The Database for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in Wells, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Arundel

Jedediah Goodale


Relationship to POC: enslaver

Status (enslaved, free or both): free

Town: Wells

Known dates: 1771, 1773

Jedediah Goodale (born 1740) inherited two "Negro servants" from his parents John (died 1771) and Elizabeth (died 1773).

"John Goodale owned one [enslaved person] named Phillis." - Bourne, p. 408

Frost's probate abstract states (on pp. 665-666) that Goodale leaves "to my wife Elizabeth the income of all of my home place with the service of my Negro servants ... till my son Jedidiah be of age, if she continue a widow, using same to bring up my children under age, but after son Jedediah is of age, she shall have 1/2 the income of the home place, 1/2 the house & barn & the service of my 2 Negroes for widowhood only, the other moiety of the house, barn & home place going to son Jedediah Goodale when he is of age, with both Negro servants."

Note: It is assumed here, but not confirmed, that Phillis was one of the two "Negro servants" noted in John Goodale's will.

Bibliography:

The History of Wells and Kennebunk from the Earliest Settlement to the Year 1820 - by Edward Bourne (1875)

York County Registry of Probate

Maine Probate Abstracts Vol I 1687-1775 - John Eldridge Frost (1991)


John Goodale - 1771 will

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John Goodale - 1771 will

'when he shall be of age ... both my Negro servants'

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John Goodale - 1771 will

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John Goodale 1771 probate abstract

to my son Jedediah Goodale both Negro servants after the death or remarriage of my widow

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