Warren County GaArchives Biographies.....Goza Johnson, Frances (Fanny) 1796 - March 13, 1876 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Hardwick Johnson hsjohnsonjr@yahoo.com July 23, 2015, 10:47 am Source: Hardwick Smith Johnson, Jr., EdD Author: Hardwick Smith Johnson, Jr., EdD Parentage of Frances Goza of Warren County, Georgia Who Married Reese Johnson Compiled by Hardwick Smith Johnson, Jr., EdD (2015) Reviewed by Nathan W. Murphy, MA, A.G. (Accredited Genealogist) (2015) Professional Genealogist https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/User:Murphynw http://www.pricegen.com/about-us/nathan-murphy/ United States and Canada Senior Research Consultant, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT Specialist in Colonial American and English Genealogy ================================================== Frances Goza, “Fanny” is used interchangeably in the official records, was born circa 1796 in Georgia (age 50 in the U. S. Census for Warren County, Georgia for 1850; age 74 in the U. S. Census for Warren County, Georgia for 1870). She married Reese Johnson 29 February 1816 in Warren County, Georgia (Warren County Marriages 1811 – 1825, p. 83) where Reese died 28 October 1836 leaving a will. Reese was born circa 1792 in Southampton County, Virginia. (Warren County, Georgia Wills 1829 – 1853, pp. 61 & 62; John Smith Johnson [his grandson] Family Bible Record; Johnson, p. 137; Webster, p. 279-280). Frances died 13 March 1876 (Webster, p. 284, Johnson, p. 137, John Smith Johnson [her grandson] Family Bible Record;).Frances’ parentage has long puzzled researchers. There were nine Goza men in the area who could have been her father. In 1957 Mrs. Fredonia Maddox Webster (Webster, p. 279), a great granddaughter of Frances Goza Johnson theorized that Frances’ father could have been William Goza because the families of Frances and her husband Reese Johnson owned land in the same area and they would have grown up knowing each other. In 2009 Hubert H. McAlexander, PhD (McAlexander, et al, p. 214) theorized that Frances’ father was probably William Goza and that her mother may have been a “Fontaine,” because two of the Goza men in the area had married Fontaine sisters, and one of Frances’ sons was given the middle name “Fountain.” Recently a Warren County, Georgia lawsuit, The Suit,” among the heirs of Solomon Newsom (died 16 February 1803) (see next paragraph) begun in 1818, unknown to McAlexander or Webster at the time, was discovered that identifies Frances’ mother as Nancy [Newsom] Goza, a daughter of Solomon Newsom (died 16 February 1803). Frances’ maternal grandfather, Solomon Newsom, as well as Frances’ husband Reese Johnson, and her siblings, are also identified in The Suit. But which of the Goza men in the area at the time (1790s) was Nancy [Newsom] Goza’s husband and Frances’ father? Recent findings discovered by Chad S. Williams of Atlanta, Georgia, a descendant of John Newsom, a son of Solomon Newsom by his previously unknown first wife, in the very lengthy court cases involving the estate of Solomon Newsom, Sr. (died 16 February 1803), of Warren County, Georgia, have helped prove that Nancy Newsom, Olive Newsom, and Sarah “Sally” Newsom were the daughters of Solomon Newsom, Sr. The proof is found in the lawsuit “The Suit” (Warren Co, GA Writ Book J, p. 254-271[see photocopy and abstract of the entire suit included with this report]) between three of the four children of Solomon Newsom by his second marriage, Martha Newsom, Joshua Newsom, James Carter (husband of Ailey Newsom) and Jeremiah Burkhalter (guardian of Elizabeth Newsom) and Asa Newsom, the current administrator of the estate of Solomon Newsom, Sr. The suit lists as co-defendants of Asa Newsom many heirs of Solomon Newsom including Olive Moon, “one of the children from the first marriage of Solomon Newsom”. Later added as defendants were: also William Hogan (for his wife Narcissa Goza), William Scrimpshire (for his wife, Theresa), Reese Johnson (for his wife Fanny Gozey), Penelope Gozey, Polly Gozey, and Isaiah Gozey, “heirs and distributees of Nancy Gozey, deceased, which said Nancy Gozey was one of the distributes & children of the said Solomon Newsom” from his first marriage. Also added as a co-defendant was “Edward Harris, for his wife Sally Newsom”. To reiterate all of this all of the above mentioned heirs were also mentioned in a1823-1824 lawsuit as heirs of Solomon Newsom, Sr (Warren Co, GA Writ Book J, p. 254-271). Solomon Newsom (born circa 1845, died 16 February 1803 in Warren County, Georgia) married first Jane White, widow of John Plowman White, in South Carolina between 26 July 1770 and 07 January 1772 (South Carolina Court of Ordinary Journal, 1764-1771, Estate of John Ploughman White, pp. 110b, 112b, 115b and 132 b; 1772: Leroy Hammond and James Jackson vs. Solomon Newsom and Jane, his wife, Jane Newsom, otherwise lately called Jane White, administratrix of John Plowman White in Judgment Rolls, Court of Common Pleas, Series S136002, Box 94A, Item 244A). Solomon married second Elizabeth, whose maiden name is not known, by 26 May 1798 when Solomon, and his second wife Elizabeth, who released her right of dower in the land, deeded a portion of his primary plantation to William Goza, (Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, p. 422-423; Dorman, p. 166). The Suit [Warren Co, GA Writ Book J, pp. 254-271] establishes that Reese Johnson’s wife was Frances Goza and, in turn, that she was the daughter of Nancy (Newsom) Goza, daughter of Solomon Newsom, of Warren County, Georgia, by his first marriage. That record does not, however, provide the name of Nancy’s husband. Needless to say, the surname Goza was quite rare at this time and place. The name is sometimes pronounced “Gozey” or “Gozy to rhyme with cosy.” Research of Hubert H. McAlexander, PhD, a descendant of Joshua Goza, in his book, Francis Fontaine the Builder ( pp.214 -218) has documented six men of this rare surname who appear to be of the same generation, theorized to be brothers due to the naming and settlement patterns, and are, thus, potential candidates to be Nancy (Newsom) Goza’s husband. He identified three additional men of this rare surname who he theorized to be cousins of the first six, who are less likely to be potential candidates to be Nancy (Newsom) Goza’s husband. All nine first appear in the records of Warren County, Georgia between 1791 and 1805. Five of the Goza men moved to Warren Co. GA by and/or between 1791 and 1794, when they all appear on that county’s tax roll: William (1791), Joshua (1791), Thomas (1793), John (1793), and Martin (1794). William and his apparent brother Joshua Goza were found in the 1791 Wilkes County Census, which was comprised of the Tax Digests, in an area that is now identified as the 153rd district of Warren County, Georgia and encompassed all the land south and east of Warrenton with lands on the waters of Brier Creek, Little Brier Creek, Deep Creek and Rocky Comfort Creek (Hudson, p. 10). The entire area was put into the newly created Warren County in 1793 and the same tax payers can be found in Capt. Trant’s District in the 1794 Warren County Tax Digest. Only four of the apparent brothers were listed on the 1794 tax list: William, Joshua, Thomas and John. Martin had already left the state and settled in South Carolina (see following) by 1800. A sixth, Aaron, appears ten years later than the last of the first five