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     Oliver B. Goodrich was born on 27 May 1804.¹ He was the son of Josuha Goodrich and Nancy Bulkley.¹

     George W. Goodrich was born on 27 April 1806.¹ He was the son of Josuha Goodrich and Nancy Bulkley.¹

     Martha E. Goodrich was born on 16 April 1809.¹ She was the daughter of Josuha Goodrich and Nancy Bulkley.¹

     Eli Goodrich was born on 12 September 1811.¹ He was the son of Josuha Goodrich and Nancy Bulkley.¹

     Jerusha Goodrich was born on 27 August 1815.¹ She was the daughter of Josuha Goodrich and Nancy Bulkley.¹

     Abigail Smith married Chauncey Goodrich, son of Elizur Goodrich and Katherine Chauncey.¹

     Mary Ann Wolcott was the daughter of Gov. Oliver Wolcott and Laura Collins.¹ She married Chauncey Goodrich, son of Elizur Goodrich and Katherine Chauncey, on 13 October 1789.¹ She died in 1805.¹

     Gov. Oliver Wolcott married Laura Collins.

     Laura Collins married Gov. Oliver Wolcott.

     Anne Willard Allen of Great Barrington, Mass. married Elizur Goodrich, son of Elizur Goodrich and Katherine Chauncey, on 1 September 1785.¹

     Elizur Chauncey Goodrich was born on 3 October 1787 at New Haven, Connecticut.² He was the son of Elizur Goodrich and Anne Willard Allen.¹ He married Eliza Champion, daughter of Gen. Henry Champion, on 25 October 1818.² He died without issue on 3 November 1868 at Hartford, Connecticut, at age 81.²

     Transcribed from Case: "graduated at Williams College in 1806; taught school in Durham, Comm; studied law with his uncle Chauncey Goodrich of Hartford; commenced the practice of law in Hartford; married Eliza Champion, daughter of Gen. Henry Champion of Colchester, Conn., Oct. 25, 1818; gave up the practice of law in consequence of the pecuniary reverses of his partner; was principal of Bacon Academy in Colchester from about 1824 to 1827; returned to Hartford, where he lived without active business, except the care of his property until his death, Nov. 3, 1868. Mrs. Goodrich died Feb. 17, 1868. They had no children."²

     Chauncey Allen Goodrich was born on 23 October 1790.² He was the son of Elizur Goodrich and Anne Willard Allen.¹ He married Julia Frances Webster on 1 October 1816.² He died on 25 February 1860 at age 69.²

     Transcribed from Case: "graduated at Yale College in 1810; in 1812, he was elected tutor for two years; in 1816, was ordained and installed pastor of the first church in Middletown, Conn. He was elected professor of rhetoric and oratory in Yale College in 1817, but relinquished the office in 1839, to accept the chair of pastoral theology in the Theological Seminary, a position which he occupied until his death-during a period of twenty years. In 1820, he was elected president of Williams College, but declined the appointment. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by Brown University in 1835.
     His literary labors were various and uniformly successful. In 1814, he prepared a Greek grammer, which was generally used and was printed in several editions. In 1827, he superintended the abridgement of Webster's quarto American Dictionary, which was so widely circulated throughout the country. In 1829, he established the quarterly "Christian Spectator," which he edited for nearly ten years with great labor, zeal, and enterprise, under circumstances occasioning much anxiety to himself and his friends. This review exerted great influence upon the religious discussions of the day, and in its support Prof. Goodrich had the help of the ablest pens at Yale. In 1832, he prepared a series of Latin lessons, and soon after, a like series of Greek lessons for beginners, both of which works have passed through several editions. In 1846-7, he revised both editions of the unabridged and abridged dictionaries of Webster, and, in 1856, the University edition of the same work. In 1859, he prepared an appendix for the pictorial edition of ten thousand new words and definitions, with a full and complete dictionary of synonyms. In 1852, he published his admirable work on "British Eloquence," which is superior to anything else of the kind. It received the warm commendation of Hon. Rufus Choate and Lord Campbell of England, excited elaborate notices in the English quarterlies, has been extensively circulated, and always highly commended. Besides performing the literary labor involved in preparing and editing these various works, Prof. Goodrich was prominently connected with many of the most important benevolent societies of the country, especially that of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions."³

     Nancy Goodrich was born on 1 January 1793.¹ She was the daughter of Elizur Goodrich and Anne Willard Allen.¹ She married Henry L. Ellsworth.¹ She died on 15 January 1847 at age 54.¹

     Henry L. Ellsworth married Nancy Goodrich, daughter of Elizur Goodrich and Anne Willard Allen.¹

     Elizabeth Ely was born on 22 February 1765.¹ She was the daughter of Col. John Ely and Sarah Worthington.¹ She married Samuel Goodrich, son of Elizur Goodrich and Katherine Chauncey, on 29 July 1784.¹ She died on 3 March 1857 at age 92.¹

     Col. John Ely married Sarah Worthington.²

     Sarah Worthington married Col. John Ely.²

     Sarah W. Goodrich was born on 7 August 1785.¹ She was the daughter of Samuel Goodrich and Elizabeth Ely.¹ She married first Amos Cook.¹ She married second Hon. Frederic Wolcott.¹

     Amos Cook married Sarah W. Goodrich, daughter of Samuel Goodrich and Elizabeth Ely.¹

     Hon. Frederic Wolcott married Sarah W. Goodrich, daughter of Samuel Goodrich and Elizabeth Ely.¹