“Asa Goodrich (David, David, Ehpraim, William) born Sept. 10, 1772; died Jan. 21, 1834; married, Sept. 28, 1800, Mrs. Abigail (Stanley) Martin; she was his second wife; nothing known of his first wife; resided in Benson, Vt.
Children:
Alva, b. July 25, 1801
Gustavus A., b. Aug. 21, 1803; m. 1st, Angeline Lloyd; 2d, H. Jane Clark.
Servatus A., b. April 21, 1807.
William H., b. May 21, 1809; m. 1st, Mary A. Palmer; 2d, Johanna Wendell.

Clarence E. Holden’s “Whitehall, N.Y. local history sketches” from 1918 includes the following mention of Asa Goodrich, illustrating the presence of “negroes” in Whitehall before the Civil War:
Asa Goodrich, writing in 1819, says: “I have rented my house to John Williams, a negro, who lives there with his wife Phebe and their child, a boy three or four years old.”401

There was an Asa Goodrich listed in the Peru, Massachusetts, census records for 1790 and 1800; no further information available (Ancestry).