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Note: John-2 GOFFE, Esq. (John-1) was born 18 Sep 1679, baptized 24 Sept. 1679; he died 18 Sep 1748; was commonly known as "Squire" Goff; About 1701 he m. Hannah Parish (or sometimes written Parris). She b. in Boston, MA in 1679. She was the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Parish/Parris who had a garrison house in the south part of Dunstable (now Nashua) NH. REPORTEDLY, [see note below] her father Robert, mother and older sister were massacred by the Indians about 1691 and that the two young girls hid under a hogshead in the cellar and were saved, Hannah reportedly being one of these This story is in dispute. John & Hannah Goffe removed from Boston to Londonderry 1719. Note--The story of the massacre of Robert Parris and his wife and daughter and the miraculous escape of two little daughters by an ingenious concealment in the cellar has been given in several publications. The event is not mentioned by Penhallow or by Pike. The story of the massacre was first published, 1823, in Farmer and Moore's Collections.,[p.58] Vol. II, page 306. It has been refreshed and enlarged by Fox and Nason. The record proves that Robert Parris died in Chelsea and that his wife survived him. One of the little girls said to have been concealed in the cellar on the date of the assumed attack, was a wife and mother of several children and was safely living in Chelmsford; the other was married and living in Boston]. One of the first settlers of Derryfield [Manchester NH]. In his will, he bequeathed to his daughter Mary, 50 pounds, 5 shillings, old tenor, and one cow. To his grandson, Benjamin Litchfield, he gave one hundred acres of land in the township of Londonderry. He also gave to his grandson, John Kidder, all his right, title and interest to a fourth division in Londonderry. To a number of granddaughters Hannah Gorman and Sarah Linkfield, along with Sarah Kidder, Mary and Esther Kidder he gave forty shillings each, and the remainder of his property he left to his son John, and his grandchildren, the heirs of his daughter, Mary Wood. His son John was appointed executor.
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