men and appears on the tax list for 1804. A study of these apparent brothers reveals that they all, with the exception of William Goza, whose daughters married in Warren County, Georgia as late as 1819, and Thomas who appears to have never owned land and to have died unmarried leaving no family, had left Warren County, Georgia by 1807 and begin appearing in the records of Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi and other states with their families as summarized later in this report. Three other Goza men, Elijah, James and Peter, who are theorized to be related, possibly cousins, to the earlier Goza men, appear in 1805 and are less likely to be the husband of Nancy Newsom Goza, or the father of the six Goza children named in the 1818 lawsuit who were born in Georgia in the 1790s, marry and move away from Warren County, Georgia with their families by 1808 and reappeared in the records of Mississippi, Missouri and Arkansas. Of the first six, and the latter three Goza men, extant records provide strong circumstantial evidence that it was William Goza who was Nancy [Newsom] Goza’s husband and the father of her children named in the 1818 Newsom family lawsuit: First, unlike the other Goza males, it was only William who had documented continuous associations with the Newsom family, in that: 1) In the 1791 Wilkes (later Warren) County, Georgia Tax Digest William Goza was living in District PP adjacent to and in the midst of the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family: Solomon Newsom, Sr., Solomon Newsom, Jr., Carter Newsom, Frederick Newsom, John Newson, Jr., and Joseph D. Newsom. It is very likely that William Goza had already married Solomon Newsom, Sr.’s daughter, Nancy at that time based on the birth of Nancy’s eldest daughter Narcissa. (Hudson, F. P. (1988). A 1790 census for Wilkes Co., GA Prepared from Tax Returns). 2) In 1794 he was living adjacent to and in the midst of the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family: Solomon Newsom, Sr., John Newsom, Sr., William Goza, John Newsom, Jr., Frederick Newsom (Warren County, Georgia 1794 Tax Digest, p. 37). He had likely already married Solomon’s daughter Nancy at that time based on the birth of Nancy’s eldest daughter Narcissa. 3) he acquired land from Solomon Newsom in which a portion of Newsom’s primary plantation was conveyed to him [William Goza purchased 108 acres of land in Warren County, Georgia from Solomon Newsom,Sr. on 26 May 1798 (Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, p. 237) On 26 May 1798 Solomon Newsom, Sr. sold to William Goza, both of Warren County, for $300, 302 acres in Warren County, with 108 of it being part of the 687.5 acre tract that was granted to Solomon Newsom by Governor Jared Irwin on 15 April 1797, Recorded in State Land Grant Book folio 502 on 22 April 1797. 180 of the 302 acres adjoins the SW corner of the said 687.5 acres. An additional 194 acres, as already run off, cut out of the SW corner of a 400 acres tract of land, granted to Solomon Newsom by Gov. John Houston, 15 July 1784, registered in the state Land Grant Book DDD, folio 156 on 14 July 1784. Signed: Solomon Newsom Witness: Benjamin Burton [sic Bruton] and James McCormick, Justices of the Peace, Elizabeth Newsom, wife of the above named Solomon Newsom, for $1.00, do hereby Exonerate and quit claim unto the above named William Goza, all my right of dower, for the above mentioned 302 acres, which I am entitled by law. Signed: Elizabeth Newsom. Transcribed from the original book D, folio 192-3 & 4 on 08 July 1853. [Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, p. 422-423]; 4) he sold the previously mentioned 302 acres of land to Solomon Newsom, Jr on 20 November 1804. 5) he was a purchaser of multiple goods (cattle and farm implements) at the 09 February 1804 sale of the estate of Solomon Newsom along with other family members (Warren County, Georgia Inventories, Appraisements and Amounts of Sales 1794-1808, pp. 118 – 119) and, 6) he is mentioned in the estate papers and was paid $87.00 from the estate of Solomon Newsom on 06 May 1806. Further, this conclusion is supported by the documented histories of the other Goza males, seven of which are documented to have had wives with names other than Nancy and to have left Georgia while Nancy Newsom Goza’s children were still in Georgia and married there after the other families had migrated. The ninth, Thomas, had no known association with the Solomon Newsom family, appears to have died unmarried, owning no land, and disappears from the records after 1806 leaving no record of a family. Further, Reese & Frances Johnson named a son William Goza Johnson. This William’s son William R.Dawson Johnson, named a son William Goza Johnson, carrying the name down to the fourth generation from Reese and Frances, and to the fifth generation from William Goza. Further, Reese & Frances Goza Johnson’ daughter Emily named a son William Goza Johnson, carrying the name down to the third generation from Reese and Frances, and to the fourth generation from William Goza. Following careful, comprehensive research and analysis of all extant records regarding the Goza men who appear in the records of early Wilkes and Warren Counties, Georgia between 1791 and 1805, as well as their emigration to Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi and South Carolina, a detailed summary of all known facts about each, beginning with Joshua and ending with William, follows. 1. Joshua Goza (c1770 – 1834) first appears in the Wilkes County, Georgia tax digest of 1791 with his apparent brother William Goza (Hudson, p. 37). He married circa 1798 to Elizabeth Fontaine, a sister of Mary, and a daughter of Francis Fontaine III and Jemima Johnson. On 01 November 1799 in Warren County, Georgia, the widow of Francis Fontaine, III, Jemima and her second husband, Benjamin Bruton, recorded a document signed by Nathan Bruton, John Goza and Joshua Goza as heirs of Francis Fontaine, III, acknowledging receiving their shares of his estate (Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, pp. 522-23). The family Bible of Joshua Goza’s grandson, Samuel Dupuy Goza, and his wife, Mary Eliza Pickett, in the possession of Mrs. Aaron Fontaine Goza of Rosedale, Mississippi, states that Major Aaron Goza was the son of Joshua Goza and “Elizabeth” Fontaine. The Bible was published in New York by Harper & Brothers in 1846. This Bible record, together with the Warren County Deed Book A entry naming Joshua Goza as Francis Fontaine’s heir by marriage, proves that his wife was “Elizabeth” Fontaine. He registered for the 1807 state land lottery in Newsom’s Dist. in Warren County as Joshua Goza, Sr. to distinguish himself from a younger cousin, son of Aaron Goza of South Carolina. In fall of 1807 Joshua led a family party to that part of the Louisiana Purchase designated “Upper Louisiana” and later Missouri Territory. In Cape Girardeau Co., Missouri until 1815, he settled on Bayou Pierre, Claiborne County, Mississippi Territory. His estate papers there (File G #5 and Will Book P, p. 324) establish his children: John, Aaron, William, George Washington, James Madison, Ann (Nancy) Fontaine, Benjamin Franklin, and Mary Narcissa Other than purchasing one chest at the 09 February 1804 sale of goods from the estate, Joshua had no other known association with the family of Solomon Newsom, Sr. (McAlexander et al, pp, 55, 214-218). 