Elizabeth M. Harmon, born 26 November 1827 in Gorham twin; died 21 December 1891; married there 22 April 1849, Reuben Bangs.As discussed above, Robert and Eunice (Gould) Harmon were the parents of Ellen Gould (Harmon) White. Ellen Gould Harmon, born 26 November 1827 in Gorham twin; married James Springer White.Elizabeth M. Harmon, born 26 November 1827 in Gorham twin; died 21 December 1891; married there 22 April 1849, Reuben Bangs.As discussed above, Robert and Eunice (Gould) Harmon were the parents of Ellen Gould (Harmon) White. Robert Harmon, Jr., born 13 July 1825 in Gorham; died at his parents’ home in Gorham 5 Feb. 1853.Ellen Gould Harmon, born 26 November 1827 in Gorham twin; married James Springer White.Elizabeth M. Harmon, born 26 November 1827 in Gorham twin; died 21 December 1891; married there 22 April 1849, Reuben Bangs.As discussed above, Robert and Eunice (Gould) Harmon were the parents of Ellen Gould (Harmon) White. Sarah B. Harmon, born 13 Feb. 1822 in Portland; died 25 November 1868; married Stephen Belden.Robert Harmon, Jr., born 13 July 1825 in Gorham; died at his parents’ home in Gorham 5 Feb. 1853.Ellen Gould Harmon, born 26 November 1827 in Gorham twin; married James Springer White.Elizabeth M. Harmon, born 26 November 1827 in Gorham twin; died 21 December 1891; married there 22 April 1849, Reuben Bangs.As discussed above, Robert and Eunice (Gould) Harmon were the parents of Ellen Gould (Harmon) White. When John’s estate was brought before the Bristol County Probate Court, however, Mary had died and Crossman renounced, so administration was granted 5 March 1711 to eldest son, John Gold, who that same day presented an inventory of his late father’s taken 29 February 1711\/12. During King Philip’s War of 1675, he was a trooper, was a soldier again 1682, and died a widower in Taunton 14 December 1711.The birth of John, son of Jarvis and Mary Gould, is calculated from his age of “about 33 days” when baptized in the First Church of Boston on the 30th day of the 6th month August 1646 (Enclosure 1-26).That the John born to Jarvis and Mary Gould was the one who went to Taunton is established through land records.
In your book, on page 21 and elsewhere, you indicated Benjamin Gould and his brothers, Lewis, Robert, William and Salon, came from the Dutch West Indies and settled near Salem, New Jersey, and that Benjamin married Elizabeth Ann Adams about 1685. Unfortunately, Dr. Dudley has offered no evidence to show Ellen Gould (Harmon) White was of African-American descent—certainly not through her Gould ancestry, and likely not through her other ancestral lines, although they have not been studied for this report. Nothing in his book even suggests that the Gould ancestry of Ellen Gould (Harmon) White was in any way connected with the Gould family of Gouldtown, New Jersey, or that any part of Ellen’s Gould ancestral line traced to persons of color, at least not in this country. Genealogy by phenotype can be misleading, just as it can by assuming a relationship between persons with the same surname.
GOULD ANCESTRY OF ELLEN GOULD (HARMON) WHITE—The Genealogist’s Report
John Gould, born about 1754 in Kittery; died evidently in Eliot, Maine, 5 June 1840; married Margaret Remick (“a cousin probably”). Robert Gould; perhaps the Robert, born about 1782–83, died 14 July 1825, aged 42, buried in Eastern Cemetery in Portland (Portland death record indicates Robert died 19 July); married (intention Portland, 20 October 1803) Sarah\/Sally Jordan.Lydia Gould, born 1784; married 1801 John Norwood.Eunice Gould, born about 1786, probably in Portland; married Robert Harmon.Dorcas Gould; perhaps the Dorcas whose marriage intentions with Jeremiah Milliken were recorded in Portland 2 Aug. 1806.Abner B. John Gould, born 1781, probably in Kittery; married 1801 Lydia Goold.Robert Gould; perhaps the Robert, born about 1782–83, died 14 July 1825, aged 42, buried in Eastern Cemetery in Portland (Portland death record indicates Robert died 19 July); married (intention Portland, 20 October 1803) Sarah\/Sally Jordan.Lydia Gould, born 1784; married 1801 John Norwood.Eunice Gould, born about 1786, probably in Portland; married Robert Harmon.Dorcas Gould; perhaps the Dorcas whose marriage intentions with Jeremiah Milliken were recorded in Portland 2 Aug. 1806.Abner B.
