Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . System of Human Anatomy,General and Special (1851); and Wilsons Dis-r, i- Practical and Surgical Anatomy (1851).GODDARD, William, printer, b. in New Lon-don. Conn., in 1740; d. in Providence, R. I., 23I tec., 1^17. He established the first printing-pressat Providence on 20 Oct., 1762, where he also be-gan printing the Gazette. lie soon afterward became one of thepublishers of theNew York Gazetteand Postboy, andin 1766 removed toPhiladelphia, where,with Galloway andWharton, he pub-lished the Penn-sylvania 1773 he went toBaltimore and es
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . System of Human Anatomy,General and Special (1851); and Wilsons Dis-r, i- Practical and Surgical Anatomy (1851).GODDARD, William, printer, b. in New Lon-don. Conn., in 1740; d. in Providence, R. I., 23I tec., 1^17. He established the first printing-pressat Providence on 20 Oct., 1762, where he also be-gan printing the Gazette. lie soon afterward became one of thepublishers of theNew York Gazetteand Postboy, andin 1766 removed toPhiladelphia, where,with Galloway andWharton, he pub-lished the Penn-sylvania 1773 he went toBaltimore and estab-lished the Mary-land Journal. Hewas active in organ-izing the post-office,and was appointedsurveyor of roadsand comptroller in) 1775. lie sold hispress in 1702, andretired to a farm in Johnston, li. I., but afterwardremoved to Providence. He was a Whig in thelution. His friend. Gen. Charles Lee (whowas the writer of the Queries in the Journal,which caused Goddard trouble with the Whig clubin 1770;, bequeathed him a portion of his exten-. <**&S^£t sive landed estate in Virginia. He published a••History of the Pennsylvania Chronicle (1770).— His son, William Chiles, educator, b. in John-ston, R. L. 2 Jan., 1794 ; d. in Providence, 16 Feb.,1846. He was graduated at Brown in 1812, wasprofessor of moral philosophy and metaphysicsthere in 1825-34, and of rhetoric and belles-lettresin 1834-42. He was editor and proprietor of the Rhode Island American, Providence, in had been a member of the Rhode Island legis-lature. His writings were edited by his son, F. (2 vols., 8vo, Providence, 1870). GODDU, J. H., Canadian patriot, b. in , Canada, in 1796; d. there in 1882. At theage of sixteen he served in the Canadian voltigeursduring the war of 1812, rose to the rank of majorand distinguished himself at the battles of Lacolleand Chateaugay. He was afterward present at thenaval engagement of Plattsburg, where he com-manded a gun-boat. He then settled
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