1753 Survey of tract that Henry Good inherited (in green)
from father Peter Good. (courtesy of Donald Good website)
1741 Henry Good was born on December 27, son of Peter Good and his fourth wife, based on his age and date of death. [1] [2] [3]
1753-54 Father Peter Good died between September 1753 and December 1754, based on his probate records and arranged for land purchased from Lodwick Metz to be transferred to son Henry.
1751 A tax list for Rapho Twp. shows Petter Good paying a tax of three pounds and Lodwick Mattis paying 10 pounds. [4] [5]
1754 The will of Peter Good was dated 1753 and named Henry as a son with Peter's fourth wife Fronica Histand. [6] [7]. Images of the will and translations are shown at this website in the notes for Peter Good, father of Henry.
1753 Henry Good (GC8), age 11-12, received a patent for 70 acres of land in Rapho township, Lancaster County, just prior to the death of his father Peter Good. A warrant for the land, dated September 7, 1744, was issued to Lodowyck Metz. [8] The land was surveyed for Lodwick Metz. [9] Lodowick Metz sold the land to Peter Good on May 15 and Peter Good sold the land to Henry Good by deed dated September 21. [10] Henry Good and his wife Wolben later sold the land by deed dated 1766, showing that Henry, spouse of Wolben, was a son of Peter Good.
Henry Good (GC8) married Walbina and had children who were named as executors and legatees of Henry's estate in a Lancaster county deed dated April 5, 1817. [11]
1764 Sep 21: GC8.1 Peter
1766 Sep 9: GC8.2 Barbara (spouse of George Hoffman)
1767/8 ____: GC8.3 Elizabeth (spouse of Christian Hoffman)
1777 Feb 6: GC8.4 Joseph
1779 Jul 20: GC8.5 HenryMisplaced Children: These children of Henry Good (GC8) and Walbina were incorrectly assigned by some researchers [12] to Henry Good (GC32) and a second wife "Mallindine/Magdalena Weber" with labels GC321 through GC325.
1766 Henry Good and wife Wolben, of Earl Twp, Lancaster County, sold 70 acres of land in Rapho township to Abraham Cassell, by a deed dated June 10. Henry had purchased the land from his father Peter Good and it was granted to Henry Good by patent A16-438, dated September 25, 1753, a few months prior to the death of Henry's father Peter in November, 1754. [13] [14] This deed to Abraham Cassel identifies the property and names "Wolben" as Henry's wife.
1768 Henry Good purchased land from Jacob Brunkhard, both of Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County. Dated August 12. The tract was adjacent to lands of William Morris, Jacob Walthower, John Good, Christoph Keck, and Joseph Wenger and others. The tract had been granted to William Morris by patent AA10-237 dated January 21, 1768. [15] [16] Henry sold this land to Peter Good Jr (perhaps his son) by deed P5-377 in 1811. This is shown as tract E-9 at the bottom of the warrant map below. The stream that crosses tract E-9 is Black Creek, and it is the boundary between Brecknock and East Earl townships. Brecknock is north. East Earl is south. Tract E-9 is about two miles southeast of where Jacob Good settled along Muddy Creek in 1737. His brother Christian and their sister Anna (Musselman) settled just upstream from Jacob. Anna, Jacob and Christian are the three oldest children of Henry's father Peter. They are about 30 years older than Henry, and they settled along Muddy Creek just a few years before Henry was born. Their mother was Peter's first wife, who died before Peter emigrated in 1727. Henry's mother was Peter's fourth wife Fronica. William Morris bought and subdivided this land in 1768, while retaining some of the Warbuton land along the creek as a millrace for his fulling mill. The north boundary of tract E-9 now follows Black Creek Rd. The southwest corner of E-9 is at the intersection of Rte. 1048 (Center Church Rd.) and Rte. 625 (Reading Rd).
Between 1768 and 1787, Henry and Walbina purchased 114 acres of the northern part of the original 177 acres of the Robert Warburton tract E-9.
1769 Henry Good (GC32), a son of Christian (GC3), bought about 130 acres of his father's land north of Good's Mill. Dated May 27.
Two people named Henry Good, uncle and nephew, now live within about two miles of each other on land along two different branches of Muddy Creek. Care must be taken to distinguish documents naming Henry (GC8) from those naming his nephew Henry (GC32).
