Washington County NyArchives Military Records.....Goodell / Goodale, Ezekiel April 5, 1782
Revwar - Rosters 
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Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com November 15, 2009, 3:50 pm

To all descendants of this Ezekiel Goodale: I have succeeded in proving that 
the ladies of the DAR who claimed the Rev. War service of 9 months under Col. 
Benjamin Tupper used the wrong service record. They should be happy with the 
correct service that I did find, however, since their fellow was an officer :>) 
See the index in the Rootsweb World Connect family tree database 
called 'goodaledescendant' for the 2nd Ezekiel listed as an Am Rev soldier to 
view my proofs. [He served from New Hampshire, which is where he lived during 
the Revolution.]

Did Ezekiel Goodell Serve in the Revolution in the Continental Army?
	Ezekiel Goodale was married to Martha McComb prior to the outbreak of 
the Revolution, in Warren, MA, on April 25, 1772. It is likely that he owned 
land there as well, since there are no records of him doing so in New Salem. 
They appeared to have moved back to New Salem for the period of the Revolution, 
perhaps a little prior to the birth of his first son, Ezekiel.

There is a muster listing for a 'Goodale, Ezekiel. Private, Col. Benjamin 
Tupper's (10th) regt.; service from April 5, 1782, 8 mos. 26 days.' 
from: "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution."

"Col. Benjamin Tupper served in the northern frontier of New York during the 
rest of the war [1782] as commanding officer of the 10th Massachusetts 
Regiment, and then the 6th Massachusetts Regiment." [Wikipedia] At the close of 
the war Gen. Tupper returned to his family at Chesterfield [in then Hampshire 
Co, MA], and became a member of the Massachusetts Legislature. This indicates 
that much of his regiment was probably raised in Hampshire County [which is 
where New Salem was located before the county was split, and then New Salem 
became a part of Franklin Co, MA.]

The muster listing for men with similar enlistment dates shows that there were 
indeed, some men from the area around New Salem who had enlisted for a three-
year term in the Continental Army in 1782, not knowing that the war was winding 
to a close. From the muster listing of Abel Fish (probably Fisk), we learn that 
a Captain Jacob Samson (probably Sampson) was a chairman of a class of the town 
of New Salem who raised a bounty for Abel Fish who enlisted on March 18th, 
1782. Ezekiel Goodale enlisted on April 5th. Lt. Samuel Cook also served as a 
chairman of a class in New Salem, who paid a bounty to Peter Harvey, for 
enlisting on March 29, 1782. Joshua Putnam was the chairman of the class that 
paid a bounty to Reuben Ray, who enlisted on April 1, 1782, and Benjamin 
Hascall was the chairman of the class who paid the bounty to Jonas Rich, who 
enlisted on April 3, 1782. The first list is of those men who were definitely 
or probably from the area around New Salem, known family names:
Baker, Sargent,             New Salem, blacksmith	
Bates, Theodore,            Athol 
Cady, Samuel,               Montague, Shutesbury	
Church, Charles
Fish, Abel,                 New Salem			
Goodale, Ezekiel, [8 mos. 26 days] 
Harvey, Peter,              New Salem			
Holt, Jonathan,             prob. New Salem
Johnson, Ebenezer,          probably Wendell	
Pratt, Tiras,               Shutesbury
Ray, Reuben,                New Salem			
Savery, Jonathan,           Warwick
Stoddard, David,            South Hadley		
Sawyer, Paul,               Shutesbury/Ervingshire

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