Goffe
WILLIAM, an English parliamentary soldier, one af the judges of Charles I.; born about 1605. He became a major-general in the Parliamentary army, sat in the House of Commons and in Cromwell's "other house," and was one of the judges who signed Charles I.'s death-warrant. In 1660, with his father-in-law, Edward Whalley, he fled to America; they lay in hiding about New Haven from 1661 to 1664, when they went to Hadley, Mass. There they lived for many years in seclusion. According to tradition, when the townsmen were called from the meeting-house to repel an Indian attack, and were standing irresolute, Goffe put himself at their head and drove off the redskins, and then disappeared as suddenly as he had come. He died in Hadley, Mass., in Vol. IV-Cyc-W GOJAM GOG and MAGOG, names several times used in the Bible, and given to the famous figures of giants in the Guildhall, London. Magog is spoken of by the writer of Genesis as a son of Japhet; Ezekiel speaks of Gog, Prince of Magog, as a terrible ruler in the far N., united with the Persians, Armenians, and Cimmerians against Israel; Gog and Magog in the Apocalypse appear as co-ordinate terms comprehending all future enemies of the kingdom of God. The name Magog was often applied generally to all the unknown races N. of the Caucasus.