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Has anyone noticed that Heinegg has backed off from his John Graweer/Gawee version of Goins genealogy? I think that Jack Goins sorted out the Graweer/ Gowen issue rather well.
Heinegg has yet to embrace Gowin the Indian servant of Thomas Bushrod. Thomas died without issue, and the Gowen focus shifted to his brother Richard Bushrod of Glocester County. The Bushrod heirs took out many land patents in the Northern Neck. If one follows the Bushrod family you will find a Gowen/Guan/Going. It is simple genealogical research and requires no mystical "theory" or linguistic gymnastics tie together irrelevant and undocumented suppositions.
For what it's worth the more pertinent questions are:
1. Whether there were more than one distinct families with the same surname who ended up in Tennessee at the same time.
2. Whether John Graweer was of African descent or a Gypsy who bore the name of a river in Scotland. Bear in mind that Gypsies were considered to be Negro in Virginia and North Carolina.
Heinegg has covered the Gypsy descended families in very great detail, only he characterizes them as "Free African Americans", as do the Triracial Isolate theorist. There is critical Goins research yet to be done. Old fashioned genealogy is the answer to more than one Goins issue.
James Nickens
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