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i) Early Puritans: These early settlers, mostly from east Anglia, who went to New England during 1618-23 (led by John Winthrop). The Mayflower 1620 voyage was financed by the Merchant Adventurers led by Thomas Weston, from Rugeley, Staffs. When the financial venture failed 42 of them sold their stock on 15 November 1626 including the major holder, Thomas Goffe, see Charter of Massachusett's Bay, 1629.

ii) Royalist settlements: Cavaliers and their servants went to the Chesapeake region of America beginning with Sir William Berkeley in 1642. Lord Baltimore established a similar colony in Maryland also based on East Anglian traditions.

iii) Puritan refugees in the "Eleven Years Tyranny" : During 1629-1640, King Charles I disbanded parliament and Archbishop William Laud purged the Anglican Church of Puritans. About 21,000 emigrated to New England before about 1641 when there was change in political climate in England.

iv) Quaker settlements: After the Civil War, defeated Royalists fled England and many joined Sir William Berkeley in Virginia and Maryland. Quakers (belonging to The Society of Friends founded by George Fox ), mostly in the North Midlands of England , were persecuted and jailed for not paying taxes in the 1660s and 70s. They arrived in America as early as 1650 and some were executed in Massachusttes in the 1650s. William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania by 1675, transplanted Quakers there. The first large groups went to Salem, NJ, east of the Delaware River in 1675 and by 1681, some 1,500 had arrived. The annual arrival rate from 1675-1700 was about 20 shiploads p.a., each with about 100 passengers. Many went directly to Virginia and North Carolina. Nansemond County, Virginia, and Perquimans and Pasquotank counties of North Carolina. The founders of Pennsylvania and New Jersey came from the North Midlands, Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire. Some came from English settlements in Ireland near Dublin. On the Delaware River, emigrants from Cheshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire settled in Chester and Bucks counties. London Quakers in Philadelphia; Bristol ones at the Delaware River. Dublin Quakers went to Newton, New Jersey, and the Welsh colonized the west of the Schuykill River (including Flint, Montgomery, Bala, Tredyffrin, Radnor, Haverford, and Denbigh).

v) Puritans in Newfoundland: These can be traced to the time of Queen Elizabeth when "some of the English separatists (Independents) were banished to Newfoundland ..., and in the small scattered settlements then existing about St. John's and Conception [Bay], these victims of Elizabeth's ecclesiastical tyranny could easily hide themselves away." (Rollman) In fact in his excellent study, Rollman argues that emigrants of many denominations had moved there since about 1611.

vi) Scots-Irish Emigration of the 1700s. Scots-Irish is purely a U.S. term used to distinguish the Presbyterian/ Protestant Irish, mostly from Northern Ireland, who emigrated to the U.S. in the 1700s as separate and distinct from earlier and later Catholic emigrants. Largely associetd with Ulstermen or Orangmen. Davy Crocket was the son of an immigrant from Londonderry. Kit Carson was the grandson of an Ulsterman. See detailed account in 1700s Scots/Irish emigration.

vii) In 1800 many settlers moved to Ohio and Indiana.

viii) Emigration from Ireland -
See -1700s Scots/Irish emigration.
1806 Convicts exported from Ireland on the Tellicherry

The Irish Famine 1846-50. "The principle emigrants are Irish peasants and labourers. It is calculated that at least four out of every five persons who leave the shores of the old country to try their fortunes in the new, are Irish. Since the fatal years of the potato famine and the cholera, the annual numbers of emigrants have gone on increasing, until they have become so great as to suggest the idea, and almost justify the belief, of a graduate depopulation of Ireland." Between 1825-49 the total was 2,285,184 with the peak of 258,270 in 1847. (Times, 1850) See Irish Ancestral Research Association.
See also Irish Immigrants

Armagh Guardian (Reported in The Cork Examiner): October 16, 1846: "RENTS.-- On Saturday se'nnight a meeting of Mr. Gough's tenantry was held in Upper Clennaneese, for the purpose of considering what was to be done about rents under existing circumstances. The meeting unanimously agreed that it was utterly impossible to pay the year's rent, the potatoes having been totally lost, and all the grain sown being only sufficient to feed their families for five months. In order to signify the result of the meeting to Mr. Gough, two persons were deputed to wait upon him." .
Who was this Mr. Gough?

