(1) Name: Aaron GOODWIN
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Birth: August 18, 1754 South Berwick, Maine
Death: October 26, 1828 Washington, Davies Co. Indiana Age: 74
Father: Aaron GOODWIN (1702-1772)
Mother: Sarah THOMPSON

Misc. Notes
According to legend the Goodwin name originated around the turn of the first century when an English sailor successfully crossed the Goodwin sands. The Goodwin sands is a deadly sandbar off the coast of England. He was then given the name of Goodwin in recognition of his successful passage.

"The Goodwin Sands still are the most treacherous sands bars on the UK coast, even today vessels regularly come to grief there. Locally known as the "ship swallowers" any vessel going aground there will rapidly disappear. Dry sand as the tide goes out... quicksands as the tide comes in. Those of us who sail those waters have a healthy respect for the 'Goodwins'" by Byron Alexander. The surname Goodwin, possibly derived from the ancient forename Godwin (see Libby, Noyes and Davis Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshier, pp. 270ff) is a common one in the English midlands. Several emigrants by this name appeared in New England: William and Ozias in Hartford, CT (1632), Christopher in Charlestown, MA, Richard in Gloucester, MA and Daniel in Kittery, ME.

Supplement William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine vol8 Author: Judge John S. Goodwin This book contains the history and genealogy of the Goodwin family of Virginia. Page 69.--Enoch Goodwin (fourth son of Aaron) was born June 8, 1788, in Connecticut, according to his son Aaron's statement. He married Sarah Hopkins, who was born August 9, 1789, a daughter of Joslin Hopkins. Enoch was a farmer and a Whig. Children: i. William, born August 19, 1810, married Anna Pierce; ii. Elizabeth, born Nov. 2, 1811, married Abraham Williams; iii. Lourana, born Nov. 29, 1813, married William Pauley; iv. Aaron, born July 29, 1816, married, first, Nancy Hendrix, second, Eliza G. Shoemaker; v. Nancy, born Feb. 25, 1819, married Thomas Cassida; vi. Ephraim, born Jan. 3, 1821, married Mary Boyd; vii. Enoch, born June 22, 1823, married (???) Rogers; viii. Sarah Ann, twin with Enoch, married James McCracken. Aaron Leasure Goodwin (Aaron), born in 1778, in Maryland or Virginia, was married, in 1806, at Pittsburg, Pa., to Margaret McCully, born near Belfast, Ireland, a daughter of William McCully. Aaron Leasure Goodwin married, 2ndly, Mrs. Ann ((???)) Redd. He was a farmer, a Democrat, and a Methodist. He resided in Pittsburg, Pa., Elizabethtown, Ohio, Washington, Ind., and Vevay, Ind., at which last-named place he died. Children by first wife: i. Jane, married, 1st, J. L. Whitehead; 2ndly, N. D. Marchand; ii. Mary Ann, married John Waller; iii. Matilda, married N. D. Marchand; iv. William McCully, born June 15, 1818; married Marietta Wilbur; v. James A., died 1842; vi. Ruth Hendricks, married John Allen; vii. Aaron Leasure, died 1870; viii. John McCully, born January 26, 1826; married Nannie J. Pool; ix. Laura C., married Dr. C. Williams. Child by second wife: x. Matilda, married Squire Hulley. Maine Wills 1640-1760 Record of 471 wills made in the State of Maine over a 120 year period from 1640-1760. The wills were recorded in three counties Item. I give to my well beloved Brother Aaron Goodwin whom I likewise constitute make & ordain my Sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament all & Singular my Lands & Tenements Goods & Chattels real & personal Estate, and all my Right & Title to any Lands that Shall come unto me as well as what I am in Possession to be by him freely possessed & enjoyed. And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke & disannul all & every other former Testaments Wills Legacys & Bequests & Executors by me in any Way before named willed & bequeathed ratifying and confirming this & no other to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal the Day & Year afore written. Signed Sealed published pronounced Moses Goodwin (Seal) & declared by ye sd Moses Goodwin as his last Will & Testament in ye presence of us ye Subscribers. John Cooper his ?? Benjamin Hodsdon mark Foxwell C. Cutt. Probated 19 June 1759.

