GOODWIN: Supplement : William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, The Goodwin Families in America 1899By Judge John S. Goodwin As a supplement to the October 1897 Quarterly: William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Vol lll October, 1899 No 2., the record of the descendants of Major James Goodwin was published to trace the ancestry of the Brookeville Indiana line, and branches of his line. The Goodwin Families in America were among the very first of the English speaking people to come to America. The earliest ones were in Virginia;