(Below are different Going, Goyen, Gowen related sources for those people were in the Virginia, North Carolina, or South Carolina areas in the early 1700’s to early 1800’s)
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From Gowen Manuscript: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gowenrf/Gowenms096.htm
Gowen Cuthrell was born before 1766 of parents unknown and died about 1797 in Craven County, according to Sammy A. Pierce of Hobe Sound, Florida in a message dated July 15, 2002. Children born to him include:
Jesse Cuthrell born about 1784
James Cuthrell born about 1786
Milly Cuthrell born about 1789
Zilpha Cuthrell born about 1793
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John Gowing was married to Margaret Stacy February 14, 1828 at New Bern, North Carolina, according to the “Raleigh Register” in its edition of February 22, 1828. The marriage date was February 15, 1820, according to “Craven County, North Carolina Marriages, 1773-1850,” record 1136, bondsman Peter Merkel, bond No. 26565.
John Gowing appeared in the 1820 census of Craven County, page 3, as the head of a household, according to Dorothy Williams Potter in “Index to 1820 North Carolina Census.”
The household was recorded as:
“Gowing, John white male 26-45 manufacturing”
white female 26-45″
“Mrs. John Gowing”, believed to be Margaret Stacy Gowing, died January 30, 1829 at New Bern, according to the “Raleigh Register.” Carrie L. Broughton indexed the marriages and death notices of the “Raleigh Register” in her book, “Marriages & Death Notices in North Carolina, 1826-1845.”
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