David Good & Son James
Family
Association and Identification Events
by R H Janzen
Circumstantial evidence identifying- James Good,born 1783 at Burton NB,as David Good, the loyalist's son along with his siblings, is respectfully submitted.
Leota (Good) Janzen, Lois Dickinson & Russ Janzen
Leota Good Janzen was presented with her U.E. Certificate on 4 Jun 2001.
This researcher has been unable to find information that specifically names James as David's son. David has been identified as a loyalist who came to the Saint John River with the First Fleet in 1783. He and wife Jane arrived with infant daughter Elizabeth and proceeded up river to Burton where they lived until the family resettled in Kingsclear prior to 1799. Elizabeth has been confirmed as the child who came to Canada with David and Jane in 1783 courtesy of a Trinity Church Parish 26 Oct 1781 baptismal record in New York NY. On 6 Feb 1787 David was granted Lot 13 consisting of 82 acres in the Parish of Burton, Sunbury County. This Land Grant to Conrad Stinich and 52 others included David Good. On 31 Dec 1799 a Land Grant at Kingsclear to the Second Battalion of New Jersey Volunteers included David Good and 71 others. David received Lot 73. David's eldest daughter Elizabeth married Benjamin Reed in 1799 at Kingsclear and identification of most of her eight younger Good siblings has been relatively simple because her parents David and Jane Good were the only loyalist folks living in York County capable of having children from 1783 to 1799. Elizabeth was the child who arrived with David and Jane with the Spring Fleet in 1783. D.G. Bell numerically lists them on page 204 of his Early Loyalist Saint John record. George Hayward's record of marriages for York County NB 1812 - 1837 identifies four and possibly five of David Good's children and \lquote A list of Atlantic Canadians' 1600 - 1900 supports this identification and relationship to David Good Sr. The 1851 census records for York and Carleton County also identifies the following four as native born and of Scottish origins. a) David Good Jr., of Kingsclear married Mary McKean of St. Marys on 17 Nov 1812. A list of Atlantic Canadians 1600-1900 identifies David Jr., as living 1785 (NB10 109 355) and (NB10-355). And David Sr., the loyalist living, 1783 (NB27-286) and (NB10-355). b) James Good of Kingsclear married first Anne Williams of Queensbury on 6 Oct 1812. Anne appears to have died shortly after the birth of their son John in 1814. It is quite possible that James and Anne Williams lost a first child and she did not live long after son John was born. James married second Elizabeth Camber of Kingsclear on 21 Mar 1815. The list of Atlantic Canadians identifies James, farmer born circa 1786 in NB (NB17-33) and again as a farmer living in 1851 in Wakefield Parish (NB17-33). Evidence now suggests that the recorder of James birth in \lquote The List of Atlantic Canadians ' erred through misinformation or otherwise - James was probably identified as living in 1786 courtesy of the 1851 census for Carleton when he told the recorder he was 65 years old and native born. James was born in 1783 and was 84 years and five months old when he died 27 May 1868 at Good Corner NB. Extrapolation of this adjusted age for the 85 on a family gravestone in the Centreville Baptist Cemetery confirms a 27 Dec 1783 birth date. This date coincides with David and Jane Good then living at Burton. They are the only Goods in York County who could have had a child named James. A death announcement in the Carleton Sentinel of 6 Jun 1868 advises: lquote Died 27 May 1868, age 85 years, 5 months, James Good formerly of York County from whence he removed in 1837 to Carleton County'. This confirms to this researcher that James was not only the son of David Good the loyalist but also one of the three GOOD brothers who had established the Good Corner Settlement in 1837. This announcement was probably placed in the Sentinel by either his son John or Grandson John Ambrose and they erred by one year. A patronymic argument to support David Sr., naming his first son James follows - Thomas Guid, later changed to Good, (David's Scottish ancestor) was born ca 1610 in Fife, Scotland and named his first son James, possibly because of loyalty to King James of Scotland. Significantly his son James named his first son James and the pattern of naming a first son James continued for five generations. David Sr's., father was a James and the naming of his first son James followed the earlier patronymic process. David was a fourth child. c)Catherine Good (David Good's daughter) of Kingsclear married Abraham Long Jr., of Kingsclear, the son of Cpl Abraham Long the loyalist of New Jersey Volunteers. Kingsclear, on 6 Jun 1814. The Jonas Good who witnessed Catherine's marriage to Abraham Long was most likely her brother. This researcher has been unable to find any other record of Jonas and assumes he must have died young. d) Jane (Jean) Good of Kingsclear married James Gilchrist of Prince William on 13 Sep 1823. The NB Royal Gazette of 16 Sep reports the Jane was the daughter of David Good Sr., of Kingsclear. The Jane Reed and David Good who witnessed Jane Good's marriage were a cousin and older brother respectively. e) George Hayward's list also includes an Anne Good of Douglas who married Andrew Rice of St. Marys. Ann was most probably Abraham Good's daughter.
Other Goods in York and Carleton County 1783 to 1826 were;
The Abraham Good who also came to Canada with the First Fleet in 1783 was 13 years old at that
time and was classified as an orphan. Was he David's son by an earlier marriage?
I do not know but have some suspicions that Abraham was identified as an orphan to better
qualify him for Land Grants.
