Individual Details

Hugh Goheen

(Abt 1764 - )

Events

BirthBef 1764Pennsylvania
BirthAbt 1764Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
MarriageBef 1784Elizabeth
Miscellaneous10 Apr 1784Pennsylvania
Residence1788Churchtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Religion1799Bangor Church, Churchtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Census1800Honeybrook, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Census1800Caernarvon Twp, Churchtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Residence1801Berks County, Pennsylvania
Religion1809Bangor Church, Churchtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Census1810Honeybrook Twp, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Census1810Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Census1820Caenarvon, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Residence1820Churchtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Census1830Honeybrook Twp, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Census1840Caernarvon Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania

Families

SpouseElizabeth ( - )
ChildSidney Goheen (1785 - )
ChildDaniel Goheen (1817 - )
ChildDavis E. Goheen (1824 - 1906)
FatherJohn Goheen (1724 - 1783)
MotherHannah ( - )
SiblingJohn Goheen (1749 - 1815)
SiblingLane/Leon Goheen (1756 - )
SiblingHannah Elizabeth Goheen (1766 - )
SiblingSamuel Goheen (1767 - 1814)
SiblingJoshua Goheen (1768 - )
FatherJames Goheen (1725 - )
MotherAnn Hughes ( - )
SiblingElizabeth Goheen (1766 - )
SiblingMarget Goheen (1771 - )
SiblingJames M. (Black Jim) Goheen (1772 - 1853)
SiblingAnne Goheen ( - )
SiblingMary Goheen ( - )

Notes

Birth

Hugh Cahoone/ Cahoon, list of Classes of Captain Martin Huey Company, in Seventh Company of the first batallion of Lancaster County Militia, betwaeen age of eighteen and fifty-three. Taken for the year of 1782.

Birth

Two Hugh Goheen's were born within a year of each other as evidenced by the years they became a single freeman. The Hugh, son of John moved to Honeybrook in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The name of his wife is unknown. Pennsylvania Archives.
Prior to the Free School Act of 1834, their children with an education had to pay for it whether at a private or parochial school. As early as 1683 the Penna government made provision for a rudimentary education of children, but it was the Pennsylvania constitution of 1790 which led to the passage of legislation on April 4, 1809 that required ta assessors of each township to enumerate "... all children between the ages of five and twelve whose parents were unable to pay for their schooling ..." the education of said children to be provided by the township free of charge. Thus the rise of the term "charity schools" and the ill will of many who were too proud to allow their children to be educated at the public expense

Marriage

Apparently on children of James have marriages and baptisms recorded by Rev Illing. Russel, Joseph son of Evan and Anna Russel, b. Oct 3, 1783; bap, April 10, 1784; witnesses, Hugh and Elizabeth Goheen

Miscellaneous

Hugh and Elizabeth Goheen were witnesses for the baptism of Joseph Russel son of Evan and Anna Russel. Anna Russel is the sister of Anna.

Residence

... They located on the origianal Shirk tract of land, granted by Penn to his father, southeast of Churchtown, between the Conestogha and the Welsh Mountain. This tract has been in the Shirk name to the present day and now contains three farms. ... This house was erected about the year 1788 by one Hugh Goheen.

Religion

James purchased pew #25 in 1756 and held it in 1781. James Jr holds the pew from 1795 until 1796, then Hugh in 1799 and 1800 and also in 1803, then from 1894 until 1832 when it was taken over by Miss Sidney Goheen. It is possible to assume these people are family

Census

It is possible that this document belongs to the other Hugh Goheen of the same county

Census

Hugh Goheen household:
2 males under 10 years
1 male 10 and under 16 years
1 male 26 and under 45 years
1 female over 45 years

Residence

The Conestoga Turnpike was constructed between Philadelphia and Lancaster. Construction when north to Morgantown then westward through Churchtown to Lancaster. This was a toll road and was well traveled. Morgantown became a central point for traffic. This road was of new construction made of rocks and surface of smaller stones. It was known as macadam road as in contrat to the cordory roads made of wooden logs laid side by side.

