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     Martha Deacon was baptized on 22 August 1613 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertford, England.¹

     Richard Gould was born about 1553.³ He died before 8 November 1604.¹
     He lived in Bovingdon, Hertford, England.¹

     Jeremy Gould was born about 1581.¹ He married Priscilla Grover, daughter of William Grover, on 8 November 1604 (the Gould genealogy says 27 November 1604) in Chesham, Buckingham, England.^1,2
     In 1623 Jeremy Gould was taxed on property in Halton and Weston Turville, Buckingham, England.¹ He emigrated to Massachusetts sometime before 1 October 1639.¹ On that date he mortgaged a house, lot, and meadow in Weymouth, Massachusetts, to Joseph Holloway, from whom he had recently bought the property, for £20. This is probably the same property he later sold to James Parker, and that Parker sold to Jeremy's brother Zaccheus Gould on 26 November 1644.¹
     According to family tradition, sometime after 1639 he went back to England, and returned to Weymouth with his wife and family.¹ In 1641 William Coddington of Newport, Rhode Island, appointed him as his attorney (i.e., representative) in Massachusetts.¹ Soon afterwards, he moved to Middletown, Rhode Island.¹ After his wife's death, again according to family tradition, he returned to England.¹

     John Gould was born about 1585.¹ He married Judith (?).¹ He died between 30 June 1633, when his will was made, and 11 July 1633, when he was buried.¹ He was buried on 11 July 1633 in King's Langley, Hertford, England.¹
     His will was dated 30 June 1633 and proved on 18 July 1633. His wife Judith was named executrix. He left £20 to his oldest son John, which he was to receive at age 24, and £10 to each of his other children, Joseph, Sarah, Hannah, Mary, Zacheus, Nathan, Abel, Lydia, and Elizabeth.¹

     Priscilla Grover married Jeremy Gould, son of Richard Gould, on 8 November 1604 (the Gould genealogy says 27 November 1604) in Chesham, Buckingham, England.^1,2 She died in Middletown, Rhode Island.³

     Daniel Gould was born about 1625.² He married Wait Coggeshall, daughter of John Coggeshall and Mary (?), on 18 December 1651.² He died on 26 March 1716.²
     He was a devout Quaker, and was whipped and jailed for his beliefs on 12 November 1659.^1,3 He and Wait had the following known children: Mary (b 2 May 1653, d 9 January 1690/91), Thomas (b 20 February 1655, d 11 May 1734), Daniel (b 24 October 1656), John (b 4 May 1659, d 5 March 1704), Priscilla (b 30 June 1661, d 23 January 1688/89), Jeremiah (b 5 May 1644 (sic, probably a typo for 1664), d 27 April 1666), James (b 13 July 1666), Jeremiah (b 2 February 1668/69, d 2 August 1670), Content (b 23 May 1671, d 3 September 1720), Wait (b 8 May 1676, d 14 March 1725).⁴

     Judith (?) married John Gould, son of Richard Gould.¹ She died between 6 May 1650, when she made her will, and 3 September 1650, when it was proved.¹
     Her will was dated 6 May 1650 and proved on 3 September 1650. At the time she was described as being of Watford, co. Hertford. Her son Abel and daughters Lydia and Elizabeth were named as executors. She left: £400 to her son Abel, plus the contents of a box at her cousin Gase's house; £300 each to her daughters Lydia and Elizabeth; £40 to her granddaughters Hannah and Elizabeth, daughters of her daughter Hannah; £60 to her son-in-law George Younge, in effect, by forgiving all but £40 of a £100 debt; £40 to the children of her son Nathan; and £60 to the children of her daughter Sarah if her (Judith's) son Nathan had not divided the goods left to him by her son Zacheus equally between him and Sarah, otherwise this £100 [sic] was to be divided equally beytween their children. If her son Abel were to die before coming of age, his £400 was to be given instead as follows: £300 divided equally between her daughters Lydia and Elizabeth, £50 to her daughter Hannah, £20 to her daughter Marie, and £30 to be divided between the children of her son Nathan and daughter Sarah. If the Parliament were to repay money that she had loaned them, £100 was to go to her son Abel, £40 to her daughter Marie, and the rest to her daughters Hannah, Lydia,and Elizabeth. She also left £5 to the minister of Watford. Whatever remained was to go to her son Abel and daughters Lydia and Elizabeth.¹

     Zaccheus Perkins was born in 1705.¹

     William Perkins was born in 1710.¹

     Phebe Lamson married Theophilus Fiske, son of William Fiske and Sarah Kilham, on 18 July 1700.² She died on 23 May 1753.²

     Martha Lamson was born on 21 March 1677 in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts.² She married Benjamin Bixby, son of Benjamin Bixby and Mary (?), before 1704.² She probably died between 1724 and 1738.²
     She and her husband Benjamin were admitted to the church in Reading, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, on 19 April 1716.² They moved to Killingly, Windham Co., Connecticut, about 1717.² They were dismissed from the church in Reading on 20 October 1717, and admitted to the church in Killingly on 26 January 1717/18.² They settled in an area called Brandy Hill, and built a house there, on the east side of Boston Rd., in 1719. Their house was described as the "last out-post of civilization on the road from Connecticut, and was much frequented by travelers, Indians, and lawless borderers."²
     Ellen Larned, in the History of Windham County, says that "On one occasion, Mrs. Bixby, when alone, refused to give liquor to a drunken savage, whereupon he shot her in the thigh, wounding her severely." On 3 October 1720 Connecticut's Governor Saltonstall ordered that whatever portion of her attacker's property the government held was to be sent to her family. The Indians in the area also paid the family £17. Not long after this incident she was struck by lightning. Gov. Saltonstall expressed his sympathies, and her husband Benjamin responded, stating that she was not well, and wouldn't recover fully for at least a year, if at all. She did recover, however.²

     John Reddington was born on 20 June 1649.¹ He died in March 1649/50.¹

     Mary Reddington was born on 4 May 1651.¹ She married first John Herrick, son of Zachary Herrick and Mary (?), on 20 May 1674.¹ She married second Robert Cue on 13 March 1682.¹

     John Herrick was baptized on 25 May 1650.¹ He married Mary Reddington, daughter of John Reddington and Mary Gould, on 20 May 1674.¹ He died in 1680.¹
     He was of Beverly, Essex Co., Massachusetts.¹

     Robert Cue married Mary Reddington, daughter of John Reddington and Mary Gould, on 13 March 1682.¹
     He was of Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts.¹

     Phebe Reddington was born on 7 April 1655.¹ She married Samuel Fisk.¹

     Samuel Fisk married Phebe Reddington, daughter of John Reddington and Mary Gould.¹
     He was of Wenham, Essex Co., Massachusetts.¹

     Martha Reddington was born on 7 April 1655.¹ She married, as his second wife, John Gould Jr., son of John Gould and Joanna (?).¹
     She had the following known children: Samuel (b 1691), Abraham (b 1693), Isaac (b 1696).¹

     John Gould Jr. was born on 5 August 1648.¹ He married, as his second wife, Martha Reddington, daughter of John Reddington and Mary Gould.¹ He died on 24 January 1712 at age 63.¹

     Daniel Reddington was born on 17 March 1657/58.¹ He married Elizabeth Davidson on 23 March 1680.¹ He died on 27 September 1731 at age 73.¹