7:2 Golding of New York
William “of Gravesend” Goulding or Goulder
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Of the two men named William Goulding who were among the earliest Golding/Goulding immigrants to America, the first was a man named William Goulding or Golding who was a Minister and his story likewise is very well documented. He was a Non-Conformist and he moved (presumably) from England first to Bermuda to establish a Church among the people who lived there. The other was William Goulder, also known as Goulding who was born about 1613 in Ireland, although that was not the point of origin of his family and he was associated with Lady Deborah Moody and her community at Gravesend, New York. William “of Gravesend” Goulding was in Virginia before 1635 and went with Thomas Hall, George Holmes and others on the expedition sent by Gov West to take Dutch-held Fort Nassau in 1635. The expedition failed, and the participants were held for a while in New York but they ultimately returned to Virginia.
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The Goulder Family by Richard W. Cook
"The Goulder family, first in Gravesend, by their early settling in Monmouth and in Cape May are of interest to many students of New Jersey genealogy. Apparently of English origin, they soon became Dutch through association and intermarriage. An article on the Cape May branch by H. Clifford Campion, Jr. appeared in the Cape May County Magazine of History and Genealogy for June 1944. Other than this, there has been very little in print....The relationship, if any, to the Golding family of Hempstead and Huntington, Long Island and of Perth Amboy is not known. An account of the family appears in the History of St. Peter's Church in Perth Amboy by Rev. W. Northey Jones (Jones, 1924)
References to Golding appear on pages 269-72, 188, 237, 258, 289 and 497 of this book, but the dates on all of the references are too late to be of any consequence to this book. The reference to the Golding family of Huntington, New Jersey refers to the descendants of John “of Huntington” Golding, who was the only son of William ‘the Clergyman’ Golding who was of Bermuda and left a will dated 1648. His identity was proven by Louis Thorn Golding, the direct descendant of Arthur Golding the Translator.
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William Goulder, alias Goulding b. 16__, d 16__ married Anna Catharyn on June 4, 1644 in New Amsterdam. There is nothing in this record to indicate that either had been married previously. According to William H. Stillwell's History of Gravesend, p. 37 (Mss., Long Island Historical Society) William Goulding was born in Ireland about 1613 and embarked from London on August 2, 1635 in the George for Virginia and was probably one of George Holme's party which tried to put a settlement on the Delaware, was captured by the Dutch and brought to New Amsterdam. Campion says a William Golding was a taxpayer in the Barbadoes and may have beeen the same person later in Gravesend. Salter in his History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties says it is supposed that William Goulding was one of Lady Deborah Moody's friends who left Massachusetts on account of Puritan persecution. Be that as it may, William Goulder or Golding, it seems likely, first settled in New Amsterdam sometime prior to his marriage in 1644, as in 1643 he signed a certificate of election (NYCHD vo. I, Holland Doc III, p. 192).
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By deed dated March 20, 1649 (Book 1, p. 31) William Goulder bought land in Gravesend and presumably moved there about that time from New Amsterdam. For several years, starting ca 1666 he was town clerk there, signing as "Will Goulding-Clarke". On May 5, 1652 Ann Goulder, wife of William Goulder, was defendant in an action of defamation. She was found guilty and warned. The warning was not heeded for on September 13, 1652 she was again accused. This time the Court ordered that "Ann shall sitt in ye Irons halfe one hower.."
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Two deeds, one dated January 12, 1660 and the other February 13, 1660 for land in Gravesend were signed by Will Goulder, alias Goulding. On March 20, 1665 John Smithe of Gravesend conveyed land known as No. 35 to his father-in-law William Goulder and Will Goulder reconveyed this land march 21, 1666/67. On June 15, 1669 Will Goulding, clarke, attested to a conveyance which had been witnessed by Joseph Goulding. This witness was probably the young son then about fifteen years of age.
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William Goulding was one of the twelve men to whom the Monmouth patent was granted in 1665. In the original division of town lots in Middletown, 1667 he was given Lot 25, and also outlands. he sold his town lot and meadows to Richard Hartshorne, the deed for which is dated April 23, 1670 and recorded November 25, 1672. In the records of Freehold, New Jersey his name is given as Will Golding. It is not clear when William Goulder died, there being confusion in the records between William Sr. and William Jr. but is seems likely the death occurred not too long after 1672." (Klett, 1996)
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Combined Timeline for William 'of Gravesend' Goulding
From the above narrative, the following facts can be determined.
