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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Appendix H: The Goodwins of Botetourt and Tazewell Counties, Virginia William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, Supplement (Oct., 1897), pp. 91-99. APPENDIX H. THE GOODWINS OF BOTETOURT AND TAZEWELL COUNTIES, VIRGINIA. It is possible that the name of the earliest given ancestor may not be JOHN as stated, and it is suggested that the list of children may not be complete, and that Daniel, the ancestor mentioned in Appendix J, may have been another son. Daniel lived in Botetourt county, and his son John resided in Tazewell county. Thomas, the son of Micajah, resided in Tazewell county before his marriage and removed to Botetourt county. Granting that John is the correct name, these facts appear: Thomas, second son of Micajah, was born in 1775; and we can approximate the birth of Micajah as 1740-'50, and that of his father John about 1710-'15. The only John of about that date appears to be the John Goodwin who married Jane, and had Robert in 1732, and Jane in 1735. This John was a brother to George Goodwin and, if our surmise is correct, had a son George. The names (Daniel, suggested as a son of this John, named a son Page 92. John) and dates harmonize with these suggestions. George and John Goodwin are sons of John and Mary (Elliott) Goodwin, supposed to be son of Robert, eldest son of Major James Goodwin. This line is, therefore, presented for con- sideration; the doubtful links in italics. See also Appendix Y. [Transcription note: The names referred to above as being in italics, will be referenced by quotation marks. MAJOR JAMES GOODWIN1. Eldest son, Robert2 married Anne ------. ROBERT GOODWIN2 (James) married Anne ------. Children: i. Martin3, died "sine prole". ii. "Robert3". iii. "John3", married Mary Elliott. "John Goodwin3" ("Robert", James), married in 1705 to Mary Elliott. Children: i. George4, married, first, Jane Hazelwood; second, Elizabeth Warwick. ii. John4, married Jane -------. JOHN GOODWIN4 (John, "Robert", James), married Jane -------. Children: i. Robert5, born December 30, 1732-'33. ii. Jane5, born February 27, 1735. iii. "Daniel5". iv. "Micajah5". v. "John5". vi. "Richard5". vii. "George5". viii. "Nelson5". Perhaps this John4 and the following John4 was the same man. "John Goodwin4" was born in Virginia; was married and resided in that State. The name of the father and the list of children is given on the authority of Miss Emily Virginia Goodwin, of Louisville, Ky., (granddaughter of Micajah and of John). Children: i. Micajah, married Elizabeth Buford; ii. John, married Mary Johnston, iii. Richard (see Appendix X); iv. George, see Appendix I; v. Nelson. "Micajah Goodwin" (John) was born in Virgnia; was married in Amherst county, Va., to Elizabeth Buford, who was born in Amherst county. Micajah and Richard Goodwin, of Nelson, now Amherst county, were ordered into service in 1781, under John Pope, to join the army commanded by General LaFayette. (Copied from an old muster roll in Hardesty's Enccyclopoedia). Children: Page 93. i. Cornelius, married Hannah Paxton; ii. Thomas, born 1775, married Martha Reed; iii. James, probably died unmarried*; iv. Virginia, died unmarried; v. Daughter, married Mitchell; vi. John Lipscomb Lynch, born 1793, married Mary E. Goodwin; vii. Daughter, married White. "Cornelius Goodwin" (Micajah, John) was born in 1803 in Virginia; was married November 7, 1839 in Woodford county, Ky., to Lucy Woolfork Gibson, who was born August 8, 1816, in Woodford county, Ky., a daughter of William and Frances (Samuel) Gibson. James E. Goodwin was a farmer, a Democrat, and a Presbyterian. His wife died in 1851. He died in Woodford county in 1875. He had a gourd, carried by his grandfather Micajah through the Revolutionary War. It had name, date, and purpose cut on it. Mr. Goodwin presented it to the public library in Louisville, but it seems to have been stolen. Children: i. Fannie, born January 25, 1842, married B. W. Thompson, and resides in Versailles, Ky.; ii. Mary Hannah, born August 20, 1844; iii. Anne Belle, born 1846; iv. William, born 1851. "Thomas Goodwin" (Micajah, John) was born in 1775 in Virginia; was married in 1803 to Martha Reed. By occupation he was a farmer, and in religion a Methodist. They resided near Saltpetre Cave postoffice, Botetourt county. Thomas Goodwin died about 1830, and his wife