2. Thomas Goza (circa 1768 – living 1806) was listed as a tax defaulter in the 1793 Wilkes County tax digest and served on the Warren County petit jury in 1806 (Warren County Minute Book A, p. 276). No other records have been found regarding him. He disappears from the records appearing to have owned no land and having had no wife or family. (McAlexander et al, pp 214-218). Thomas had no known association with the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family. 3. John Goza (c 1769 – 1853) first appears in the Wilkes County, Georgia tax digest and 02 October 1793 militia roll as private, 2nd Co., 1st Bat, 4th Reg (Book of Militia Rolls, 1784 – 1815). He served on the Warren County petit jury 13 March 1797 (Minute Book A), and married circa 1795 Mary Fontaine, a daughter of Francis Fontaine III and Jemima Johnson. On 01 November 1799 in Warren County, Georgia, the widow of Francis Fontaine, III, Jemima and her second husband, Benjamin Bruton recorded a document signed by Nathan Bruton, John Goza and Joshua Goza as heirs of Francis Fontaine, III, acknowledging receiving their shares of his estate (Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, pp. 522-23). An indenture dated December 19, 1835 and recorded 06 September 1836, in Claiborne County, Mississippi, Deed Book P, pages 569-571, documents a deed from “John Goza and Mary, his wife” to their daughter Amy. This document, providing John’s wife’s name as Mary, coupled with the Warren County, GA, record in Deed Book A, p. 532, naming John Goza as Francis Fontaine’s heir by marriage (dated October 4, 1799, recorded November 1, 1799), proves that his wife was “Mary” Fontaine. In 1807 he joined the Goza party bound for Cape Girardeau County, Missouri Territory. By 1816 he was in Lawrence County (soon Arkansas Territory), and by 1822 in Claiborne County, Mississippi. His Copiah County, Mississippi estate papers (Box G1) establish seven children: Frances (1796- living 1830) married James Walters, Francis Fontaine 1798-1850/3) married 1st Isabella Harvey, Falby (1801-living 1860) married Rev. Adam Kuykendall, Jr., Michael (died 1836, posited as child), Hiram (1809-1853) married Ann Caroline Gibson, Malinda married William D. Murphy, Rev. George Washington (1817-1857) married 1st Rebecca Caroline Walker, and Miranda (1820-1850/3) married David E. Sheffield (McAlexander et al, pp. 49, 55, 214-218). He had no known association with the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family. 4. Martin Goza (circa 1772 – 1834), the most restless member of a restless family, appears in the following records: He appears on the 1793 – 94 Wilkes County, Georgia tax digests and on a 1793 receipt in the estate papers of Ebenezer Starnes given by “Martain Goza or Gozee” for paying Thomas Bohannon for a hunting saddle for Mrs. Starnes. All receipts were signed Columbia County (Early Records of Wilkes County, Georgia, comp. by Grace Gilliam). He appears on the 1800 South Carolina Census in Edgefield County as Martin Gosey: one female 16-26, one male 26-45, one female under 10, one female 16-26. “Wallis Gosey” is written in the margin (p. 139). On 14 February, Martin Gozia wit. the Will of John Reese (Will Book A, p. 191). He is listed 14 April – 28 May 1814 on the Washington County, Georgia militia as Martin Goza, Lt., 99th Dist. (Washington County). Between 1820 and 1822 Martin joined his brothers on Bayou Pierre, Claiborne County, Mississippi where he had slave deaths reported on birth/mortality schedules. His estate papers, filed by his son-in-law William McClure on 12 August 1834, list twenty slaves (File G #5). His personal property (div four lots) sold 19 December to Amy Goza, Joshua Goza, William McClure, and Lucinda Hatcher. Martin’s widow, Mrs. Amy Goza (File G #6), her heirs, two minor children of Joshua Goza, daughter of Lucinda Hatcher, and wife of William McClure, again administrator. Three children: Joshua Goza, Lucinda Goza Hatcher, and Sara Goza McClure. (McAlexander et al, pp. 214-218). He had no known association with the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family. 5. Aaron Goza (c 1775/80 – 1830), his apparent brother, Wit. William Goza’s 20 November 1804 Warren County, Georgia deed (Warren County Deed Book B, pp. 323- 63). Census data for his children show that Aaron had settled in Missouri by 1816. Early in 1819 he signed an Arkansas Territory petition (Carter, C. E. (ed.). Territorial Papers of the U. S., Vol. 19 ‘Territory of Arkansas’ 1819 – 1825.” He appears in the Claiborne County, Mississippi censuses of 1820 and1830. On 27 December 1830 Aaron’s widow, Mary Goza, his brother Martin Goza, and nephew John Goza, Jr. (son of Joshua Goza and Elizabeth Fontaine) made bond as his administrators (Claiborne Probate File G # 7). Estate papers note he had eight slaves and was father of eight children, two already dead. His widow Mary is listed in the 1840 Claiborne County census. The six children named in estate papers in both Claiborne and Copiah County (Probate File G) are: James Webster, Joshua D., Palina, Nancy F., Elizabeth W. and William A. (McAlexander et al, pp. 214-218). Other than witnessing the 1804 sale of land by William Goza to Solomon Newsom, Jr., he had no known association with the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family. Other Early Gozas in the Warren County, Georgia Region in 1805 (saving William Goza for last for clarity), the numbering of the Goza men continues with 6. 6. Elijah Goza (c 1780 – 1820s), was possibly a first cousin. He is listed in the 1805 Warren County tax digest and 1805 Georgia land lottery in Washington County, Georgia. On 19 February 1808 he married Hixey Avent in Warren County, Georgia (Warren County, Georgia First Marriage Book 1794 – 1814, p. 27). She appears in the 1830 Cape Girardeau, Missouri census with one son 10/15, one daughter 10/15, and one daughter 5/10. There is another Elijah Goza (c 1805 – 1826/31) who married Winifred C. Elliott in Claiborne County, Mississippi on 02 May 1826. (McAlexander et al, pp 214-218). He had no known association with the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family. 7. James Goza (c 1780s – living 1844), was possibly a first cousin. He is listed in the 1805 Warren County, Georgia tax digest. He married circa 1810 either in Georgia or Missouri to Mary (Polly) Hand, daughter of William and Sarah Hand (Cape Girardeau Deed Book D, p. 142, H, p. 153 and L, p. 140). James Goza was in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri by 1815. His four known children are: Louisa, Jackson, John and Lucinda (McAlexander et al, pp 214-218). He had no known association with the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family. 