The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Goodrich · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Mary Goodrich

Born 1682, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.

Also recorded as Mary Curtis, Mary Kirkham Goodrich.

Mary Goodrich (4 September 1682 – after 1754) was a colonial Connecticut woman of Wethersfield and Farmington, the wife of Thomas Curtis, who outlived her husband and was admitted to the Torrington church with her son Zebulon in 1754. She was the sixth great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through her son Zebulon Curtis (1710–1798).

Early life

Mary Goodrich was born at Wethersfield, in Hartford County, Connecticut Colony, on 4 September 1682, the daughter of John Goodrich (1653–1730) and Rebecca Allen. Her father was a son of William Goodrich, one of the first settlers of Wethersfield. A genealogy of early Connecticut families published in 1856 records that her parents had married at Charlestown, Massachusetts, on 28 March 1678, and that her mother was the daughter of Captain John Allen of Charlestown, a mariner. Mary was the third of their nine children, born between 1679 and 1694.

Marriage and family

On 30 December 1703, at Wethersfield, she married Thomas Curtis (1680–1752); the town book records that the Rev. Stephen Mix performed the ceremony. On 25 April 1706 the same minister married her younger sister Abigail to David Curtis, who was very probably her husband’s brother. If so, the two sisters were sisters-in-law twice over.

The couple had ten children: Rebecca, born at Wethersfield on 28 April 1705, and nine more, born at Farmington between 1708 and 1727. Their son Zebulon was born at Farmington on 16 January 1710/11, entered in the town book there as “Zebulon, s. Thomas”. The family had therefore moved from Wethersfield to Farmington between 1705 and 1710, which is why the other children do not appear in the Wethersfield books.

Death

Her husband died at Torrington on 20 January 1751/2, and she outlived him. On 9 June 1754 she was admitted to the Torrington church with her son Zebulon and his wife Lydia, as a history of Torrington published in 1878 records. No record of her death is known.

Notes

The Wethersfield town book and the published Goodrich genealogies call her simply Mary; no record gives her the middle name Kirkham.

Several nineteenth-century genealogies give her husband a second marriage, to Rachel Morgan, daughter of John Morgan of Groton, on 17 March 1714/15. That marriage belonged to the other Thomas Curtis, not to her husband: the Thomas born at Wethersfield on 15 September 1670 to John and Lydia Curtis, who became a mariner.

Family time line

◉ Mary Goodrich 1682–
◉ Thomas Curtis 1680–1752 ⚔⚖
Married 30 Dec 1703, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony
○ Rebecca Curtis 1705–
○ Mercy Curtis 1707–1757
○ Sibbel Curtis 1708–
○ Hannah Curtis 1709–
◉ Zebulon Curtis 1710/1711–1798 ⚔
○ Elnathan Curtis Sr. 1713–
○ Thomas Curtis 1715–1726 ✧
○ Mary Curtis 1716–1795
○ Prudence Curtis 1718–
○ Lydia Curtis 1721–
○ Lois Curtis 1726–
○ Marcy Curtis 1727–

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth 4 Sep 1682 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America from a compiled source
Living at 1695 Branford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America on record
Living at
admitted to the Torrington church with her son Zebulon
 1754 Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America on record
Death from a compiled source
16821754 169017001710172017301740

Sources

  • U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current — Birth, Death, name
  • Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) — Birth, name
  • North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 — Birth, Death, name
  • U.S., Family History Books — Birth, Death, name
  • Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 — Living at, about this person, name
  • Samuel Orcutt, History of Torrington, Connecticut (Albany: J. Munsell, 1878), Torrington church members — Living at
  • The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Wethersfield — Marriage (Thomas Curtis)
  • Henry R. Stiles, The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, vol. 2: Genealogies and Biographies (New York: Grafton Press, 1904), The Curtis Family — Marriage (Thomas Curtis)

Borders as they stood about 1700 (they follow the event under the mouse), from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