shortly thereafter. He is said to have lived in Tazewell county before his marriage. Children: i. John, born 1805, married Ellen Ritchie; ii. Mary, born 1818, married Edward Barry. "John Goodwin (Thomas, Micajah, John) was born in 1805, in Botetourt county; was married in 1826, in Botetourt county, to Ellen Ritchie, who was born in 1804, in Botetourt county, a daughter of Robert and Isabella (Ripley) Ritchie. By occupation he was a farmer, in politics a Republican, and in religion a Methodist. They resided near Saltpetre Cave postoffice, where John _____________________________________________________________________________ *James Goodwin had a bounty claim or land warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land near Little Rock, Ark. After his death his brother, John L.L., placed it in the hands of a man to take to Washington, and neither man nor claim was heard of afterward. The bounty was for services in some war, probably 1812. Page 94. Goodwin died June 21, 1871. His wife died May 10, 1875. Before the late war John Goodwin frequently corresponded with a Mr. Goodwin, a "cousin", who resided in Georgia. This Georgia branch has not been identified, and all trace seems lost for the present. See Appendix X. Children: i. Harriet; ii. Mary T.; iii. Wilbur F., married Lucy C. Payne; iv. Etta B., resides at Saltpetre Cave; unmarried. "Wilbur F. Goodwin" (John, Thomas, Micajah, John) was born June 15, 1844, in Botetourt county; was married in 1868 in Botetourt county, by Rev. Andrew Hart, to Lucy C. Payne, who was born in 1842 in Alleghany county, Va., a daughter of Charles and Frances (Pitzer) Payne. By occupation he was a farmer, in politics a Democrat. They resided near Saltpetre Cave postoffice, Va. Children: i. Carrie B., born November, 1869; ii. Mary W., born May, 1876; iii. Wilbur P., born December, 1878; Ellen F., born April, 1881. "Mary Goodwin" (Thomas, Micajah, John) was born 1818 in Botetourt county; was married in Botetourt county to Edward Barry. Thomas G. Barry, 553 North Meridian street, Indianapolis, Ind., is a son. No response. "John Lipscomb Lynch Goodwin" (Micajah, John) was born in 1793, in Amherst county; was married, first, in Amherst county, to Mary E. Goodwin, a daughter of John and Mary (Johnston) Goodwin. He was married, second, to Martha Crews. He resided in Amherst county, where he died January 5, 1857. (Called John Lewis Goodwin by his son Dr. Edward). Children by first wife: i. Gustavus Adolphus, unmarried; ii. James Edwin; iii. Thomas, died young; iv. Edward Johnston, born December 30, 1829, married first, Sarah Barnett; second Hester L. Wills; third, -----; v. Samuel Boyle, married Helen Sexton; vi. Mary Elizabeth, married George A. Harvey; vii. Emily Virginia, resides in Louisville, Ky.; unmarried. Child by second wife: viii. William Lewis. "Dr. Edward Johnston Goodwin" (John Lipscomb Lynch, Micajah, John) was born December 30, 1828, in Amherst, Va.; was married first, October, 1854, at Alleghany Springs, Va., to Sarah Barnett, a daughter of Joseph Barnett. Sarah (Barnett) Goodwin died in 1866. Dr. Goodwin was married, second, to Hester L. Wills, and third, to -------. He resides in Solitude, Posey county, Ind. He is a physician and mathematician. Children by first wife: i. Viola Minnesota, married Ezra Stevens; ii. John Breckenridge, iii. Ovello Manassa, married Clifford Thompson. Page 95. INDIANA'S SQUARED CIRCLE All about the Method Formally Approved in the Legislature. It Substitutes the Radio 3.2 for the Time-Honored 3.1416 - but Prudent People will be Likely to Stick to the Old Figures. [From the Inidanpolis Journal.] Offician recognition by one branch of the Indiana Leguslature has been given Dr. Edward Johnston Goodwin for solving three geometrical problems which have puzzled the brains of mathematicians since the erection of the pyramids of Egypt, and which the French Academy of Science, in 1775, and the Royal Society of Great Britain, in 1776, both declared impossible of solution. The first and most important of these problems is what has been popularly termed for centuries the squaring of the circle, or, in science, the quadrature of the circle. The other two problems solved by Dr. Goodwin are known in mathematics as trisection of the angle and the duplication of the cube. The solution of these problems is a matter of little interest to the average citizen, but to science the worth of these solutions cannot