Robert GOINS / Margaret 'Peggy' NEWTON

   Husband: Robert GOINS           (Ancestor Chart, Descendant Chart)
      Born:                        in: 
   Married:                        in: 
      Died: 1815                   in: 
    Buried: Hull Graveyard
    Father: Alexander GOINS
    Mother: Jane BOOTH
      Wife: Margaret 'Peggy' NEWTON (Ancestor Chart, Descendant Chart)
      Born: 19 OCT 1789            in: 
      Died:                        in: 
    Father: Benjamin NEWTON
    Mother: Nancy MCCALL
  Children:
1     Name: Patsy GOINS
F     Born:                        in: 
      Died:                        in: 
   Married:                        in: 
    Spouse: Charles QUEEN
2     Name: Jane GOINS
F     Born:                        in: 
      Died:                        in: 
   Married:                        in: 
    Spouse: John AIKENS
3     Name: Nancy GOINS
F     Born: ABT 1808               in: 
      Died: 20 NOV 1889            in: Cleveland County, NC
   Married: 1832                   in: 
    Spouse: Stephen WHITE
4     Name: Alfred Newton GOINS
M     Born:                        in: 
      Died: 8 JUN 1900             in: 
   Married: 20 MAY 1854            in: Cleveland County, NC
    Spouse: Martha W. JONES

Notes:

• The Revolutionary War pension application of Benjamin Newton includes a statement dated 3 March 1852 and signed by Ebenezer Newton, George Newton, and Mrs. Margaret Goins. The statement identifies Margaret Goins as a daughter of Benjamin and Nancy Newton. The statement is notarized by Alfred N. Goins (no relationship is stated, but this is the presumed son of Margaret Goins who served as a Justice of Peace in Cleveland County, NC). The pension application also includes a Bible record indicating "Peggy Newton was born the 19th of October in the year 1789 on monday morning at sunrise". (PDF images of Benjamin Newton's Rev War pension application (PDF File - 30.0 Mbytes))
• The Fall 2016 issue of the Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County¹ includes extensive information about the Robert Goins family provided in a 1906 account by their great-grandson Patterson Lorenzo Newton. Patterson Lorenzo Netwon was born in 1877 in Cleveland County, N.C. He was the son of Andrew J. Newton and Elmina White, and the grandson of Stephen H. White and Nancy Goins. The following is a summary of some of the points from Newton's account (note that this is his personal account and I am unable to independently confirm many of these points through any other source):
  • Robert Goins was the son of Alexander and Jane Goins.
  • Robert Goins had brothers John Goins and Daniel Goins.
  • Daniel Goins married Nancy Newton, daughter of Captain Ben Newton.
  • Robert Goins married Peggy Newton, daughter of Captain Ben Newton.
  • Robert Goins enlisted at Morganton, NC and served in the War of 1812.
  • Robert Goins settled on his father's farm.
  • Robert Goins and Peggy Newton had 4 children as follows:
    • Patsy Goins married Charles Queen, moved to McDowell County where she resided for many years, died at the age of 96 years, left a long line of descendants, and was buried at Clover Hill.
    • Jane Goins married John Aikens, settled on a small farm on the waters of Knob Creek, and left no children.
    • Nancy Goins married Stephen White in 1832, died in 1889, left a long line of descendants, and was buried at Clover Hill.
    • A[lfred] Newton Goins married Martha Jones (daughter of Dr. G. B. Jones), worked as a surveyor in upper Cleveland County for many years, died in the year 1901 at the age of 86 years, leaving many descendants, and was buried at Clover Hill.
  • Robert Goins died in 1815 and was buried in the "Hull Graveyard".
• The 1954 book by Posey E. Downs entitled The Captain Benjamin Newton - William Downs and Other Lineage History² includes information on the Robert Goins family. Downs does not cite individual sources for his information, but he does indicate he received information in May 1943 from P.L. Newton of Coweta, Oklahoma which may be the same Patterson Lorenzo Newton mentioned above. A summary of some of the key points mentioned by Downs regarding the Robert Goins family is as follows:
  • Robert Goins was the son of Alexander and Jane Booth Goins.
  • Robert Goins married Peggy (Margaret) Newton who was the daughter of Benjamin Newton and Nancy McCall.
  • The children of Robert Goins and Peggy (Margaret) Newton are listed as follows:
    • Patsey Goins married Charlie Queen.
    • Jane Goins married John Aiken.
    • Nancy Goins married Stephen White.
    • Alfred Newton Goins married Martha Jones on May 20, 1854.

