In the 1860's, the late Captain William Frederick Goodwin, ofConcord, NH, who died in 1872, began preparing a genealogy ofthe descendants od Daniel Goodwin, who settled in Kittery,Maine, about 1652. The ancestry of Daniel Goodwin, theImmigrant, is in doubt. Captain Goodwin states that Daniel'sfather and grandfather were both Daniel Goodwin, the formermarrying Dorothy Barker and the latter being of Great Oakley,Sussex Co., England. Unfortunately for this statement, Henry F.Waters, the well-known genealogist, shows in his Introduction to"The Goodwins of Hartford, Conn." that Daniel Goodwin, whomarried Dorothy Barker, was a son of John Goodwin and not ofDaniel Goodwin of Great Oakley, and Mr. Waters' "Gleanings"disclose the fact that Daniel Goodwin, of Great Oakley, hadneither a son nor a grandson named Daniel. I, myself am inclined to the opinion that Daniel Goodwin ofKittery, Maine, was a brother of Richard Goodwin, of Gloucester,Mass., and that they were sons of Bridget Goodwin, whoafterwards married Henry Travers, and later still, RichardWindow, and that her Goodwin husband was one of the Torrington,England, Goodwin family. Briefly, my reasons are these:Tradition says Daniel came to Kittery, Me., from Massachusetts,leaving brothers behind him near Plymouth. Richard Goodwin, ofGloucester, about the same age as Daniel, had, among otherchildren, a Daniel and a Richard, Jr. This Richard Jr. settledin Newbury, Mass., and also had a Richard and a Daniel, of 1711.This latter child is not given by Savage in his GenealogicalDictionary, but Captain Goodwin's record states positively thatthis Daniel of 1711 was a son of Richard, of Newbury. I havefound the descendants of this Daniel of 1711, who are now livingin Nova Scotia, and they say that the ancestors of Daniel of1711 came from Plymouth, England, near where the Torringtonbranch of the Goodwin family had resided for generations. Thisseems to fix the family of Richard, of Gloucester, as being fromnear Plymouth, England, and as Daniel, of Kittery, had a sonDaniel and grandsons Richard and Daniel, and as tradition sayshe left brothers near Plymouth, I am inclined to think it wasEngland and not Massachusetts, and that this tradition, takenwith the constant repitition of the names of Richard and Danielin both fmilies, indicates strongly that the first Daniel andRichad were brothers from Plymouth, England