be estimated in money. To the development of astronomical science their value is incalculable. The mystery surrounding the supposed impossibility of these problems has ever inspired both cranks and mathematicians to unceasing toil in their search for the correct formulas. Squaring the circle has been a chimera as vague as perpetual motion, and it was because of the worry and waste of time in examining the many alleged solutions presented by would-be discoverers of the key to squaring the circle that the French and English societies, over a hundred years ago, decided that the problem was impossible, and refused to consider the sub- ject further. The action was supposed to settle for all time the fact that the decimal 3.1416 (Pi), multiplied by the diameter of a circle, would give the circumference. It was always known that this decimal was not the correct multiple, but it was taken so nearly accurate that it would serve for all purposes, and the mathematicians let it go at that. Dr. Goodwin discovered the formula for squaring the circle eight years ago, but not until the World's Fair did he make any effort to get his discovery be- fore the world. He secured space in the Liberal Arts building for hanging his charts, and intended to be present and make his demonstration to those visiting the educational exhibit, but Selim H. Peabody, chief of the department, after granting the space, revoked his permit, and advised the author to present his solution to the mathematical journals. Dr. Goodwin then sent his solution to the American Mathematical Journal, the highest authority in this country, and the editor instantly accepted it and printed it in the September number, 1893, while the World's Fair was in progress. It attracted the attention of mathe- maticians the world over, the scientific journals at Paris at once communicating with the author for original contributions to their papers. Dr. Goodwin has his formulas and laws derived from them copyrightes in the United States and in seven countries of Europe - England, Germany, Belgium, France, Austria, Italy, and Spain. During his visit to Washington he won the support of the professors at the National Astronomical Observatory, at the head of which is the celebrated Professor Hall, whose fame is secure with the discovery of the moons of Mars. Dr. Goodwin's demonstration was accepted by all at the observatory. The venerable author Page 96. has a deskful of letters from mathematicians at the leading colleges in America, and better than all, a letter from his agent in London showing that his demon- stration was presented to both Huxley and Tyndall, and endorsed by them before it was copyrighted. The man who has thus shown the errors in the text-books from Euclid's time to Loomis is a native of Virginia, where he was born near Lynchburg, December 30, 1828. A wealthy aunt sent him to school, and furnished the funds for a course at the Philadelphia Medical College. For forty years he has been a practicing physician in the vicinity of Solitude, Posey county, Ind., that densely rural part of the State referred to by the humorists as Hooppole Township. He is a most modest citizen, refusing all modern methods of advertising himself. He is six feet tall and his frame is strong and elastic, and his massive, angular head correctly suggests his rugged mathematical brain. The laws for the quadrature of the circle discovered by Dr. Goodwin, which are copyrighted, and which he permits the use of for the first time in any newspaper, are as follows: "To quadrate the circle is to find the side of a square whose perimeter equals that of the given circle; rectification of the circle requires to find a right line equal to the circumference of the given circle. The square on the line equal to the arc of 90 degrees fulfils both of the said requirements. "It is impossible to quadrate the circle by taking the diameter as the linear unit, because the square root of the product of the diameter by the quadrant of the circumference produces the side of a square which equals 9 when the quadrant equals 8. It is not mathematically consistent that it should take the side of a square whose perimeter equals that of a greater circle to measure the space contained within the limits of a less circle. Were this true, it would require a piece of tire iron eighteen feet to bind a wagon wheel sixteen feet in circumference. "This new measure of the circle has