• 1613 - Wiliam of Gravesend Goulding/Goulder born in Ireland but came from an English family
• August 2, 1635 - Embarked from London on the GEORGE for Virginia and was probably one of George Holme's party which tried to put a settlement on the Delaware, was captured by the Dutch and brought to New Amsterdam. Campion says a William Golding was a tax payer in the Barbados and may have been the same person later in Gravesend. (This however, cannot be true because William 'Clergyman' died in 1648 in the Somers Islands).
• Before 1644 - He settled in New Amsterdam sometime prior to his marriage in 1644 because in 1643 he signed a certificate of election (NYCHD Vol 1, Holland, Doc. III p. 192)
• June 4, 1644 - Married Anna Catharyn (Smit?) in New Amsterdam
• 1649 - By deed dated March 20, 1649 William Goulder bought land in Gravesend and presumably moved there about the same time he moved from New Amsterdam.
• 1652 - On May 5, 1652 Ann Goulder, the wife of William Goulder was a defendant in an action of defamation. She was found guilty and warned. The warning apparently was unheeded for on Sept. 13, 1652 she was again accused.
• 1660 - Two deeds, one dated January 12, 1660 and Feb. 13, 1660 for land in Gravesend were signed by Will Goulder, alias Goulding.
• 1665 - On March 20, 1665 John Smithe of Gravesend conveyed land known as No. 35 to his father-in-law William Goulder alias Goulding.
• Abt 1666 - For several years, starting abt 1666 he was the town clerk of Gravesend, signing as "Will Goulding- Clarke".
• 1669 - On June 15, 1669 Will Goulding, Clarke, attested to a conveyance which had been witnessed by Joseph Goulding. The witness was probably the young son then about 15 years of age.
• 1670 - William Goulding sold his town lot and meadows to Richard Hartshorne, the deed for which is dated April 23, 1670 and recorded in 1672.
• Abt 1672 - It is not clear when William Goulder died, there being some confusion in the records between William Sr. and William Jr, but it seems the death occurred not too long after 1672.
• 1638-1648 - William "the Clergyman" was in Bermuda. He moved there from Barbados. His only son John was baptized in the Smith Tribe in 1630
• 1648 - William 'the Clergyman' died and left a will, stating in the event of his son John's death that property in Devonshire would go to his nephew William, the son of Bartholomew. This is about the same time that William “of Gravesend” bought land. John Golding, the only son of the Clergyman was still alive at that time, however although a minor and still living in Barbados. The will states money would go to the nephew William, son of Bartholomew, only if the son John were no longer alive.
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Also, if William's family originated in England, why does the above account state that he was born in Ireland? Is there any additional information related to Bartholomew “of Ipswich” Goulding, the vicar of South Elmham, Sancti Petri (St. Peter)?
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It's certainly possible though in no way proven that Bartholomew Golding was in Ireland in 1613 because that window of opportunity is open. He was admitted to Cambridge University on June 23, 1614 and was awarded a B.A. in 1617-1618. He was ordained deacon (Norwich) on December 19, 1619, was vicar of Ilketshall, Suffolk in about 1626 and sequestered to South Elmham, St. Peter, Suffolk by 1645. (Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900)
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Bartholomew Golding, recorded in the clergydatabase under a variety of spellings of his name became Rector of South Elmham St. Peter before 1603, but he is absent from the register between ? and 1627. He continued as Rector until his natural death in 1678. Where was he during that gap in time? Two men filled in as Rector from 1603 to 1627 and they were Bartholomew Awdye and Ric Arton. When Bartholomew Golding returned he was a Preacher and then in 1633 was a Curate. There was another gap between 1662 and 1678 in which Johannes Woomer took over. In the Anglican church a “Curate” is a clergyman employed under the incumbent (whether rector or vicar), either as assistant in the same church or in a chapel within the parish and connected with the church. (The Clergy Database)
Location: Parish (Church): South Elmham St Peter
County: Suffolk
Diocese (Jurisdiction):Norwich
Diocese (Geographic):Norwich
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Source: clergydatabase, “South Elmham St. Peter, Norwich Diocese”, https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/locations/index.jsp
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What about William Golding, listed in the same database. William “the Clergyman” was in Bermuda from 1638 until his death in 1648. Was he the same person as the William Goulding listed in the database was the vicar of St. Andrew in Ilkittishall, also under the jurisdiction of John Jegon, the Bishop of Norwich? As can be seen from the information below, Johannes Shardelowe took over as Vicar in 1635.