viii) Welsh emigration - In proportion to population, Irish emigrants to the United States of America (also the most favoured destination of the Welsh in the nineteenth century) were about 26 times more numerous than those from Wales. The Welsh colony in Patagonia (Y Wladfa) was the idea of Rev. Michael D. Jones. He had discovered that the second-generation Welsh in the United States of America became quickly indifferent to their ethnic background. The 153 emigrants who arrived in Argentina aboard the ship Mimosa in July 1865 formed the core of a Welsh settlement which has survived to this day.

Gough/Goff Emigration to the USA

William Gough/Goff/Goffe, b. 1605 sailed for the States on the Amity" out of London in 1635
Thomas Gough from Ireland sailed from Liverpool to New York on the ship W.H. Harbeck on 18 Feb. 1804.
John Bartholomew Gough (1817-1886) Born Southgate Kent, he went to the USA when 12 years old and was a bookmaker until 1843. He became the foremost temperance orator in the USA.

John Gough signed the 1853 Goldfields Petition "Signatory to the Petition to reduce the Licence - By Order of the Committee" from Gibb, William to Gouran, G.G

Later periods: British emigration in Utah. In 1980, 3.2 percent of Utah's residents had been born in the British Isles. (Jensen) See also Origins of the Anglo-Americans.

Cherokees
Information kindly supplied by blazing eyes
A list of Cherokees who appear on the Dawes Roll - a Cherokee Census that was taken after the Trail of Tears.
Annie Goff Cherokee case # 4744
John Goff Cherokee case # 4744
David Goff 39 years old male Intermarried white Census card R58
Joshua Goff Cherokee card R58 Parent-male
Nancy Goff Cherokee card R58
Nancy Goff (2) Parent Female Census card R749

Goughs/Goffs by State
Arkansas Land Records Pre-1908: Samuel Gough, Goff (56 records), McGough (39)
1911 Census of Confederate Veterans
California    Foreign-Born Voters -1872 Goff (5, all born in Ireland), Gough (9, all born in Ireland) (Faulkinbury)
Sacramento pioneers
Conneticut
William Goffe (c.1605-1679), brother of Stephen Goffe, achieved fame as an English regicide. On the restoration in 1660 when Charles II returned, the King limited his retribution to 59 regicides. In the event, several had died and only 18 stood trial, William was one of the remaining 20 or so that fled abroad. He went to Conneticut and lived for three years in seclusion at Hadley, Conn.. See Hiding the regicides Whalley & Goffe. By tradition he is said to have repelled an attack of Indians at Hadley, Mass. in 1675. He died at Hartford and was buried at Hadley. See also Whaley
Indiana Marriages Through 1850 Gough (36) Goff (58)
Deed for sale of land to Elijah Goff dated 17 Feb 1836 by Jacob Waggoner and his wife Jane for $50: part of SW¼-S17, T5N,R2W, lying on the North side of Indian Creek. Jacob Waggoner page
Kansas Kansas Pioneers List
Louisiana Land Records Pre-1908: Gough (20) Goff (19) Goffe (1) McGough (18)
Maryland
Thomas Gough, from a wealthy English family at Perry Hall, Birmingham, emigrated to Maryland by 1745, and built a house a mile from Patapsco Ferry. His wife was Sophia Gough, daughter of the wealthy Caleb Dorsey of Hockley, on the Severn River. Harry Dorsey Gough, their only child was born on January 28th, 1745 in Annapolis. He became a famous Methodist preacher who founded Perry Hall USA in the USA.
Maryland Province Index to Archives, Society of Jesus:
Charles Lease Gough (1750)   26 8
Peter Gough 26 16 Map of St. Inigoes [perhaps by Peter Gough]
Peter Gough (1804)   19 4 Short copy [debt judgment (1804)] involving Peter Gough and John Clements
Appomoattox Register 1st Maryland Battalion
St Mary's County Confederate Soldiers
Massachusetts

