PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 307 Neil, at home; Flora Ann , at home; Mary, the wife of Donald McDonald , of . George Ernest Goff , a prosperous and progressive farmer and leading citizen of Lot 54, Kings county, his postoffice being Woodville Mills , was born on the farm on which he now resides and has since attaining mature years devoted his attention mainly to agricultural pursuits, in which he has been fairly successful. Mr. Goff traces his ancestral record back eight generations to Rev. Stephen Goff , rector of Hammer, Sussex, England , and a Puritan divine of note. His son, Gen¬ eral William Goff , represented Hampshire in Parliament in 1641, was an officer in the army of Oliver Cromwell and signed the death warrant of Charles I. He married a daughter of General Whalley , who was mar¬ ried to a cousin of Oliver Cromwell , and one of his lineal descendants was Richard Guff . the subject's great-grandfather, who was born at , county Wexford , Ireland, and married Annie Neville , of Lambey House, County Down, Ireland, who was related to the Earl of Warwick's fam¬ ily. The subject's paternal grandfather, Fade Goff , was born at Bryanstown, County Wex¬ ford, Ireland, in 1780, and settled at Erin- dale, Prince Edward Island , in 1810. He re¬ ceived a grant of five hundred acres of land and built mills at Erindale. He was a pro- thonotary at Charlottetown and occupied a high position in the general esteem of the public. Fade Goff married Miss Mary S. Ryan at St. John's, Newfoundland , on April 5, 1809, her birth having occurred at St. John, New Brunswick , on July 2, 1785. Her father, who was born and reared in Rhode Island , was a United Empire Loyalist , and after the close of the war of the Revolution came to New Brunswick and settled on wild land on the present site of the city of . John. He printed the first Royal Gazette published in Newfoundland "by authority," being associated with a Mr. Withers , and was official printer to the Queen until 1847, a period of forty years. In New Brunswick he had been appointed King's printer and held this position until the seat of government was removed to Fredericton . He was a captain of militia and in many ways held a high po¬ sition in the provinces in which he lived. He died in October, 1847, at the ripe old age of eighty-six years. To Fade and Mary Goff were born the following children: John, fa¬ ther of the subject; William L ., of Char¬ lottetown; Richard F ., who returned to Ire¬ land and became manager of the Bank of Limerick; Matilda, who became the-wife of Hon . George Wright , of Charlottetown , sur¬ veyor general of Prince Edward Island ; Anna Amelia became the wife of Edward Straugman , of Kill Cop, Ireland, and their son is the well known brewer of Montreal, Canada . Hon . John Goff , now deceased, fa¬ ther of the subject of this sketch, was born at Charlottetown , in 1814, and was educated at the Brown School there. In 1836, at the age of twenty-two years, he went to Launch¬ ing to look after the five-hundred-acre estate belonging to his father, and in 1840 he Qame to Woodville and located on an estate of sev¬ en hundred and fifty-five acres, and here built the Woodville saw and grist mills, which he operated in connection with his farm until 1872, when he sold the mills and thereafter lived practically a retired life on his estate. His elegant residence, with its beautiful surroundings, clearly bespeaks the owner to have been a man of wealth, good judgment and excellent taste. In i 860 John