, neighbors, and friends. They inherited from the same ancestors, dividing land and assets. They also married into the same families again and again. This explains why first cousins Goddard and Aspinwall were in England representing the United States government. Their ancestors were established in Brookline as allied families. Together they planned and won the American Revolution. They were distant cousins of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and of Elizabeth Kortright, wife of President James Monroe. Other cousins too numerous to list include Thomas Aspinwall Davis, who was by his father a great-nephew of Governor Sumner.
Aspinwall
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's grandfather Samuel Aspinwall was one of four sons born to Brookline natives Lt. Thomas Aspinwall and Johanna Gardner, daughter of Captain Caleb Gardner and Abial Phipps. Lt. Thomas Aspinwall was a son of Captain Samuel Aspinwall and Sarah Stevens; and a grandson of Peter Aspinwall and Remember Palfrey. Johanna Gardner was a cousin of President John Adams, her father Caleb having been a nephew of Mary Gardner (Mrs. Thomas Boylston).
Samuel Aspinwall was a brother of Elizabeth Aspinwall (Mrs. Capt. Benjamin White); Caleb Aspinwall (Hannah Hastings); Sarah Aspinwall (Thomas Phipps Darrell); Joanna Aspinwall (John Brewer, brother of John Goddard's first wife Sarah Brewer); Dr. William Aspinwall (Susannah Gardner) - Susannah Gardner was a daughter of Isaac Gardner, Jr. and Mary Sparhawk, and niece of Lucy Sparhawk (Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall) and Sybil Sparhawk (first wife of SAG's grandfather Samuel Aspinwall); Katherine Aspinwall (George Green); and Mehitable Aspinwall (William Sherburne).
Mary Holbrook, grandmother of SAG
Mary Holbrook's parents are unclear; however there may be more information with direct descendants. Mary was probably a member of the same Holbrook family as the one married with the Hemingway, Mayo, and Brewer line of Sarah Brewer (first wife of John Goddard).
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard (SAG) was a descendant of some ancestors by his mother and by his father. Family connections established by previous generations were important to the Goddard and Aspinwall family.
Allied families
Goddard, Seaver, Brewer, Aspinwall, and certain others were allied families. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's paternal grandmother was Hannah Seaver. John Goddard, son of Joseph Goddard and Deborah Treadway, was married first to Luce Seaver, and secondly to SAG's ancestor Hannah Jennison. Marriages with the Weld family were repeated, and Gardner also. The Gardner family in Brookline were descendants of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury who became residents of Muddy River which subsequently became the town of Brookline, Massachusetts. Sparhawk was yet another family interwoven by multiple marriages to the extended family of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's ancestors. His father Samuel Aspinwall was first married to Sybil Sparhawk. Sybil's sister Lucy Sparhawk married Samuel's brother Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall. Another of Samuel Aspinwall's brothers was Dr. William Aspinwall. He married Susannah Gardner, daughter of Mary Sparhawk and Isaac Gardner, Jr. Mary Sparhawk was a sister of Lucy and Sybil. Thus a number of marriages created allied family relationships, with ties renewed by new marriages in each generation.
Maternal ancestors of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard in Massachusetts
Aspinwall
• Peter Aspinwall
Remember Palfrey
• Captain Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Palfrey
• Peter Palfrey
Edith Knight
• Remember Palfrey
Peter Aspinwall
• Captain Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Stevens
• John Stevens
Alice Atkins
• John Stevens
Elizabeth Parker
• Timothy Stevens
Sarah Davis
• Sarah Stevens
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Davis
• Tobias Davis
Sarah Morrill
• Sarah Davis
Timothy Stevens
• Sarah Stevens
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Parents of Tobias Davis are unknown.
Morrill
• Isaac Morrill
Sarah
• Sarah Morrill
Tobias Davis
• Sarah Davis
Timothy Stevens
• Sarah Stevens
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Gardner
• Thomas Gardner of Roxbury
Margaret Friar
• Thomas Gardner
Lucy Smith
• Thomas Gardner III
Mary Bowles
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Parents of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury are unknown.
Thomas Gardner of Roxbury and his son Thomas Gardner are paternal ancestors also. Andrew Gardner is the Goddard ancestor. Andrew's brother Thomas Gardner III is a Aspinwall ancestor.
Smith
• Francis Smith
Alice
• Lucy Smith
Thomas Gardner
• Thomas Gardner III
Mary Bowles
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Bowles
• John Bowles
Elizabeth Heath
• Mary Bowles
Thomas Gardner III
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
The Bowles genealogy book published long ago gives a false lineage to the Bowles family of Massachusetts. Care should be taken when researching ancestors of John Bowles.
Heath
• William Heath
Agnes Cheney (of England)
• Isaac Heath
Elizabeth Miller
• Elizabeth Heath
John Bowles
• Mary Bowles
Thomas Gardner III
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Elizabeth Miller has a couple of generations of ancestors, and they are connected to her memorial page. These are considered accurate.
Phipps
• Solomon Phipps
Elizabeth Wood
• Solomon Phipps
Mary Danforth
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Wood
• Edward Wood
Ruth Lee
• Elizabeth Wood
Solomon Phipps
• Solomon Phipps
Mary Danforth
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Edward's father was Lewis Wood. See more on his memorial page.
Danforth
• Thomas Danforth
Mary Withington
• Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Thomas Danforth was a son of Nicholas Danforth. See more about the Danforth family on memorial pages for Thomas Danforth's parents and siblings.
Withington
• Henry Withington
Elizabeth Smith
• Mary Withington
Thomas Danforth
• Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Not the same Smith family as Lucy and Mary named in this biography. Elizabeth Smith, said to be sister of Thomas Smith, a well-known merchant of London. (Source: Henry Withington of Dorchester, Mass., and Some of His Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register Vol. 75 (1921), page 142). Not the same family as ancestors Francis Smith and Alice.
Paternal Ancestors of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
- Goddard descendants will have more information. This is an outline only. The D'Oyley and Goddard lines are recorded in various books and elsewhere online. As noted above, connections through the generations link Samuel Aspinwall Goddard to relatives including President John Adams, which may have influenced SAG's being selected to represent the new American government in his role as United States consul in Birmingham, England. This author finds much value in understanding these family relationships.
White
• John White
Frances Jackson
• Joseph White
Hannah Scarborough
• Benjamin White
Margaret Weld
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Scarborough
• John Scarborough
Mary Smith
• Hannah Scarborough
Joseph White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Gardner
• Thomas Gardner of Roxbury
Margaret Friar
• Thomas Gardner
Lucy Smith
• Andrew Gardner
Sarah Mason
• Sarah Gardner
John Seaver
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Thomas Gardner of Roxbury is a paternal ancestor and maternal ancestor of SAG.
Mason
• Hugh Mason
Hester Wells
• Sarah Mason
Andrew Gardner
• Sarah Gardner
John Seaver
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Weld
• Edmund Weld
Amye
• Captain Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
• John Weld
Margaret Bowen
• Lt. Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Bowen
• Griffith Bowen
Margaret Fleming
• Margaret Bowen
John Weld
• Lt. Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Faxon
• Thomas Faxon
Deborah Thayer
• Sarah Faxon
Lt. Joseph Weld
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Thayer
• Richard Thayer
Dorothy Mortimore
• Deborah Thayer
Thomas Faxon
• Sarah Faxon
Lt. Joseph Weld
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Seaver
• Robert Seaver
Elizabeth Ballard
• Nathaniel Seaver
Sarah Davis
• John Seaver
Sarah Gardner
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
This Sarah Davis (wife of Nathaniel Seaver) was a daughter of Richard Davis and Sarah Burrill. Parents of Richard Davis are unknown. Sarah Burrill (wife of Richard Davis, and mother of Sarah Davis who married Nathaniel Seaver) was a daughter of John Burrill, or Burrell, and his wife Sarah. The mother Sarah's maiden name is unknown. Sarah unknown was first married to John Burrill, and secondly married to Robert Seaver. Richard Davis may or may not be connected to the other Davis families who are ancestors. The records simply do not exist to tie these Davis men to each other.
Sarah Gardner's father was Andrew Gardner, a descendant of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury.
Davis
• Richard Davis
Sarah Burrill
• Sarah Davis
Nathaniel Seaver
• John Seaver
Sarah Gardner
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
CHILDREN of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard and his wife Jemima Bachope
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard had ten children, all born in England to his wife Jemima Bachope.
• Julia Bachope Goddard, noted author and animal welfare advocate. Julia did not marry.
• Mary Louisa May Goddard died in middle age. She did not marry.
• Edward Delavan Goddard. His sister Fanny Delevan Goddard handled Edward's estate following his death.
• Rev. William Henry Goddard, Rector of East Mersea. He had seven children.
• Caroline Elizabeth Gray Goddard, died aged 18 of scarlet fever
• Fanny Delavan Goddard (1833–1920) did not marry. At her death in 1920, Fanny was the last surviving child of Jemima and Samuel Aspinwall Goddard.
• Emily Vanwart Goddard, died at 2 years old
• Constance Elizabeth Goddard, died at 18 months old
• Rev. Francis Aspinwall Goddard
• Samuel May Goddard, architect, as an adult lived in Canada and the United States. He is buried in Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.
Grandchildren include Francis Ambrose D'Oyly Goddard (1869–1962), a son of Reverend Francis Aspinwall Goddard of England. Another grandson was Roland Frederick Norton Goddard, son of Rev. William Henry Goddard of England. Grandson Francis Warren Morrison Goddard lived in Salida, Colorado. Grandson John May Goddard also lived in Salida, Colorado.
