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