He was marched to a fort on the head of Enoree River to Prince’s Fort, and there was stationed, but was frequently out on a scouting or spying expeditions against the Cherokee Indians and a Tory family named Bates. Graham, Spartanburg District, South Carolina some time in the month of April, 1777, the precise day he cannot recollect. He says he entered the service of the United States as a private and volunteered in a company of rangers, or spies, commanded by Capt. Born in Spottsylvania County, Virginia, March 11, 1744, agreeable to his family record, but has no record of it at this time. Entered service of United States under following officers and served as here stated. State of Tennessee, Bedford County John Bearden, Senior, a resident of this county and aged eighty-nine years, two months, four days. “Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. His brother-in-law John Bearden filed a pension application, recorded in “Kings Mountain Manuscripts,” Volume 2, page 239: John “Buck” Gowen and his troops appeared in District 96 in February 1778 on military duty. Ambrose Goins” appeared on a jury panel in Davidson County, North Carolina in which Peter Barnett sued John Rice. (1775 to 1782): Goings in the Revolution: ġ776 March 18 – Ambrose Gowan “furnished wheat to the Hampton troops,” according to “Virginia Magazine of History & Biography,” Volume 28. who fought in the Revolutionary War and was wounded in battle.

Grohse, Sneedville historian, reported that he was the son of Joseph Goins, Sr.

Arthur Hamilton Taylor, a Presbyterian minister who researched the Goins families in Hancock County, Tennessee and who assisted them economically, showed the birthplace of Joseph Goins as Albemarle County, Virginia. 1770 – birth of Joseph Going (approx) Rev.

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