• SAG's cousin Col. Thomas Aspinwall was U.S. Consul to London. He and his family lived in England for many years and returned to Brookline once his appointment ended. His daughter remained in England as the wife of William Henry Domville.
• SAG's cousin Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall married Edward Brewer, a White descendant and cousin of John Adams. Earlier generations of the Aspinwall family were married with White or White descendants also. SAG was a descendant of the White family, as noted in this biography.
• Information is mainly taken from publications found online and the Brookline Historical Society, and the Goddard family website. The information presented here is not complete but should be accurate with the exception of any typographical errors or other mistakes.
Brookline, Massachusetts Population in 1800
A History of Brookline, Massachusetts, from the First Settlement of Muddy River Until the Present Time: 1630-1906; Commemorating the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Town, based on the Early Records and Other Authorities and Arranged by Leading Subjects. Containing Portraits and Sketches of the Town's Prominent Men Past and Present; Also Illustrations of Public Buildings and Residences
By John William Denehy
Brookline Press Company, 1906 (255 pages)
https://books.google.com/books?id=FHkUAAAAYAAJ&dq=Brookline+Massachusetts+1800+population&q=1800+population+#v=snippet&q=1800%20population&f=false
SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Visitation of England and Wales, Volume 6
Edited by Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp
Privately printed, 1898
https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_Y7AAAAMAAJ&q=Goddard#v=snippet&q=Goddard&f=false
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The London Gazette: The Appointed Organ for All Announcements of the Executive, 1854.
H.M. Stationery Office, 1854.
https://books.google.com/books?id=o_JMAAAAcAAJ&q=Samuel+Aspinwall+Goddard+#v=snippet&q=Samuel%20Aspinwall%20Goddard&f=false
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The London Gazette, Part One, pages 355 and 356
https://books.google.com/books?id=tBlKAQAAMAAJ&q=Samuel+Aspinwall+Goddard+#v=snippet&q=Samuel%20Aspinwall%20Goddard&f=false
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The Transatlantic Address to Lincoln: Birmingham and the American Civil War; by R.J.M. Blackett
Pages 29-52 | Published online: 06 Sep 2010
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https://doi.org/10.1080/912397302
and American History online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/912397302?needAccess=true&journalCode=fanc20
Goddard of Englesham, A New England Branch, by Goddard, Rainald William Knightley, 1859 - Publication by Devizes, London, England 1901. (grandson of SAG)
https://archive.org/details/goddardofenglesh00godd/mode/2up
Note: Any errors, mistakes, typographical errors, or inaccuracies are the responsibility of a distant cousin, whose work on family history has been a labor of love in honor of her own father, and who shares ancestors and ancestral lines with the Goddard family. Please feel free to rewrite, and remove as is your preference any or all biography found here, and to remove this notation. – IHP
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was United States consul in Birmingham, England. He went to England in 1817, became an British citizen (by Act of the British parliament ref: HL/PO/PB/1/1839/2&3V1n249 - date: 1839) and made his home in England.
A first cousin of his mother, Col. Thomas Aspinwall (a son of Mary Aspinwall Goddard's uncle, Dr. William Aspinwall), served as United States consul in London, England from 1815 to 1853. Both men were closely related, by family and friendship, to John Quincy Adams, United States Ambassador to England from 1815 to 1817. President James Monroe was married to Aspinwall descendant Elizabeth Kortright, and the New York and Brookline branches of the Aspinwall family were very much in communication during this period in history. Thus it may be presumed Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was very much amongst his own family, and a close associate of American leaders, when he went to England.
On September 14, 1824, at Holy Trinity Church in Liverpool, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard married Miss Jemima Bachope, of Liverpool. She was the daughter of Captain James Bachope (1761-1799), of Soho Street, Liverpool, and his wife Hannah Chatburn (1762-1819). Captain Bachope had died his before daughter Jemima was born, and was buried in the church at Liverpool.
"Samuel Aspinwall Goddard came from Brookline, Massachusetts (a town near Boston), in the United States, but later moved to Birmingham, where he was a gun manufacturer and iron merchant, and wrote pamphlets on free trade and currency reform. He was the United States consul in Birmingham, and later became a naturalized British subject."
— Wikipedia entry for daughter Julia Bachope Goddard
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Goddard
Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
Office of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions.
Notice is hereby given that — 1639.
William Church of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Civil Engineer, and Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, aforesaid, Merchant and Gun Manufacturer, have given notice at the Office of Commissioners of their intention to proceed with their application for letters patent for the invention of "an improvement or improvements in ordnance". (1854)
https://books.google.com/books?id=o_JMAAAAcAAJ&q=Samuel+Aspinwall+Goddard+#v=snippet&q=Samuel%20Aspinwall%20Goddard&f=false
"He praises the work of his uncle, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, in opposing Southern influence in England and reports that Goddard is planning to publish some letters. May discusses at length the current state of the American and Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Societies."
— Letter from Samuel May, Leicester, Mass., to Richard Davis Webb, Jan. 25, 1867
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:dv1453297
"MR. H. B. SHERIDAN rose to call attention to the Petition of Mr. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, merchant and gun-maker of Birmingham [presented 24th April], stating his claims for inventions and improvements in the construction of breech-loading cannon. The Hon. Member said, that some years ago the Government had challenged the inventive power of the country to solve the problem as to having breech-loading cannon; and Mr. Goddard was one of the earliest to come forward, and he succeeded in making a breech-loading cannon."
— UK Parliament, Hansard archive. House of Commons: 16 July 1868, Commons Chamber Petition Of S A Goddard. Observations Volume 193: debated on Thursday 16 July 1868.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1868-07-16/debates/19bd6307-a1fb-4aea-828c-c5564fdb0fda/Observations
"It is now sixty-two years since the writer first left his native town, but he can truly say of it:
"Where'ere I roam, whatever climes to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee."
Birmingham, England, October 4th, 1873."
— from the author's introduction to "Recollections of Brookline — Being an Account of the Houses, the Families, and the Roads, in Brookline, in the Years 1800 to 1810", by Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, Birmingham, England. Printed by E. C. Osborne, New Street.
https://brooklinehistoricalsociety.org/history/publications/Outside/GoddardRecollections.html
His father Joseph Goddard, of Brookline, was a son of John Goddard (whom Gen. George Washington in March 1776 had named as Wagon Master General of the American Army) and his second wife, Hannah Seaver, daughter of Nathaniel Seaver and Hannah White. John Goddard's first wife was Sarah Brewer, daughter of Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo, of Roxbury.
His mother Mary Aspinwall was also from Brookline. Mary was a daughter of Samuel Aspinwall and his second wife, Mary Holbrook. Samuel Aspinwall's first wife Sybil Sparhawk was a daughter of Hon. Thomas Sparhawk and Mary Oliver, of Cambridge.
The Goddards and the Aspinwalls had lived in the town of Brookline, formerly a hamlet known as Muddy River, for many generations. Farms and bucolic estates were home to leading citizens and their families. Proximity to Boston (only 6 miles west) and an emphasis on education provided a cosmopolitan note to daily life in a town where everyone knew one another, and where cousins became spouses as well as being close friends and neighbors. These Brookline families were not isolated. They were involved in government at all levels and were active in military and other important affairs. Their number produced revolutionaries and even presidents. Connections extended far beyond the immediate area while Brookline itself remained small and idyllic, having only 605 residents in the year 1800. This was the Brookline of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's childhood.
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard (SAG) was aligned with the abolishionist cause. His cousin Susanna Aspinwall (sister of Col. Thomas Aspinwall, US consul in London) had married the prominent abolishionist Lewis Tappan. SAG's nephew Samuel May and others in the extended family were also involved in the anti-slavery movement. Tappan hired John Quincy Adams to represent the Amistad captives. President John Adams had lived in London, and his son John Quincy Adams (Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825, and sixth president of the United States in 1825-1829) was often in England. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was a cousin to the Adams family, and most certainly knew both father and son.
Reverend Samuel May, son of Mary Goddard (sister of SAG) and Samuel May, wrote to Irish abolishionist Richard Davis Webb about Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's efforts on behalf of the anti-slavery cause.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Webb
Henry Brinsley Sheridan, as a member of the House of Commons, spoke about Samuel Aspinwall Goddard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Brinsley_Sheridan
Goddard of Brookline, Massachusetts
• Joseph Goddard
Deborah Treadway
• John Goddard
Hannah Jennison
• John Goddard
Hannah Seaver
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
Works by Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
(A more complete list than found at Open Library also linked below.)
https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AGoddard%2C+Samuel+Aspinwall%2C&qt=hot_author
Books by Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The Depression of Business, by Goddard, Samuel Aspinwall; First published in 1868.
The American Rebellion; Letters on the American Rebellion; by Goddard, Samuel Aspinwall; First published in 1870.
Recollections of Brookline; Being an Account of the Houses, the Families, and the Roads, in Brookline, in the Years 1800 to 1810; by Goddard, Samuel Aspinwall; First published in 1873.
https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2498064A/Goddard_Samuel_Aspinwall.
To simplify the text, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard will sometimes be named using only his initials SAG.
Goddard
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's grandfather John Goddard was first married to Sarah Brewer, daughter of Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo. This Brewer family married with the same White family and Seaver family as the Goddard family of Brookline. Goddards and Seavers had married before John Goddard married Hannah Seaver. John's father John Goddard was first married to Lucy Seaver. The Brookline branch of the Aspinwall family married within this group almost exclusively, including also Gardner, Sparhawk and select other families. This marriage pattern becomes evident with the generations of Lt. Thomas Aspinwall and his children.