Records naming Robert Goins:

The following are the only original records of Robert Goins I have found from the time he lived:

Rutherford County, N.C. Marriage Bond:
Goans, Robard & Pegah Newton, 3 Mar 1808; Wm. Hunt, bm.
(Source: Holcomb, Brent H., Marriages of Rutherford County, North Carolina, 1779-1868, 1986, p.50)
(PDF images of original marriage bond (PDF File - 620.7 Kbytes))

Lincoln County, N.C. Estate file of John Mull, 1813:
The name "Robert Going" is listed twice in the accounting of the estate taken by Robert Mull in July 1813.
(Source: Lincoln County, NC Estate Records 1735-1914, Motz, Emaline A. - Naugle, George, images 779 & 780, familysearch.org)
(PDF images of original estate file (PDF File - 1.7 Mbytes))

Rutherford County, N.C. Road Docket, July 1814:
The court appointed Henry Wortman overseer of the public road in the room & place of William Steward, Edward Towery, Wm. Downs, Michl. Wortman, Thos. McNeely, Thos. Brackett, henry Wortman, Jas. McNeely, Martin Seesk, Jesse Hills, Jno. McNeely, Alex. Duckworth, Robt. Going, Aaron Devany, Geo. McGlamery Senr., Wm. Silbey, Ephm. Dunlap, Elias Stafford, Geo. McGlammery, George Queen, & Jiles Carter.
(Source: Bulletin of The Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, May 2005, p.76)

Records naming Margaret/Peggy Newton Goins:

The original records I have found naming Margaret/Peggy Newton Goins are as follows:

• Censuses of 1830, 1850, and 1860 (see below).
• Revolutionary War pension application of her father Benjamin Newton (see above).
• Cleveland County NC deed from Margaret Goings & siblings to Smith McCurry (1845) (PDF File - 3.7 Mbytes) - for "all our rights, claims, interest of the estate of the said Benjamin Newton dec'd"

Jane Adkins estate

Jane Goins, one of the children of Robert Goins and Margaret Newton, married John Aikens/Adkins. Both Lorenzo Patterson Newton and Posey Downs indicated that John and Jane left no children. Jane Adkins died having survived her husband and left the following estate file in Cleveland County NC:

• Cleveland County NC estate file of Jane Adkins (1889) (PDF File - 8.4 Mbytes)

4. That A. N. Goins was the brother of the intestate.
and Martha Queen was the sister of the instestate both
of who are now living; that Nancy White dec'd was
another sister of the intestate and the heirs of sad Nancy
White are as follows: W. V. White, Alfred White, Andrew
White, Elizabeth Elmore wife of Ben Elmore, Hulda
Newton wife of Geo. Newton, Fannie Horton wife of Alfred
Horton, Elmina Newton wife of Eli Newton, the child
of Graham White dec'd if any living, and the three children
of Patsey Newton dec'd wife of Eli Newton viz: Graham
and Alfred Newton & Sarah Wortman wife of Arch Wortman
that upon their heirs-at-law land above described descended.

Census Records:

I have not found Robert Goins named in any census entry. But below are the census entries I have found which name Robert's father Alexander Goins, and his wife Margaret/Peggy Goins.