1769 Henry Good, carpenter, was taxed in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [17]
1771 Henry Good, perhaps this one, was taxed in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for 68 acres, 1 horse, and 2 cattle. [18]
1772 Henry Good, perhaps this one, was taxed in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for 50 acres, 1 horse, and 2 cattle. [19]
1773 Henry Good was taxed as a carpenter in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for 60 acres (perhaps his property in tract E-9), 2 horse, and 2 cattle. [20]
1776 Henry Good, carpenter, was taxed in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County. [21]
c 1776 At the end of the Revolutionary War, Henry Good was a carpenter and owned about 56 acres in Brecknock Twp. [22] He owned 202 acres when he died.
1787 Henry Good purchased land from Robert Mathers, both of Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County. Dated March 9. [23] The land was adjacent to land of Henry Good. [24]
1795 Henry Good built a house for Christian Schneder. [25]
There was a very large two-story stone dwelling-house, with stone kitchen attached, built in the valley of the Black Muddy Creek, on a portion of the land originally purchased from the proprietaries by the before-named William Morris. It was erected in 1795, by Christian Schneder. The carpenter employed in its construction was Henry Good, who, it seems was also the architect of a number of other buildings completed about that period.
1811 Henry Good Senior and wife Walbina, of Brecknock Twp, sold land to Peter Good Jun'r [perhaps their son], of Earl Twp. Peter had purchased the land from Jacob Brunkhard by Lancaster deed S3-100 in 1768. [26]
1813 Henry Good dated his will in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with probate dated March 26, 1816. The will named wife Wallindine/Walbina Good and children Peter, Barbara, Elizabeth, Joseph, and Henry and son-in-law George Hoffman and Christian Hoffman. Executors: sons Peter and Joseph Good. [27]
1816 Henry Good, son of Peter Good, died on March 4, at age 74y 2m 6d, and was buried at Pine Grove Mennonite Cemetery, Bowmansville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [28]
1817 Joseph Good and Peter Good sold land from the estate of Henry Good, deceased, to Henry Good, for $1. All three were sons of Henry Good, late of Brecknock Twp, deceased. [29] [30]
1821 Walbina Good died in September, at age 72y 8m, and was buried at Pine Grove Mennonite Cemetery, Bowmansville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [31]
1822 John and Christian Hoffman, sons and administrators of the estate of Christian Hoffman, and Elizabeth Hoffman, widow of Christian Hoffman, deceased, released, on March 7, any further claim to the inheritance of Henry Good, deceased. of Brecknock. Elizabeth Hoffman was a daughter and heir of Henry Good. The release was to Joseph and Peter Good. [32] See also [33].
1822 George Hoffman and wife Barbara daughter of Henry Good, Christian Hoffman and wife Elizabeth daughter of Henry Good, and Henry son of Henry Good, released, on March 7, further claim to the estate of Henry Good, deceased, late of Brecknock Twp. The release was made to Joseph and Peter Good. [34] [35]
Henry and Walbina were buried at Pine Grove Cemetery (Notes and image courtesy of Donald Good website)
The four markers in the foreground of this picture at Pine Grove are the headstones and footstones of Henry and Walbina. Hers is very hard to read because of natural weathering by the elements, and therefore, these sometimes have been identified as markers for Henry's nephew Henry Good (GC32) and his wife Christina. (1)
Hier Ruhen die
Gebbine des
verstorbene
Henrich Guth
Er ist gestorben
Mertz den 4
Tag anno 1816
war alt 74
_ahr 2 Monat
6 Tag
Footstone: H GEnglish: Here rests the body of the deceased Henrich Guth. He died March 4, 1816 at age 74 years, 2 months, 6 days.
Marker translated by Carolyn Wenger, 2013 Feb 9. Photo by Romaine Stauffer, 2013 Feb 28.
_____
_____
von Walbina
Guth gestor
ben den __ Tag
September 182_
war alt 72 [Jahr]
8 Monat ~Footstone: W _ G
English: [Here rests the body] of Walbina Guth. Died __ September 1821 at age 72 years 8 months.
Marker transcribed by Romaine and Amy Stauffer, 2013. Photo from Romaine, 2013
Research Notes:
A biosketch reported that Henry Good was a carpenter in Brecknock Twp who built a meeting-house and other buildings [36]:
About the beginning of the present century, or a few years earlier (1794), a meeting-house was built on ground now occupied by the village of Bowmansville. It was a plain, one-story structure, build of stone, similar in plan and arrangement to other Mennonite meeting-houses so common in Lancaster County. About four or five feet above the ground there was an offset of about three or four inches on the outside wall, that is, from that height the wall was three or four inches thinner than below that point. Tradition says that, while the walls were thus in course of construction, some zealous brother objected that this was a violation of the law of plainness and simplicity of style of building. Whereupon Henry Good, the chief carpenter, remarked that after all the building was not by any means as ornate or imposing as the temple built by Solomon.
