Another traditional account has him later living in Stow, Massachusetts under the alias of John Green, where his sister Mary Stevens resided, dying in Stow, and being buried in the Stow Lower Cemetery under an unmarked granite slab. However, his dying in Stow is debunked: in fact, Mary Stevens was the sister of Capt John Green who died in Stow in 1688. Another legend is that he died in Hartford, Connecticut under an alias about 1680. A Phillip Goffe settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut prior to 1649, where his granddaughter Mabel Goffe in 1707 married Daniel Andrews; allegedly Mabel Goffe was a descendant of William Goffe. However, this is unlikely as of William Goffe's children only two married and had issue: a daughter Frances; while Williams Goffe's surviving son Richard and his descendants were residents of Waterford, Ireland. "Burke's Peerage" reports that William Goffe died in New Haven, Ct in 1680.