Saturday, February 21, 2009

Genealogy Research, Photography and Graveside Service

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Genealogy Research, Photography and Graveside Service Offered by Tracy Hutchison
I live in the beautiful mountains of Berkeley County located in the North Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. I am close to the Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania border. I will provide the utmost respect and care in offering the below services to find your family members.

Please send your request to: thutchison10@gmail.com for an estimate of charges.
All Surnames are Welcome!

Tombstone Photography
*.50 cents per mile traveled round trip
*Basic clean up of gravesite is FREE (remove debris, pull weeds if needed)
*Photograph sent via email at no additional cost

Graveside Service
*.50cents per mile traveled round trip
*Basic clean up of gravesite is FREE (remove debris, pull weeds if needed)
*Flower arrangement delivered to site at cost of flower arrangement
*Photograph sent via email at no additional cost

Genealogy Research
*.50 cents per mile while traveling round trip
* $20. per hour for time spent at court house, library or other research facility
*Additional cost for copies and postage of findings

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Loudoun County, VA Early Records

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudoun_County,_Virginia

History

Loudoun County was established in 1757 from Fairfax County. The county is named for John Campbell, Fourth Earl of Loudoun and Governor of Virginia from 1756–59. Western settlement began in the 1720s and 1730s with Quakers, Scots-Irish, Germans and others moving south from Pennsylvania and Maryland and by English and African slaves moving upriver from Tidewater.

By the time of the American Revolution, it was the most populous county in Virginia. During the War of 1812, important Federal documents and government archives were evacuated from Washington and stored at Leesburg for safe keeping. Local tradition holds that these documents were stored at Rokeby House and thus that Leesburg was briefly the capital of the United States.

Early in the American Civil War, the Battle of Balls Bluff took place near Leesburg on October 21, 1861. Future jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was critically wounded in that battle along the Potomac River. During the Gettysburg Campaign in June 1863, Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart and Union cavalry clashed in the battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville. Confederate partisan John S. Mosby based his operations in Loudoun and adjoining Fauquier County.

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Loudoun County Personal Property Tax List
1782-1821
Library of Virginia microfilm nos. 207-210
1787-1797
1787
Richard Gowing: Richard Gowing, James Davis, James Alexander 3 tithes 2 horses, 2 cattle [p. 9]
Jason Gowan (not 21) 1 tithe [p. 10]

1787 List of Charles Bennett
Luke Gawen & Moses Gawaen 2 tithes 4 cattle, 2 horses [p. 9]
Leonard Gawen 1 tithe [p. 10]

1788 B, List of Charles Bennett
Luke Gowen & Moses Gowen 2 tithes 2 horses

1789 B
Luke Gawen: Luke Gawen, Leonard Gawen 2 tithes 2 horses [p. 9]

1789 C
Richd Going 1 ttihe 1 tithe 12-16, 2 horses [p. 8]

1790 B, List of Charles Bennett
Luke Gawen: Moses Gawen 2 tithes, 1 slave over 16, 2 horses
Leonard Gawen 1 tithe 1 horse

1791 B
Luke Gawen 1 tithe 1 horse
Leonard Gawen Moses & Jason Gawen } 3 tithes 1 horse

1792 B
Luke Gawen: Luke Gawen & Moses Gawen 2 tithes 2 horses
  
1793 A
Leond Going 1 tithe
Lucrece(?) Going 1 horse

1794 A, List of Charles Bennet
Luke Gawen 1 tithe 1 horse

1795 A, List of Charles Bennett
Luke Gawen: Luke Gawen, Luke Gawen, Peyton Gawen 3 tithes 2 horses

1795 B List of James Coleman, Junr
Thomas Pursley: Thomas Pursley, Moses Gawen 2 tithes 2 horses

1796 A, List of Chas Bennett
Luke Gawen 1 tithe 2 horses
1796 C, List of Robert Hereford
Walter Elgon & Peyton Gowing 2 tithes 4 horses

1797 A, List of Charles Bennett
Luke Gawen: Luke Gawen, Peyton Gawen 2 tithes 2 horses
Zachariah Gawen 1 tithe

1797 B, List of James Coleman, Jr
Jason Gowing 1 tithe

1798-1812
1798A, List of Charles Bennett
Luke Gowin {Luke Gowin, Peyton Gowin 2 tithes, 2 horses
1799A, List of James Coleman, Jr.
Jacin Gowen 1 tithe 1 horse


1805C, List of Timothy Taylor
Ned Gowen FN 1 tithe, 1 horse

1806A, List of Mortho Sullivan
Zachariah Gowing 1 tithe 2 horses
Luke Gowing 1 tithe 2 horses
Joseph Gowing 1 tithe
Leonard Thomas & Luke Gowing 2 tithes, 3 horses

1807A, List of Mortho Sullivan
Zachariah Gowins 1 tithe 1 horse
Luke Gowins 1 tithe

1807C, List of Timothy Taylor
James Bradfield & E. Gowin 2 tithes 6 horses

1809A, List of Mortho Sullivan
Luke Gowins 1 tithe 2 horses
Peyton Gowins 1 tithe
Zachariah Gowins 1 tithe 1 horse

