Individual Details

“Mary was the fifth child born to Thomas and Jane Goodenow and the first born in America. In April of 1657 she was tried and convicted of fornication by the church having had a child out of wedlock at age 15. The father of the child was an indentured servant named James Ross apparently serving her father. James was a former Scottish soldier having been captured in the Battle of Worcester between Scotland and England in Sep 1651 and sent with 500 others to serve their terms in the colonies. Records show that James arrived on board the “John and Sarah” from London, November 11,1651, Captain John Greene. The passenger list shows other passengers on board named Ross. He served in Sudbury, MA against the Indians in King Phillip’s War and later at an advanced age in the Narragansett expedition under Capt. Mosley in 1676. Mary originally refused to marry James which presented a serious problem in this Puritan community of Sudbury, MA. Mary later recanted and married James and they parented eight additional children. It is recorded that James received 39 lashes for his indiscretion with Mary, but it appears that he was later accepted into the family as he and Mary purchased the homestead of Mary’s father Thomas Goodenow in Sudbury when he moved to Marlboro. Mary was later mentioned in the will of her father.”
SEX IN MIDDLESEX by Roger Thompson
GOODENOWS WHO ORIGINATED IN SUDBURY, MA 1638 A.D. by Theodore James Fleming Banvard.

Spouse	James Ross ( - 1690)
Child	Mary Ross (1656 - )
Child	Thomas Ross (1660 - )
Child	James Ross (1661 - )
Child	Jane Ross (1664 - 1702)
Child	Dorothy Ross (1667 - )
Child	Sarah Ross (1670 - )
Child	Elizabeth Ross (1672 - )
Child	Hannah Ross (1678 - )
Child	Daniel Ross (1681 - )