Ninth Generation

145. Hannah GRIGGS was born on 22 October 1702 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^{104,119,162,175} She died on 18 May 1798 at the age of 95 in Bedford, Hillsborough County, NH.¹⁶² She was buried in Bedford, Hillsborough County, NH.¹²⁹ in the Old Bedford Cemetery.

Hannah GRIGGS and Colonel John GOFFE III Esq. were married on 16 October 1722 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^104,164,175 Colonel John GOFFE III Esq.¹⁶⁵, son of John GOFFE and Hannah PARISH, was born on 16 March 1701 in Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^165,181 He died on 20 October 1786 at the age of 85 in Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁶⁵

Obituary Notes: "Goffe was the son of John Goffe, the town clerk of Londonderry, New Hampshire, and Hannah Parrish of Nashua, New Hampshire. His grandfather, also named John Goffe, emigrated to New England in 1662 or 1663. Goffe was born in Boston in 1701 and baptized in the Old North Church under the ministry of Increase Mather. As a young man, he was a hunter and trapper in the woods of New Hampshire. He married Hannah Griggs of Roxbury, Massachusetts on October 16, 1722, with whom he had a family of eight daughters and one son.

John Goffe served in the military during the Colonial wars, including the French & Indian wars and the Revolutionary War.

Colonel John Goffe is buried at the old graveyard in Bedford, New Hampshire.

Some parts paraphrased from the History and Genealogy of Manchester, New Hampshire
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Colonel John Goffe III, ESQ., was baptized in Second or Old North Church (Increase Mather's Church) on 25 March 1701. He married 16 October 1722 in Roxbury, Massachusetts to Hannah Griggs of Roxbury, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Ichabod & Margaret (Bishop) Griggs, born 2 October 1702 and died 18 May 1798. He and Hannah were the parents of eight children: Hannah, Esther, Major John Bradford, Mary Polly (Marcy), Sarah, Elizabeth and Rebecca.

Colonel John Goffe, sometimes called "Hunter John" in old documents, as his early life was spent hunting and fishing, went with his father to Londonderry, New Hampshire at an early age. He settled at the mouth of Cohos Brook, the outlet of Massabesic Pond at the Merrimack River, about three miles below the city of Manchester, at what is called "Moore's Village." In 1740 he was granted land in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire as a reward for his services to the colony during the French and Indian War. The home he built still stands, now a Citizen's Bank, across from the Macy's building on South River Road. His grist mill stood where the Wayfarer Inn is now (2011).

Colonel Goffe was very active in local and state-wide civic and political activities. He was the original petitioner to incorporate the town of Bedford (1750), and in 1771 he was the first Judge of Probate in Hillsborough County, a position he held from 1771 through 1776. In 1776 he was elected to the New Hampshire State Legislature. He was also appointed to the Committee on Public Safety, and was a Justice of the Peace in Bedford.

In 1746 to 1755 he was a captain in the Colonial Militia Service. In 1757 he served against Crown Point as a Lieutenant Colonel. He also served in Colonel Munroe's surrender in which 80 men were lost by massacre. In the Amherst's campaign, he was second to Colonel Lovewell, and in 1760 led 800 provincials to Montreal under Haviland. In 1761 he was at Ticonderoga, as we learn from a letter written by him to his only son, Lieutenant John Goffe. He was stationed at Fort William Henry, which surrendered to the French. Eighty out of two hundred of the New Hampshire regiment were murdered by the Indians as they marched out of the fort, unarmed, after they had capitulated. In 1768 he was Colonel of the 9th New Hampshire Regiment (he was appointed Colonel by Governor Wentworth, and held his commission as such until the Revolutionary War). In the register of New Hampshire for 1768 we find him Colonel of the 9th Regiment of the New Hampshire Militia. At the time of the American Revolution, Colonel Goffe was too old to take an active part as a soldier.

Colonel Goffe was a religious man. As was the custom in those days, he would conduct divine service on the Sabbath in his own house. It is said he sang and prayed, and read a selected discourse to his audience. People from Bedford and also Goffstown and possibly Merrimack and Litchfield attended that worship.

At least two of Colonel Goffe's descendants were accepted in the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: F. Frank Johnson-Nebraska Chapter (1914), and Arthur Wyman Stewart-Maine Society (1915).

Goffstown and Goffe's Falls neighborhood of Manchester were named for him because of his service to Goffstown and the State of New Hampshire.

Colonel Goffe was a "mover and a shaker" in Bedford, New Hampshire, Goffstown, New Hampshire and in the State of New Hampshire. He was a dedicated and valiant civil servant and and outstanding soldier."

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He was buried in Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁶⁵ in the Bedford (Back Road) Cemetery.

Hannah GRIGGS and Colonel John GOFFE III Esq. had the following children:

Hannah GRIGGS and David SOUTHWICK were married.¹⁷⁵ David SOUTHWICK was born (date unknown).