1809C, List of Timothy Taylor
George Jenney & Elie Gowen & Bragden 3 tithes, 5 horses
1810 List of Mortho Sullivan
Luke Gowins 1 tithe 2 horses

1811B, List of Jesse Timms, Cameron Parish
Peyton Gowins (Mul)
William Gowins (Mul)
Luke Gowins 1 tithe 4 horses
Stephen Wilson & E. Gowen 2 tithes, 9 horses

1812A, 1st Batallion
Joseph Goings 1 tithe
Luke Goings 1 tithe 4 horses
Peyton Goings 1 tithe

1812B, List of Jesse Timms

1812C
James Bradfield & son & E. Goins 3 tithes, 6 horses

1813 List of Mortho Sullivan of the First Battalion
Names of free male tithables over 16 and a separate column for "Free Negroes"

Luke Gowins & wife: Gowins & Gowins (their 2 children?)} 4 FN, 4 horses
Zachariah Gowins 1 FN
Peyton Gowins & wife 2 FN
Joseph Gowins 1 FN
Levi Gowins 1 FN
Patterson Wright: Sam Gowins (free Negro) 1 FN


1814 B, List of Daniel Lovett
column for "Free Negroes"
Luke Gowins (Neg) 1 FN
Thomas Gowings (Mul) 1 FN
Zachariah Gowings (Do) 1 FN
Peyton Gowings (Mul) 1 FN
Luke Gowins (M) and two Sons 3 FN, 4 horses
Joseph Gowins (Mul) 1 FN

1814 C, Third District
column for "Free mn of Colour over 16"
Tho Gowen (FN) 1 FMC

1815 A, Third District
column for "free Negroes over 16 & under 45
Elihu Gowen Negroe & Sons ...3 } 4 horses, 2 cattle, 3 FN
Joseph Gowen Negro 1 FN
Moses Gowen Negroe 1 FN
1815 B, List of Daniel Lovett
separate column for "Free male Negroes above 16"
Samuel Gowins 1 FN
Luke Gowins Junr 1 FN
Luke Gowins 4 horses, 10 cattle 3 FN
Zachariah Gowins 1 FN

1816 List of Jesse Mc Veigh
Elihu Gowens (FN) & Tom Gowen 2 tithes 1 horse
Wm Gowen (FN) 1 tithe
1816 List of Daniel Lovett
Luke Gowings 3 tithes 7 horses
Luke Gowings Junr 1 tithe
Joseph Gowings 1 tithe
Samuel Gowings 1 tithe
Moses Gowings 1 tithe

1817 List of Jesse Mc Veigh
Elihu Gowens (FN) 1 tithe 2 horses
1817 List of Daniel Lovett
Joseph Gowins (Mul) 1 tithe
Leonard Gowins (Do) 1 tithe
Luke Gowins (Do) 2 tithes 4 horses
Peter Guider (Neg) 1 tithe
Petyon Gowin (Mul) 1 tithe

1818 List of Daniel Lovett
Luke Gowings (Mul) 2 tithes 8 horses
Joseph Gowins (Mul) 1 tithe
Leonard Gowins (Do) 1 tithe
Luke Gowins Jr (Do) 1 tithe
Petyon Gowins (Mul) 1 tithe

1819 List of Daniel Lovett
Luke Gowins (Mul) 2 tithes 8 horses
Joseph Gowins (Mul) 1 tithe
Luke Gowins (Do) 1 tithe
Petyon Gowins (Mul) 1 tithe

1820 B, List of Daniel Lovett
Leonard Gowings (Mul) 1 tithe

1821 List of Jesse Timms
Luke Goings 7 horses
1821 B

Wm Stone: William Goings (FN)

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Submitted by Shelley Murphy


Lawson Goens/Goins/Goings was born in Loudoun County, Virginia in 1806, his parents were Joseph and Nancy Goings. The information was obtain from his death record obtained from familysearch.org
I have them from when they arrived in Jefferson County census till 1870. He dies 12 July 1874 in Clarke County, VA,


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1820 Census

Luke Goins (colored)
3 males age to 14
4 males age 14-26
1 male age 45 and over
1 female age to 14
1 female age 26 - 45

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Submitted by Cindy Young

1822-02-05 runaway slave Daniel Goins (Genius of Liberty)

http://www.balchfriends.org/Slaves/pages/1822-02-05RunawaySlaveDanielGoins.htm

Runaway Slave Advertisements
from the
Genius of Liberty, Leesburg, Virginia, 1817-1842.

Was committed to the jail of LOUDOUN COUNTY, as a runaway, on the 12th of December last, a negro man, who calls himself, DANIEL GOINS; about five feet ten inches high, stout made dark complexion. Says he was raised in FREDERICK COUNTY, Maryland, on Canawee Island, and was free at the death of Tramel Delashmit. Supposed to be owned, for a short term, by Joseph Cromwell.

Said owner, or any other, is requested to come forward, prove property, pay charges, any take said man away, otherwise he will be dealt with as the law directs.

Giles Hammat
Jailor of Loudoun County
Feb. 5, 1822
(The editors of the Richmond Enquirer are requested to insert the above three times, and forward their account to this office for payment)