Note that the 1850 census entry for Margaret Gowens (dwelling 1395) includes her apparent children Jane and Albert N [Alfred N] within the household. These are very likely the Jane Adkins and A.N. Goins identified as 2 of the 4 siblings in the Jane Adkins estate file. This provides indirect evidence that Nancy White and Martha Queen were also children of Margaret who had already moved away from home at that time. Nancy White was listed immediately next door to Margaret at that time in the household of her husband Stephen White (dwelling 1394). And Martha Queen was listed nearby in the household of her husband Charles Queen (dwelling 1375).

1800 U.S. Census, Morgan, Rutherford, North Carolina (image 21 of 63):
Alexander Going:
- 1 male 45+
- 1 male 16-25
- 2 males 10-15
- 1 male 0-10
- 1 female 45+
- 2 females 16-25
- 1 female 10 -15
- 2 females 0-10

1810 U.S. Census, Rutherford, North Carolina (image 38 of 128):
Alexander Gowin:
- 1 male 45+
- 1 male 0-10
- 1 female 45+
- 1 female 16-25
- 1 female 0-10

1810: Robert Goins not found

1820 U.S. Census, Rutherford, North Carolina (image 2 of 55):
Alexander Gowin:
- 1 male 45+
- 1 female 45+

1820: Robert Goins not found, but perhaps deceased.  Margaret/Peggy
  is not found either, but is perhaps with her children in the
  household of her father Benjamin Newton.

1830 U.S. Census, Rutherford, North Carolina (image 121 of 180):
Peggy Goan:
- 1 male 10-15
- 1 female 40-50
- 2 females 15-20
(Note: Listed immediately next to Benjamin Newton)

1840: Margaret/Peggy Goins not found

1850 U.S. Census, Cleveland, North Carolina, dwelling 1395 (image 188 of 206):
Margaret Gowens   55   F   NC
Jane Gowens       35   F   NC
Albert N. Gowens  30   M   NC   Farmer
William C. Gowens 13   M   NC
(Note: The family of Stephen (age 46) and Nancy White (age 42) is listed immediately 
next door in dwelling 1394.)

1860 U.S. Census, Cleveland, North Carolina, dwelling 752 (image 106 of 258):
Margret Goins     70   F   NC
(Note: The family of A.N. Goins (age 46) is listed immediately next door in dwelling 751.
The family of Stephen (age 51) and Nancy White (age 50) is listed nearby in dwelling 748.)

Other Notes:

• Robert Goins' date and place of birth are unknown. His date of death is known as 1815 only through the statement of Lorenzo Patterson Newton. We have no statement of where he died, but if he died where his family later lived it would have been in Rutherford County NC, but in the portion that would become Cleveland County NC in 1841.
• Margaret/Peggy Newton's date of birth is known as 19 Oct 1789 through the Revolutionary War pension application of her father Benjamin Newton. No record of her place of birth is known to exist, but it would have probably been in either Lincoln or Rutherford County NC as her father is known to have been in the Tryon County NC region as early as 1777 when he witnessed two deeds (reference Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, N.C. by Brent Holcomb). Tryon County was split into Lincoln and Rutherford Counties in 1779. Margaret's date of death is unknown but it was probably between 1860 and 1870 based on her being listed in the 1860 census and not found in the 1870 census.
• Lorenzo Patterson Newton indicated that Alexander and Robert Goins were buried in the family graveyard known as the "Hull graveyard" then owned by W.H. Hull of Casar. I have not been able to confirm that through any other source and am unable to determine exactly where the graveyard was located.
• Margaret/Peggy Newton's place of burial is unknown. Perhaps she was buried in the Hull graveyard with Robert, or perhaps she was buried at Clover Hill Church near Casar NC where at least two of her children were buried. If she was buried at Clover Hill, she doesn't appear in the listings made of that cemetery by the WPA in 1939 or by W. D. Floyd in 1998.
• Lorenzo Patterson Newton indicated that Alexander Goins fought in the battle of Kings Mountain during the Revolutionary War I have not found any other confirmation of his service. If he died in 1823 as indicated by Newton, he would have died before being eligible for a Revolutionary War pension. No rosters of soldiers were taken at the battle of Kings Mountain, therefore he could have been there but no record of it exists. He is not listed in the rosters that were compiled years after the battle by Katherine Keogh White in 1924 (The Kings Mountain Men) or Bobby Gilmer Moss in 1990 (The Patriots at Kings Mountain).
• Lorenzo Patterson Newton also indicated he had "pension papers" which showed that Robert Goins "enlisted at Morganton, N.C. and served in the war of 1812". I have not found any other confirmation of this service.

