(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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Frederick County, Virginia – INFO
Gowen Manuscript:
FREDERICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Gowen Adams kept a hotel located between Brentsville and Dumfries, Virginia in 1803. In that year, his daughter, Elizabeth Adams, who was born in 1788 was married to John Goodwin who was born in 1773 in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. John Goodwin served in the War of 1812.
After their marriage, John Goodwin lived on a farm in Frederick County on the Shenandoah River. Later they removed to Prince William County, Virginia, the to Farquier County, Virginia. In 1829, they removed to Clark County, Ohio where they remained for five years. In 1834, they removed to McLean County, Illinois where John Goodwin died in 1844. He was buried at Funk’s Grove. Elizabeth Adams Goodwin died in Lafayette County, Missouri in 1864.
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Basil Goins was married March 31, 1825 to Louisa Gregory, according to “Frederick County, Virginia Marriages, 1772-1850.” Children born to Basil Goings and Louisa Gregory Goings are unknown.
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John Gowen was married to Mary Boling December 26, 1805, according to “Frederick County, Virginia Marriages, 1772-1850.” Of John Gowen and Mary Boling Gowen nothing more is known. The minister’s return was signed “A. B.”
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