Ancestry of
Robert H. Goddard

Inventor of First Liquid-propelled Rocket

Benjamin Goddard Jr.

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Robert H. Goddard — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Goddard 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Palfrey   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Aug 1705 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Dec 1759 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Kidder
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Dec 1731 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Samuel Goddard (Ahnentafel No:16 )

• Sources for Benjamin Goddard Jr.

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 44.
  • ² 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), 16-17.