Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Goodman

Goodman , noun

[Good + man]

1.
A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to “My friend”, “Good sir”, “Mister;” -- sometimes used ironically. [Obsolete]
With you, goodman boy, an you please. — Shakespeare
2.
A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly. [Archaic] — Chaucer
Say ye to the goodman of the house,... Where is the guest-chamber? — Mark xiv. 14

In the early colonial records of New England, the term goodman is frequently used as a title of designation, sometimes in a respectful manner, to denote a person whose first name was not known, or when it was not desired to use that name; in this use it was nearly equivalent to Mr. This use was doubtless brought with the first settlers from England.