By the White family, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was a cousin of President John Adams. Joseph White, ancestor of SAG, was a brother of Benjamin White, ancestor of President Adams. Joseph White married Hannah Scarborough. Their daughter Hannah White married Nathaniel Seaver. Hannah Seaver, daughter of Hannah White and Nathaniel Seaver, married John Goddard. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was their grandson.
By the Gardner family, from whom he descends in both the maternal line and through his father, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was a cousin of President John Adams. Captain Caleb Gardner was a son of Thomas Gardner III, and father of SAG's grandmother Johanna Gardner Aspinwall. Andrew Gardner was a son of Thomas Gardner III, and brother of Caleb. They had a brother Benjamin and a brother Isaac, both of whom also married within this group of families, and whose descendants include Susanna Aspinwall (Mrs. Lewis Tappan, named above; relevant to SAG and his nephew Samuel May). These brothers were nephews of Mary Gardner who married Thomas Boylston. Andrew's daughter Sarah Gardner married John Seaver, and John's daughter Hannah Seaver married John Goddard. Hannah Seaver and John Goddard were the paternal grandparents of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard. Mary Goddard, sister of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, married Samuel May, a respected merchant of Boston. Samuel May was a descendant of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury by his son Peter Gardner, meaning Mary Goddard and her husband Samuel May were cousins in the Gardner family.
Maternal ancestor Johanna Gardner (Mrs. Lt. Thomas Aspinwall) and paternal ancestor Sarah Gardner (Mrs. John Seaver) bring the Gardner–Adams relationship to Samuel Aspinwall Goddard. Paternal ancestor Hannah White (Mrs. Nathaniel Seaver) brings the White–Adams relationship to Samuel Aspinwall Goddard.
While today being distant cousins might seem irrelevant, to SAG and his family these connections were not at all remote. They all knew one another as family, neighbors, and friends. They inherited from the same ancestors, dividing land and assets. They also married into the same families again and again. This explains why first cousins Goddard and Aspinwall were in England representing the United States government. Their ancestors were established in Brookline as allied families. Together they planned and won the American Revolution. They were distant cousins of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and of Elizabeth Kortright, wife of President James Monroe. Other cousins too numerous to list include Thomas Aspinwall Davis, who was by his father a great-nephew of Governor Sumner.
Aspinwall
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's grandfather Samuel Aspinwall was one of four sons born to Brookline natives Lt. Thomas Aspinwall and Johanna Gardner, daughter of Captain Caleb Gardner and Abial Phipps. Lt. Thomas Aspinwall was a son of Captain Samuel Aspinwall and Sarah Stevens; and a grandson of Peter Aspinwall and Remember Palfrey. Johanna Gardner was a cousin of President John Adams, her father Caleb having been a nephew of Mary Gardner (Mrs. Thomas Boylston).
Samuel Aspinwall was a brother of Elizabeth Aspinwall (Mrs. Capt. Benjamin White); Caleb Aspinwall (Hannah Hastings); Sarah Aspinwall (Thomas Phipps Darrell); Joanna Aspinwall (John Brewer, brother of John Goddard's first wife Sarah Brewer); Dr. William Aspinwall (Susannah Gardner) - Susannah Gardner was a daughter of Isaac Gardner, Jr. and Mary Sparhawk, and niece of Lucy Sparhawk (Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall) and Sybil Sparhawk (first wife of SAG's grandfather Samuel Aspinwall); Katherine Aspinwall (George Green); and Mehitable Aspinwall (William Sherburne).
Mary Holbrook, grandmother of SAG
Mary Holbrook's parents are unclear; however there may be more information with direct descendants. Mary was probably a member of the same Holbrook family as the one married with the Hemingway, Mayo, and Brewer line of Sarah Brewer (first wife of John Goddard).
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard (SAG) was a descendant of some ancestors by his mother and by his father. Family connections established by previous generations were important to the Goddard and Aspinwall family.
Allied families
Goddard, Seaver, Brewer, Aspinwall, and certain others were allied families. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's paternal grandmother was Hannah Seaver. John Goddard, son of Joseph Goddard and Deborah Treadway, was married first to Luce Seaver, and secondly to SAG's ancestor Hannah Jennison. Marriages with the Weld family were repeated, and Gardner also. The Gardner family in Brookline were descendants of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury who became residents of Muddy River which subsequently became the town of Brookline, Massachusetts. Sparhawk was yet another family interwoven by multiple marriages to the extended family of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's ancestors. His father Samuel Aspinwall was first married to Sybil Sparhawk. Sybil's sister Lucy Sparhawk married Samuel's brother Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall. Another of Samuel Aspinwall's brothers was Dr. William Aspinwall. He married Susannah Gardner, daughter of Mary Sparhawk and Isaac Gardner, Jr. Mary Sparhawk was a sister of Lucy and Sybil. Thus a number of marriages created allied family relationships, with ties renewed by new marriages in each generation.
Maternal ancestors of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard in Massachusetts
Aspinwall
• Peter Aspinwall
Remember Palfrey
• Captain Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Palfrey
• Peter Palfrey
Edith Knight
• Remember Palfrey
Peter Aspinwall
• Captain Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Stevens
• John Stevens
Alice Atkins
• John Stevens
Elizabeth Parker
• Timothy Stevens
Sarah Davis
• Sarah Stevens
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Davis
• Tobias Davis
Sarah Morrill
• Sarah Davis
Timothy Stevens
• Sarah Stevens
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Parents of Tobias Davis are unknown.
Morrill
• Isaac Morrill
Sarah
• Sarah Morrill
Tobias Davis
• Sarah Davis
Timothy Stevens
• Sarah Stevens
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Gardner
• Thomas Gardner of Roxbury
Margaret Friar
• Thomas Gardner
Lucy Smith
• Thomas Gardner III
Mary Bowles
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Parents of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury are unknown.
Thomas Gardner of Roxbury and his son Thomas Gardner are paternal ancestors also. Andrew Gardner is the Goddard ancestor. Andrew's brother Thomas Gardner III is a Aspinwall ancestor.
Smith
• Francis Smith
Alice
• Lucy Smith
Thomas Gardner
• Thomas Gardner III
Mary Bowles
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Bowles
• John Bowles
Elizabeth Heath
• Mary Bowles
Thomas Gardner III
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
The Bowles genealogy book published long ago gives a false lineage to the Bowles family of Massachusetts. Care should be taken when researching ancestors of John Bowles.
Heath
• William Heath
Agnes Cheney (of England)
• Isaac Heath
Elizabeth Miller
• Elizabeth Heath
John Bowles
• Mary Bowles
Thomas Gardner III
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Elizabeth Miller has a couple of generations of ancestors, and they are connected to her memorial page. These are considered accurate.
Phipps
• Solomon Phipps
Elizabeth Wood
• Solomon Phipps
Mary Danforth
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Wood
• Edward Wood
Ruth Lee
• Elizabeth Wood
Solomon Phipps
• Solomon Phipps
Mary Danforth
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Edward's father was Lewis Wood. See more on his memorial page.
Danforth
• Thomas Danforth
Mary Withington
• Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Thomas Danforth was a son of Nicholas Danforth. See more about the Danforth family on memorial pages for Thomas Danforth's parents and siblings.
Withington
• Henry Withington
Elizabeth Smith
• Mary Withington
Thomas Danforth
• Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Not the same Smith family as Lucy and Mary named in this biography. Elizabeth Smith, said to be sister of Thomas Smith, a well-known merchant of London. (Source: Henry Withington of Dorchester, Mass., and Some of His Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register Vol. 75 (1921), page 142). Not the same family as ancestors Francis Smith and Alice.
Paternal Ancestors of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
- Goddard descendants will have more information. This is an outline only. The D'Oyley and Goddard lines are recorded in various books and elsewhere online. As noted above, connections through the generations link Samuel Aspinwall Goddard to relatives including President John Adams, which may have influenced SAG's being selected to represent the new American government in his role as United States consul in Birmingham, England. This author finds much value in understanding these family relationships.
White
• John White
Frances Jackson
• Joseph White
Hannah Scarborough
• Benjamin White
Margaret Weld
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Scarborough
• John Scarborough
Mary Smith
• Hannah Scarborough
Joseph White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Gardner
• Thomas Gardner of Roxbury
Margaret Friar
• Thomas Gardner
Lucy Smith
• Andrew Gardner
Sarah Mason
• Sarah Gardner
John Seaver
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Thomas Gardner of Roxbury is a paternal ancestor and maternal ancestor of SAG.
Mason
• Hugh Mason
Hester Wells
• Sarah Mason
Andrew Gardner
• Sarah Gardner
John Seaver
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Weld
• Edmund Weld
Amye
• Captain Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
• John Weld
Margaret Bowen
• Lt. Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Bowen
• Griffith Bowen
Margaret Fleming
• Margaret Bowen
John Weld
• Lt. Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Faxon
• Thomas Faxon
Deborah Thayer
• Sarah Faxon
Lt. Joseph Weld
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Thayer
• Richard Thayer
Dorothy Mortimore
• Deborah Thayer
Thomas Faxon
• Sarah Faxon
Lt. Joseph Weld
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Seaver
• Robert Seaver
Elizabeth Ballard
• Nathaniel Seaver
Sarah Davis
• John Seaver
Sarah Gardner
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
This Sarah Davis (wife of Nathaniel Seaver) was a daughter of Richard Davis and Sarah Burrill. Parents of Richard Davis are unknown. Sarah Burrill (wife of Richard Davis, and mother of Sarah Davis who married Nathaniel Seaver) was a daughter of John Burrill, or Burrell, and his wife Sarah. The mother Sarah's maiden name is unknown. Sarah unknown was first married to John Burrill, and secondly married to Robert Seaver. Richard Davis may or may not be connected to the other Davis families who are ancestors. The records simply do not exist to tie these Davis men to each other.
