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Levi Goodwin (May 8, 1757 - April 24, 1836) was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War and a representative of East Hartford, Connecticut.

Goodwin was born and baptized on May 8, 1757 as the son of John Goodwin, Jr. and Dorothy Pitkin. He grew up in East Hartford, Connecticut, and marched for Boston on the Lexington alarm on April 17, 1775, being paid for ten days' service. He enlisted as a private in the Company of Capt. Jonathan Hale, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Erastus Wolcott, which was called out in January 1776 for six weeks' service to aid the Army under General Washington in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts.

He was also in the company of Capt. Abraham Sedgwick, in the Battalion commanded by Colonel John Chester, raised in June 1776 to reinforce the Army under General Washington at New York. These troops were in the battles of Long Island on August 27 and of White Plains on October 28, their term expiring on December 25, 1776. For his services in the war, he received a pension from the United States government. After the war, he resided in East Hartford, Connecticut and represented the town in the Legislature of October 1818.

Goodwin died in East Hartford on April 24, 1836 at the age of 78.

Family[]

Goodwin married Jerusha Drake.

  • Anna Goodwin - m. (1) Horace B. Olmsted (2) Salmon Phelps
  • Stephen Buckland Goodwin - m. (1) Lucy Wilkinson (2) Sarah H. Goodman
  • Horace W. Goodwin - m. (1) Bridget Grant (2) Julia E. Trumbull
  • Israel Goodwin - m. ?
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