Land Records:

Deed indexes for Goins/Goings surname:

• Rutherford County NC grantee deed index for surname Going (PDF File - 4.0 Mbytes)
• Rutherford County NC grantor deed index for surname Going (PDF File - 6.9 Mbytes)
• Cleveland County NC grantee deed index for surname Goins (PDF File - 1.2 Mbytes)
• Cleveland County NC grantor deed index for surname Goins (PDF File - 1.7 Mbytes)

Selected deeds for Goins/Goings surname:

• Rutherford County NC deed from James Huddleston to Alexandar Going (1796) (PDF File - 2.3 Mbytes) - 200 acres on Wards Creek
• Rutherford County NC deed from Alexandar Gowan to Robert Wells (1818) (PDF File - 2.5 Mbytes) - 200 acres on Wards Creek, witnessed by Hugh Gowan

Other Family Records:

The following record naming Nancy Gowen is probably Nancy Newton (sister of Margaret/Peggy Newton Goins) who married Daniel Goins (brother of Robert Goins):

Rutherford County, N.C. Estates, Orphans, and Others, July 1820:
On motion ordered by court that the sheriff bring into our next county court three children of Polly Newtons, two children of Nancy Gowen, two children of Robert Jones, three children of Jainne Johnstons one child of Nancy Sils nine children of Mildred Hamlin in order that the court may proceed to bind them out.
(Source: Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, May 2005, p.69)

Here are some other records relating to Robert Goins's son Alfred Newton Goins:

• Newspaper article naming A.N. Goins of Cleveland County NC - Raleigh, N.C. The Weekly Standard, 18 Mar 1868 - A.N. Goins is among individuals from Cleveland County NC to be submitted in petition to the U.S. Congress requesting removal of his disqualification to hold office under the 14th amendment.
• Letter of A.N. Goins (1871) (PDF File - 2.2 Mbytes) - from the miscellaneous records of Cleveland County NC housed at the NC State Archives (CR.026.928.005) - A.N. Goins starts the letter "Dear father & mother", but this is probably a letter to his father-in-law and mother-in-law to update them on the health of his wife Martha.
• Headstone application for A.N. Goins (1930) (PDF File - 1.0 Mbytes) - this is an application to the War Department for a headstone for A.N. Goins that was submitted 30 years after his death. It indicates he served in Company E of the 32nd Regiment of North Carolina. This is likely the headstone that is in place at Clover Hill Church near Casar in Cleveland County NC (see findagrave.com entry). The only other mention I have found of his Civil War service is Lorenzo Patterson Newton's statement that "Newt Goins was one of the guards of Federal prisoners at Salisbury during the Civil War".

Sources:

1. "Abstracts from a 1906 Defense of the Heritage of Patterson Lorenzo Newton", Bulletin of The Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, Forest City, NC. Fall 2016, p.136-141. [ p.137: Contains extensive information on the family of Robert Goins. Served in War of 1812. Married Peggy Newton, daughter of Capt. Ben Newton. Children Patsy, Jane, Nancy, and Alfred Newton Goins. Died in 1815 and buried in Hull Graveyard. ]
2. Downs, Posey E. The Captain Benjamin Newton - William Downs and Other Lineage History. Salemburg, NC: Privately Printed. 1954. 374 pages. [ p.134-152: Contains an extensive listing of the descendants of Robert Goins and Margaret Peggy Newton. ]