  1. John Goodrich 1653–1730
    1. William Goodrich 1622–bef 1676 ⚔⚓
      1. John Goodrich –bef 1632
        1. William Goodrich –1631
          1. Robert Goodrich 1515–1570
            1. John Goodrich –1558
            2. Johanna (surname unknown) –1558
          2. Elizabeth (surname unknown) –1579
        2. Margaret (surname unknown) –1630
          1. Alexander Richardson 1515–1558
          2. Isabel (surname unknown) 1510–1559
      2. Margery How –1632
        1. John Howe 1554–1609
        2. Margery Lonsdale 1562–1639
          1. John Lonsdale 1530–
          2. not yet known
    2. Sarah Marvin 1631–bef 1702 ⚭⚓
      1. Matthew Marvin 1600–bef 1680 ⚓⚭
        1. Edward Marvin abt 1552–1615/1616
          1. Reinold Marvin abt 1513–1554/1561
            1. John Mervyn abt 1480–1533
              1. Thomas Mervyn –1503/1504
              2. Christian (surname unknown)
            2. Margaret (surname unknown)
          2. Johan (surname unknown)
        2. Margaret (surname unknown) –1633
      2. Elizabeth (surname unknown) –bef 1647
  2. Rebecca Allen bef 1657–
    1. John Allen –1675 ⚖⚔
    2. Sarah (surname unknown)

Descendants

  1. Rebecca Curtis 1705–
  2. Mercy Curtis 1707–1757
    1. Oliver Warner 1729–1814
      1. Mabel Warner 1756–1801
        1. Mary Carrington 1786–1824
  3. Sibbel Curtis 1708–
    1. Martin North 1734–1806
      1. Rufus North 1769–1841
        1. Eben L North
    2. Sibyl North 1736–1807
      1. Noah Cowles 1759–1839
        1. Salmon Cowles 1784–1869
      2. Samuel Cowles 1771–1845
        1. Roxana Cowles 1810–1904
  4. Hannah Curtis 1709–
    1. Samuel Churchill 1733–1790
      1. Lucy Churchill 1762–1824
        1. William Henry Moore 1785–1845
  5. Zebulon Curtis 1710/1711–1798 ⚔
    1. Elizabeth Curtis 1737–1801
    2. Thomas Curtis 1739–1776 ⚔
      1. Mary Curtis 1774–1867
        1. Reuben Gaylord 1812–1880
    3. Marcy Freeman Curtis 1740–
    4. Job Curtis 1745–1807
    5. John Curtis 1748–bef 1790
      1. Jeremiah Curtis 1770–aft 1810
        1. John Curtis 1792–1792 ✧
        2. Waterman Curtis 1793–1859
        3. Junia Curtis 1795–1809 ✧
        4. Truman Curtis 1804–1885 ⚭
        5. Electa Curtis 1811–1888
      2. Huldah T. Curtis 1772–1872
      3. Junia Curtis 1774–1831
        1. Jacob L. Curtis 1794–1889
        2. Harriet Curtis 1799–1890
        3. Alonzo Curtis 1810–1860
        4. Lewis Leroy Curtis 1813–1904
      4. Lorrain Curtis 1775–1850
      5. Thomas Curtis 1778–abt 1848
      6. Mary Mercy Curtis 1779–
      7. Remembrance Curtis Sr. 1781–1840
        1. Susan Curtis 1805–1831
        2. Lorena Curtis 1808–1879
        3. Remembrance Curtis 1818–1890
    6. Lydia Curtis 1751–1820
  6. Elnathan Curtis Sr. 1713–
  7. Thomas Curtis 1715–1726 ✧
  8. Mary Curtis 1716–1795
  9. Prudence Curtis 1718–
  10. Lydia Curtis 1721–
    1. Keziah Woodruff 1742–1812
      1. James Brace 1767–1834
        1. John Pierce Brace 1793–1872
      2. Jeduthan Brace 1771–
        1. Ruth Brace 1799–1886
  11. Lois Curtis 1726–
  12. Marcy Curtis 1727–