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Bridgetown getting together to form public
‘companies for their protection, that a 46
Sear old. man decided to open & business
Unde his name. His only partner was the
Second of his nine sons. This was Joseph
Nathaniel Goddard and his’ second 200
Edward. Vietot Goddard. They opened.
(rocery and meat and ice store under the
Same of J. N. Goddard and Sons

‘Although "Vietor Goddard went to
‘Harrison College and then tok « course in
Basiness Administration at Ontario
Business College in Bellevile, Ontario, the
story of “Old doe," as he became known in
the ety, toads ike a best seller. Iti cert
sinly the Barbadian rags torches tle of the
entry, and in order fo lustrate the con:
trast between the twenty millon dolar
rterprse he eft functioning when he died
Sod the humble excumstances from which
ecame, even abrief account of hs eal fe
ie worth recording.

Joseph Nathaniel Godard was born on
2ith November, 1874 at his mother’s two
fom house on Belle Hil, Ciifon Hall
‘Woods, a remote spot under the island's
stern escarpment Enown as Hackelton's
Git too small even tobe called village.
‘The land was the property of Clifton Hall
Estate, St.John, He was the eldest child of
Joueph Josiah Goddard, labourer at
Neweaste Plantation, then owned by the
Haynes family, but who also, significantly,
ids bit of rum-blending and animal spee-
‘latog. His mother, Mary Elizabeth Jane,
twos the daughter ‘of Benjamin. Mayers,
Toleved to be a small land owner of the
same district, and Mary Rebecca Mayers,
Der she war'a widow when the married
Joseph Josiah having been previously
rmaried to Robert Willim Francis King
(ite labourer) wh died in 1872 atthe age
os.

fe was hard, and the future « dismal
repetition of hard work, litle reward,
racially no expectation of improve living
‘undards, and hardly any chance of workly
‘reich, Moet of the familes worked a
fishermen at Martin's Bay, or Bath, of
laboured on the plantations of Bath,
Goleta, Cliton Hall, Foster Hall, Edge-
Gist snd Malvern. The best job prospect
tras to become a book-keeper and later a
reseer on a plantation. ‘There were 0
Fonds on the steep rocky ground, and foot.
ths connected the houses of the poor
‘this snd tome black. Water was Drought
fhome in a ‘bucket‘on the head from Ben
Spring about a quarter mile away along a
ftep pathway that had two develsh moods.
‘es iter strewn with sharp rocks in ey
MGsther or a muddy quagmire in between
the rocks in ealny weather The closest ext
fo the “broad road” was by the natural
‘break io Hackleton's Cliff at Monkey Jump
Ith ao entrance known asthe gate tothe
the south, and the “ladders” (both natural
Sep cut inthe eli to the north.

ME BAAN, juLy 1978,