T. A. GOFFE ESQ.
DIED
Nov. 5, 1860
AEt. 91 yrs. 4 ms.
ANNA G.
WIFE OF
THEODORE A. GOFFE ESQ.
DIED
Sept. 16, 1859
AEt. 84 yrs
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| All the Goffe family |
Theodore Atkinson Goffe was born in Groton, Massachusetts on
25 June 1769, son of Major John Goffe and Jemima Holden. He was the grandson of Colonel John Goffe
(1701 – 1781) who build the historic Goffe’s Mill in 1744, located on Bowman
Brook behind the Whole Foods market in Bedford. Theodore A. Goffe was the great grandson of “Squire
John Goffe (1679 – 1748) who removed from Boston to Londonderry, New
Hampshire.
Theodore A. Goffe married Anne Griggs, who was born 19
September 1775 and died 16 September 1859. Theodore died on 5 November 1860 in Bedford,
New Hampshire on his father’s farm. He
is most noted for rebuilding the Goffe mill after a fire damaged it in
1834. His improvements included an iron
turbine to replace the wooden millwheel.
He was the namesake of Colonel Theodore Atkinson (1697 - 1779),
Harvard graduate who was appointed secretary of the province of New
Hampshire. The town of Atkinson, New
Hampshire, founded in 1767 was named for him. Atkinson’s portrait was painted
by Joseph Blackburn in 1760, and it now hangs in the Worcester Art Museum in
Worcester, Massachusetts.
The Goffe Family Tree at the NH Searchroots website
More about the Goffe family can be found in the book The
History of Bedford: Being Statistics Compiled on the Occasion of the One
Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town, 1850
A previous blog post about Goffe’s Mill in Bedford, New
Hampshire:
I always enjoy your posts Heather.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Diane!
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