Abraham married Magdalena Slipp on 29 Jan 1799 at Queensbury or Gagetown and did not start
having family until 1800.
The 1851 census for Carleton County identify's an unrelated Charles 54 and Martha Good 54 of
English origin, who arrived Canada during May 1821 but no family were identified.
Similarly, a George Good 54 arrived in Canada Oct 1826 and married in Canada a Jane 49 who had
emigrated in Jul 1823.
The 1851 census shows they had the following children at home:
Charles 24, Francis 20, John 18, James 16, Margaret 12 and Elizabeth 10 years old.
The 1851 census for Charlotte, West Isles, lists a John Good 75 and spouse Rachel 78 along
with son James 40, spouse Barbary 43 and children - John 21, James 19, Charles H 17, Anne 15
and Warren 13.
Was John another of David Good's orphan followers to Canada?
This census indicates he arrived ca 1790 as a child (orphan ??).
This entry is of interest because Leota's father Benjamin Good received a barrel of herring
from little known relatives living on Deer Island during the hungry thirties.
If one was to ponder this family in association with that of the Abraham who came to Canada as
a 13 year old orphan in 1783 one could further opine that David may very well have been working
on a second family when he came to Canada with the First Fleet.
This has nothing to do with the David/James Good father/son relationship herein addressed.
However, it may have provided subtle and unknown hidden factors in the identification process
for some of David's children.
In 1820 David, who is now 70 years old, sells/transfers et al, one third of a certain parcel
of
land (lot 27) consisting of 550 acres that was assigned to the Officers and Soldiers of the
late Second Battalion of New Jersey Volunteers to sons James, Francis and Solomon.
The original indenture was recorded in York County Records on 5 Oct 1820 and registered 19 Dec
1820.- Book 10, #165, F5620, No. 2072. The second indenture named Solomon Good as the recipient.
The last indenture of the final one third share to Francis was registered 23 Jan 1821.
This bit of evidence suggests very strongly that David was now distributing some of his land
holdings to his children, for some token price.
Son David Jr., was not a factor in this distribution because he and his family lived with his
parents and they clearly intended that he was to be heir to the family property.
This researcher has been unable to determine precisely when David removed from Burton, with
his family of nine children, to Lot #73 at Kingsclear. The unexpected passing of his son
David Jr., in 1837 changes life for papa and Jane. Shortly after David Jr's., passing in 1837
David Sr. sells, grants et al, the original Lot #73 of 140 acres to grandson Benjamin on 16 Aug
1837. The text of this grant/indenture states that abutting lots #72 and 74 were owned by his
children.
David Sr., died four years later in 1841 and we find grandma Jane living with Benjamin at the
time of the 1851 census for Kingsclear. This, for family genealogical purposes, clearly
identifies the late David Good Jr., as David Good Sr's., son.
The sale/transfer of David Sr's., Kingsclear property to grandson Benjamin is the signal for
sons James, Francis and Solomon to remove to Carleton County in 1837 and settle on Land Grant
properties then held by David Good Sr. Their establishment of the Good Corner Settlement in
1837 is now history but the Land Grant aspect of the properties they occupied were not settled
until 1854.
David Good's obituary in the New Brunswick Courier of 29 Jan 1842 states:
...'He has left 111 living descendants of whom five were his children, 60 grand children
and 46 great grand children'.... Someone in the Good family had maintained a fairly detailed
record of David and Jane's descendants - was it Grandma Jane?
Four of their children are identified in the 1851 census records for York and Wakefield
Counties and are discussed below:
James living at Good Corner advised the 1861 Parish of Simonds, Carleton County census recorder,
that he was 78 years old and that he was native born.
The Carleton Sentinel of 6 Jun 1868
advises that James Good died 27 May 1868, age 85 years, 5 months and was formerly of
York County from whence he removed in 1837 to Carleton County.
His grandson John Ambrose Good had the grave stone on his father John and grandfather James
graves in the United Baptist Cemetery in nearby Centreville inscribed as follows:
James Good aged 85 years, Elizabeth his wife aged 88 years, John their son 1814
\emdash 1893 and Caroline his wife 1823 \emdash 1906.
Analysis of James age as 85 on the grave stone is acceptable but he was in fact 84 years and
five months old at his demise, not 85 years and five months as detailed in the Sentinel
announcement...
Francis b. 1794 died 20 Jan 1853 at Kingsclear age 60. Left a wife and 11 children.
(New Brunswick Courier).
Catherine (Good) Long b. 1796, aged 85, was living with her daughter Barbara 55 in Kingsclear
when the 1881 census for Kingsclear was taken.
Solomon b. 2 Jul 1799 at Kingsclear, d. 1884 in Wakefield.
Solomon's grand daughter Elsie Wray has identified him as being the son of the David Good who
lost six toes due to frostbite whilst a Moose hunting at Burton during 1784.
The foregoing evidence confirms, for my wife Leota's genealogical record, that James was David,
the loyalist's, first son.
E MAIL R H Janzen
/ [email protected]
The presentation picture from L
to R are:
Shirley Dargatz UE, Cecil Ashley, Leota (Good) Janzen and Barbara
Wilson ( the new UEs), and genealogist Mildred Hall on 23 Jun
2001 at Chilliwack.