8. Peter Goza, who appears in the 1805 Warren County tax digest, and Joshua Goza, who registered in Washington County, Georgia for the 1807 land lottery, are the sons of Aaron Goza (c1754-1804/7) of Fairfield, South Carolina, and thus more distant cousins of the six apparent Goza brothers (McAlexander et al, pp 214-218). Peter Goza married Elizabeth “Betsy” Matthews (circa 1777 – 16 December 1865), a daughter of Benjamin Matthews and Elizabeth Sauls, in Georgia circa 1801. Peter was mentioned in the 1801 Warren County, Georgia Tax Digest (p. 16) when his taxes were paid for him by his father-in-law. Benjamin Matthews was taxed on 350 acres of land “for Peter Goza”. Peter and his wife moved back to Fairfield County, South Carolina shortly after 1805. In 1818 they moved, along with other Goza relatives, to Claiborne County, Mississippi, then to Cape Girardeau County, Missouri Territory, returning through Tennessee back to Chester County, SC by the 1820 Census. Peter died just before the Census of 1840 and Elizabeth moved to Hot Springs County, Arkansas about 1845 where her son Mark lived. In the Census of 1860 she was 83, living with her son Mark, and her occupation was listed as “knitter.” Her descendants always listed her maiden name as “Mathis.” She died in Hot Springs, Arkansas 16 December 1865. (The Goodspeed History of Southern Arkansas [1890]; and http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Matthews-3270). Peter had no known association with the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family. 9. William Goza, having accounted for and eliminated all of the others, is the only one of the Goza men who appear in the early records of Warren County, Georgia who could have been the husband of Nancy [Newsom]Goza, daughter of Solomon Newsom, and fathered the six Goza children born to Nancy [Newsom] Goza from circa 1792 to 1802. William was born circa 1765, based on the birth of Nancy’s first child Narcissa, was living in 1806 and died before the 1818 Newsom family lawsuit. Nancy [Newsom] Goza, born circa 1765-70, based on the birth of her first child and died before the 1818 Newsom family lawsuit. It is likely that William married Nancy Newsom by 1791, based on the age of Nancy’s first child when William appears on the Wilkes County, Georgia Tax Digest living adjacent to in the midst of the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family (Hudson, p. 37 ). Given that four of William and Nancy [Newsom] Goza’s daughters were married in Georgia: Narcissa in 1807 (Washington County), Theresa and Frances (Fanny) in 1816 (Warren County), and Penelope in 1819 (Warren County), it is reasonable to theorize that William and Nancy [Newsom] Goza died in Georgia. The following strong circumstantial evidence proves that the said William Goza married Nancy Newsom, daughter of Solomon Newsom, in Wilkes (now Warren) County, Georgia and is the father of the six Nancy [Newsom] Goza heirs born circa 1792 through 1802 in Wilkes (now Warren County) Georgia. First, unlike the other Goza males, it was only William who had a continuous, over many years, documented association with the Solomon Newsom family, in that: 1) in the 1791 Wilkes (later Warren) County, Georgia Tax Digest William Goza was living in District PP adjacent to and in the midst of the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family: Solomon Newsom, Sr., Solomon Newsom, Jr., Carter Newsom, Frederick Newsom, John Newson, Jr., and Joseph D. Newsom. It is very likely that William Goza had already married Solomon Newsom, Sr.’s daughter, Nancy by this time based on the birth of Nancy’s eldest daughter Narcissa. (Hudson, F. P. (1988). A 1790 census for Wilkes Co., GA Prepared from Tax Returns). 2) in 1794 he was living adjacent to and in the midst of the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family: Solomon Newsom, Sr., John Newsom, Sr., William Goza, John Newsom, Jr., Frederick Newsom (Warren County, Georgia 1794 Tax Digest. He had likely already married Solomon’s daughter Nancy at this time based on the birth of Nancy’s eldest daughter Narcissa. 3) he acquired land from Solomon Newsom in which a portion of Newsom’s primary plantation was conveyed to him. William Goza purchased 108 acres of land in Warren County, Georgia from Solomon Newsom,Sr. on 26 May 1798 (Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, p. 237). On 26 May 1798 Solomon Newsom, Sr. sold to William Goza, both of Warren County, for $300, 302 acres in Warren County, with 108 of it being part of the 687.5 acre tract that was granted to Solomon Newsom by Governor Jared Irwin on 15 April 1797, Recorded in State Land Grant Book folio 502 on 22 April 1797. 180 of the 302 acres adjoins the SW corner of the said 687.5 acres. An additional 194 acres, as already run off, cut out of the SW corner of a 400 acres tract of land, granted to Solomon Newsom by Gov. John Houston, 15 July 1784, registered in the state Land Grant Book DDD, folio 156 on 14 July 1784. Signed: Solomon Newsom Witness: Benjamin Burton [sic Bruton] and James McCormick, Justices of the Peace, Elizabeth Newsom, wife of the above named Solomon Newsom, for $1.00, do hereby Exonerate and quit claim unto the above named William Goza, all my right of dower, for the above mentioned 302 acres, which I am entitled by law. Signed: Elizabeth Newsom. Transcribed from the original book D, folio 192-3 & 4 on 08 July 1853. [Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, p. 422-423; 4) he sold the previously mentioned 302 acres of land to Solomon Newsom, Jr on 20 November 1804., 5) he was a purchaser of multiple goods (cattle and farm implements) at the 09 February1804 sale of the estate of Solomon Newsom along with other family members (Warren County, Georgia Inventories, Appraisements and Amounts of Sales 1794-1808, pp. 118 – 119); and 6) he is mentioned in the estate papers and on 06 May 1806 was paid $87.00 from the estate of Solomon Newsom. Further, this conclusion is supported by the documented histories of the other Goza males, seven of which are documented to have had wives with names other than Nancy and to have left Georgia while Nancy [Newsom] Goza’s children were still in Georgia, and married there after the other families had migrated. The eighth, Thomas, had no known association with the Solomon Newsom family, appears to have died unmarried, owning no land, and disappears from the records after 1806. Further, Reese & Frances Johnson named a son William Goza Johnson. This William’s son ,William R.Dawson Johnson, named a son William Goza Johnson, thus carrying the name down to the fourth generation from Reese and Frances, and to the fifth generation from William Goza. Further, Reese & Frances Goza Johnson’ daughter Emily named a son William Goza Johnson, thus carrying the name down to the third generation from Reese and Frances, and to the fourth generation from William Goza. Known facts regarding William Goza: William Goza is listed in all of the Warren County, Georgia Tax digests from 1791 – 1805, the last published list until the 1818 digest from which he is missing (Hudson, p. 37, Crumpton (2002), pp. 151, 175, & 226; McAlexander, p. 214). William Goza and his apparent brother Joshua, first appear on the 1791 Wilkes (later Warren) County, Georgia Tax Digest living in District PP adjacent to and in the midst of the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family: Solomon Newsom, Sr., Solomon Newsom, Jr., Carter Newsom, Frederick Newsom, John Newson, Jr., and Joseph D. Newsom. It is very likely that William Goza had already married Solomon Newsom, Sr.’s daughter, Nancy by this time based on the birth of Nancy’s eldest daughter Narcissa. (Hudson, F. P. (1988). A 1790 census for Wilkes Co., GA Prepared from Tax Returns). William Goza was taxed in 1793, with his apparent brother Joshua, in Capt. [Joday] Newsome’s [brother of Nancy Newsom Goza and recognizable as William’s brother-in-law] District (Blair, p. 281). William Goza was taxed in 1794 in Capt. Trant’s District (Crumpton (2002), p. 151). William Goza, in 1794, was living adjacent to and in the midst of the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family: Solomon Newsom, Sr., John Newsom, Sr., William Goza, John Newsom, Jr., Frederick Newsom (Warren County, Georgia 1794 Tax Digest in Crumpton [2002], p. 151). William Goza purchased 108 acres of land in Warren County, Georgia from Solomon Newsom, Sr. on 26 May 1798 (Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, p. 237). On 26 May 1798 Solomon Newsom, Sr. sold to William Goza, both of Warren County, for $300, 302 acres in Warren County, with 108 of it being part of the 687.5 acre trace that was granted to Solomon Newsom by Governor Jared Irwin on 15 April 1797, Recorded in State Land Grant Book folio 502 on 22 April 1797. 