Religion

The vestry of the Bangor church listed with the years of service, Hugh Goheen (1809-1830); along with members of the Davis, Evans and Jacobs families. I believe this is the Hugh Goheen with relationships to other families

Census

Hugh Goheen household;
1 male 26 under 45 years
1 female under 10 years
1 female 26 under 45 years

Census

Hugh Goheen Household:
1 male under 10
1 male 26 to 45 years
1 female 16 under 26 years
1 female 26 uner 45 years

Census

Lane Goheen next household is brother Hugh Goheen:
1 male under 10
1 male over 45
1female under 10
1 female 10 to 15
1 female 26 to 45
1 female over 45
It appears that the male over 45 is Hugh.

Residence

In the 1820 census about the time our Samuel Goheen of Birdsboro area was born there was one Church family within kissing distance of a Goheen family. (The other Church family was near Lancaster and too far away. The Lancaster Goheen family in that area has been eliminated with probates and the family would have been near non childbearing age.) Hugh was living next to his brother Lane/Leon who eventually married into the Piersol family who lived near by. No primary evidence has been found to prove that Hugh is the father of Samuel. Also to confuse the problem there are two Hugh Goheen's in the same area born the same year.
In tax lists one was identified as "red" and the other was "black". The Goheen family of Centre county has descendants with red hair (Joseph Rittenhouse Goheen), and maybe others that have not been described.
The towns of Churchtown and Morgantown are about three miles apart. Honeybrook forms a triangle to the south and is also about three miles from Morgantown and Churchtown.

Census

Hugh Goheen household:
1 male 5 and under 10 yearrs
1 male 60 under 70 years
1 female 60 under 70 years

Piersol families in area

Census

Hugh Goheen household;
1 male 15 under 20 years
1 male 70 under 80 years
1 female 60 under 70

Endnotes

1. , (: , ), Register of Marriages and Baptisms kept by the Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing in connection with The Churches of St. Peter's (Lutheran) Middletown , and Caernarvon, (Episcopal) Lancaster county, Penn's, (Harrisburg Publishing Company, Harrisburg, 1891) pa.

2. , (: , ), Register of Marriages and Baptisms kept by the Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing in connection with The Churches of St. Peter's (Lutheran) Middletown , and Caernarvon, (Episcopal) Lancaster county, Penn's, (Harrisburg Publishing Company, Harrisburg, 1891) pa.

3. , (: , ), Hon A G Seyfert, Papers Read before the Lancaster County Historical Society, October 2, 1925, Vol 29 No8 (Lancaster, Pa 1925, page 88).

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5. household, Census, , , , 1800, All Pennsylvania Septennial Census, ancestry, FHL 2012.

6. 1800 US Census, Lancaster County, Pennsyvania, Churchtown, Caerarvon Twp, page 94, Hugh Goheen, NARA micropublication, roll 9.

7. , (: , ), Suzanne Felman Jacob.

8. , (: , ), William Henry Egle, Notes and Queries: Biographical and Genealogical Relating chiefly to Inter Pennsylvania, (Harrisburg Pub. Co., 1899), page 57; googlebooks.

9. 1810 US Census, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Honeybrook twp, page 71, Hugh Goheen, NARA micropublication M252, roll 47.

10. 1810 US Census, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, line 15, page 103, Hugh Goheen, NARA micropublication M252, roll 50.

11. 1820 US Census, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Caernarvon Twp. page 119, Hugh Goheen, NARA micropublication M33, roll 106.

12. 1820 US Census, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Caernarvon Twp. page 119, Hugh Goheen, NARA micropublication M33, roll 106.

13. 1830 US Census, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Honeybrook Twp, page 208,Hugh Goheen, NARA micropublication M19, roll 148.

14. 1840 US Census, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Caernarvon twp, page 406, line 6, Hugh Goheen, NARA micropublication M904, roll 438.