Re: 'Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666, St Katherines by the Tower , St Katherines Court,' in London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (Centre for Metropolitan History, 2011), which lists Samuel Goodman of that parish with 5 hearths taxed in 1666.

See: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-hearth-tax/london-md...

This was just 6 years before Benjamin Goodman, also of St Katherine's according to the Middlesex Court Order, was ordered transported to Barbados! The Benjamin and Samuel Goodman names in the same parish of London, at close to the same time, is quite interesting.

Was this Samuel Goodman possibly the father or brother of the Benjamin Goodman ordered transported? If so, then it would establish a strong case that the Benjamin Goodman ordered transported was in fact the same one later in New Kent / Hanover VA, or more likely his father, since the one transported would have been near or over 50 in 1700 when he supposedly married 15 year old Lucy Blackwell, which has always seemed totally implausible to me. It's more reasonable to believe that the one transported was about age 20 or older when he left England, that he married and had children in Virginia between 1673 and 1680, or may even have had a wife and children in London before being transported, and that one of those children was the Benjamin who later married Lucy Blackwell about 1700.

In that case, it also firmly establishes that he could not have been one of the Benjamin Goodmans of Bedfordshire, as others have always postulated, so all of that presumed ancestry goes out the window! It also shows that both Samuel and Benjamin names were used by this Goodman family of St Katherine's of Middlesex and London, even before he was ordered transported. The count of 5 hearths also could establish that this Goodman family was relatively well-to-do. So Benjamin's eventual relocation to Virginia and acquisition of substantial lands there could have been facilitated by his prosperous family in London.