George Goswick born ca. 1767 Bute Co. N.C.(now
Franklin) d:1812 Franklin Co.N.C.
(m) lst. n/r
(m) 2nd. Rebecca Boone
b.n//r died after 1840 Union Co.S.C.
children
by first wife (name unk)
1. Elizabeth
"Betsy" b. 8/20/1789 Va./N.C. (m) Matthias Goswick (found
as Gaswick & Goswick)
2. William born 1792 N.C. (m)
Lucinda "Lucy" Goswick(found as
Gossett)
3. Sally born ca. 1793 N.C.
n/r (may go by surname of Goset or Gossett)
4. Thomas born 1795 N.C.
(m) 2nd, Elizabeth Arrena Pruitt (found as Gossett & Goswick)
5. a son born & died bef 1812
6. George
W. b. 1802 N.C.
(m) Nancy Elizabeth Powers (found as Goswick)
children by
Rebecca "Becky" Boon
7. Nathan
born 1807 N.C.
(m) Arena Bishop (found as Gossett & Goset)
8. Johnson
born 1812 N.C. (m)
Sarah (?) (found as Gossett)
George Goswick was the son of Joseph and Sarah
(?) Goswick of Franklin Co. North Carolina. George Goswicks will
in 1812 leaves his father Joseph Goswick as his executor. Note George
Goswick's will. George also mentions all his children, except for
the son Johnson who was born 1812 after George made out his will. He does
mention "the child that my wife is now pregnant with, shall it live".
Nathan and Johnson Goswick are mentioned in 1822 in the Grandmother
Rebecca Boon Court documents. Of these children of George Goswick,
Elizabeth and her husband are always found as Goswick, William and Lucy
are found as Gossett and Goswick, Thomas is found as Goswick, George W.
as Goswick, Nathan and Johnson as Goset and Gossett.
View 1810 Franklin Co. NC. Census.
There are no 1820 Franklin Co. NC census, only the
Tax list.
George Goswicks
will in 1812 mentions that if his wife Becky was to re-marry, then
his father Joseph Goswick was to sell all lands and divide the moneys between
his children.
On Jan. 19, 1816 Rebecca Goswick married James
Goswick in Franklin Co. N.C. and Joseph Goswick,Sr. was bondsman.
In 1816 Joseph Gostwick, Sr. began to sell lands that appear to have been the lands belonging to George. From the looks of the land records of the Goswicks beginning in 1767, and the amounts that each son had purchased from the father Joseph, and how this amount of land was back in the hands of the Father Joseph Goswick after 1812, seems there may have been some disagreement between Father and Sons, as each son had returned their land back to the father. The only land that was not returned to Joseph Goswick, Sr. was the lands that had been purchased from another person other than Joseph Goswick,SR.
James and Rebecca Goswick leave Franklin Co.
N.C. prior to 1830, and show up in Union Co.S.C.
in 1840 as James Gossett, Sr. 70/80 and female same age. The
neighbors are: Johnson Gossett, Nathan Gossett, Nicholas Gossett, James
Gossett,Jr., Thomas Gossett, and William Gossett. In
1830 Union Co.S.C. Thomas, William, Jefferson, James, Nicholas, are
listed as Goswick. (more to follow on these families){kgk}