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William Goffe
Judges' Cave, where Goffe and Edward Whalley reputedly hid during the early part of their exile in New England
Member of Parliament for Hampshire
In office September 1656 – February 1658
Rule of the Major-Generals, responsible for Berkshire, Sussex and Hampshire
In office November 1655 – January 1657
Member of Parliament for Yarmouth
In office September 1654 – January 1655
Personal details
Born
c. 1613 to 1618 Uncertain, probably Sussex
Died
c. 1679 New England
Resting place
Thought to be Hadley, Massachusetts
Nationality
English
Spouse
Frances Whalley (c. 1650)
Children
Anne; Elizabeth; Frances
Military service
Rank
Major General
Battles/wars
Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Relief of Gloucester
First Newbury
Lostwithiel
Second Newbury
Battle of Naseby
Langport
Bridgwater
Siege of Bristol (1645)
Siege of Berkeley Castle
Torrington
Siege of Oxford
Siege of Pembroke
Preston
Dunbar
Worcester
Penruddock uprising
Major-General William Goffe, probably born between 1613 and 1618, died c. 1679/1680, was an English Parliamentarian soldier who served with the New Model Army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A religious radical nicknamed “Praying William” by contemporaries,[1] he approved the Execution of Charles I in January 1649, and later escaped prosecution as a regicide by fleeing to New England.
Goffe held several senior military and political positions under the Commonwealth, including administrator of Berkshire, Sussex and Hampshire during the Rule of the Major-Generals from 1655 to 1657. A close associate of Oliver Cromwell, to whom he was distantly related by marriage, he lost most of his political influence after Richard Cromwell resigned as Lord Protector in April 1659.
Shortly before the Stuart Restoration in May 1660, Goffe sailed for Boston with his father-in-law and fellow regicide General Edward Whalley. Sheltered by Puritan sympathisers in New England, little is known for certain of his life there. It was once suggested he was the Angel of Hadley, a figure who in 1675 allegedly helped repulse an attack by Native Americans, but this is disputed on various grounds. He died sometime after April 1679, the date of his last known letter to his wife, and is thought to have been buried in Hadley, Massachusetts.
Major-General WilliamGoffe, probably born between 1613 and 1618, died c. 1679/1680, was an English Parliamentarian soldier who served with the New Model...
Colonel WilliamGoffe, who was wanted for his role in the regicide, was hiding in Hadley when it was attacked by Indians in 1675 or 1676. Goffe, by then...
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their involvement in the 1649 regicide of King Charles I of England: WilliamGoffe, an English Roundhead politician and soldier Edward Whalley, an English...
Monck. At the Restoration, Whalley, with his son-in-law, Major-General WilliamGoffe, escaped to North America, and landed at Boston on 27 July 1660, where...
sympathisers. Three of the regicides, John Dixwell, Edward Whalley and WilliamGoffe, fled to New England, where they avoided capture, despite a search....
colonies. New Haven, Connecticut, secretly harboured Edward Whalley, WilliamGoffe and John Dixwell, and after American independence named streets after...
Overton, along with Colonels Nathaniel Rich, John Jones Maesygarnedd and WilliamGoffe, as well as senior administrators such as John Carew. Many others were...
the legend of the "Angel of Hadley", according to which the regicide WilliamGoffe is said to have saved the settlers of the town of Hadley from extreme...
continental Europe, while others like John Dixwell, Edward Whalley, and WilliamGoffe fled to New Haven, Connecticut. Those regicides who could be found and...
by Charles II. Two of the judges, Colonel Edward Whalley and Colonel WilliamGoffe fled to New Haven to seek refuge from the king's forces, and John Davenport...
Haven had hidden three of the judges (John Dixwell, Edward Whalley and WilliamGoffe) who sentenced the Duke's father, King Charles I, to death in 1649....
Haven and Connecticut. Leete is remembered for sheltering the Regicides WilliamGoffe and Edward Whalley in Guilford. The two former English judges were being...
navigator (d. 1672) John Gauden, English bishop and writer (d. 1662) WilliamGoffe, English parliamentarian and regicide (d. 1679) Thomas Nabbes, English...
Thomas Goffe (1591–1629) was a minor Jacobean dramatist. Thomas Goffe was born in Essex in 1591. He first studied at Westminster School where he had the...
(died 1654) William Berkeley, governor of Virginia (died 1677) Approximate date John Gauden, bishop and writer (died 1662) WilliamGoffe, parliamentarian...
1661. New Haven provided refuge for Regicides such as Edward Whalley, WilliamGoffe and John Dixwell and would be subsequently merged into Connecticut in...
Stephen Goffe, C.O. (Gough) (b. 1605; d. at Paris, Christmas Day, 1681), was a Royalist agent of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and later an Oratorian...
Fleetwood, John Lambert, James Berry, Robert Lilburne, Thomas Kelsey, WilliamGoffe and William Packer, presents the manifesto A Declaration of the Officers of...
In Boston it created a more difficult problem for Edward Whalley and WilliamGoffe, two of the "regicide" commissioners who had voted to execute Charles...
Goffstown, New Hampshire and the Goffe's Falls neighborhood of Manchester, New Hampshire. Goffe was the son of John Goffe, the town clerk of Londonderry...
Massachusetts, where he briefly shared lodgings with two other regicides, WilliamGoffe and Edward Whalley. Unlike his two companions, who were known to be...
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