Sarah Gardner's father was Andrew Gardner, a descendant of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury.
Davis
• Richard Davis
Sarah Burrill
• Sarah Davis
Nathaniel Seaver
• John Seaver
Sarah Gardner
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
CHILDREN of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard and his wife Jemima Bachope
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard had ten children, all born in England to his wife Jemima Bachope.
• Julia Bachope Goddard, noted author and animal welfare advocate. Julia did not marry.
• Mary Louisa May Goddard died in middle age. She did not marry.
• Edward Delavan Goddard. His sister Fanny Delevan Goddard handled Edward's estate following his death.
• Rev. William Henry Goddard, Rector of East Mersea. He had seven children.
• Caroline Elizabeth Gray Goddard, died aged 18 of scarlet fever
• Fanny Delavan Goddard (1833–1920) did not marry. At her death in 1920, Fanny was the last surviving child of Jemima and Samuel Aspinwall Goddard.
• Emily Vanwart Goddard, died at 2 years old
• Constance Elizabeth Goddard, died at 18 months old
• Rev. Francis Aspinwall Goddard
• Samuel May Goddard, architect, as an adult lived in Canada and the United States. He is buried in Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.
Grandchildren include Francis Ambrose D'Oyly Goddard (1869–1962), a son of Reverend Francis Aspinwall Goddard of England. Another grandson was Roland Frederick Norton Goddard, son of Rev. William Henry Goddard of England. Grandson Francis Warren Morrison Goddard lived in Salida, Colorado. Grandson John May Goddard also lived in Salida, Colorado.
• SAG's cousin Col. Thomas Aspinwall was U.S. Consul to London. He and his family lived in England for many years and returned to Brookline once his appointment ended. His daughter remained in England as the wife of William Henry Domville.
• SAG's cousin Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall married Edward Brewer, a White descendant and cousin of John Adams. Earlier generations of the Aspinwall family were married with White or White descendants also. SAG was a descendant of the White family, as noted in this biography.
• Information is mainly taken from publications found online and the Brookline Historical Society, and the Goddard family website. The information presented here is not complete but should be accurate with the exception of any typographical errors or other mistakes.
Brookline, Massachusetts Population in 1800
A History of Brookline, Massachusetts, from the First Settlement of Muddy River Until the Present Time: 1630-1906; Commemorating the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Town, based on the Early Records and Other Authorities and Arranged by Leading Subjects. Containing Portraits and Sketches of the Town's Prominent Men Past and Present; Also Illustrations of Public Buildings and Residences
By John William Denehy
Brookline Press Company, 1906 (255 pages)
https://books.google.com/books?id=FHkUAAAAYAAJ&dq=Brookline+Massachusetts+1800+population&q=1800+population+#v=snippet&q=1800%20population&f=false
SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Visitation of England and Wales, Volume 6
Edited by Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp
Privately printed, 1898
https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_Y7AAAAMAAJ&q=Goddard#v=snippet&q=Goddard&f=false
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The London Gazette: The Appointed Organ for All Announcements of the Executive, 1854.
H.M. Stationery Office, 1854.
https://books.google.com/books?id=o_JMAAAAcAAJ&q=Samuel+Aspinwall+Goddard+#v=snippet&q=Samuel%20Aspinwall%20Goddard&f=false
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The London Gazette, Part One, pages 355 and 356
https://books.google.com/books?id=tBlKAQAAMAAJ&q=Samuel+Aspinwall+Goddard+#v=snippet&q=Samuel%20Aspinwall%20Goddard&f=false
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The Transatlantic Address to Lincoln: Birmingham and the American Civil War; by R.J.M. Blackett
Pages 29-52 | Published online: 06 Sep 2010
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https://doi.org/10.1080/912397302
and American History online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/912397302?needAccess=true&journalCode=fanc20
Goddard of Englesham, A New England Branch, by Goddard, Rainald William Knightley, 1859 - Publication by Devizes, London, England 1901. (grandson of SAG)
https://archive.org/details/goddardofenglesh00godd/mode/2up
Note: Any errors, mistakes, typographical errors, or inaccuracies are the responsibility of a distant cousin, whose work on family history has been a labor of love in honor of her own father, and who shares ancestors and ancestral lines with the Goddard family. Please feel free to rewrite, and remove as is your preference any or all biography found here, and to remove this notation. – IHP
SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD was born on October 4, 1796 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was a son of Joseph Goddard and Mary Aspinwall, both of whom were Brookline natives.
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was United States consul in Birmingham, England. He went to England in 1817, became an British citizen (by Act of the British parliament ref: HL/PO/PB/1/1839/2&3V1n249 - date: 1839) and made his home in England.
A first cousin of his mother, Col. Thomas Aspinwall (a son of Mary Aspinwall Goddard's uncle, Dr. William Aspinwall), served as United States consul in London, England from 1815 to 1853. Both men were closely related, by family and friendship, to John Quincy Adams, United States Ambassador to England from 1815 to 1817. President James Monroe was married to Aspinwall descendant Elizabeth Kortright, and the New York and Brookline branches of the Aspinwall family were very much in communication during this period in history. Thus it may be presumed Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was very much amongst his own family, and a close associate of American leaders, when he went to England.
On September 14, 1824, at Holy Trinity Church in Liverpool, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard married Miss Jemima Bachope, of Liverpool. She was the daughter of Captain James Bachope (1761-1799), of Soho Street, Liverpool, and his wife Hannah Chatburn (1762-1819). Captain Bachope had died his before daughter Jemima was born, and was buried in the church at Liverpool.
"Samuel Aspinwall Goddard came from Brookline, Massachusetts (a town near Boston), in the United States, but later moved to Birmingham, where he was a gun manufacturer and iron merchant, and wrote pamphlets on free trade and currency reform. He was the United States consul in Birmingham, and later became a naturalized British subject."
— Wikipedia entry for daughter Julia Bachope Goddard
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Goddard
Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
Office of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions.
Notice is hereby given that — 1639.
William Church of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Civil Engineer, and Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, aforesaid, Merchant and Gun Manufacturer, have given notice at the Office of Commissioners of their intention to proceed with their application for letters patent for the invention of "an improvement or improvements in ordnance". (1854)
https://books.google.com/books?id=o_JMAAAAcAAJ&q=Samuel+Aspinwall+Goddard+#v=snippet&q=Samuel%20Aspinwall%20Goddard&f=false
"He praises the work of his uncle, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, in opposing Southern influence in England and reports that Goddard is planning to publish some letters. May discusses at length the current state of the American and Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Societies."
— Letter from Samuel May, Leicester, Mass., to Richard Davis Webb, Jan. 25, 1867
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:dv1453297
"MR. H. B. SHERIDAN rose to call attention to the Petition of Mr. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, merchant and gun-maker of Birmingham [presented 24th April], stating his claims for inventions and improvements in the construction of breech-loading cannon. The Hon. Member said, that some years ago the Government had challenged the inventive power of the country to solve the problem as to having breech-loading cannon; and Mr. Goddard was one of the earliest to come forward, and he succeeded in making a breech-loading cannon."
— UK Parliament, Hansard archive. House of Commons: 16 July 1868, Commons Chamber Petition Of S A Goddard. Observations Volume 193: debated on Thursday 16 July 1868.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1868-07-16/debates/19bd6307-a1fb-4aea-828c-c5564fdb0fda/Observations
"It is now sixty-two years since the writer first left his native town, but he can truly say of it:
"Where'ere I roam, whatever climes to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee."
Birmingham, England, October 4th, 1873."
— from the author's introduction to "Recollections of Brookline — Being an Account of the Houses, the Families, and the Roads, in Brookline, in the Years 1800 to 1810", by Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, Birmingham, England. Printed by E. C. Osborne, New Street.
https://brooklinehistoricalsociety.org/history/publications/Outside/GoddardRecollections.html
His father Joseph Goddard, of Brookline, was a son of John Goddard (whom Gen. George Washington in March 1776 had named as Wagon Master General of the American Army) and his second wife, Hannah Seaver, daughter of Nathaniel Seaver and Hannah White. John Goddard's first wife was Sarah Brewer, daughter of Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo, of Roxbury.
His mother Mary Aspinwall was also from Brookline. Mary was a daughter of Samuel Aspinwall and his second wife, Mary Holbrook. Samuel Aspinwall's first wife Sybil Sparhawk was a daughter of Hon. Thomas Sparhawk and Mary Oliver, of Cambridge.
The Goddards and the Aspinwalls had lived in the town of Brookline, formerly a hamlet known as Muddy River, for many generations. Farms and bucolic estates were home to leading citizens and their families. Proximity to Boston (only 6 miles west) and an emphasis on education provided a cosmopolitan note to daily life in a town where everyone knew one another, and where cousins became spouses as well as being close friends and neighbors. These Brookline families were not isolated. They were involved in government at all levels and were active in military and other important affairs. Their number produced revolutionaries and even presidents. Connections extended far beyond the immediate area while Brookline itself remained small and idyllic, having only 605 residents in the year 1800. This was the Brookline of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's childhood.
