(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
No Gowens [or spelling variations] were included in the 1800 census of Hyde County.
Joseph G. Gowen was listed as the head of a household in the 1820 census of Hyde County, page 6, according to “Index to the 1820 Census of North Carolina.”
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