Location: Parish (Church): Ilketshall St Andrew
County: Suffolk
Diocese (Jurisdiction):Norwich
Diocese (Geographic):Norwich
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William Golding was a member of the party of George Holmes
In 1635 a party of Englishman from the colony on the Connecticut River, consisting of George Holmes, his hired man, Thomas Hall, and ten or twelve others, attempted to make a lodgment on the Delaware, of which fact the Dutch authorities in New York seemed to have had information, and made preparation to thwart their design. When the English squatters made an effort to capture Fort Nassau they found it garrisoned. The English party were taken prisoners and sent to Manhattan, where they were permitted permanently to settle. Thomas Hall, at the latter place, rose to some eminence, and was active in all the movements in the early days of New York while it was a Dutch province. (Delco History.org)
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In 1633, the Dutch made another attempt at a settlement, and a purchase was made by Arondt Corssen on the banks of the Schuylkill, where, in the same year, Fort Beversrede was erected, soon to be abandoned. On which Mr. Armstrong remarks: "the readiness which the natives manifested to part with their territory was equaled only by their willingness to sell it again to any who might choose to purchase it.
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In 1635, a party of English adventurers from Connecticut, under the command of George Holmes, made an unsuccessful attempt upon the fort, were taken prisoners, and were sent to Manhattan, where they were pardoned, and allowed to settle in the vicinity of Fort Amsterdam — they being the first English to acquire a habitation in the New Netherlands. (Dutch and Swedish Settlements on the Delaware)
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The following is from Genealogies of Long Island Families 1600s-1800s
Hoff, 1987) Long Island Source records, Kings county, N.Y. Wills, Page 106
Source: http://jacquesancestry.com/
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The company of George Holmes, sent from Virginia by Governor West to seize the Dutch Fort Nassau, was betrayed by Thomas Hall. "The earliest record evidence, corroborating the tradition of the family that he was one of the first English settlers upon Manhattan Island, is found in the Council Minutes, still preserved at Albany among the manuscript archives of the Dutch dominion, from which it appears that on the 24th day of November, 1639, Nicholas, the tobacco planter of Hopton, was summoned before the Director and Council to answer to one Laurens Haen, for the value of a canoe which the latter had lent him, and which had been lost ; and on the same day Nicholas, the tobacco planter, had cited his neighbors, Thomas Hall and George Holmes, before the Director and Council, to answer to him for an tanker of brandy, belonging to him, and which they had appropriated.
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Thomas Hall and George Holmes, who appear thus early upon the records of New Amsterdam, were two Englishmen, who with a party of twelve or thirteen others, had been sent out from Point Comfort, in Virginia, in 1635, by Gov. West, of that colony, to seize the Dutch Fort Nassau, upon the South river. The expedition had been betrayed by Hall and captured; and Holmes and the other English engaged therein had been taken as prisoners to Manhattan Island, but were soon afterward released, and returned to Virginia. Hall, however, had remained in New Netherlands, and seeing that the virgin soil was well adapted to the culture of tobacco, with the raising and curing of which he had become familiar in Virginia, had induced Wouter Von Twiller, then the Director General, to lay out a tract of land upon Long Island, belonging to the latter, as a tobacco plantation, and to engage him to take charge of it.
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Finding the business very profitable, and that Von Twiller was disposed to extend it, Hall, by way of atonement for his former treachery to George Holmes, had induced the Director General to lay out one of the Company's boweries upon Manhattan Island as a tobacco plantation, and to allow him and George Holmes to cultivate it on shares ; but before the arrangement had been carried into effect, Wouter Yon Twiller was superseded in his office by William Kieft, the new Director General, who arrived in time.
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Netherlands on the 28th of March, 1638.
SOURCE: Full text of "Early memoirs of the Stilwell family, comprising the life and times of Nicholas Stilwell, the common ancestor of the numerous families bearing that surname, with some account of his brothers John and Jasper and incidentally a sketch of the history of Manhattan island and its vicinity, under the Dutch, with some contributions to a genealogy of the family.." (Early memoirs of the Stilwell Family, comprising the life and times of Nicholas Stillwell...)
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There was also a GEORGE HOLMES, an early immigrant in Virginia, but no confirmation that they are the same person.