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard (SAG) was aligned with the abolishionist cause. His cousin Susanna Aspinwall (sister of Col. Thomas Aspinwall, US consul in London) had married the prominent abolishionist Lewis Tappan. SAG's nephew Samuel May and others in the extended family were also involved in the anti-slavery movement. Tappan hired John Quincy Adams to represent the Amistad captives. President John Adams had lived in London, and his son John Quincy Adams (Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825, and sixth president of the United States in 1825-1829) was often in England. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was a cousin to the Adams family, and most certainly knew both father and son.
Reverend Samuel May, son of Mary Goddard (sister of SAG) and Samuel May, wrote to Irish abolishionist Richard Davis Webb about Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's efforts on behalf of the anti-slavery cause.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Webb
Henry Brinsley Sheridan, as a member of the House of Commons, spoke about Samuel Aspinwall Goddard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Brinsley_Sheridan
Goddard of Brookline, Massachusetts
• Joseph Goddard
Deborah Treadway
• John Goddard
Hannah Jennison
• John Goddard
Hannah Seaver
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
Works by Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
(A more complete list than found at Open Library also linked below.)
https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AGoddard%2C+Samuel+Aspinwall%2C&qt=hot_author
Books by Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The Depression of Business, by Goddard, Samuel Aspinwall; First published in 1868.
The American Rebellion; Letters on the American Rebellion; by Goddard, Samuel Aspinwall; First published in 1870.
Recollections of Brookline; Being an Account of the Houses, the Families, and the Roads, in Brookline, in the Years 1800 to 1810; by Goddard, Samuel Aspinwall; First published in 1873.
https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2498064A/Goddard_Samuel_Aspinwall.
To simplify the text, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard will sometimes be named using only his initials SAG.
Goddard
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's grandfather John Goddard was first married to Sarah Brewer, daughter of Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo. This Brewer family married with the same White family and Seaver family as the Goddard family of Brookline. Goddards and Seavers had married before John Goddard married Hannah Seaver. John's father John Goddard was first married to Lucy Seaver. The Brookline branch of the Aspinwall family married within this group almost exclusively, including also Gardner, Sparhawk and select other families. This marriage pattern becomes evident with the generations of Lt. Thomas Aspinwall and his children.
By the White family, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was a cousin of President John Adams. Joseph White, ancestor of SAG, was a brother of Benjamin White, ancestor of President Adams. Joseph White married Hannah Scarborough. Their daughter Hannah White married Nathaniel Seaver. Hannah Seaver, daughter of Hannah White and Nathaniel Seaver, married John Goddard. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was their grandson.
By the Gardner family, from whom he descends in both the maternal line and through his father, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was a cousin of President John Adams. Captain Caleb Gardner was a son of Thomas Gardner III, and father of SAG's grandmother Johanna Gardner Aspinwall. Andrew Gardner was a son of Thomas Gardner III, and brother of Caleb. They had a brother Benjamin and a brother Isaac, both of whom also married within this group of families, and whose descendants include Susanna Aspinwall (Mrs. Lewis Tappan, named above; relevant to SAG and his nephew Samuel May). These brothers were nephews of Mary Gardner who married Thomas Boylston. Andrew's daughter Sarah Gardner married John Seaver, and John's daughter Hannah Seaver married John Goddard. Hannah Seaver and John Goddard were the paternal grandparents of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard. Mary Goddard, sister of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, married Samuel May, a respected merchant of Boston. Samuel May was a descendant of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury by his son Peter Gardner, meaning Mary Goddard and her husband Samuel May were cousins in the Gardner family.
Maternal ancestor Johanna Gardner (Mrs. Lt. Thomas Aspinwall) and paternal ancestor Sarah Gardner (Mrs. John Seaver) bring the Gardner–Adams relationship to Samuel Aspinwall Goddard. Paternal ancestor Hannah White (Mrs. Nathaniel Seaver) brings the White–Adams relationship to Samuel Aspinwall Goddard.
While today being distant cousins might seem irrelevant, to SAG and his family these connections were not at all remote. They all knew one another as family, neighbors, and friends. They inherited from the same ancestors, dividing land and assets. They also married into the same families again and again. This explains why first cousins Goddard and Aspinwall were in England representing the United States government. Their ancestors were established in Brookline as allied families. Together they planned and won the American Revolution. They were distant cousins of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and of Elizabeth Kortright, wife of President James Monroe. Other cousins too numerous to list include Thomas Aspinwall Davis, who was by his father a great-nephew of Governor Sumner.
Aspinwall
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's grandfather Samuel Aspinwall was one of four sons born to Brookline natives Lt. Thomas Aspinwall and Johanna Gardner, daughter of Captain Caleb Gardner and Abial Phipps. Lt. Thomas Aspinwall was a son of Captain Samuel Aspinwall and Sarah Stevens; and a grandson of Peter Aspinwall and Remember Palfrey. Johanna Gardner was a cousin of President John Adams, her father Caleb having been a nephew of Mary Gardner (Mrs. Thomas Boylston).
Samuel Aspinwall was a brother of Elizabeth Aspinwall (Mrs. Capt. Benjamin White); Caleb Aspinwall (Hannah Hastings); Sarah Aspinwall (Thomas Phipps Darrell); Joanna Aspinwall (John Brewer, brother of John Goddard's first wife Sarah Brewer); Dr. William Aspinwall (Susannah Gardner) - Susannah Gardner was a daughter of Isaac Gardner, Jr. and Mary Sparhawk, and niece of Lucy Sparhawk (Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall) and Sybil Sparhawk (first wife of SAG's grandfather Samuel Aspinwall); Katherine Aspinwall (George Green); and Mehitable Aspinwall (William Sherburne).
Mary Holbrook, grandmother of SAG
Mary Holbrook's parents are unclear; however there may be more information with direct descendants. Mary was probably a member of the same Holbrook family as the one married with the Hemingway, Mayo, and Brewer line of Sarah Brewer (first wife of John Goddard).
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard (SAG) was a descendant of some ancestors by his mother and by his father. Family connections established by previous generations were important to the Goddard and Aspinwall family.
Allied families
Goddard, Seaver, Brewer, Aspinwall, and certain others were allied families. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's paternal grandmother was Hannah Seaver. John Goddard, son of Joseph Goddard and Deborah Treadway, was married first to Luce Seaver, and secondly to SAG's ancestor Hannah Jennison. Marriages with the Weld family were repeated, and Gardner also. The Gardner family in Brookline were descendants of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury who became residents of Muddy River which subsequently became the town of Brookline, Massachusetts. Sparhawk was yet another family interwoven by multiple marriages to the extended family of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's ancestors. His father Samuel Aspinwall was first married to Sybil Sparhawk. Sybil's sister Lucy Sparhawk married Samuel's brother Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall. Another of Samuel Aspinwall's brothers was Dr. William Aspinwall. He married Susannah Gardner, daughter of Mary Sparhawk and Isaac Gardner, Jr. Mary Sparhawk was a sister of Lucy and Sybil. Thus a number of marriages created allied family relationships, with ties renewed by new marriages in each generation.
Maternal ancestors of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard in Massachusetts
Aspinwall
• Peter Aspinwall
Remember Palfrey
• Captain Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Palfrey
• Peter Palfrey
Edith Knight
• Remember Palfrey
Peter Aspinwall
• Captain Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Stevens
• John Stevens
Alice Atkins
• John Stevens
Elizabeth Parker
• Timothy Stevens
Sarah Davis
• Sarah Stevens
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Davis
• Tobias Davis
Sarah Morrill
• Sarah Davis
Timothy Stevens
• Sarah Stevens
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Parents of Tobias Davis are unknown.
Morrill
• Isaac Morrill
Sarah
• Sarah Morrill
Tobias Davis
• Sarah Davis
Timothy Stevens
• Sarah Stevens
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Gardner
• Thomas Gardner of Roxbury
Margaret Friar
• Thomas Gardner
Lucy Smith
• Thomas Gardner III
Mary Bowles
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Parents of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury are unknown.
Thomas Gardner of Roxbury and his son Thomas Gardner are paternal ancestors also. Andrew Gardner is the Goddard ancestor. Andrew's brother Thomas Gardner III is a Aspinwall ancestor.
Smith
• Francis Smith
Alice
• Lucy Smith
Thomas Gardner
• Thomas Gardner III
Mary Bowles
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Bowles
• John Bowles
Elizabeth Heath
• Mary Bowles
Thomas Gardner III
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
The Bowles genealogy book published long ago gives a false lineage to the Bowles family of Massachusetts. Care should be taken when researching ancestors of John Bowles.
Heath
• William Heath
Agnes Cheney (of England)
• Isaac Heath
Elizabeth Miller
• Elizabeth Heath
John Bowles
• Mary Bowles
Thomas Gardner III
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Elizabeth Miller has a couple of generations of ancestors, and they are connected to her memorial page. These are considered accurate.
Phipps
• Solomon Phipps
Elizabeth Wood
• Solomon Phipps
Mary Danforth
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Wood
• Edward Wood
Ruth Lee
• Elizabeth Wood
Solomon Phipps
• Solomon Phipps
Mary Danforth
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Edward's father was Lewis Wood. See more on his memorial page.
Danforth
• Thomas Danforth
Mary Withington
• Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Thomas Danforth was a son of Nicholas Danforth. See more about the Danforth family on memorial pages for Thomas Danforth's parents and siblings.
Withington
• Henry Withington
Elizabeth Smith
• Mary Withington
Thomas Danforth
• Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Not the same Smith family as Lucy and Mary named in this biography. Elizabeth Smith, said to be sister of Thomas Smith, a well-known merchant of London. (Source: Henry Withington of Dorchester, Mass., and Some of His Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register Vol. 75 (1921), page 142). Not the same family as ancestors Francis Smith and Alice.
