William Goffe

c.1613-c.1679

Parliamentarian Colonel - English Civil War

A devout Parliamentarian who held several senior military and political positions under the Commonwealth. A signatory of the death warrant of Charles I he escaped prosecution as a regicide upon the restoration of the monarchy by fleeing to New England with his father-in-law, fellow signatory and cousin of Cromwell, Colonel Edward Whalley.

"I may have something else to write for we are in daily expectation to hear from England and we are trembling to think what we shall hear."