happily brought to life the ratio of the chord and arc of 90 degrees, which is a 7:8, and also the ratio of the diagonal and one side of a square, which is as 10:7. These two ratios show the numerical relation of diameter to circumference to be as 1 1/4:4. "Authorities will please note that while the finite ratio (1 1/4:4) represents the area of the circle to be more than the orthodox ratio, yet the ratio (3.1416) represents the area of a circle whose circumference equals 4 plus 2 per cent. greater than the finite ratio 1 1/4:4, as will be seen by comparing the terms of their respective proportions stated as follows: 1:3.20::1.25:4-1:3.1416:: 1.1732:4. "It will be observed that the product of the extremes is equal to the pro- duct of the means in the first statement, while they fail to agree in the second proportion. Furthermore, the square on a line equal to the arc of 90 degrees shows very clearly that the ratio of the circle is the same in principle as that of the square. For example, if we multiply the perimeter of a square (the sum of its sides) by one-fourth of one side, the product equals the sum of two sides, by one-half of one side which equals the square on one side. Again, the number required to express the units of length in one-fourt of a right line is the square root of the number representing the squares of the linear unit bounded by it in the form of a square whose ratio is as 1:4. Page 97. "These properties of the ratio of the square apply to the circle without an exception, as is further sustained by the following formula to express the numerical measure of both circles and square: Let C represent the circumference of a circle whose quadrant is unity, Q 1/2 the quadrant, and CQQ2 will apply as the numerical measure of a circle and a square. "The following facts may be set down as showing that the diameter is the wrong factor to employ as the line on which to measure in squares the linear unit. The square on the diamter is the mean proportional between the circle's circumference and the square circumscribing it. The square of the quadrant of the circumference is the mean proportional between the circle's inscribed square and the square on the diameter as the linear unit. Therefore, the product of the diamter by one side of the inscribed square produces a line that is greater that the circle's circumference; that is to say, by taking the diameter as the linear unit in computing the area of the square, we can make its area about 43 per cent. of the diagonal not represented four times in the square's perime- ter. Another reason that the diameter should be discarded as the wrong factor to employ as the linear unit is because it fails to work both ways, and, there- fore, it not mathematically trustworthy. "For instance, the circle whose circumference equals 32, the diameter is 10.1856 plus, according to the ratio 1:3.1416 plus, and the area is 81.4848 plus. The square root of 81.4848 plus is 9.0265 plus. Now, let us multiply the diameter 10.1856 plus by the square root to see if the product equals 81.4848 plus, which it should do if the diameter is the proper lineal unit: 10.1856 by 9.0265 plus and multiplying the diameter, 10.1856 plus, by it, and repeating the procedure often enough, the resultant will be the side of the square circum- scribing the circle. The same result is obtained by employing the diagonal of a square as the linear unit, instead of one side. "The fact that the square on a line equal to the arc of 90 degrees fulfils the requirements of both quadrature and rectification of the circle's circum- ference leaves no margin to doubt the validity of the quadrant of the circum- ference being the true factor to take as the linear unit in computing the area of a circle. "The above data show very clearly that when the circle's area is computed on the diameter as the linear unit, it is one-fifth greater than the area of a square of equal perimeter. This is because there is 25 per cent of the diameter not represented four times in the circumference. Therefore, the area of a circle is to the square on one-fourth of its circumference as the area of an equilateral rectangle is to the square on one side. "We are now able to get the true finite dimensions of a circle by the exact ratio of 1 1/4:4, and have simply to divide the circumference by four and square the quotient to complete the area. Thus this new truth in mathematical progress carries us