Notes for Theophilus GOODWIN

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Notes for Theophilus GOODWIN

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Goodwin immigrants were numerous in the James River area, which line we
descend from is hard to figure out. Theophilus was a farmer of cotton
and tobacco in Virginia. After the Tuscarora Indian Wars in North
Carolina in 1713, what was left of the tribe migrated back to their
ancestral Iroquois lands in New York. This opened up vast land before
unaccessible lands for settlement. because there were no deep water
channels or harbors along North Carolina coast and also because of the
Indian attacks, north Carolina was the most sparsely settled and least
productive of all the colonies. To settle this free land all that was
required was to clear it, pay a few shillings to the King and keep one
slave for every fifty acres.

In 1736, Theophilus obtained three hundred acres of partially developed
land from William Hoggett. At this time there were only about 20
families in the entire piedmont region of upper Edgecombe County. In
march of the year 1737, five covered wagons, ten oxen, five milk cows and
one bull set out for North Carolina. They arrived in May.

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