Dea. David Goodridge was born on 24 November 1716.
2 He was the son of
Philip Goodridge and
Mehitabel Woodman.
1 He married
Elizabeth Martin, daughter of
John Martin and
Jane Durgin, before 1742.
3 He died on 13 July 1786 at age 69.
2 He resided at
South Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
2 Transcribed from Case: "resided in South Fitchburg, Mass., where he settled at an early date. In 1747, a party of hostile Indians from Canada made an incursion into the town, and one day while Dea. David Goodridge was out looking for a stray cow they surrounded him and demanded his surrender. He spurred his horse and escaped to the garrison. An alarm was fired, men came in from the neighboring settlement, and the Indians retired and concealed themselves. In his flight he lost his hat, and ten years after, an Indian prisoner, taken somewhere on the Connecticut River, had on his head the indentical hat.
Fitchburg was set off from Lunenburg, Feb. 3, 1764, and David Goodridge was one of the first board of selectmen chosen. He was sent as delegate of the town to the provincial congress which met at Concord and Cambridge in 1774 - John Hancock, president - and was sent again the next year to the congress which met at Cambridge, Feb. 1, 1775.
David Goodridge moved from Ipswich to Lunenburg. In 1741, Elizabeth Martin, wife of David Goodridge, was dismissed from the Chebacco Church in Ipswich to the church in Lunenburg.
In 1640, John Martin was admitted freeman in Charlestown. Another John Martin was admitted freeman in 1665. John and Jane (Durgin) Martin, parents of Elizabeth, probably came to Ipswich in 1733, as the births of their children are recorded together in the page of that year."
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