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The oldest known Goulding of this line is Roger Goulding … or the name may have been originally spelt ‘Gowlding’. Roger was born about 1626 and passed in 1667. His son Roger Goulding would marry Penelope Arnold (1653-1713) of the Benedict Arnold family. Benedict Arnold the first became the Royal Governor in 1663.
>>> Fast forward 100 years to the American Revolution and both the Arnold and Goulding families remain quite prominent in Rhode Island affairs. You will find a number of Gouldings from this family buried in the Benedict Arnold cemetery.
>>> General Benedict Arnold that we all learn about in school as both a great hero and as a great traitor was Benedict Arnold the 4th (1741-1801).
George Goulding (1685-1742), Esquire, is the Royal Attorney General at Newport, Rhode Island. George is married to Mary Scott (1689-1733) and their daughter Elizabeth Goulding (1713-1776) is married to James Honeyman, Jr., Esquire, and he too becomes the (last) Royal Attorney General of Rhode Island.
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