Not sure about Goose Creek, but there are two New Rivers in NC. There is the one in the west, which ironically is one of the oldest rivers in north America. There is also the New River in the southeast, the whole of which is located in present day Onslow County. That New River holds the distinction of being the widest for its length of any in the US, if my memory serves me correctly. Around its mouth is the very large Camp Lejeune Marine Corps base. The Neuse starts much deeper in the state and reaches the coast near Craven Co (New Bern area), just northeast of Onslow and north of Carteret Co. Richard Barnes Winston-Salem, NC 27104 336-760-9043 NC: Appel, Brindle, Clampitt, Dean, Fouts, Frey, Glasscoe, Harder, Hoover, Lashmit, Leinbach, Longworth, Mullikin, Rothrock, Schneider, Sink, Spach, Starr, Tesh, Transou, Walk, Williard VA: Longworth, McGannon, Nash, Richards IN: Barnes, Fouts, Hendricks, Law -----Original Message----- From: Hdanw@aol.com <Hdanw@aol.com> To: NCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com <NCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 7:40 PM Subject: [NCROOTS] Goose Creek - Onslow County or Craven Co. >Early patents of North Carolina mention persons who were clustered on Goose >Creek of the New or Neuse River. Depending on the time period, it was either >in Craven Co. or in Onslow Co. Am a little vague about county boundaries >here. However, I believe some of these patents appear in one of the land >grant books compiled by Margaret M. Hofmann. Goose Creek, my memory seems to >tell me, was on the north side of the River. Speight and Brunson were some >of the land grantees, as I also seem to remember. > >And that's my two cents worth. > >E.W. Wallace >southern California > >