180 of the 302 acres adjoin the SW corner of the said 687.5 acres. An additional 194 acres, as already run off, cut out of the SW corner of a 400 acres tract of land, granted to Solomon Newsom by Gov. John Houston, 15 July 1784, registered in the state Land Grant Book DDD, folio 156 on 14 July 1784. Signed: Solomon Newsom Witness: Benjamin Burton [sic Bruton] and James McCormick, Justices of the Peace, Elizabeth Newsom, wife of the above named Solomon Newsom, for $1.00, do hereby Exonerate and quit claim unto the above named William Goza, all my right of dower, for the above mentioned 302 acres, which I am entitled by law. Signed: Elizabeth Newsom (Solomon’s second wife). Transcribed from the original book D, folio 192-3 & 4 on 08 July 1853. (Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, p. 422-423). On 10 January 1801, William Goza bought 380 acres from James Bush. Witnessed by Joedy Newsom (Nancy Newsom Goza’s brother) and James McCormick, J. P. (Warren County, Georgia Deed B, pp. 1 – 2). William Goza appears on the Warren County, Georgia Petit Jury list in 1802 (Warren County, Georgia Minute Book A, p. 237). William Goza was one of the purchasers of multiple goods (cattle and farm implements), on 09 February 1804 along with other Newsom family members, at the sale of goods of the estate of Solomon Newsom, Sr.[ recognizable as his father- in-law], late of Warren County, by David Nusom on 04 November 1804 (Inventory and Appraisement Bk 1794 – 1808, pp. 117 – 119). On 20 November 1804 William Goza, Blacksmith, sold to Solomon Newsom, Jr. [recognizable as his brother-in-law], 302 acres originally granted to Solomon Newsom, Sr. [recognizable as his father-in-law]. Witnessed by Aaron (apparent brother) Goza, and Joeday Newsom (Warren County, Georgia Deed Book B, pp. 362 – 363). William Goza was taxed, in 1805, in Capt. Joday Newsom’s [Nancy’s brother and recognizable as William’s brother-in-law] District, 1 poll, 380 ½ acres on Rocky Comfort Creek. (William Johnson’s [later Frances Goza Johnson’s husband’s grandfather] land was also on Rocky Comfort Creek, where Frances Goza and Reese Johnson would have met, socialized and known each other as young people (Crumpton, [2002], p. 226). William Goza registered for the 1805 Georgia land Lottery from Capt. Joday Newsom’s District in Warren County, Georgia (Graham, p. 209). William Goza was paid $87.00 from the estate of Solomon Newsom on 06 March 1806 (Warren County, Georgia Annual Return Bk 1798 – 1811, pp. 156-157). William Goza appears to have died between 06 March 1806 and the beginning of the Newsom Family lawsuit in 1818 in Warren County, Georgia. He does not appear to have migrated to the Louisiana Territory with the other Goza men and their families in 1807 as he does not appear in any of the extant records there as do the other Goza men and their families. William and Nancy [Newsom] Goza appear to have remained in Georgia where four of the daughters Narcissa (1807) (Washington County), Theresa and Frances (1816) (Warren County), and Penelope (1819) (Warren County) were married (see following detailed accounts). The children would have ranged in age from 15 (Narcissa) to 9 (Polly and Isaiah) in 1807 when Narcissa married in Warren County. No record has been found to indicate that Polly and Isaiah had been orphaned at that time. The Newsom family lawsuit proves that Nancy [Newsom] Goza was deceased by 1818. Her husband is not mentioned and is, thus, also assumed deceased by that time. William Goza also does not appear in the Warren County, Georgia 1818 Warren County, Georgia Tax Digest or the 1820 Warren County, Georgia Census. No probate records have been found for him or for Nancy in Warren County, Georgia or in the Louisiana Territory. The eldest daughter, Narcissa, moved to Washington Parish, Lousiana in 1811 but returned to Warren County, Georgia by 1818 when she was a party to the Newsom family lawsuit. Another daughter, Frances, moved to Lousiana shortly after her Warren County, Georgia marriage in 1816 to Reese Johnson (see account following), probably to be near her sister Narcissa, and was living there when her son William Goza Johnson was born in 1817 (per his report in the 1850 Census of Warren County, Georgia). Frances had returned to Warren County, Georgia by 1818 when she was named in the Newsom family lawsuit and where she and husband Reese Johnson appear in the 1820 and 1830 Warren County, Georgia Census living adjacent to and in the midst of his brothers. Children of William and Nancy (Newsom) Goza: All of William and Nancy [Newsom] Goza’s living children are named in the previously referenced lengthy 1818 – 1824 series of law suits between the children and grandchildren of Solomon Newsom Sr.’s first and second marriages. William and Nancy [Newsom] Goza’s children were, in order as they appear in the law suit: 1. Narcissa Goza, born circa 1792 (age 53 in 1850 U. S. Census of Washington Parish, Louisiana, p. 465 A), in Wilkes (later Warren) County, Georgia, named as an heir of Nancy Goza, formerly Newsom, a daughter of Solomon Newsom (Warren Co, GA Writ Book J, p. 254-271), died in 1868 in Washington Parish, Louisiana. She married William Hogan 22 October 1807 in Washington County, Georgia. An 1811 Georgia passport issued for William Hogan’s party included two women and one child to travel to Louisiana. He was captain, 12th and 13th combined regiments, St. Tammany Parish in the War of 1812. They moved to Washington Parish, Louisiana where on 06 July 1859, Narcissa Goza Hogan made application (#91,189) for a land grant on the basis of his military service. Narcissa died in 1868 and was buried in Varnado Cemetery in Wilmer, Louisiana. Narcissa and William had the following children: Eliza (1809 GA), Susannah, Tabitha, Narcissa, William Ira (1831-1921), a namesake for her father, Daniel (1833), Malinda, and Frances (1838), a namesake for her sister, (McAlexander, p. 214). 2. Theresa Goza, born circa 1794 in Warren County, Georgia, died before 21 December 1839 in Georgia. She was named as an heir of Nancy Goza, formerly Newsom, a daughter of Nancy Newsom (Warren Co, GA Writ Book J, p. 254-271). Theresa married William B. Schrimpshire 05 April 1816 in Warren County, Georgia (Warren County, Georgia Marriage Book 1825 – 1811, p. 114), as his 2nd wife., who married 3rd in Stewart County, Georgia 21 December 1839 to Eliza Duckworth. Theresa and William’s seven children were: George Washington (1818), Willis Brown (1821), Frances (1825), Isaiah Franklin (1827), Andrew Jackson (1830), Penelope (1831), and Nancy (1836), a namesake for her mother, (see Schrimpshire entry in East Georgia Settlers [2008]; and (McAlexander et al, p. 214). 