(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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1757 May 23 – Title: File No. 429, Charles Gavin; Land Office: Land Warrants, Plats of Survey, and Related Records
Duplin County; Years: 1757; Call Number: S.108.690; Frames:593; Site: Archives Search Room (Raleigh); MARS Id: 12.14.57.429 (Folder); Geographic Names: Black River; Rowan Swamp; Personal Names: Gowin, Charles; Note: There were no documents in the shuck at time of filming. Land Grant Info: Acres: 450; Issued: May 23, 1757; Book, Page: 15:227; Location: On the Wt. side of Black River beginning at a cypress by the mouth of Rowan Swamp. Duplin Co, NC. (NOTE: This record actually is for a Charles Gavin (not Gowin) when reading the record). 1757 May 23 – Charles Gavin – Duplin Co, NC – 450acr on the Wt. side of Black River beginning at a cypress at the mouth of Rowan Swamp. Duplin Co, NC. http://www.nclandgrants.com/grant/?mars=12.14.57.429&qid=82726&rn=3 , http://lumbeeindiansandgoinsfamily.blogspot.com/2008/06/duplin-county-nc-early-records.html
1779 Feb 4 – 507-(347) Peter Lee Jr & his wife Elizabeth of Duplin Co North Carolina to Drury Going of Brunswick Co. 4 Feb 1779. £26s15 VA. 223 acres on the north side of Fountains Creek, joining Ridly, Goodrich, Forgason, Branscob, Allin. Wit: William Goodrich, John Camp, Briggs Goodrich, John Forgason. Proved 26 Jul 1779 & again 23 Aug 1779. P. Pelham Jr CC.
http://lumbeeindiansandgoinsfamily.blogspot.com/2008/06/brunswick-county-va-early-records.html
From Gowen Manuscript: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gowenrf/Gowenms096.htm
Joseph D. McGowen was born May 3, 1824 in Duplin County. He was married about 1848 to Elizabeth McWil-liams, and he was remarried to Elizabeth “Bettie” Crawford, age 17, November 6, 1861. She was born March 25, 1843 in Georgia to Elihue Crawford and Mary Pauline “Polly” Starr Crawford, according to the “Arkansas Family Historian.” They removed to Union County, Arkansas.
Children born to Joseph D. McGowen and Elizabeth “Bettie” Crawford McGowen include:
Robert L. McGowen born in 1863
Mattie Martha McGowen born in 1865
Joseph Parks McGowen born April 12, 1868
Robert L. McGowen, son of Joseph D. McGowen and Elizabeth “Bettie” Crawford McGowen was born in 1863 in Union County, Arkansas.
Mattie Martha McGowen, daughter of Joseph D. McGowen and Elizabeth “Bettie” Crawford McGowen, was born in 1865 in Union County. She was married July 21, 1887 to B. S. Shaw.
Joseph Parks McGowen, son of Joseph D. McGowen and Elizabeth “Bettie” Crawford McGowen, was born April 12, 1868 in Union County, Arkansas. He was married Novembeer 4, 1894 to Nancy Jane Stewart who was born November 14, 1878. He died November 14, 1948 at El Paso, Texas. She died there November 17, 1945.
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William McGowen was married to Mary Dickson in Duplin County in 1769. Of William McGowen and Mary Dickson McGowen nothing more is known.
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