Christopher GOODWIN, Sr.

1618 - 1683  (65 years)

• Name	Christopher GOODWIN
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	1618	England
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	mason  [1]
  Death	22 Jan 1682/83	Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
  Notes	In 1663, Christopher Goodwin, Sr., a mason, dashed the christening vessels to the meetinghouse floor in protest against infant baptism. In 1665 he was prosecuted twice for sexual offences. In June of that year the grand jury cited him for "uncivil carriages against the wife of Thomas Pierce and some others." On August 7th, the court heard his confession to sexual abuse: "On 2 August 1665 he took Anna, the daughter of Goodman [John?] Fowle, aged about two and a half, and set her upon the bench, and took up her coats, and put himself into a preparation to commit evil with her, calling it a foolish temptation and that the child is clear ... Present [in court] his wife and son." See Probate Records of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, Index 1702, Goodwin, Christopher, Charlestown Administration #9405. See also NEHGR Vol. 50, p. 421 (1896), probate of of Francis Cole of East Bergholt, Suffolk, England, in which he names Christofer Goodwyn as a tennant of his at Gassous end. Xopher Goodwin Senior was listed among others under "Taxes under Andros" in NEHGR Vol. 34, p. 273 (1880) [2]
  Person ID	I5209	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	10 Aug 2012

  
  

  Family ID

  F5648

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• Sources

  [S30] NEHGR, Vol. 94, p. 190 (1940) (Reliability: 3). [S459] Roger Thompson, From Deference to Defiance, (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.), p. 450. (Reliability: 3).