(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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Alleghany County, Virginia – INFO
From Gowen Manuscript: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gowenrf/Gowenms132.htm
ALLEGHENY COUNTY, VIRGINIA
William Goings, free colored, appeared as the head of a house-hold enumerated in the 1830 census of Allegheny County, page 118:
“Goings, William free colored male 36-55
free colored female 24-36
free colored male 10-24
free colored female 0-10”
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