37.    Thomas2 Gowen (John1, William2, Thomas1, Michael1), born say 1732, was taxable in the 1751 Lunenburg County household of (his father?) John2 Gowen in the list of Richard Witton [Tax List 1748-52]. On 30 May 1752 he purchased 150 acres in Granville County on both sides of Taylors Creek at the mouth of Spring Branch [DB B:53]. He was in the Granville County list of Osborn Jeffreys, adjoining Michael and Edward Going, taxable on one white and one black poll in 1753 and one black poll in 1754. He was called a "Mulatto" in Captain Osborne Jeffreys' Company in the 8 October 1754 Muster Roll of the Granville County Regiment of Colonel William Eaton [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 718]. In the 1761 list of John Pope he had Moses Gowen in his household with the notation "Refuses to List his wife," and in 1764 he and Moses were taxed in John Pope's list for St. John's Parish as two white polls. In 1768 he was tithable on three persons: himself, John Gowin, and Alston Hopkins who was white. In 1780, called Thomas Gowen Sr., he was taxed on an assessment of 997 pounds, and he was taxed on 150 acres in 1785. He was head of a Granville County household of 4 free males and 5 free females in the 1786 state census in Dutch District. On 25 January 1788 he sold his land in Granville [DB O:555], and he may have moved to Montgomery County where Thomas Gain was counted in the 1790 census with 3 white males and 5 white females in his household [NC:164]. His 7 February 1797 Montgomery County will named only his five youngest children. His children werei. Moses4, born circa 1749 since he was taxable in 1761 in the list of John Pope. He may have been the Moses Jewil, alias Gowin, who purchased 100 acres on the south side of the Tarr River on both sides of Middle Creek in Granville County on 2 February 1768 [DB H:481].ii. John5, born circa 1756, not identified as Thomas' son but taxed in his 1768 household.iii. Vini, married ____ Hardister.iv. Burgess, born 1780/4, died in Montgomery County in 1849.v. Burton, counted as white in the Randolph County census through 1830.vi. Hali.vii. Elizabeth.  freeafricanamericans.com/Gibson_Gowen.htm Also look at redboneheritagefoundation.com/Chronicles/William%20Goyens%20JR.htm genforumgenealogy.com/melungeon/messages/18693.hml goins.accessgenealogy.com/shopping_page.html freeafricanamericans.com/1800NCa.htm Hope this helps you. I am not researching these families. Charmaine Ernst ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com