Ledbetter/Goodwin Family Home Page:Information about Robert Goodwin
Robert Goodwin (b. 1560, d. 1610)
Notes for Robert Goodwin:
This couple had 4 children.
Robert was in the Revolutionary War and settled in South Carolina after serving there during the war.He had land grants for 200 acres in Cravens County, South Carolina and later for 152 acres in Laurens County, South Carolina.He later moved to Pendleton County, South Carolina, District 96. In 1792 or 1793 he moved to Kentucky, sttling around Cerulean Springs in Trigg County.
The story is that Robert Goodwin and his family, in the company of friend and fellow traveler, Andrew Jackson, came from the Carolinas to Tennessee about 1780 by covered wagon.Around 1792 the Goodwins floated down the Cumberland River on homemade flatboats to Cerulean, Kentucky in Trigg County where the settled.
More About Robert Goodwin:
Burial: Unknown, Military Cemetery north of Cerulean Springs, Trigg Co., Kentucky.
Occupation: Merchant of Westminister and Tower Streets.
More About Robert Goodwin and Jane Dollin:
Marriage: Flanders, Belgium.
Children of Robert Goodwin and Jane Dollin are:
- +Peter Goodwin, b. 1588, London, England, d. 1661, York, Virginia.