Michael Gowen

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7. Michael2 Gowen (Christopher1, Michael1) was born in January 1679 in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County [Wynn, Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Register, 319] and was living in New Kent County on 4 July 1702 [Bockstruck, Virginia's Colonial Soldiers, 218]. He was probably living near the New Kent - Hanover County line on 14 July 1720 when the New Kent County court ordered the vestry of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, to take "Michl Gowing's Male Tithables" [Chamberlayne, Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish, 93]. His children may have been

i. John2, born say 1705, purchased 170 acres including a plantation in St. Martin's Parish, Hanover County, from Shirley Whatley on 7 June 1734 [Court Records 1733-8, 71-3]. Perhaps John Gowen was the ancestor of Henry Going who was head of a Hanover County household of 8 persons in 1782 [VA:27].

12 ii. Mary1, born say 1708.

13 iii. Ann1, born say 1719.