In Memory of
Leiut. Joseph
Goodrich who
died January ye
31st 1768 in ye
77th Year of
his Age.
Lt. Joseph Goodrich was the son of Lt. William Goodrich
(1661 – 1737) and Grace Riley (1662 – 1712) born on 28 February 1691/2 in
Wethersfield, Connecticut. He was the grandson of the immigrant Ensign William
Goodrich (1621 – 1676) from Bury St. James, Suffolk England. Joseph married Mehitable Goodwin on 23
December 1714 at the First Church in Hartford, Connecticut and had at least four
children: Mehitable b. 1716; Nathaniel,
b. 1717; Samuel, 1719; Dnaiel b. 1723;
and Thomas b. 1726. Joseph Goodrich
died 31 January 1768 in Wethersfield.
Source: "The Goodrich Family in America",
Lafayette Wallace Case, M.D., (Chicago: Fergus Printing Company 1889).
UPDATE: Within a few hours of publishing this post online, Brian Zoldack of Connecticut informed me that the carver of this tombstone was Gershom Bartlett (1723 - 1798). He wrote up a nice biography of Bartlett at this link on Find A Grave:
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bartlett&GSfn=Gershom&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=49&GScnty=2952&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=43393024&df=all
UPDATE: Within a few hours of publishing this post online, Brian Zoldack of Connecticut informed me that the carver of this tombstone was Gershom Bartlett (1723 - 1798). He wrote up a nice biography of Bartlett at this link on Find A Grave:
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bartlett&GSfn=Gershom&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=49&GScnty=2952&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=43393024&df=all
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Lt. Joseph Goodrich, buried in Wethersfield, Connecticut 1768", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 4, 2017, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/07/tombstone-tuesday-lt-joseph-goodrich.html: accessed {access date).
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