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Texans for Their Times 41
anda Notice of the Revolution in Hayti (Philadelphia, 1847), 40-117.
6. United States, Seventh Census (1850), Schedule 1: Free Inhabitants,
Nacogdoches County, Texas (Archives, University of Texas at Austin); The name has
been variously spelled Goyen, Goyens, Goyan, Goyans, Goying, Goyings, Goin,
Goins, Going, Goings, Goyn, Goyns, Gayan, Gayans, Guyn, Guyns, Guyan,
Guyans, Guyon, and Guyons.
7. U.S., Bureau of the Census, Heads of Families at the First Census of the
United States, Taken in the Year 1790 (12 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1907-1908);
Daughters of the American Revolution, North Carolina Roster of Soldiers of North
Carolina in the American Revolutton (Durham, N.C., 1932), 462, 576.
8. John M. Goings Petition from North Carolina, Mar. 1, 1852, Deed Records,
Vol. F, 303-305, (Cherokee County Courthouse, Rusk, Texas).
9. Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker (eds.), The Writings of Sam
Houston, 1813-1816 (8 vols.; Austin, 1938-1943). Barker expressed the opinion that
there was no doubt that Goyens had Indian blood, I, 37, 38.
10. Perhaps the major source of misconceptions and legends concerning William
Goyens derives from an article done by H.C. Fuller, a well-known newspaper editor
of Nacogdoches during the early twentieth century. Fuller interviewed people then
still living who supposedly had direct or indirect contact with Goyens. R.B. Blake ex-
amined Fuller's original notes and the newspaper article or articles by Fuller. Most
researchers since that time have made extensive use of Blake's quotes from Fuller, ac-
cepting this material as factual. The Blake Collection which is accurate in most
respects-although Blake evidently made a mistake in his citation of the Galveston
Daily News for December 8, 1904, because this researcher has been unable to locate
the original article under that date, or any other logical transposition. It is worth
noting that Blake early in his compilation accepted much of what Fuller related but
later came to the conclusion that most of the material was unsubstantiated. Also,
Blake came to feel quite strongly that William Goyens was born a free man in North
Carolina, a quadroon, and came to Texas sometime about 1820. Blake Collection, L,
133-134.
11. Prince, "William Goyens," 4-5; Nacogdoches Archives, Aug. 16, 1826,
(Archives Division, Texas State Library, Austin), xxx, 59-62. The Nacogdoches Ar-
chives, consisting of Spanish and Mexican official documents and records of all kinds
for the Nacogdoches region, to 1836, were transferred from Nacogdoches to the of-
fice of the secretary of state in 1850, and from there to the State Archives in 1878.
"These documents...have been transcribed and bound into eighty-nine volumes of
approximately 250 pages each." Walter Prescott Webb, H. Bailey Carroll, and Eldon
S. Branda (eds.), Handbook of Texas (3 vols. Austin, 1952, 1976), II, 257.
12. Nacogdoches Archives, July 5, 1824; Blake Collection, L, 98. Blake lists
several court cases, one of which is dated Oct. 23, 1823; however, the original
manuscript for this entry could not be located.
13. Blake Collection, X, 394. For alcalde Goyens campaigned and voted for E.
Chirino, who lost to P. Torres.
14. Good examples of this would be the election of 1824, the various court cases
in which he was involved, and his many land transactions. Lundy recorded his social
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Barr, Alwyn & Calvert, Robert A. Black Leaders: Texans for Their Times, book, 2007; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth296839/m1/52/?q=1966+yearbook+north+texas+state+university: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.