The Barlow / Goff
Connection
The Goff (Gawf) Family of
Henderson, Tennessee
In
genetic DNA testing, samples provided by James Edward Goff and
Larry Joe Barlar were exact matches at the 37-marker level, proving
that both men are somehow related. They further learned that they
both are
actually descendants of the Isle of Wight, Virginia BARLOW
lineage.
The Barlow
/ Goff (Gawf) Connection
Compiled
by Phil Goff - December 05, 2005
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Edmund Gawf, Henry Goff and
Lewis Goff all claimed NC as their birthplace, with Lewis also
naming SC as his place of nativity. No Barlow has been identified
in SC census records before 1810.
The Barlow family, with which the Goff/Gawf family has a
Y-chromosome match, is closely associated with NC. As such, North
Carolina is the logical place to look for the Barlow orphan who
was taken in by the Goff family.
The 1790, 1800 and 1810 NC censuses were searched for every Goff
and Barlow and variants. Only Montgomery and Wake Counties counted
both the Goff and Barlow surnames among their populations during
this 20-year period. Of these, only Wake had a Goff and Barlow in
the county at the same time:
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1790
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County
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State
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White Males 16>
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White Males
<16 |
Females
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Slaves
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Other
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Total
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Thos.
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Barlow
37
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Wake
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NC
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1
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2
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2
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1
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6
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Wm.
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Barlow
38
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Wake
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NC
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1
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4
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3
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8
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Starling
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Gawf 39
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Wake
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NC
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1
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2
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5
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|
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8
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William Barlow and Thomas Barlow
were six households away from each other on the census
enumerator’s schedule.
Thomas Barlow of Wake Co., North
Carolina was born ca. 1761 in Isle of Wight, Virginia.
Y-chromosome DNA testing has shown that Edmund Gawf, Henry Goff
and Lewis Goff are closely related to the Isle of Wight, Virginia
Barlow family.
Thomas Barlow served in the
Third Virginia [Edmond’s] Artillery Regiment during the
Revolutionary War, receiving his discharge on 23 August 1780.
Thomas Barlow married Elizabeth
and they lived in Brunswick Co., Virginia until about 1786.40
In 1787, Thomas Barlow purchased land in Wake Co., North
Carolina.. In September 1794, Thomas Barlow bought more land in
Wake County. 41
Beginning in 1797, Thomas Barlow
started purchasing land in Edgefield Co., South Carolina.
42
The final ties to Wake Co. were cuts when in May 1800 Thomas
Barlow sold Wake Co., North Carolina land to Christopher Spier and
William Smith.43
Elizabeth died ca. 1800 and Thomas
married 2) Mary. Thomas Barlow died ca. 1813 in Laurens Co.,
Georgia.44
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37 |
Thos. Barlow household, 1790
Wake Co., NC census, p. 253 |
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38 |
Wm. Barlow household, 1790
Wake Co., NC census, p. 253 |
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39 |
Starling Gawf household, 1790
Wake Co., NC census, p. 273 |
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40 |
Thomas Barlow, Elizabeth
Roscoe, and Mary, Barlow Genealogy, online 'Thomas
Barlow, Isle of Wight Virginia',
04 December 2005 |
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41 |
Wake County Court minutes
Books 4 & 5 1797 to 1803 |
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42 |
Thomas Barlow, Elizabeth
Roscoe, and Mary, Barlow Genealogy, online 'Thomas
Barlow, Isle of Wight Virginia',
04 December 2005 |
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43 |
Wake County Court minutes
Books 4 & 5 1797 to 1803 |
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44 |
Thomas Barlow, Elizabeth
Roscoe, and Mary, Barlow Genealogy, online 'Thomas
Barlow, Isle of Wight Virginia',
04 December |
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While Thomas Barlow can
safely be eliminated as the father of the Barlow orphan(s) the
William Barlow and the Sterling Gawf families require further
examination between 1790 and 1800.
In September 1794, Thomas Barlow bought land in Wake County.
In 1799, William Barlow was dead.
In May 1800, Thomas Barlow sold land to Christopher Spier and
William Smith.45
On 2 May 1800, Sterling Goff was listed among the debtors of the
firm of Britian and Ellick Sanders, from the inventory of Britian
Sanders.46
By the 1800 census, the Barlow family was gone from Wake Co., NC:
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