3. Frances Goza was born circa 1796 (age 50 in the U. S. Census of 1850 for Warren County, Georgia, p. 165B; age 74 in the U. S. Census for Warren County, Georgia for 1870, p.142B), died 13 March 1876 in Warren County, Georgia. She was named as an heir of Nancy Goza, formerly Newsom, a daughter of Solomon Newsom in the 1818 Newsom family lawsuit (Warren Co, GA Writ Book J, p. 254- 271). Frances married Reese Johnson 29 February 1816 in Warren County, Georgia (Warren County, Georgia Marriage Book 1825 – 1811, p. 83). Reese Johnson was born circa 1792 in Southampton County, Virginia and died in Warren County, Georgia (John Smith Johnson Family Bible Record; and Johnson, p. 137). They migrated briefly to Louisiana, perhaps to be near her Goza relatives, especially her sister Narcissa, shortly after her marriage where their first son, William Goza Johnson, namesake for her father, was born January 23, 1817 (per his report in the U. S. Census of Warren County, Georgia for 1850, p. 165B; McAlexander, p. 215; Webster, p. 279 – 286; Johnson, p. 137). She and Reese returned to Warren County, Georgia by 1818 when they appear in the Newsom family lawsuit involving the heirs of Solomon Newsom by his first and second marriages (Warren Co, GA Writ Book J, p. 254-271), as well as the U. S. Census for 1820 of Warren County, Georgia (p. 271) living among and adjacent to his brothers Lewis Johnson, Randolph Johnson, Aaron Johnson, James Johnson, and his father William Johnson; and the 1830 U. S. Census for Warren County, Georgia (p. 216) near his brother Randolph Johnson. In the 1840 U. S. Census for Warren County, Georgia Frances Johnson lived adjacent to and amidst her brothers-in- law Lewis Johnson, Randolph Johnson, Aaron Johnson, and James Johnson (p. 165). Frances and Reese had seven children. William Goza Johnson, Isaiah Fountain Johnson , Randolph Johnson, Emily Johnson, Lucy Johnson, Columbus W. Johnson, and Penelope Johnson (Webster, p. 279 – 286). Reese Johnson died 28 October 1836 in Warren County, Georgia. Frances and her son William Goza Johnson were named executors of his estate in his will which was recorded 07 November 1836 (Warren County, Georgia Will Book 1829-1852, pp. 61-62). Frances Goza Johnson was living with her daughter Emily and son-in-law Johnson Smith Johnson at the time of the 1870 Warren County, Georgia Census (p.142B). Frances Goza Johnson lived longer than all of her children and was completely blind when she died 13 March 1876 in Warren County, Georgia (William R. Dawson Johnson Family Bible Record; John Smith Johnson Family Bible Record; Joel and Rebecca [Johnson] English Family Bible Record; Inv. of Estate of William Johnson, Sr. names Reese and his siblings, including brother Lewis; Grave Stone inscription of Lewis Johnson in old Johnson Family Cemetery in rural Warren County, Georgia lists place of birth as “South Hampton Co. Va.”; McAlexander, pp. 215-216; Webster, pp. 283-284; Johnson, pp. 4, 42, & 137). Children of Reese and Frances (Goza) Johnson: William Goza Johnson (23 January 1817 - 20 July 1870) (William R. Dawson Johnson Family Bible record), a recognizable namesake for his grandfather, married Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell Aldridge, a widow, on 19 August 1838 (Warren County, Georgia Marriages 1833-1848, p. 100) in Warren County, Georgia. Elizabeth Mitchell Goza was born 15 January 1815 and died 19 December 1890 per information on her grave marker in Long Creek Cemetery in Hood County, Texas where she moved after the death of William Goza Johnson, and the William R. Dawson Johnson (their son) Family Bible record. They had six children: William R. Dawson Johnson, Columbus Fountain Johnson, Randolph Johnson, Rebecca Johnson, Nancy Johnson and Celia Johnson. William R. Dawson Johnson (22 May 1843 – 27 July 1914), married Mary Ann Hart 20 January 1870. They had three children including William Goza Johnson (25 June 1871 – died 25 July 1955 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20640981). Nancy Johnson (22 June 1841-1915), graduated LaGrange Female College in LaGrange, Georgia in 1860. She married John Shadrack Maddox of Whitesville. After the war they moved to St. Clair County, Alabama where he was a leading planter. Their granddaughter Fredonia Maddox Webster’s The Maddox Family of Maryland (1957), reproduces a beautiful picture of Nancy Johnson Maddox during her years at LaGrange College which was hanging, in 1957, in the President’s office. Mrs. Webster comments that “Nancy was small in stature, with gray eyes, brunette complexion, fine delicate features, with very dark curly hair that never grayed… She possessed the features of her grandmother Fanny Goza Johnson, who was French.” (Webster, pp. 279-286; McAlexander, p. 215; 1920; Warren County,Georgia Census; Roll: T625_283; Page: 18B; Enumeration District: 125; Image: 1173; William R. Dawson Johnson Family Bible Record, and Johnson, p. 137 & 140). Isaiah Fountain Johnson (1822-1861/5). He died defending the Confederate cause. Isaiah married Delany Usry 1850; Census Warren County, Georgia: Division 90, Warren, Georgia; Roll: M432_86; Page: 170A; Image: 347; Webster, p. 279; McAlexander, p. 215; Johnson, p. 166). Randolph Johnson (circa 1824 - ), married a Miss Usry (Webster, p. 279; Johnson, p. 166). Emily Johnson (18 August 1828 – 25 August 1870), married (as his 1st wife) John Smith Johnson (her first cousin) on 25 November 1843 (Warren County, Georgia Marriages 1833 – 1848, p. 230) in Warren County, Georgia. John Smith Johnson was born 07 October 1824 in Warren County, Georgia and died 9 May 1905 in Warren County, Georgia (grave marker in Johnson Methodist Church Cemetery in rural Warren County, Georgia). They had six children: Columbus Lewis (28 September 1844 – 09 May 1915), David Patrick Johnson (15 February 1847- 05 October 1928), Missouri Fidora (01 December 1848), Malissa Juverna (20 August 1851 – 27 August 1909), John Fountain Johnson (31 January 1861- 04 January 1940), and William Goza Johnson (05 January 1866- 24 July 1923), recognizable as a namesake for his grandfather. John Smith Johnson married 2nd Sarah Jane Stapleton. They had three children: Texarkana (30 May 1881 – 04 April 1965), Mozilla (26 January 1884 – 17 December 1975) and Sallie (27 May 1888). (Grave marker of John Smith Johnson in Johnson Methodist Church Cemetery in Warren County, Georgia which can be viewed at: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi? page=gr&GSln=johnson&GSfn=john&GSmn=smith&GSby=1824&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1905&GSdyrel =in&GSst=12&GScnty=531&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=128529321&df=all&; John Smith Johnson Family Bible Record; Webster, p. 279; Warren County, Georgia Marriages 1833-1848, p. 230; Warren County, Georgia Census for 1870, p. 142B; McAlexander, p. 216; and Johnson, pp. 149, 160, 164, & 166). Lucy Johnson (1831 – 1871), married John Chappell Reese (her cousin) on 23 December 1846 (Warren County, Georgia Marriages 1833 – 1848, p. 317) in Warren County, Georgia. John Chappell Reese, a son of Rivers Reese and Penelope Goza, was born 11 May 1826. He was listed as “J. Chapple Rease” near his parents in the 1850 U. S. Census of Muscogee County, Georgia with his wife and two daughters. In the 1860 U. S. Census of Warren County, Georgia, Lucy and three daughters: Penelope (born 1847), Sarah (born 1850), and Narcissa (born 1855) were living with her mother Fanny Goza Johnson. J. C. Reese appears on tax lists in Hood County, Texas as late as 1881 (Webster, p. 279; McAlexander, p. 216; and Johnson, p. 166). Columbus W. Johnson (1834-1861/5) (age 16 in the Warren County, Georgia Census for 1850, p. 165B ). He was killed in the War between the States. (Webster, p. 279; McAlexander, p. 216; and Johnson, p. 166). Penelope R. Johnson (born 1836, age 13 in the Warren County, Georgia Census for 1850, p. 165B), married James Usry on 25 November 1852 (Warren County, Georgia Marriages 1848 – 1855, p. 105) in Warren County, Georgia. She died in 1858 in Glascock County, Georgia. (Webster, p. 279; McAlexander, p. 216; and Johnson, p. 166). 