HENKY HILL GOODELL 



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YOUTH 



The family name of Goodell appears in the Colonial Re- 

 cords and in the Record of the soldiers who enlisted from 

 Massachusetts during the Revolution, in some twenty 

 different forms, Goodale and Goodell taking the lead. The 

 stock from which Henry Hill Goodell sprang was of the 

 genuine Puritan type, robust, healthy, brave, earnest, 

 and religious. The first settler of the name in New England 

 was Robert Goodale, who with his wife Katharin and three 

 children, "Mary four years old, Abraham two, and Isaac 

 one half," embarked at Ipswich, England, in the ship 

 Elizabeth on April 10, 1634, and came to Salem, where he 

 soon established himself among those who were called 

 "the genteel." Before leaving England both he and his wife 

 took a solemn oath to be loyal subjects of his Majesty, 

 King Charles I. But while his descendants did not remain 

 loyal to the English throne, they apparently clung to their 

 Puritanism. Of the eighty or more Goodales or Goodells 

 who served as soldiers in the Revolution, all but seven were 

 named after the lawgivers, the warriors, the singers and 

 prophets of Israel, or the evangelists, disciples and writers 

 of the New Testament. 