Bethia Gould; married in Kittery 19 June 1728, Richard Chick, Jr.William Gould; buried in Scarboro, Maine, 15 May 1751; married in Dover, N.H., 30 Oct. 1736, Anne Searle.Samuel Gould; died 1779; married Sarah —.Joseph Gould, born about 1722; married Ruth Remick.Hannah Gould; married 1743 Robert Tidy.Sarah Gould; married 1742 Samuel Chadbourne.According to the Goold sketch in Stackpole’s Old Kittery (pages 461–62), Joseph Goold (ca. 1722–ca. 1797) was the son of Joseph and Bethiah (Furbish) Goold. Hannah Ricker Gould, born 8 Aug. 1796 in Portland; died 16 Jan. 1865, aged 70y 5m; married (intention 20 March 1813) William A. Green.No primary record has been found connecting Eunice (Gould) Harmon (ca. 1786–1864?) with her purported parents, Joseph and Lydia (Lowell) Goold\/Gould of Kittery and Portland, Maine. Charlotte S. GouldHannah Ricker Gould, born 8 Aug. 1796 in Portland; died 16 Jan. 1865, aged 70y 5m; married (intention 20 March 1813) William A. Green.No primary record has been found connecting Eunice (Gould) Harmon (ca. 1786–1864?) with her purported parents, Joseph and Lydia (Lowell) Goold\/Gould of Kittery and Portland, Maine.
Ten years later, when the 1820 Federal Census was taken, the Joseph Goold household inPortland had one male 45 or older (born 1775 or earlier), one female under 10 (born 1810–20),one 16–26 (born 1794–1804), and one female 45 and older, but there seems to be no mark in oneof the columns indicating Joseph’s occupation—agriculture, commerce, or manufacturing. Also listed were two John Goolds and a John Goold Jun., all 26–45, the age groupof Joseph Gould’s son of that name (Enclosure 1-14). Listed nearby was the household of Robert Goold, who was 16-26, probablyJoseph’s son. Joseph Goold wasenumerated in Portland in the Federal Census for 1810, with one male age 45 and upwards (born1765 or earlier), two females 10–16 (born 1794–1800), two (born 1784–94), and one 45and upwards. Based on the son Joseph’s 1839 deposition in his father’s Revolutionary War pension file that hehad supported his parents for many years, it is likely the two sales to the younger Joseph in 1799and 1800 were with the understanding the parents would be cared for.
- While the wife of Jarvis does seem to havebeen named Mary, research clearly indicates Mary Crossmanwas the wife of John Gould, likely the son of that name of Jarvis.
- Dr. Dudley’s conclusions about Ellen Gould (Harmon) White’s mixed-race ancestry are mostcurious, since he seems to accept earlier research into her genealogy that indicates her Gould linetraces back a few generations in Maine and then back to Massachusetts, with no hint of personsof color in her lineage.
- Tobias Gould, born about 1756 in Kittery, baptized there 21 Feb. 1770; died evidentlyin New Gloucester, Maine, 28 Feb. 1815; married (intention Kittery, 31 Oct. 1779)Rhoda Hammond.
- In 1846, he sold his Portland property and moved back to Gorham, where he was last documented in November 1853, when he loaned some money.In September 1843, Robert and Eunice Harmon were dismissed from the Methodist Episcopal Church in Portland “For a breach.” They had been received as members there in 1840 (copy of record provided by Ellen G. White Estate).In 1850, Robert Harmon, a farmer with $1400 in real estate, was enumerated in Gorham, Maine.
- William Clarence White, born Rochester, New York, 29 August 1854; died in St. Helena, California, 31 August 1937; married (1) Mary Kelsey, who died in 1890; (2) Ethel May Lacey; seven children.Herbert White, born Battle Creek, Michigan, 20 September 1860; died there 14 December 1860.The recording of vital events—births, marriages, and deaths—in New England slacked off considerably from about the time of the Revolutionary War until about the mid-1800s, so it is no surprise that the birth of Ellen Gould Harmon was not recorded in the town of her birth—Gorham, Maine.
- The last census in which Joseph Gould would have been listed as a head of household (assuminghe was not living in the home of someone else, such as one of his children) was 1830.
