The Old Courthouse cemetery, Dresden, Maine

This cemetery is located on the Pownalborough Courthouse property in Dresden, Maine.  There are approximately forty headstones there.

Photographed September 7, 2007

Photo: Lydia Goodwin headstone

Lydia Goodwin, the daughter of Samuel Goodwin Jr. and Ann Frances Goud was born in 1763, probably in Charlestown, Massachusetts.  She died 22 Jan 1841 in Dresden, Maine, and is buried there in the Old Courthouse cemetery.

Inscription on headstone:

Miss
Lydia Goodwin
Died
Jan. 22, 1841
aet. 78

Death record found in the Dresden, Lincoln, Maine: Town and Vital Records, Family History Library  FHL US/CAN Film 10820.

 

Children and grandchildren of Major Samuel Goodwin

Samuel Goodwin was born on 27 Jan 1716, the son of John Goodwin and Lydia Sprague.  He died on 29 Nov. 1802 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.  He married Elizabeth Willard, the daughter of Jacob Willard and Sarah Flint, on 15 Feb 1738/9 in Boston, Massachusetts.  She was born on 4 Nov 1714 in Salem, Massachusetts, and died on 20 Feb 1787.

They had the following children:

1. Samuel Goodwin Jr. married Ann Frances Goud 1762
2. Lydia Goodwin married Robert Twycross 1764
3. Elizabeth Goodwin, b. 1743, d. 1818
4. Abigail Goodwin married 1) Thomas Johnson 1776, married 2) William Goodwin 1790
5. Sarah Goodwin married Nathaniel Bailey 1768
6. Mercy Goodwin married 1) Nymphas Bodfish 1774, 2) John Hart 1803
7. Rebecca Goodwin married John Johnson 1777

2nd Generation

1.  Samuel Goodwin Jr. and Ann Frances Goud had the following children:

1. Lydia Goodwin
2. Ann Goodwin
3. Samuel Twycross Goodwin
4. George Goodwin
5. Charles Goodwin
6. John Goodwin
7. Sarah Goodwin
8. Randolph Goodwin
9. Edward Goodwin
10. Benjamin Goodwin

2.  Lydia Goodwin and Robert Twycross had the following children:

1. Robert Harcourt Twycross
2. Stephen Nymphas Twycross
3. Joseph Lee Twycross
4. Samuel Goodwin Twycross

5.  Sarah Goodwin and Nathaniel Bailey had the following children:

1. Elizabeth Bailey
2. Nathaniel Bailey
3. David Bailey
4. Samuel G Bailey
5. Thomas Bailey
6. Abigail G Bailey
7. Sarah Bailey
8. Jacob Bailey
9. Mary Bailey
10. Lydia Hannah Bailey

6.  Mercy Goodwin and Nymphas Bodfish had the following children:

1. Elizabeth Bodfish
2. Joseph Goodwin Bodfish
3. William Bodfish
4. William Bodfish
5. Mary Bodfish
6. Samuel Goodwin Bodfish
7. Margaret Bodfish
8. Nathan Bodfish
9. Abigail Bodfish
10. Mercy Bodfish

7.  Rebecca Goodwin and John Johnson had the following children:

1. Thomas Johnson
2. John Johnson Jr.
3. Samuel Goodwin Johnson
4. Lydia Johnson
5. Rowland Johnson
6. Elizabeth Johnson
7. William Goodwin Johnson
8. James Johnson
9. Rebecca Johnson