BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Samuel Goodenow and Mary Griffin

Samuel Goodenow was born about 1694 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, the second of twelve children of Edmund Goodenow and Rebekah Graves.

Mary Griffin was born December 13, 1704, also in Sudbury. She was the oldest child of Jonathan Griffin and Lydia Parmenter.

Samuel and Mary were married in Sudbury on April 30, 1730. They had four children, probably all in Sudbury:

Samuel Goodenow (the father) died in Sudbury on April 15, 1781. Nothing is known about Mary's death.

Sources & Related Information

  • "Goodenow Who Originated in Sudbury, Massachusetts" by Theodore James Fleming Banvard, Goodenow Family Association (Gateway Press Inc., Baltimore, 1994)