Paternal Ancestors of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
- Goddard descendants will have more information. This is an outline only. The D'Oyley and Goddard lines are recorded in various books and elsewhere online. As noted above, connections through the generations link Samuel Aspinwall Goddard to relatives including President John Adams, which may have influenced SAG's being selected to represent the new American government in his role as United States consul in Birmingham, England. This author finds much value in understanding these family relationships.
White
• John White
Frances Jackson
• Joseph White
Hannah Scarborough
• Benjamin White
Margaret Weld
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Scarborough
• John Scarborough
Mary Smith
• Hannah Scarborough
Joseph White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Gardner
• Thomas Gardner of Roxbury
Margaret Friar
• Thomas Gardner
Lucy Smith
• Andrew Gardner
Sarah Mason
• Sarah Gardner
John Seaver
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Thomas Gardner of Roxbury is a paternal ancestor and maternal ancestor of SAG.
Mason
• Hugh Mason
Hester Wells
• Sarah Mason
Andrew Gardner
• Sarah Gardner
John Seaver
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Weld
• Edmund Weld
Amye
• Captain Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
• John Weld
Margaret Bowen
• Lt. Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Bowen
• Griffith Bowen
Margaret Fleming
• Margaret Bowen
John Weld
• Lt. Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Faxon
• Thomas Faxon
Deborah Thayer
• Sarah Faxon
Lt. Joseph Weld
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Thayer
• Richard Thayer
Dorothy Mortimore
• Deborah Thayer
Thomas Faxon
• Sarah Faxon
Lt. Joseph Weld
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Seaver
• Robert Seaver
Elizabeth Ballard
• Nathaniel Seaver
Sarah Davis
• John Seaver
Sarah Gardner
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
This Sarah Davis (wife of Nathaniel Seaver) was a daughter of Richard Davis and Sarah Burrill. Parents of Richard Davis are unknown. Sarah Burrill (wife of Richard Davis, and mother of Sarah Davis who married Nathaniel Seaver) was a daughter of John Burrill, or Burrell, and his wife Sarah. The mother Sarah's maiden name is unknown. Sarah unknown was first married to John Burrill, and secondly married to Robert Seaver. Richard Davis may or may not be connected to the other Davis families who are ancestors. The records simply do not exist to tie these Davis men to each other.
Sarah Gardner's father was Andrew Gardner, a descendant of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury.
Davis
• Richard Davis
Sarah Burrill
• Sarah Davis
Nathaniel Seaver
• John Seaver
Sarah Gardner
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
CHILDREN of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard and his wife Jemima Bachope
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard had ten children, all born in England to his wife Jemima Bachope.
• Julia Bachope Goddard, noted author and animal welfare advocate. Julia did not marry.
• Mary Louisa May Goddard died in middle age. She did not marry.
• Edward Delavan Goddard. His sister Fanny Delevan Goddard handled Edward's estate following his death.
• Rev. William Henry Goddard, Rector of East Mersea. He had seven children.
• Caroline Elizabeth Gray Goddard, died aged 18 of scarlet fever
• Fanny Delavan Goddard (1833–1920) did not marry. At her death in 1920, Fanny was the last surviving child of Jemima and Samuel Aspinwall Goddard.
• Emily Vanwart Goddard, died at 2 years old
• Constance Elizabeth Goddard, died at 18 months old
• Rev. Francis Aspinwall Goddard
• Samuel May Goddard, architect, as an adult lived in Canada and the United States. He is buried in Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.
Grandchildren include Francis Ambrose D'Oyly Goddard (1869–1962), a son of Reverend Francis Aspinwall Goddard of England. Another grandson was Roland Frederick Norton Goddard, son of Rev. William Henry Goddard of England. Grandson Francis Warren Morrison Goddard lived in Salida, Colorado. Grandson John May Goddard also lived in Salida, Colorado.
• SAG's cousin Col. Thomas Aspinwall was U.S. Consul to London. He and his family lived in England for many years and returned to Brookline once his appointment ended. His daughter remained in England as the wife of William Henry Domville.
• SAG's cousin Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall married Edward Brewer, a White descendant and cousin of John Adams. Earlier generations of the Aspinwall family were married with White or White descendants also. SAG was a descendant of the White family, as noted in this biography.
• Information is mainly taken from publications found online and the Brookline Historical Society, and the Goddard family website. The information presented here is not complete but should be accurate with the exception of any typographical errors or other mistakes.
Brookline, Massachusetts Population in 1800
A History of Brookline, Massachusetts, from the First Settlement of Muddy River Until the Present Time: 1630-1906; Commemorating the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Town, based on the Early Records and Other Authorities and Arranged by Leading Subjects. Containing Portraits and Sketches of the Town's Prominent Men Past and Present; Also Illustrations of Public Buildings and Residences
By John William Denehy
Brookline Press Company, 1906 (255 pages)
https://books.google.com/books?id=FHkUAAAAYAAJ&dq=Brookline+Massachusetts+1800+population&q=1800+population+#v=snippet&q=1800%20population&f=false
SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Visitation of England and Wales, Volume 6
Edited by Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp
Privately printed, 1898
https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_Y7AAAAMAAJ&q=Goddard#v=snippet&q=Goddard&f=false
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The London Gazette: The Appointed Organ for All Announcements of the Executive, 1854.
H.M. Stationery Office, 1854.
https://books.google.com/books?id=o_JMAAAAcAAJ&q=Samuel+Aspinwall+Goddard+#v=snippet&q=Samuel%20Aspinwall%20Goddard&f=false
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The London Gazette, Part One, pages 355 and 356
https://books.google.com/books?id=tBlKAQAAMAAJ&q=Samuel+Aspinwall+Goddard+#v=snippet&q=Samuel%20Aspinwall%20Goddard&f=false
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The Transatlantic Address to Lincoln: Birmingham and the American Civil War; by R.J.M. Blackett
Pages 29-52 | Published online: 06 Sep 2010
Download citations
https://doi.org/10.1080/912397302
and American History online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/912397302?needAccess=true&journalCode=fanc20
Goddard of Englesham, A New England Branch, by Goddard, Rainald William Knightley, 1859 - Publication by Devizes, London, England 1901. (grandson of SAG)
https://archive.org/details/goddardofenglesh00godd/mode/2up
Note: Any errors, mistakes, typographical errors, or inaccuracies are the responsibility of a distant cousin, whose work on family history has been a labor of love in honor of her own father, and who shares ancestors and ancestral lines with the Goddard family. Please feel free to rewrite, and remove as is your preference any or all biography found here, and to remove this notation. – IHP
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was United States consul in Birmingham, England. He went to England in 1817, became an British citizen (by Act of the British parliament ref: HL/PO/PB/1/1839/2&3V1n249 - date: 1839) and made his home in England.
A first cousin of his mother, Col. Thomas Aspinwall (a son of Mary Aspinwall Goddard's uncle, Dr. William Aspinwall), served as United States consul in London, England from 1815 to 1853. Both men were closely related, by family and friendship, to John Quincy Adams, United States Ambassador to England from 1815 to 1817. President James Monroe was married to Aspinwall descendant Elizabeth Kortright, and the New York and Brookline branches of the Aspinwall family were very much in communication during this period in history. Thus it may be presumed Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was very much amongst his own family, and a close associate of American leaders, when he went to England.
On September 14, 1824, at Holy Trinity Church in Liverpool, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard married Miss Jemima Bachope, of Liverpool. She was the daughter of Captain James Bachope (1761-1799), of Soho Street, Liverpool, and his wife Hannah Chatburn (1762-1819). Captain Bachope had died his before daughter Jemima was born, and was buried in the church at Liverpool.
"Samuel Aspinwall Goddard came from Brookline, Massachusetts (a town near Boston), in the United States, but later moved to Birmingham, where he was a gun manufacturer and iron merchant, and wrote pamphlets on free trade and currency reform. He was the United States consul in Birmingham, and later became a naturalized British subject."
— Wikipedia entry for daughter Julia Bachope Goddard
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Goddard
Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
Office of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions.
Notice is hereby given that — 1639.
William Church of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Civil Engineer, and Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, aforesaid, Merchant and Gun Manufacturer, have given notice at the Office of Commissioners of their intention to proceed with their application for letters patent for the invention of "an improvement or improvements in ordnance". (1854)
https://books.google.com/books?id=o_JMAAAAcAAJ&q=Samuel+Aspinwall+Goddard+#v=snippet&q=Samuel%20Aspinwall%20Goddard&f=false
"He praises the work of his uncle, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, in opposing Southern influence in England and reports that Goddard is planning to publish some letters. May discusses at length the current state of the American and Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Societies."
— Letter from Samuel May, Leicester, Mass., to Richard Davis Webb, Jan. 25, 1867
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:dv1453297
"MR. H. B. SHERIDAN rose to call attention to the Petition of Mr. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, merchant and gun-maker of Birmingham [presented 24th April], stating his claims for inventions and improvements in the construction of breech-loading cannon. The Hon. Member said, that some years ago the Government had challenged the inventive power of the country to solve the problem as to having breech-loading cannon; and Mr. Goddard was one of the earliest to come forward, and he succeeded in making a breech-loading cannon."
— UK Parliament, Hansard archive. House of Commons: 16 July 1868, Commons Chamber Petition Of S A Goddard. Observations Volume 193: debated on Thursday 16 July 1868.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1868-07-16/debates/19bd6307-a1fb-4aea-828c-c5564fdb0fda/Observations
"It is now sixty-two years since the writer first left his native town, but he can truly say of it:
"Where'ere I roam, whatever climes to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee."