4. Penelope Goza was born circa 1797 and was living in 1870. Named as an heir of Nancy Goza, formerly Newsom, a daughter of Solomon Newsom (Warren Co, GA Writ Book J, p. 254-271), she married Rivers Reese 22 December 1819 in Warren County, Georgia. Rivers Reese was born 14 December 1798 and died 31 July 1877. He was a son of Reuben Reese and a cousin of Reese Johnson who married Fanny Goza. The Rivers Reeses, with his parents, appear in the 1820 and 1830 U. S. Census of Warren County, Georgia; the 1840 U. S. Census of Stewart County, (p. 148); the 1850 U. S. Census of Muscogee County, Georgia, (p. 371); the 1860 U. S. Census of Chattahoochee County, Georgia, (p. 459); and the 1870 Census of Barbour County, Alabama, (p. 34). A survey of census records and family history reveals the following children lived to adulthood: i) Rev. Jeremiah (Jere) Reese (10 September 1822-May 1894), a Methodist minister for 59 years according to his obituary. He married 1st Ann Norwood and 2nd Mary Bradford. He is buried in Cleburn, Texas; ii) John Chappell Reese, married his cousin Lucy Johnson (a daughter of Reese Johnson and Fanny Goza). He was listed as “J. Chapple Rease” near his parents in the U. S. Census of Muscogee County, Georgia, p. 372, with his wife and two daughters. In the 1860 U. S. Census of Warren County, Georgia, Lucy and three daughters: Penelope (born 1947), Sarah (born1850), and Narcissa (born 1855) were living with her mother Fanny Goza Johnson. J. C. Reese appears on the Hood County, Texas tax lists as late as 1881; iii) Francis Marion Reese (03 June 1820 – 1908) listed in parents’ household in the 1850 U. S. Census of Muscogee County, Georgia; iv) William Reuben Reese (11 November 1834 – 12 October 1842) was namesake of both grandfathers, buried in the Reese plot in Jamestown Cemetery, Chattahoochee County (now Fort Benning,), Georgia; v) Rev. Simeon Harrison Reese (14 February 1837 – 27 August 1907), Methodist minister and teacher, married Mary Howard Norwood, and was a private in Co. F, 46th Georgia, CSA. He moved his family to Texas in 1882 and taught at Adran College, the forerunner of Texas Christian University. He is buried in League Cemetery, Johnson County, Texas; vi) Sarah Whitaker Reese (16 October 1839 – 10 May 1883), married 1st to Robert W. Read, no children, married 2nd to Edmund Smith Harris in Hood County, Texas; and vii) James Wesley Reese (12 April 1842 – 23 February 1860), buried in the Reese plot, Jamestown Cemetery, Tombstone states that he died at Emory and Henry College in Virginia (McAlexander, pp. 216 - 217). 5. Polly (Mary) Goza was born circa 1798 in Warren County, Georgia. Named as an heir of Nancy Goza, formerly Newsom, a daughter of Solomon Newsom (Warren Co, GA Writ Book J, p. 254-271), she married (1st) Nicholas Hartzell and lived in Ste. Genevieve Co. She married (2nd) Samuel Staples. Samuel and his brother- in-law Isaiah Goza (brother of his wife Polly) were issued a patent for 80 acres of land in Jefferson County, Missouri 15 June 1826 (United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007., Document number 1140). They moved to Jefferson County, Missouri. 6. Isaiah Goza was born circa 1798 in Warren County, Georgia and died in 1875. Named as an heir of Nancy Goza, formerly Newsom, a daughter of Solomon Newsom (Warren Co, GA Writ Book J, p. 254-271), he married Margaret Jaret. He and his brother-in-law Samuel Staples (husband of his sister Polly) were issued a patent for 80 acres of land in Jefferson County, Missouri 15 June 1826 (United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007., Document number 1140). He left a will naming his children: Louis, Carolina Mary (Polly), William, Sarah, Lavender and Eliza Jane. He is buried in Concord Cemetery in Concord, MO. (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi? page=gr&GSln=Goza&GSiman=1&GSst=26&GSob=c&GRid=34651257&1850; Census Place: District 42, Jefferson, Missouri; Roll: M432_402; Page: 466A; Image: 484). CONCLUSION: To reiterate, of the identified Goza men in the area who could have been the husband of Nancy (Newsom) Goza, daughter of Solomon Newsom, and the father of Frances Goza, wife of Reese Johnson, all can be eliminated except William Goza: 1) This conclusion is supported by the documented histories of all of the Goza males in the area, seven of which had wives with names other than Nancy, and children whose names do not match the known heirs of Nancy Newsom Goza, 2) Seven of the Goza men left the area with their families while Nancy Newsom Goza’s children were still in the area and married there after the other families had migrated. 3) The eighth, Thomas Goza appears only twice in the extant records, once as a Tax Defaulter owning no land, and once on a Petit Jury List, then disappears from the records leaving no evidence of having had any association with Solomon Newsom or the Newsom family, having owned any land or of having a wife and children. 4) William Goza was the right age and was living in the right area at the right time to have been Nancy’s husband and to have fathered the Goza children named in the 1818 Newsom family lawsuit. 5) William Goza is the only one of the Goza men to have a documented continuous, over many years, close relationship with Solomon Newsom, Sr. and the Newsom Family: a) In 1791 Wilkes (later Warren) County, Georgia Tax Digest William Goza was living in District PP adjacent to and in the midst of the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family: Solomon Newsom, Sr., Solomon Newsom, Jr., Carter Newsom, Frederick Newsom, John Newson, Jr., and Joseph D. Newsom. It is very likely that William Goza had already married Solomon Newsom, Sr.’s daughter, Nancy by that time based on the birth of Nancy’s eldest daughter Narcissa. (Hudson, F. P. [1988]. A 1790 census for Wilkes Co., GA Prepared from Tax Returns). b) In 1794 he was living on land adjacent to and in the midst of the Solomon Newsom, Sr. family: Solomon Newsom, Sr., John Newsom, Sr., William Goza, John Newsom, Jr., Frederick Newsom (see Warren County, Georgia 1794 Tax Digest). He had likely already married Solomon’s daughter Nancy by that time based on the birth of Nancy’s eldest daughter Narcissa. c) he acquired land from Solomon Newsom in which a portion of Newsom’s primary plantation was conveyed to him [William Goza purchased 108 acres of land in Warren County, Georgia from Solomon Newsom,Sr. on 26 May 1798 (Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, p. 237) On 26 May 1798 Solomon Newsom, Sr. sold to William Goza, both of Warren County, for $300, 302 acres in Warren County, with 108 of it being part of the 687.5 acre trace that was granted to Solomon Newsom by Governor Jared Irwin on 15 April 1797, Recorded in State Land Grant Book folio 502 on 22 April 1797. 