According to John S. Goodwin's THE GOODWIN FAMILY IN AMERICA, Aaron Goodwin was born in 1753 in Virginia. (One grandson insisted to him that Aaron was born in Hartford, Connecticut--but a book on GOODWINS OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT doesn't include this Aaron.) He removed from Virginia to the Cumberland Valley in Maryland, where he married Susannah Leisure. In 1790, with his family, he moved past the Old Fort (later Brownsville, Fayette County, PA) and by flatboat to Maysville, Kentucky. They settled at Hinkston Station, KY, (later Harrison Co.) where Susannah died. Some of the children remained in Kentucky with their mother's people. Others went with Aaron to Champaign County, Ohio, where in 1803 he married Mary Chapman, who removed from Virginia to OH "at a very early age." Due to his prejudice against slavery, Aaron moved from Kentucky to Illinois in 1809, settling 12 miles east of St. Louis. Deciding to return to Ohio in 1812, he stopped 12 miles east of Princeton, Indiana. Judge John S. Goodwin says, "Being pleased with the appearance of the country, and winter approaching, he took possession of an abandoned log house, where he remained with his family through the winter, and he then settled half a mile north of Washington Indiana, where he died 26 October 1828." Our Aaron Goodwin was a teacher and farmer. He had six children by each wife. Stella Bogner's ABSTRACTS OF PROBATE RECORDS has Aaron on Nov. 10, 1828; wife Mary; executor Benjamin Goodwin. An Aaron Goodwin appears in Cincinnati newspapers as having letters in the Lawrenceburg, IN post office 31 December 1815 and 31 March 1816. An Aaron Goodwin appears in a Delphi Township, Hamilton Co. OH census with Daniel and Nancy Goodwin. Other unidentified Goodwins from the same area and time: HOOSIER GENEALOGIST, 1972: Rhoda Goodwin married Ezekial Jackson, May 21, 1801, by Josiah Post, JP in Hamilton County, Ohio Moses Goodwin married Polly Deford, 14 Jan 1802 by Josiah Post, JP in Hamilton Co. OH EARLY ROSTERS OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON CO. OH Ben Goodwin of Dearborn Co. signed petition 13 Feb 1806 quotes WESTERN SPY newspaper for 1 April 1806 as reporting William Goodwin married Eliza Tucker 27 March 1806 by Rev. Matthew Wallace Quaker Goodwins from VA did move to Brownsville, PA, and then to Cincinnati and Dayton OH and to Indiana.
(Jane Leavell, author of the website at: http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Genealogy/Goodwin.html, says she is the source for this paragraph.)

Spouses
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1: Susannah LEASURE
Death: Hinkston Station, Ky
Marriage: 1774 Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland
Children: Enoch (1788-1877)
William (1775-)
Jeremiah
Aron Leasure (1788-)
Thomas
Ruth

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2: Mary CHAPMAN
Marriage: 1803 Champaign Co, Ohio
Children: James C.
Elijah (1804-)
Benjamin (1804-1877)
Moses
Lourna (1812-)
Achsah (1819-)

(2) Name: Enoch GOODWIN
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Birth: June 8, 1788 Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland
Birth Memo: 1 His son says Enoch Goodwin, son of Aaron, was born in Connecticut,, but a census record says Pennsylvania.
Death: 1877 Nicholas Co. Ky Age: 88
Father: Aaron GOODWIN (1754-1828)
Mother: Susannah LEASURE

Misc. Notes
His son says Enoch Goodwin, son of Aaron, was born in Connecticut, but a census record says Pennsylvania. Enoch was a farmer and Whig in Nicholas County, KY. A county history called him "Tige" Goodwin, one of the early settlers in the Flat Rock Precinct. (HISTORY OF BOURBON, SCOTT, HARRISON, AND NICHOLAS COUNTY, KENTUCKY)


Spouses
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1: Sarah HOPKINS
Birth: August 7, 1789 Fleming Co. Ky
Death: 1859 Age: 69
Father: Robert HOPKINS (1760-1824)
Mother: Elisabeth STONE (1769-)
Marriage: December 14, 1809
Children: William (1810-1881)
Elizabeth (1811-)
Lauranah (1813-)
Aron (1816-)
Ephraim (1821-)
Enoch (1823-1909)
Sarah Ann (1823-)
Nancy (1819-)