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Johan Bartold Guesse
b. 1706 Evangelisch, Exter, Westfallen, Pruessen
d. 1749 Evangelisch, Exter, Westfallen, Pruessen
He married on 4/22/1726
Anna Catharina Hagmeister
b. 2/19/1708 Evangelisch, Exter, Westfallen, Pruessen
She remarried to Johan Henrick Reitmeier on 10/18/1750 after Johan Bartold Guesse death.
Children of Johan Bartold Guesse and Anna Catharina Hagmeister:
Anna Catharina Guesse
Johan Hartog Guesse
Henrick Wilhelm Guesse
Catharina Ilsaben Guesse
Frantz Henrick Guesse
Anna Margaretha Guesse
Henrick Wilhelm Guesse
b. 6/27/1734 Evangelisch, Exter, Westfallen, Pruessen
d. Abt. 1790 Camden District, Fairfield, South Carolina
He married Abt. 1760 in Evangelisch, Exter, Westfallen, Pruessen
Mary Eaves
b. 1740 Pruessen
d. 1800 Camden District, Fairfield, South Carolina
On 10/5/1766 the Henrick Wilhelm Guesse family Arrived CharlesTown, South Carolina on ship, Britannia. He was given a Plantation Land Grant of 300 acres by King George III of England dated Jan. 18, 1771. Later, ( 11/20/1818 ) when the land was sold, we find the name change of Guesse or Guess changed to Goats. Fairfield Couny, SC Deed Book B-B, pages 40 and 41. spells out the name change, "Hinrek Guess, or to render the name in English, Henry Goats." Some of the children retained the Guesse/Guess surname while others adopted the Goats/Goates surname. I have copies of the Land grant, wills, probates, and deeds to verify this.
Children of Henrick and Mary:
Philip Goats, b. 1761 Evangelisch, Exter, Westfallen, Pruessen
Henry Guesse, b.1763 Evangelisch, Exter, Westfallen, Pruessen
Peter Goats, b. 1765 Evangelisch, Exter, Westfallen, Pruessen
Amelia “Milly” Goats, b. 1767 Camden District, Fairfield, South Carolina
Mary Eaves Goats, b. 1768 Camden District, Fairfield, South Carolina
George Goates, b. 1770 Camden District, Fairfield, South Carolina
George Goates
b. 1770 Camden District, Fairfield, South Carolina
d. 3/22/1856 Giles, Tennessee
George Goates married about 1808 in Fairfield County, South Carolina
Elizabeth Roe Coleman
b. 9/8/1787 Camden District, Fairfield, South Carolina
d. Abt. 1853 Giles, Tennessee
Children of George Goates and Elizabeth Roe Coleman:
Ann Goates, b. 1809 Camden District, Fairfield, South Carolina d. 1858 Crooke, Texas
Delila Goates, b. 1810 Camden District, Fairfield, South Carolina d. 4/1861 Giles, Tennessee
John Leonard Goates, b. 1810 Camden District, Fairfield, South Carolina d. 9/26/1881 Pope, AR
William Allen Goats, Sr., b. 1815 Pulaski, Giles, Tennessee d. Abt. 1863 Crooke, Texas
Phillip Goats, b. 9/18/1816 Giles, Tennessee d. Aft. 1881 Lawrence, Tennessee
Mary “Polly” Goats, b. 1818 d. Aft. 1860 Hopkins, Texas
David Coleman Goats, Sr., b. 1820 d. 1848 Red River Township, Searcy, Arkansas
Susan Elizabeth Goates, b. 1822 d. Aft. 1871 Maury, Tennessee
Elizabeth Jane Goates, b. 2/9/1824 Giles, Tennessee d. 5/12/1900 Seven, Lawrence, Tennessee
James Bluford “Bluff” Goates, b. 4/26/1826 Giles, TN d. 5/27/1902 Maypearl, Ellis, Texas
Minerva Catherine Goates, b. 1832 Giles, Tennessee d. Aft. 1856 Giles, Tennessee
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