1729 New Hanover was created from Craven County.
Family Search Wiki page for New Hanover Co, NC: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/New_Hanover_County,_North_Carolina_Genealogy
Family Search Catalogue page for New Hanover Co, NC: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=191210&query=%2Bplace%3A%22United%20States%2C%20North%20Carolina%2C%20New%20Hanover%22
Counties to Search:
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- North Carolina – New Hanover County
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(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
Alexander Gowing was listed as the head of a household in the 1820 census of New Hanover County, North Carolina, according to “Index to the 1820 Census of North Carolina.”
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