John Gill (1676) / Martha (Goodale) Gill

Name: John Gill

Birth: October 15, 1647, Salisbury, Mass. (SAV)

Emigration: To Middletown c. 1676. (HMC)

Death: May 1712, Middletown, Conn. (MAN)

Occupation & Public Service: Husbandman (MLR)

Marriage: m. Martha Goodale, abt. 1673, Salisbury, Mass. (Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700) (b. abt. 1652; d. unknown). She was the daughter of Richard and Mary Goodale, who owned land in both Salisbury, Mass. and Middletown, Conn.

Children: 5 children between 1673-1685. (BCVR) (See in-depth profile in Member Area for details.)

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The First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. The engraving below by W.C. Butler was a fanciful illustration for David Field's Centennial Address published in 1853. In 1939 the image was used on the title page of The Log Cabin Myth by Harold R. Shurtleff. Surrounding the engraving are signatures of some of the first settlers as found on wills and deeds by Charles C. Adams in preparation of Middletown Upper Houses (1908).