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Moulton Babcock Goff, son of Emmett Stull Goff and Sarah Antoinette Carr, was born 1889 in Madison, Wisconsin. He married (1) Agnes Hopkins Davis (d. 1963), daughter of Robert William and Helen Flora Hopkins Davis, 1913 in Madison, Wisc. She died in Los Angeles. He married (2) his first cousin, Cicely Sarah Goff (d. 1978), daughter of Arthur Middleton and Clara Belle Hall Goff, 1966 in Austin, Texas. The progenitor of this family, Richard Goff (b. 1763), was born in New London, Connecticut. He was a Revolutionary War soldier. He married 1782 in Norwich Polly Winchester, daughter of Amariah and Abigail Sawyer Winchester. Family lived in New York. The progenitor of the Davis family was, Dolor Davis, who was probably born in Marden, Kent, England ca. 1593. He married at East Farleigh in 1624 Margery Willard, daughter of Richard and Margery Humphrey Willard of Horsemonden, Kent. Dolor left England for Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. Margery and their three children followed him in 1635.