Birmingham, England, October 4th, 1873."
— from the author's introduction to "Recollections of Brookline — Being an Account of the Houses, the Families, and the Roads, in Brookline, in the Years 1800 to 1810", by Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, Birmingham, England. Printed by E. C. Osborne, New Street.
https://brooklinehistoricalsociety.org/history/publications/Outside/GoddardRecollections.html
His father Joseph Goddard, of Brookline, was a son of John Goddard (whom Gen. George Washington in March 1776 had named as Wagon Master General of the American Army) and his second wife, Hannah Seaver, daughter of Nathaniel Seaver and Hannah White. John Goddard's first wife was Sarah Brewer, daughter of Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo, of Roxbury.
His mother Mary Aspinwall was also from Brookline. Mary was a daughter of Samuel Aspinwall and his second wife, Mary Holbrook. Samuel Aspinwall's first wife Sybil Sparhawk was a daughter of Hon. Thomas Sparhawk and Mary Oliver, of Cambridge.
The Goddards and the Aspinwalls had lived in the town of Brookline, formerly a hamlet known as Muddy River, for many generations. Farms and bucolic estates were home to leading citizens and their families. Proximity to Boston (only 6 miles west) and an emphasis on education provided a cosmopolitan note to daily life in a town where everyone knew one another, and where cousins became spouses as well as being close friends and neighbors. These Brookline families were not isolated. They were involved in government at all levels and were active in military and other important affairs. Their number produced revolutionaries and even presidents. Connections extended far beyond the immediate area while Brookline itself remained small and idyllic, having only 605 residents in the year 1800. This was the Brookline of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's childhood.
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard (SAG) was aligned with the abolishionist cause. His cousin Susanna Aspinwall (sister of Col. Thomas Aspinwall, US consul in London) had married the prominent abolishionist Lewis Tappan. SAG's nephew Samuel May and others in the extended family were also involved in the anti-slavery movement. Tappan hired John Quincy Adams to represent the Amistad captives. President John Adams had lived in London, and his son John Quincy Adams (Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825, and sixth president of the United States in 1825-1829) was often in England. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was a cousin to the Adams family, and most certainly knew both father and son.
Reverend Samuel May, son of Mary Goddard (sister of SAG) and Samuel May, wrote to Irish abolishionist Richard Davis Webb about Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's efforts on behalf of the anti-slavery cause.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Webb
Henry Brinsley Sheridan, as a member of the House of Commons, spoke about Samuel Aspinwall Goddard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Brinsley_Sheridan
Goddard of Brookline, Massachusetts
• Joseph Goddard
Deborah Treadway
• John Goddard
Hannah Jennison
• John Goddard
Hannah Seaver
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
Works by Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
(A more complete list than found at Open Library also linked below.)
https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AGoddard%2C+Samuel+Aspinwall%2C&qt=hot_author
Books by Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The Depression of Business, by Goddard, Samuel Aspinwall; First published in 1868.
The American Rebellion; Letters on the American Rebellion; by Goddard, Samuel Aspinwall; First published in 1870.
Recollections of Brookline; Being an Account of the Houses, the Families, and the Roads, in Brookline, in the Years 1800 to 1810; by Goddard, Samuel Aspinwall; First published in 1873.
https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2498064A/Goddard_Samuel_Aspinwall.
To simplify the text, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard will sometimes be named using only his initials SAG.
Goddard
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's grandfather John Goddard was first married to Sarah Brewer, daughter of Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo. This Brewer family married with the same White family and Seaver family as the Goddard family of Brookline. Goddards and Seavers had married before John Goddard married Hannah Seaver. John's father John Goddard was first married to Lucy Seaver. The Brookline branch of the Aspinwall family married within this group almost exclusively, including also Gardner, Sparhawk and select other families. This marriage pattern becomes evident with the generations of Lt. Thomas Aspinwall and his children.
By the White family, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was a cousin of President John Adams. Joseph White, ancestor of SAG, was a brother of Benjamin White, ancestor of President Adams. Joseph White married Hannah Scarborough. Their daughter Hannah White married Nathaniel Seaver. Hannah Seaver, daughter of Hannah White and Nathaniel Seaver, married John Goddard. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was their grandson.
By the Gardner family, from whom he descends in both the maternal line and through his father, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard was a cousin of President John Adams. Captain Caleb Gardner was a son of Thomas Gardner III, and father of SAG's grandmother Johanna Gardner Aspinwall. Andrew Gardner was a son of Thomas Gardner III, and brother of Caleb. They had a brother Benjamin and a brother Isaac, both of whom also married within this group of families, and whose descendants include Susanna Aspinwall (Mrs. Lewis Tappan, named above; relevant to SAG and his nephew Samuel May). These brothers were nephews of Mary Gardner who married Thomas Boylston. Andrew's daughter Sarah Gardner married John Seaver, and John's daughter Hannah Seaver married John Goddard. Hannah Seaver and John Goddard were the paternal grandparents of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard. Mary Goddard, sister of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, married Samuel May, a respected merchant of Boston. Samuel May was a descendant of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury by his son Peter Gardner, meaning Mary Goddard and her husband Samuel May were cousins in the Gardner family.
Maternal ancestor Johanna Gardner (Mrs. Lt. Thomas Aspinwall) and paternal ancestor Sarah Gardner (Mrs. John Seaver) bring the Gardner–Adams relationship to Samuel Aspinwall Goddard. Paternal ancestor Hannah White (Mrs. Nathaniel Seaver) brings the White–Adams relationship to Samuel Aspinwall Goddard.
While today being distant cousins might seem irrelevant, to SAG and his family these connections were not at all remote. They all knew one another as family, neighbors, and friends. They inherited from the same ancestors, dividing land and assets. They also married into the same families again and again. This explains why first cousins Goddard and Aspinwall were in England representing the United States government. Their ancestors were established in Brookline as allied families. Together they planned and won the American Revolution. They were distant cousins of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and of Elizabeth Kortright, wife of President James Monroe. Other cousins too numerous to list include Thomas Aspinwall Davis, who was by his father a great-nephew of Governor Sumner.
Aspinwall
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's grandfather Samuel Aspinwall was one of four sons born to Brookline natives Lt. Thomas Aspinwall and Johanna Gardner, daughter of Captain Caleb Gardner and Abial Phipps. Lt. Thomas Aspinwall was a son of Captain Samuel Aspinwall and Sarah Stevens; and a grandson of Peter Aspinwall and Remember Palfrey. Johanna Gardner was a cousin of President John Adams, her father Caleb having been a nephew of Mary Gardner (Mrs. Thomas Boylston).
Samuel Aspinwall was a brother of Elizabeth Aspinwall (Mrs. Capt. Benjamin White); Caleb Aspinwall (Hannah Hastings); Sarah Aspinwall (Thomas Phipps Darrell); Joanna Aspinwall (John Brewer, brother of John Goddard's first wife Sarah Brewer); Dr. William Aspinwall (Susannah Gardner) - Susannah Gardner was a daughter of Isaac Gardner, Jr. and Mary Sparhawk, and niece of Lucy Sparhawk (Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall) and Sybil Sparhawk (first wife of SAG's grandfather Samuel Aspinwall); Katherine Aspinwall (George Green); and Mehitable Aspinwall (William Sherburne).
Mary Holbrook, grandmother of SAG
Mary Holbrook's parents are unclear; however there may be more information with direct descendants. Mary was probably a member of the same Holbrook family as the one married with the Hemingway, Mayo, and Brewer line of Sarah Brewer (first wife of John Goddard).
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard (SAG) was a descendant of some ancestors by his mother and by his father. Family connections established by previous generations were important to the Goddard and Aspinwall family.
Allied families
Goddard, Seaver, Brewer, Aspinwall, and certain others were allied families. Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's paternal grandmother was Hannah Seaver. John Goddard, son of Joseph Goddard and Deborah Treadway, was married first to Luce Seaver, and secondly to SAG's ancestor Hannah Jennison. Marriages with the Weld family were repeated, and Gardner also. The Gardner family in Brookline were descendants of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury who became residents of Muddy River which subsequently became the town of Brookline, Massachusetts. Sparhawk was yet another family interwoven by multiple marriages to the extended family of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard's ancestors. His father Samuel Aspinwall was first married to Sybil Sparhawk. Sybil's sister Lucy Sparhawk married Samuel's brother Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall. Another of Samuel Aspinwall's brothers was Dr. William Aspinwall. He married Susannah Gardner, daughter of Mary Sparhawk and Isaac Gardner, Jr. Mary Sparhawk was a sister of Lucy and Sybil. Thus a number of marriages created allied family relationships, with ties renewed by new marriages in each generation.
Maternal ancestors of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard in Massachusetts
Aspinwall
• Peter Aspinwall
Remember Palfrey
• Captain Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Palfrey
• Peter Palfrey
Edith Knight
• Remember Palfrey
Peter Aspinwall
• Captain Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Stevens
• John Stevens
Alice Atkins
• John Stevens
Elizabeth Parker
• Timothy Stevens
Sarah Davis
• Sarah Stevens
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Davis
• Tobias Davis
Sarah Morrill
• Sarah Davis
Timothy Stevens
• Sarah Stevens
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Parents of Tobias Davis are unknown.
Morrill
• Isaac Morrill
Sarah
• Sarah Morrill
Tobias Davis
• Sarah Davis
Timothy Stevens
• Sarah Stevens
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
• Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Gardner
• Thomas Gardner of Roxbury
Margaret Friar
• Thomas Gardner
Lucy Smith
• Thomas Gardner III
Mary Bowles
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Parents of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury are unknown.
