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Note: e Goodrich ancestry in the USA, Thurston Raynor and his family were among the first settlers at Wethersfield in 1636, and Thurston was involved in framing what eventually became the government of the state of Connecticut. Source: http://home .insightbb.com/~karima/RAYNORINTRO.html "The first Raynors to come to America were Thurston Raynor, his wife, Elizabeth, their five children, and Thurston’s ten year old nephew, Edward Raynor. Residents of Elmsett, in the County of Suffolk, they left Ipswich, England in April 1634 aboard the ship, Elizabeth, and arrived in Boston three months later. They settled first in Watertown, Massachusetts, and in 1636, along with some other Watertown families, they went to Wethersfield, Connecticut, where Thurston Raynor was listed among the first settlers. In 1641, Thurston Raynor and his family and several other families from Wethersfield moved on to settle Rippowams, the area now known as Stamford, Connecticut. Three years later, in 1644, Thurston Raynor once again uprooted his family and joined with twenty-two other Rippowams families in following their religious leader, Rev. Denton, to Long Island where they settled Hempstead, in the western part of the Island." "Sometime between 1646 and 1649, Thurston Raynor and his family left Hempstead and moved east, to the young village of Southampton on the south shore of Long Island. Edward Raynor, Thurston’s nephew, who accompanied Thurston and his family on the voyage to America in 1634, and remained with them in Watertown, Wethersfield, Rippowams, and Hempstead, stayed behind in Hempstead when Thurston, his wife and children moved on to Southampton. In Southampton, Thurston Raynor was a large landholder and became prominent in the affairs of the village. He died there in 1667." Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctahgp/history/const-1. htm ) CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT by Roger Welles, published in Connecticut Magazine, Feb 1899 Seventh. THOSE WHO ADOPTED THE ORDERS. - The second court of this second year, and the last court held prior to that of Jan. 14, 1638-9, (according to the record) when the Fundamental Orders were adopted, consisted also of eight magistrates and eleven committees, and was held April 5, 1638, As those who represented the three towns or Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield in this general court, undoubtedly were the members of the court which adopted the constitution of 1639, so called, their names are worthy of being inscribed in letters of gold upon our Connecticut temple of fame. The members of this court represented the towns as follows Of the magistrates, John Haynes and Thomas Welles were Of Hartford; Roger Ludlowe and William Phelps were of Windsor John Plum and Matthew Mitchell were of Wethersfield. Of the committees, George Hull, Capt. John Mason, Thomas Ford, and Thomas Marshall were of Windsor; John Webster, John Talcott, John Steele and Edward Hopkins were of Hartford; Andrew Ward, Thurston Raynor, and George Hubbard were of Wethersfield. To those eight magistrates and eleven committees, in all probability, must the honor be rendered of having originally framed and adopted the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
Note: About a decade before John and William Goodrich settled in Wethersfield Connecticut in 1644, and William Goodrich married Sarah Marvin on 04 Oct 1648, launching what is today the largest portion of th
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