180 of the 302 acres adjoins the SW corner of the said 687.5 acres. An additional 194 acres, as already run off, cut out of the SW corner of a 400 acres tract of land, granted to Solomon Newsom by Gov. John Houston, 15 July 1784, registered in the state Land Grant Book DDD, folio 156 on 14 July 1784. Signed: Solomon Newsom Witness: Benjamin Burton [sic Bruton] and James McCormick, Justices of the Peace, Elizabeth Newsom, wife of the above named Solomon Newsom, for $1.00, do hereby Exonerate and quit claim unto the above named William Goza, all my right of dower, for the above mentioned 302 acres, which I am entitled by law. Signed: Elizabeth Newsom. Transcribed from the original book D, folio 192-3 & 4 on 08 July 1853. [Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, p. 422-423]; d) he sold the previously mentioned 302 acres of land to Solomon Newsom, Jr on 20 November 1804., e) he was a purchaser of multiple goods (cattle and farm implements) at the 09 February 1804 sale of the goods, chattles and credits of the estate of Solomon Newsom along with other family members (Warren County, Georgia Inventories, Appraisements and Amounts of Sales 1794-1808, pp. 118 – 119); and f) he is mentioned in the estate papers and was paid $87.0 from the estate of Solomon Newsom on 06 May 1806. 6) Frances (Fanny) Goza Johnson named her eldest son William Goza Johnson, a namesake of William Goza (recognizable as his grandfather). William Goza Johnson’s son, William R. Dawson Johnson, named a son William Goza Johnson, carrying the name of William Goza down through the family to the fourth generation, in this line, from Reese and Frances Goza Johnson, and to the fifth generation from William Goza. 7) Frances (Fanny) Goza Johnson’s daughter Emily Johnson, named a son William Goza Johnson, a namesake of William Goza (recognizable as his great grandfather), carrying the name down to the third generation, in this line, from Reese and Frances Goza Johnson, and to the fourth generation from William Goza. The weight of the presented evidence is sufficiently strong to reliably warrant the conclusion that William Goza was the husband of Nancy (Newsom) Goza, daughter of Solomon Newsom, Sr., and the father of Frances Goza, wife of Reese Johnson. References: Arkansas Census, 1819-1870. 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Springfield, Virginia Warren County (Georgia) 1811 – 1825, p. 83 Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, p. 237(William Goza purchased land from Solomon Newsom) Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, p. 422-423 (William Goza purchased land from Solomon Newsom a part of his original plantation) Warren County, Georgia Deed Book B Warren Co, GA Writ Book J, p. 254-271 (Newsom Lawsuit between the heirs of Solomon Newsom of Warren County, Georgia). The Suit, which began a 14 year series of suits between the children of Solomon Newsom by his first and second marriage was: Martha Newsom, Joshua Newsom, Ailey Carter, Elizabeth Newsom (later Usry), Mrs. Solomon Newsom, Linney Newsom Tennison vs. Asa Newsom, Adm, Solomon Newsom III, Frederick, Mrs. David Newsom (now Hart), Joeday Newsom, Olive Moon, heirs of John Newsom Sr. (Henry Newsom), Gideon Newsom, Penelope Newsom Hinton, Jenny Newsom Young, John Newsom, Jr.), Nancy Newsom Goza heirs, including Frances Goza, wife of Reese Johnson, seeking inheritance. Warren Co, GA Writ Book J, p. 254-271 – Transcription of the series of lawsuits that began in 1818 and finally ended in 1832). Warren County, Georgia Deed Book A, pp. 522-23 Warren County, Georgia, Property Tax Digest (1801), p. 15 (William Goza) Captain Joeday Newsom’s District (recognizable as his brother-in-law, half- brother of Nancy Newsom Goza) Warren County, Georgia, Property Tax Digest (1805). P. (William Goza) Captain Joeday Newsom’s District (recognizable as his brother-in-law, half-brother of Nancy Newsom Goza) Warren County, Georgia Inventories, Appraisements and Amounts of Sales 1794- 1808, pp. 118 – 119 (Sale of Solomon Newsom’s estate goods) Warren County, Georgia Inventories and Administrators, Executors & Guardians (1801 – 1817) Warren County, Georgia Inventory and Appraisement Book (1794 – 1808) Warren County, Georgia Inventory and Appraisements (1807 – 1815) Warren County, Georgia Inventory and Appraisements (1830 – 1837) Warren County, Georgia Inventory and Appraisements (1823 – 1830) Warren County, Georgia Inventory and Appraisements (1837 – 1842) Warren County, Georgia Inventory and Appraisements Book G (1842 – 1848) Warren County, Georgia Record of Inventories and Appraisements (1794 – 1808) Warren County, Georgia Minute Book A Warren County, Georgia Minutes of the Court of Ordinary (1817 – 1827) Warren County, Georgia Minutes of Court (1858 – 1859) Warren County, Georgia Minutes of Inferior Court (1823-1833) Warren County, Georgia Minutes of Inferior Court (March 1835 – May 1846) Warren County, Georgia Minutes of Inferior Court (1839-1850) Warren County, Georgia Minutes of Inferior Court (1842-1846) Warren County, Georgia Minutes of Inferior Court (1846-1851) Warren County, Georgia Writs – Inferior Court (1851-1858) Warren County, Georgia Minutes of Writs – Inferior Court (1852-1856) Warren County, Georgia Letters Administration & Letters Guardianship (May 1827 – November 1839) Warren County, Georgia Letters of Administration De bonis non Temporary Letters Administration 1869 Warren County, Georgia Wills (1793 – 1811) Warren County, Georgia Wills (1810 – 1829) Warren County, Georgia Wills (1829 – 1852) Warren County, Georgia Wills (1852 – 1897) Warren County, Georgia First Book of Marriage Records (24 March 1794 – 20 March 1814) Warren County, Georgia Marriages (1811 – 1825) Warren County, Georgia Marriages (1825 – 1834) Warren County, Georgia Marriages (1833 – 1848) Warren County, Georgia Marriages (1848 – 1855) Warren County, Georgia General Index to Administrators, Executors & Guardians (1811 – 1833) Warren County, Georgia Administrations & Bills of Sale (1795 – 1806) Warren County, Georgia Guardian Docket (3 February 1818 – 1833) Warren County, Georgia Administrations & Bills of Sale (10 December 1795 – 1 January 1806) Warren County, Georgia Administrations of Estates (1799 – 1807) Warren County, Georgia Administrations of Estates (1850 – 1857) Warren County, Georgia Inferior Court Transactions, Guardian Bond, etc. (1796 – 1816) Warren County, Georgia Administrators Bonds ( 1811 – 1835) Warren County, Georgia Letters of Administration (1859 – 1893) Warren County, Georgia Returns on Estates (1798-1811) Warren County, Georgia Returns on Estates Book B (1811 – 1826) Warren County, Georgia Administrators, Executors & Guardians (1802 – 1821) Warren County, Georgia Executors Bonds (1794 – 1822) Warren County, Georgia Guardians (1796 - ) Warren County, Georgia Returns on Estates (1798 – 1811) Warren County, Georgia Returns on Estates ( 1841 – 1848) Warren County, Georgia Guardians, Administrators, Executors Returns Oath & Returns (1803 – 1833) Warren County, Georgia Records of Administrators, Guardians, Executors (1835 – 1852) Warren County, Georgia Estate Dockets (1852 – 1866) Warren County, Georgia Minutes of the Inferior Court (1848 – 1860) Washington Parish, Louisiana Probate Records Webster, Fredonia Maddox (1957). The Maddox family of Maryland: Atlanta, Ga. Wilhoit, V. H. (1976). History of Warren County, Georgia 1793 - 1974 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/warren/bios/gozajohn1045gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 64.3 Kb