Source: Holmes George 1653 Christopher Boyce Northumberland
Thomas Spicer, William Goulding and George Holmes were all connected to Lady Moody
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Lady Deborah Moody and the settlement of Gravesend
Lady Deborah Moody was the wife of Sir Henry Moody and daughter of Walter Dunch, the auditor of the Royal Mint. She is perhaps one of the most picturesque female characters in the history of Long island because although she was brought up in the most refined surroundings in England, she was a woman with a strong, noble mind. She and her son emigrated to New England to avoid persecution for their religious ideas, but as with the case with so many other immigrants to the New World, they discovered that New England was one of the most intolerant communities, and that it was much better to move from that part of the New World, or else conform to the Puritan Faith.
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Lady Moody organized a party to settle a new community under guidance of the Dutch Colony of New Netherlands. She, with her fellow colonists moved to Long Island and started a settlement at a place named Gravesend, a name given it by the Dutch Director Kieft. This was in 1643. On December 10, 1645 Lady Moody and her followers were given a grant by Kieft and the town was divided into 28 parts, each to receive a plantation lot and a Village lot. In 1646 a new division was made, laying out the town into 40 lots. Included in the dispersal were people connected with William Goulding in one way or another.
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i. Lady Moody and Sir Henry Moody (her son)
ii. George Holmes
iii. Thomas Hall
iv. Thomas Spicer - Thomas Spicer, the man who had a lot at Gravesend was born in 1591 and he died in 1658. He came to America on April 28, 1635 on the ship Ann & Elizabeth and brought with him his wife Anna Grant (1595-1635). They were both from Kent County in England and evidently Anna died shortly after reaching America because Thomas married again. Source: Gravesend Records, Liber 3, page 112
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A second division included Thomas Applegate, the son of Thomas Applegate, Sr. who married Avis Goulding, the daughter of William Goulding and William Goulding.
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What did Lady Moody and her followers believe and what made them a target of persecution?
After the death of her husband, Lady Moody became an Anabaptist, a Protestant sect of Christianity who believed that baptism shouldn't occur until a person was old enough to be able to understand the concept. When the word of her new beliefs got out, Deborah was summoned to court and rather than face whatever punishment the government had in mind to inflict on her, she gathered her wealth and her son and set sail for the New World. She was 54 years old at the time. They arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1639. They did not find Massachusetts the haven on tolerance they expected so she temporarily moved to a large farm in Swampscott near Salem and began the correspond with other religious nonconformists in the area.
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In doing so she drew the attention of her neighbor Reverend Hugh Peter who opposed her because he believed the colony should be unified along religious grounds. He had already expelled another Anabaptist woman, Anne Hutchinson two years earlier and saw no reason to treat Lady Moody differently. In 1643 Deborah was brought before the court and charged with spreading religious dissent. The Puritan leader John Endecott described her as a "dangerous woman". When she was given the choice of either changing her beliefs or being excommunicated from the colony, she chose excommunication, gathered her small group of followers and set out to find a place where they could practice their beliefs unhindered. Deborah drew up the plans for her new community and called it Gravesend and it was the first New World settlement founded by a woman. (Life Story: Lady Deborah Moody)
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William Goulding participated in the purchase of land from the Indian tribes
This is from The History of Rumson, 1665-1944: The purchase from the Indians beginning on p. 24.
"Eastern settlers on the western end of Long Island saw their opportunity now to acquire land on the Jersey shore. They had tried to buy land at the Highlands in 1663 but were frustrated by the Dutch who warned the Indians not to sell to the English. with the English in control in the New York harbor and territories adjacent, a party of men from Gravesend, Long Island journeyed by boat to the Highlands and made a deal with the Indians for the purchase of lands south of the Raritan River. The first purchase is dated January 25, 1665 and included the Middletown tract between the Raritan and N. Shrewsbury (Navesink) rivers. The second purchase is dated April 7, 1665 and the third June 5, 1665. The second and third are known as the Narumson and Pootapeck purchases." (The History of Rumson: The purchase from the Indians, 1944)
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The account relates that land was paid for by various goods by John Tilton, John Bowne, Samuel Spicer, William Goulder als Goulding, Richard Gibbons, James Grover and Richard Stout of Gravesend. In the List of Contributors to the Fund for the Purchase of Narumsunk and Pootapek, William Goulding gave 4 pounds. (ancestry.com)
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