Display Patriot - P-167911 - Jabez GOODSPEED

Jabez GOODSPEED

SAR Patriot #: P-167911

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State of Service: MA Qualifying Service: Civil Service

DAR #: A045724

Birth: 31 Jul 1737 Barnstable / Barnstable / MA
Death: 20 Feb 1824 Barnstable / Barnstable / MA

Qualifying Service Description:

Town Warden
Juror

Additional References:

Madar: Town Officials, 1775-1783, GRC Series 1, Volume 274, pg 9, 13, 14
Barnstable Town Records, Vol 3, pg 395, 416, 431.

Spouse: Margaret Bassett
Children: Jabez; Solomon; Nathan;

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Burial:

West Barnstable Cemetery_(C-0372602)

Location:

West Barnstable / Barnstable / MA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

245129

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

41.707479 / -70.373187

Find A Grave Memorial #:

5762017

Marker Type:

vertical stone

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Photo displayed courtesy of David C. Schafer, MASSAR.

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

From the Route 149 cemetery entrance, walk two yards on the cemetery road. Turn right and walk 18 yards to the gravesite of Deacon Jabez Goodspeed

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Author: David Crandall Schafer

Jabez Goodspeed was born July 31, 1737, at Barnstable, Massachusetts, eldest child of Jabez Goodspeed and Reliance Tobey. He had three siblings: Jane, Heman and Benjamin.¹ Jabez Goodspeed married Margaret Bassett, August 4, 1761, at Barnstable. They were the parents of Jabez, Solomon and Nathan.

Goodspeed provided civil service as a citizen of the Town of Barnstable throughout his life. At a town meeting held March 2, 1761, he was selected to be a Grand Juror. He was selected to be a Petit Juror, March 18, 1779. At the town meeting held March 20, 1781, Goodspeed was selected Warden. He was chosen as Tythingman, March 20, 1783, and again in March 1784.²

Goodspeed was admitted to membership in the West Parish Church, September 13, 1761, and elected to be a Deacon of the Church in March 1797. At a meeting of the church held July 6, 1812, he was elected to a church committee whose duty it should be “…to converse with those members of the church who walk disorderly and neglect to commune for an unreasonable time.”

Jabez Goodspeed died February 20, 1824, aged 86 years. He was buried at the West Barnstable cemetery. The legible portion of the inscription on his headstone is:

This Stone is Erected to the Memory of Deacon Jabez Goodspeed by the west Church in the Town, of which he had been a member 64 years & a Deacon 27, all which time his Character was irreproachable & his piety unquestionable, died Febr. 20th, 1824, AE 86. Help Lord for the godly man ceaseth, for the faithful sail from among us, the children…

References:

1. Barnstable Town Records, 1713-1781, Vol. 2, Pg. 310.

2. Barnstable Town Records, Vol. 3, Pg. 395, 416, 431, 440.

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