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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 401
insufflcient to pay the legacies, he ordered the Green estate to be
sold to make up the deflcieaey. He gave the improvement of all
his estate, during her widowhood, to his wife Remember, who,
with his brother Benjamin, were appointed joint executors.
"John Goodspeed, ye son of John Goodspeed, and Remember
Buck, were married" the 16th of Feb. 1697-8." She was of
Sandwich, a widow of a grandson of Cornet John Buck, of Hing-
Iiam and Scituate, who in his will dated that year gives legacies
"to all my grand-children living at Yarmouth and Sandwich."
She had two daughters, Ann and Content, by her first husband.
Children born in Barnstable.
33. I. Elizabeth, 10th Dec. 1698, married Edward Dillingham,
Jr., of Sandwich, Oct. 10, 1723.
34. II. Temperance, 17th Feb. 1699-1700, married John
Trowbridge July 27, 1717.
35. III. Samuel, 17th March, 1701, married Rebecca
-, and had nine children born in Barnstable, namely :
1, Temperance, May 20, 1725; 2, John, Aug. 31, 1728;
3, Eunice, April 6, 1731 ; 4, Ann, 24th April, 1734; 5,
Abigail, July 11, 1736; 6, Remember, May 18, 1739; 7,
Samuel, March 1, 1741; 8, Abner, June 17, 1743; 9,
Anthony, April 18, 1746.
36. IV. Cornelius, 2d Feb. 1703-4, married Mary Lovell,
Jr., Feb. 19, 1745, and had Cornelius 1747.
37. V. John,* 1 6th Nov. 1708, married June 15, 1732, Rebecca
Goodspeed; children: 1, Susannah, April 22, 1736,
married Nathan Thomas 1757; 2, Lydia, Jan. 21, 1738;
3, Philemon, April 25, 1742 ; 4, John, Nov. 15, 1745.
38. VI. Experience, 24th June, 1710, married Cornelius Annable
1729.
39. VII. A daughter, 4th April 1712.
15. Benjamin Goodspeed, son of John, born 31st March,
1679, was one year younger than Benjamin, son of Ebenezer,
and is called junior on the records. He died in 1733, and in his
will gives all his estate to his wife Susannah during her widowhood
; to his son Joseph, after the termination of said widowhood,
his homestead, woodlol, &c. To his son John his landing
place and marsh north of Tracy's brook ; and to his son Timothy
a lot of land called Barley Hill, meadow east of Tracy's brook,
&c. ; all his right to Sandy Neck to his three sons equally ; to
daughter Mary £60 and a good feather bed and furniture ; and to
*He resided near Shubael's Pond, Harablin's Plainfi, and was called "Pewter John" to
distinguish him from another John Goodspeed, called "Silver John." His father and
grandfather were men of wealth. The children and the grandchildren of the avaricious
are generally wanting in energy of character and therefore thriftless. If the children are
born before the parent accumulates his wealth, they usually acquire habits of industry and
frugality in early life, which they retain, and therefore do not waste the wealth which they
inherit. It is very rare that grandchildren are benefited by the wealth of the grandparent,
without it is secured to them bv deeds of trust.