Biography
Goffe was the son of John Goffe, the town clerk of Londonderry, New Hampshire, and Hannah Parrish of Nashua, New Hampshire. His grandfather, also named John Goffe, emigrated to New England in 1662 or 1663. Goffe was born in Boston in 1701 and baptized in the Old North Church under the ministry of Increase Mather. As a young man, he was a hunter and trapper in the woods of New Hampshire. He married Hannah Griggs of Roxbury, Massachusetts on October 16, 1722, with whom he had a family of eight daughters and one son.
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