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Note: REFN17 From notes of Glenn W. Martin: Let us look at a few dates in my immediate
family. We must remember that at this period babies were born at home.
Once a year or so the Doctor would go to the town hall and record all the
births that he had delivered during that time. All her life, Etta,
Jerome's daughter, believed that she was born April 10, 1865. In 1934
when everyone was required to present a birth certificate on order to get
a Social Security card she discovered that she was recorded as being born
on April 8, 1884.
From a letter of Betty Jean Lees dated May 29, 1998, in answer to my
question as to why the Goffs seem so important: "I only know that my
mother and your grandmother always implied that the Goffs were a 'cut
above the average'. I think it was a feeling of pride in being "Yankee'.
And where they could trace their roots back to the Regicide on the Goff
line, it gave them a feeling of importance that they were descended from
the early settlers. This apparently was comforting to them growing up
during a period of mass immigration. (Grandma B. -Abbie- remembered when
the first French-Candian family moved into West Warwick.)"
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