Thomas Gardner of Roxbury and his son Thomas Gardner are paternal ancestors also. Andrew Gardner is the Goddard ancestor. Andrew's brother Thomas Gardner III is a Aspinwall ancestor.
Smith
• Francis Smith
Alice
• Lucy Smith
Thomas Gardner
• Thomas Gardner III
Mary Bowles
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Bowles
• John Bowles
Elizabeth Heath
• Mary Bowles
Thomas Gardner III
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
The Bowles genealogy book published long ago gives a false lineage to the Bowles family of Massachusetts. Care should be taken when researching ancestors of John Bowles.
Heath
• William Heath
Agnes Cheney (of England)
• Isaac Heath
Elizabeth Miller
• Elizabeth Heath
John Bowles
• Mary Bowles
Thomas Gardner III
• Captain Caleb Gardner
Abiel Phipps
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Elizabeth Miller has a couple of generations of ancestors, and they are connected to her memorial page. These are considered accurate.
Phipps
• Solomon Phipps
Elizabeth Wood
• Solomon Phipps
Mary Danforth
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Wood
• Edward Wood
Ruth Lee
• Elizabeth Wood
Solomon Phipps
• Solomon Phipps
Mary Danforth
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Edward's father was Lewis Wood. See more on his memorial page.
Danforth
• Thomas Danforth
Mary Withington
• Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Thomas Danforth was a son of Nicholas Danforth. See more about the Danforth family on memorial pages for Thomas Danforth's parents and siblings.
Withington
• Henry Withington
Elizabeth Smith
• Mary Withington
Thomas Danforth
• Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
• Abiel Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
• Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
• Samuel Aspinwall
Mary Holbrook
• Mary Aspinwall
Joseph Goddard
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Not the same Smith family as Lucy and Mary named in this biography. Elizabeth Smith, said to be sister of Thomas Smith, a well-known merchant of London. (Source: Henry Withington of Dorchester, Mass., and Some of His Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register Vol. 75 (1921), page 142). Not the same family as ancestors Francis Smith and Alice.
Paternal Ancestors of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
- Goddard descendants will have more information. This is an outline only. The D'Oyley and Goddard lines are recorded in various books and elsewhere online. As noted above, connections through the generations link Samuel Aspinwall Goddard to relatives including President John Adams, which may have influenced SAG's being selected to represent the new American government in his role as United States consul in Birmingham, England. This author finds much value in understanding these family relationships.
White
• John White
Frances Jackson
• Joseph White
Hannah Scarborough
• Benjamin White
Margaret Weld
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Scarborough
• John Scarborough
Mary Smith
• Hannah Scarborough
Joseph White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Gardner
• Thomas Gardner of Roxbury
Margaret Friar
• Thomas Gardner
Lucy Smith
• Andrew Gardner
Sarah Mason
• Sarah Gardner
John Seaver
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Thomas Gardner of Roxbury is a paternal ancestor and maternal ancestor of SAG.
Mason
• Hugh Mason
Hester Wells
• Sarah Mason
Andrew Gardner
• Sarah Gardner
John Seaver
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Weld
• Edmund Weld
Amye
• Captain Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
• John Weld
Margaret Bowen
• Lt. Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Bowen
• Griffith Bowen
Margaret Fleming
• Margaret Bowen
John Weld
• Lt. Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Faxon
• Thomas Faxon
Deborah Thayer
• Sarah Faxon
Lt. Joseph Weld
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Thayer
• Richard Thayer
Dorothy Mortimore
• Deborah Thayer
Thomas Faxon
• Sarah Faxon
Lt. Joseph Weld
• Margaret Weld
Benjamin White
• Hannah White
Nathaniel Seaver
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Seaver
• Robert Seaver
Elizabeth Ballard
• Nathaniel Seaver
Sarah Davis
• John Seaver
Sarah Gardner
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
This Sarah Davis (wife of Nathaniel Seaver) was a daughter of Richard Davis and Sarah Burrill. Parents of Richard Davis are unknown. Sarah Burrill (wife of Richard Davis, and mother of Sarah Davis who married Nathaniel Seaver) was a daughter of John Burrill, or Burrell, and his wife Sarah. The mother Sarah's maiden name is unknown. Sarah unknown was first married to John Burrill, and secondly married to Robert Seaver. Richard Davis may or may not be connected to the other Davis families who are ancestors. The records simply do not exist to tie these Davis men to each other.
Sarah Gardner's father was Andrew Gardner, a descendant of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury.
Davis
• Richard Davis
Sarah Burrill
• Sarah Davis
Nathaniel Seaver
• John Seaver
Sarah Gardner
• Nathaniel Seaver
Hannah White
• Hannah Seaver
John Goddard
• Joseph Goddard
Mary Aspinwall
• SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
CHILDREN of Samuel Aspinwall Goddard and his wife Jemima Bachope
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard had ten children, all born in England to his wife Jemima Bachope.
• Julia Bachope Goddard, noted author and animal welfare advocate. Julia did not marry.
• Mary Louisa May Goddard died in middle age. She did not marry.
• Edward Delavan Goddard. His sister Fanny Delevan Goddard handled Edward's estate following his death.
• Rev. William Henry Goddard, Rector of East Mersea. He had seven children.
• Caroline Elizabeth Gray Goddard, died aged 18 of scarlet fever
• Fanny Delavan Goddard (1833–1920) did not marry. At her death in 1920, Fanny was the last surviving child of Jemima and Samuel Aspinwall Goddard.
• Emily Vanwart Goddard, died at 2 years old
• Constance Elizabeth Goddard, died at 18 months old
• Rev. Francis Aspinwall Goddard
• Samuel May Goddard, architect, as an adult lived in Canada and the United States. He is buried in Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.
Grandchildren include Francis Ambrose D'Oyly Goddard (1869–1962), a son of Reverend Francis Aspinwall Goddard of England. Another grandson was Roland Frederick Norton Goddard, son of Rev. William Henry Goddard of England. Grandson Francis Warren Morrison Goddard lived in Salida, Colorado. Grandson John May Goddard also lived in Salida, Colorado.
• SAG's cousin Col. Thomas Aspinwall was U.S. Consul to London. He and his family lived in England for many years and returned to Brookline once his appointment ended. His daughter remained in England as the wife of William Henry Domville.
• SAG's cousin Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall married Edward Brewer, a White descendant and cousin of John Adams. Earlier generations of the Aspinwall family were married with White or White descendants also. SAG was a descendant of the White family, as noted in this biography.
• Information is mainly taken from publications found online and the Brookline Historical Society, and the Goddard family website. The information presented here is not complete but should be accurate with the exception of any typographical errors or other mistakes.
Brookline, Massachusetts Population in 1800
A History of Brookline, Massachusetts, from the First Settlement of Muddy River Until the Present Time: 1630-1906; Commemorating the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Town, based on the Early Records and Other Authorities and Arranged by Leading Subjects. Containing Portraits and Sketches of the Town's Prominent Men Past and Present; Also Illustrations of Public Buildings and Residences
By John William Denehy
Brookline Press Company, 1906 (255 pages)
https://books.google.com/books?id=FHkUAAAAYAAJ&dq=Brookline+Massachusetts+1800+population&q=1800+population+#v=snippet&q=1800%20population&f=false
SAMUEL ASPINWALL GODDARD
Visitation of England and Wales, Volume 6
Edited by Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp
Privately printed, 1898
https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_Y7AAAAMAAJ&q=Goddard#v=snippet&q=Goddard&f=false
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The London Gazette: The Appointed Organ for All Announcements of the Executive, 1854.
H.M. Stationery Office, 1854.
https://books.google.com/books?id=o_JMAAAAcAAJ&q=Samuel+Aspinwall+Goddard+#v=snippet&q=Samuel%20Aspinwall%20Goddard&f=false
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The London Gazette, Part One, pages 355 and 356
https://books.google.com/books?id=tBlKAQAAMAAJ&q=Samuel+Aspinwall+Goddard+#v=snippet&q=Samuel%20Aspinwall%20Goddard&f=false
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard
The Transatlantic Address to Lincoln: Birmingham and the American Civil War; by R.J.M. Blackett
Pages 29-52 | Published online: 06 Sep 2010
Download citations
https://doi.org/10.1080/912397302
and American History online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/912397302?needAccess=true&journalCode=fanc20
Goddard of Englesham, A New England Branch, by Goddard, Rainald William Knightley, 1859 - Publication by Devizes, London, England 1901. (grandson of SAG)
https://archive.org/details/goddardofenglesh00godd/mode/2up
Note: Any errors, mistakes, typographical errors, or inaccuracies are the responsibility of a distant cousin, whose work on family history has been a labor of love in honor of her own father, and who shares ancestors and ancestral lines with the Goddard family. Please feel free to rewrite, and remove as is your preference any or all biography found here, and to remove this notation. – IHP
Gravesite Details
Burial, July 29, 1886.
Goddard family tomb.
St Bartholomew Churchyard, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Registration numbers 1652385, 1652392
Family Members
Siblings
Children
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Julia Bachope Goddard
1825–1896
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Mary Louisa May Goddard
1826–1874
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Edward Delevan Goddard
1828–1905
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Rev. William Henry Goddard
1830–1884
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Caroline Elizabeth Gray Goddard
1832–1850
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Fanny Delavan Goddard
1833–1920
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Emily Van Wart Goddard
1835–1837
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Constance Elizabeth Goddard
1836–1838
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Rev. Francis Aspinwall Goddard
1841–1888
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Samuel May Goddard
1843–1906
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