Re: Norman Goheen - Ont. (1811)
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Re: Norman Goheen - Ont. (1811)
Doris Goheen 1/13/01
The murder was committed in 1810.Nathan wasn't born until 1841. He couldn't have been the witness!
Our family tradition is that Thomas Sr. (b.1753 in Ben Salem, Pa,)had ayounger brother, Richard, also a Loyalist, who left Pennsylvania with him.Thomas had 3 children then; the 4th,Samuel,was born in New York State in 1792.Thomas Sr. arrived at the fort at what is now Kingston in 1793, and survived a cold winter in a tent outside the fort. After they received their land grant at Port Hope, their youngest son, Jesse, was born in 1800.
We have been unable to find any records of Richard escaping to Upper Canada; or whether he had a family.
There is a record of John, Thomas and Richard being fined (in absentia?)for failing to report for duty in the Patriot forces. Thomas, of course, and each of his children received land grants in Ontario because he had fought on the Loyalist side in the war.
Possibly, Thomas had another brother, or nephew, a Norman, who was visiting with him when the latter became a witness to the murder. This is probably unlikely because a state of hostilities continued between the two sides after the formal Treaty of Ghent until after the War of 1812-14.
As far as we know now the second son of Thomas Sr. was the only Charles Goheen (b.May 7, 1783)living in Ontario in 1810.
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