John GOULD Sr. (1584 – 1650) was Alex’s 12th Great Grandfather, one of 8,192 in this generation in the Shaw line.

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John Gould was born in 1584 in Hertfordshire, England. His parents were Richard GOULD (1553 – 1597) and Mary COLDER (1555 – 1589). He married Judith LANGLEY in 1603 in Bovingdon, Harts, England. John died 11 Jul 1650 in Hertfordshire, England

Judith Langley was born 1588 in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England. Judith died 6 May 1650 in , Hertfordshire, England

Children of John Gould and Judith:

Children

4. Nathaniel Gould

Nathan’s wife Elizabeth Putnam was born DEC 1612 in Aston, Abbots, Buckinhamshire, England. She was Nathan’s first cousin. Her parents were John Putnam and Priscilla Gould. Elizabeth died in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.

Nathan Gould’s children were born in some cases as late as the 1670’s when Elizabeth Putnam (born in 1612) would have been in her 60s! Idoubt she was still birthing children that late in life. Based on thefact that Elizabeth Putnam was born in 1612 she probably would nothave been having children much later than 1655 when she would haveturned age 43.

Does anyone have any proof that Nathan Gould did indeed marry Elizabeth Putnam? Perhaps it was a different (and younger) Elizabeth Putnam that married Nathan Gould.

Also, can anyone state for sure who Priscilla (Gould) Putnam’s motherwas. Priscilla (Gould) Putnam is the mother of Elizabeth Putnam whowas born in 1612. She is also the wife of John Putnam who founded the Putnam family in Salem, Mass.Some genealogists have Priscilla’s parents as Richard Gould and Elizabeth Young.

Children of Nathaniel and Elizabeth

i. Nathan Gould b: ABT 1657 in Amesbury, Essex, Mass.

ii. Mary Gould b: 24 JUN 1661 in Salisbury, Essex, Mass; m. Joseph Jones 23 OCT 1684 in Amesbury, Mass; d. 1714

iii. Elizabeth Gould b: 4 APR 1664 in Salisbury, Mass.

iv. Samuel Gould b: 3 FEB 1667 in Amesbury, Mass.; m. Sarah Rowell 6 APR 1693; d. 9 JAN 1726

v. Joseph Gould b: 28 AUG 1670 in Amesbury, Mass.

vi. Hannah Gould b: 13 MAY 1675 in Amesbury, Mass. ; m. John Kimball; d. Aft 1740

8. Nathan Gould

Nathan’s first wife Martha Harvey was born 1627 in St Edmunds Bury, Suffolk, England. Martha died 1658 in Fairfield, Fairfield, CT.

Nathan’s second wife Sarah Phippen was born 1633 in Weymouth, Dorset, England. Her parents were David Phippen and Sarah Pinckney. She first married Thomas Yeo. Sarah died 1693 in Fairfield, Fairfield, CT.

Though many genealogies show Nathan to be the son of John and Judith, I’m not entirely convinced. It would be confusing to name two sons Nathaniel and Nathan. Other genealogies state he came from Suffolk and don’t mention his parents.

Nathan Gold (in the records, he dropped the “u” from the English spelling of Gould)immigrated from Bury Saint Edmunds, county Suffolk, England around 1643 settling in Milford first where he bought and sold land.

He removed to Fairfield around 1650 and married his first wife, the widow Martha Harvey. They were the parents of one known daughter, Sarah (married Deacon John Thompson). Martha died about 1658. John married second Sarah (Phippen) Yeo, the widow of Thomas Yeo, on May 14, 1660 in Milford. They were the parents of Deborah (Gold) Clark and the Hon. Nathan Gold, Lieut. Gov. of the Colony of Conn, Abigail (Gold) Sellick, and Martha (Gold) Sellick Davenport.

By 1670, he was the richest inhabitant with the most land in Fairfield. For many years, he served as assistant to the Governor of the Colony of Conn. & deputy to the General Court in Hartford representing Fairfield. He was one of the nineteen petitioners name in the Charter of Connecticut.

On behalf of Fairfield he signed a land grant between the Indians and Fairfield for a tract of land between Fairfield and Stratford. He was a member of the Committee on Defense against the Dutch and was a reprsentative to the First Colonial Congress in New York in 1690.

From the Fairfield Town records: “Major Nathan Gold parted this life into the mansions of rest, upon the day of rest, on the Sabbath, it being the 4th of March, 1693-4.” His will was proved March 4, 1693/4.

Rev. Joseph Webb preached his funeral sermon. In all probability his remains lie near his son, Nathan Gold, Jr.

Sources:

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=15115624

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/13450766/person/40011657

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=ryder10&id=I71993

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/n_woodhead/Zaccheus_Gould_1.html