…
For a considerable length of time the people, not having any houses specially dedicated to Divine worship, those of them of the Mennonite faith held their meetings in private dwellings. As has already been remarked, the plain, one-story stone dwelling-house, which stood near Good's mill, on land originally taken up by Christian Good, near Bowmansville, while occupied by the Good family, was used for this purpose. About the beginning of the present century, or a few years earlier (1794), a meeting-house was built on ground now occupied by the village of Bowmansville. It was a plain, one-story structure, built of stone, similar in plan and arrangement to other Mennonite meeting-houses so common in Lancaster County. About four or five feet above the ground there was an offset of about three or four inches on the outside of the wall, that is, from that height the wall was three or four inches thinner than below that point. Tradition says that, while the walls were thus in course of construction, some zealous brother objected that this was a violation of the law of plainness and simplicity of style of building. Whereupon Henry Good, the chief carpenter, remarked that after all the building was not by any means as ornate or imposing as the temple built by Solomon.There was a very large two-story stone dwelling-house, with stone kitchen attached, built in the valley of the Black Muddy Creek, on a portion of the land originally purchased from the proprietaries by the before-named William Morris. It was erected in 1795, by Christian Schneder. The carpenter employed in its construction was Henry Good, who, it seems, was also the architect of a number of other buildings completed about that period. The front is of regular cut brown sandstone, which has remained in almost perfect preservation to the present day. Another, perhaps yet larger, dwelling of similar architectural style was erected in the same neighborhood by Peter Boehm in 1802. There is a hall in the middle of the building, with rooms containing old-fashioned fireplaces, and the kitchen, with large fireplace on either side and brick or mortar floor, attached in the rear.
Two different men named Henry Good have been conflated by other researchers. [37] [38] This Henry Good, who died in 1816, named wife Wallindine/Walbina in his will, and was a son of Peter Good and Fronica Heistand. Henry Good, son of Christian Good and Magdalena was a different person. We have notes for several other men named Henry Good.
Henry Good, son of Christian and Magdalena Good. [39]
Henry Good and Barbara Meyer. [40]
[1] Find A Grave Memorial 86903725, [FindAGrave].
[2] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 26, Henry Good (GC8) was a son of Peter Good (GC).
[3] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), The deeds cited refer to a different Peter Good, tailor, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania tax list, 8, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[5] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[6] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Probate Records, B-69, [FamilySearchImage].
[7] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Probate Records, A-104, [FamilySearchImage].
[8] Pennsylvania Land Warrant, Lancaster County, M-354, [PHMC Warrant].
[9] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C115-261, [PA Survey Map], [PASurveyBooksIndex].
[10] Bureau of Land Records, Pennsylvania Land Patent Books, A16-438, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[11] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed 14-137, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[12] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 22-23.
[13] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Q-270 to 271, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[14] Bureau of Land Records, Pennsylvania Land Patent Books, A16-438, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[15] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed S3-100, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[16] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book S3, 100-103, [100], [101], [102], [103], [FHLCatalog].
[17] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[18] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 17 (Lancaster Taxables) (1897), 40, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[19] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 17 (Lancaster Taxables) (1897), 190, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[20] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 17 (Lancaster Taxables) (1897), 330, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[21] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[22] Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches (1883), 676, left column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[23] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book S3, 103-103, [103], [FHLCatalog].
[24] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed S3-103, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[25] Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches (1883), 676, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[26] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed P5-377, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[27] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records, Lancaster County Will L-586, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[28] Find A Grave Memorial 86903725, [FindAGrave].
[29] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed 22-226 to 228, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[30] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book 22, 226-228, [226], [227], [228], [FHLCatalog].
[31] Find A Grave Memorial 128573232, [FindAGrave].
[32] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book 23, 428-429, [428], [429], [FHLCatalog].
[33] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book 14, 137-139, [137], [138], [139], [FHLCatalog].
[34] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed 23-426 to 428, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[35] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book 23, 426-428, [426], [427], [428], [FHLCatalog].
[36] Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches (1883), 677, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[37] Donald I. Good and Romaine Stauffer, "Two Henry Goods, Entangled in Brecknock Township," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 37.3 (2014), 72-75, at 72.
[38] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[39] Janet and Robert Wolfe, Genealogy Page for Henry Good, son of Christian and Magdalena Good, [JRWolfeGenealogy].
[40] Janet and Robert Wolfe, Genealogy Page for Henry Good, husband of Barbara Meyer, [JRWolfeGenealogy].