Ancestry of
Robert H. Goddard

Inventor of First Liquid-propelled Rocket

Samuel Goddard

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Robert H. Goddard — 5th Generation
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  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Goddard Jr. 
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  • Mary Kidder   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Dec 1742 
  • Birth Location:
  • Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  Danford Goddard (Ahnentafel No:8 )

• Sources for Samuel Goddard

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Royalston, Vol. 1, p. 38, Birth record for son Danford Goddard.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 44.
  • ³ Stafford, Morgan Hewitt, A Genealogy of the Kidder Family: Comprising the Descendants in the Male Line of Ensing James Kidder, 1626-1676 . . ., Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc. (1941), 17.