First found in Yorkshire where they held a family seat from ancient times.

To escape the unstable social climate in England of this time, many families boarded ships for the New World with the hope of finding land, opportunity, and greater religious and political freedom. Although the voyages were expensive, crowded, and difficult, those families that arrived often found greater opportunities and freedoms than they could have experienced at home. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Goode were among those contributors: Robert Good, who settled in Massachusetts in 1646; and William Good, who became a soldier for the northeast colonies in 1675. Other members of the Good name made their homes in Pennsylvania, Maine, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Barbados.

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