James Gowen

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10. James1 Gowen (Thomas1, Michael1), born say 1683, sold 652 acres in Stafford County on Four Mile Run adjoining Thomas Pearson on 4 March 1730 [DB C:118]. He may have been the ancestor of

i. Daniel2, born about 1730, a 5'4", twenty-seven-year-old planter from Stafford County who was listed in the 13 July 1756 size roll of Captain Thomas Cocke's Company of the Virginia Militia. He was called a hatter in the July 1757 size roll of Captain Joshua Lewis' Seventh Company of the Virginia Regiment [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 385, 449].

21 ii. Luke, born say 1740.

iii. Michael5, born say 1742, head of a Shenandoah County household of 7 persons in 1785 [VA:105].

iv. Joseph4, born say 1750, taxable in Loudoun County from 1769 to 1776, listed as Samuel Canby's tithable from 1771 to 1776 [Tithables 1758-1799, 477a, 576, 636, 670, 731, 780, 806a], head of a Fairfax County household of 7 persons in 1782 [VA:17]. His indenture to Samuel Canby was proved in Loudoun County court on 2 October 1772 [Orders 1770-3, 433].

v. George2, born say 1750, "free Negro" head of a Fairfax County household of 8 "other free" in 1810 [VA:257].

vi. Jason1, born before 1762, taxable in Loudoun County in 1774 and 1779 [Tithables 1758-1799, 768, 898a]. He was called the "brother of Luke Goins" on 23 December 1795 when they obtained certificates as "free Negroes" in Loudoun County. The certificate stated that Jason had been living in the neighborhood of John Littleton for upward of twenty years [Certificates of Free Negroes at the Loudoun County courthouse, transcribed by Townsend Lucas]. There was a court case in Loudoun County on 14 November 1786 in which Jason's suit against James Elliott abated by the death of the plaintiff [Orders 1785-6, 383]. He was a 90-year-old "Mulatto," born in Virginia, counted in the 1850 census for Guernsey County, Ohio, in the household of Benjamin Simpson. He was a 90-year-old "Mulatto," born in Virginia, counted in the 1850 census for Guernsey County, Ohio, in the household of Benjamin Simpson.