above and beyond the curious necessity of having to teach that the finite is one with the infinite, or that to one finite there is a multiplicity of infinites." When the bill was recently introduced in the Indiana Legislature for the purpose of recognizing Dr. Goodwin's solution, it was taken as a hugh joke by Page 98. Speaker Pettit, a graduate of Annapolis Naval Academy, and was referred to the Committee on Swamp Lands. Two days later Dr. Goodwin had a hearing before State Superintendent Geeting and the Educational Committee, who at once endorsed the solution, called up the bill, and it passed the House under a suspension of the rules, without a negative vote. Professors from Ann Arbor and Johns Hopkins have seen the demonstration, and declared it perfect. "Dr. Samuel Boyle Goodwin" (John Lipscomb Lynch, Micajah, John) was married, 1860, to Helen V. Sexton. By occupation he was a physician. They resided in Rich Valley and Chatham Hill, Va. Dr. Samule Boyle Goodwin died December, 1861. No children. "Mary Elizabeth Goodwin" (John Lipscomb Lynch, Micajah, John) was born December 30, 1828, in Amherst county; was married November 6, 1867, in Campbell county, by Josiah Little, to George A. Harvey, a son of Richard and Katherine (Bowers) Harvey. By occupation he was a farmer, in politics a Democrat. They resided in Diuguid, Campbell county, Va. (Mt. Athos P.O.) Harvey children: i. John William, born September 1, 1869, married Sue Moore; ii. Mary Jones, born December 31, 1872. "John Goodwin" (John) was born in Virginia; was married to Mary Johnston. They resided in Pittsylvania county, Va., until after the death of Col. Philip Johnston, brother to Mary (Johnston) Goodwin, from whom they received a large estate. They resided thereafter in Amherst county, in which county Col. Johnston had resided. John Goodwin is also called John H. Goodwin by a granddaughter. Children: i. Frances, married Greenville Reynolds; ii. Nancy, married Charles Raleigh; iii. Virginia, born 1800, married Hezekiah Jones; iv. John H., died unmarried; v. Mary E., married John L. L. Goodwin; vi. Philip, died unmarried; vii. Robert, married ------ Minton; vii. Susan, married, first, William Minton; second Stephen Diuguid. "Frances Goodwin" (John, John) was born in Pittsylvania county, Va.; was married in Amherst county to Greenville Reynolds. By occupation he was a farmer, and in religion a Methodist. They resided in Botetourt county, Va. No children*. "Nancy Goodwin" (John, John) was born in Pittsylvania county, Va.; was married to Charles Raleigh. They resided in Amherst county, removing to Arkansas, near Little Rock. Raleigh children: i. Fannie; ii. Permelia; iii. Mary Jane; iv. John; v. Alderson; vi. Charles; vii. Robert. ______________________________________________________________________________ *Other statement is that Frances had children, and they and their children reside in Botetourt county. No response. Page 99. "Virginia Goodwin" (John, John) was born in 1800 in Pittsylvania county, Va.; was married in 1834 in Amherst county to Hezekiah Jones, who was born in 1795 in Nelson county, Va., a son of ---- and ---- (Lucas) Jones. By occupation he was a farmer, in politics a Democrat and in religion a Baptist. They resided in Nelson county, Va. No children. "Mary E. Goodwin" (John, John) was born in Virginia; was married to John Lipscomb Lynch Goodwin, who was born in 1793 in Amherst county, a son of Micajah and Elizabeth (Buford) Goodwin. Goodwin children: i. Gustavus Adolphus, unmarried; ii. James Edwin; iii. Thomas, died young; iv. Edward Johnston, married firs, Sarah Barnett; second, Hester L. Wills; third, ------; v. Samuel Boyle, married Helen V. Sexton; vi. Mary Elizabeth, married George A. Harvey; vii. Emily Virginia, resides in Louisville, Ky., unmarried. "Robert Goodwin" (John, John) was born in Pittsylvania county; was married in Campbell county to Miss Minton. They resided in Campbell county, removing to Tennessee. Child: i. Ann Elizabeth Minton*, born 1820, married William Toney. "Susan Goodwin" (John, John) was born in Pittsylvania county; was married in Amherst county, to William Minton, who was born in Campbell county. She married, second, Stephen Diuguid. They resided in Campbell county, Va. No children. ___________________________________________________________________________ *She died in Nashville, leaving an only child, Marcus Breckenridge Toney, who resides in Nashville.