New Jersey    Horseneck Founders of Newark
New York
John McGough emigrated to New York via, Liverpool on 1847/12/13 .
Michael Gough b. abt 1770 in Ireland, d. Nov. 16, 1831 in Monroe, Orange County, NY. He md. Elizabeth Coffey, b. May 9, 1779, d. Nov. 26, 1866 in Monroe, NY
PA, Bradford Co., Early Taxpayers Residents 1812-13:
           Armenia Township   Benjamin L Goff (Covert) R 16, Farm laborer
                                       Elmer E Goff (Covert) R 11, Laborer Grange Hall , Armenia Grange, No. 883, R 11
           Towanda Township   Amos Goff, Humphrey Goff, Richard Goff, William Goff
           Wysox Township       Samuel D Goff.
           Bradford Co Marriages
           Hiram Goff         Monroe      m. Catherine Horton     Monroe     24 Dec   1843
           Lewis Goff         Rome         m. Charlotte Taylor      Rome         27 Feb1842
           Warren W Goff Monroe      m. Roxy White             Monroe     19 Sep1848
           Delia M Goff     Rome         m. William Yontz           Towanda     16 Aug 1868
           Bradford Co Deaths
           Humphrey Goff     d. 12 Nov1863 78y 3m 20d
North Carolina
          Yadkin and/or Surry Counties          Goff Family of North Carolina by Kenneth E Goff
           Goff's of Duplin Co. who descend from William Goff, 1605 and came to VA.by Melba Goff Allen
Philadelphia
Andrew Gough, labourer, aged 24 sailed from Liverpool to Philadelphia on the Marmion arriving on April 24, 1826 (Olive Tree).
S Dakota Quarterly Index: Gough (2) Goff (2)
                Brule Co. SD Index: Gough (4) Goff (4)
Virginia
Ritchie County Company E, 6th Regiment, W Virginia
4th W Virginia Cavalry
Bedford County - marriage bonds 40 Goffs and 1 Gough
Goff's of Duplin Co. who descend from William Goff, 1605 and came to VA.by Melba Goff Allen
Wisconsin Land Records Pre-1908: Gough (5) Goff (97) McGoff (1) McGough (2) Gove (22) .
Prince Edwards Islands
Lovells 1871 P.E.I. Directory, Summmerville - Thomas Gough, ship carpenter

Civil War Veterans

Illinois Civil War Veterans Index: Gough (4) McGough (3) Goff (35) Goffe (1) McGoff (1) Keough (2) Gove (7)
US Civil War name search: Gough (13) Goff (26) Gove (2) McGoff (1)
Alexander Gough             U    38th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Anderson Gough              U    12th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Caleb Gough                    U    103rd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Eli Gough                         U    4th Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery
James Gough                   U    38th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Jesse Gough                  U    12th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
John Gough                    U    55th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
John Henry Gough           U    38th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Judson Gough                  U    7th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Manning Gough             U    1st Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Richard Gough               U    38th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Thomas Gough               U    38th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
William H Gough            U    38th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry

Nathan Goff Jr in the Civil War Nathan Goff, Jr. served in the Virginia (later West Virginia) cavalryand subsequently served as US Secretary of the Navy and US Senator (after losing the governorship).
Col. Nathan Goff, Jr. from Rhode Island was the regimental commander of the the 37th US Colored Infantry. He is one of 160 whites who served with US Colored Troops during the Civil War, and his name is inscribed on the African American Civil War Memorial in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, DC. (Thanks to Don Goff for pointing this out)
Company K 19th Indiana
Kansas Pioneers List
Appomoattox Register 1st Maryland Battalion
Ritchie County Company E, 6th Regiment, W Virginia
4th W Virginia Cavalry
St Mary's County Confederate Soldiers
Florida Star - Civil War Sites

Goff/Gough links in USA

Goff Family of North Carolina

Goff Family Home Page

Goff/Gough Family Home Page

Goff family genealogy forum

Goff Family Genealogy - starting with Asa Goff., Mass. 1782

Descendents of Thiel Goff (b.~1710) This link has gone dead - any advice please?

Goff-Bircher Ancestral Lines

Goff Family History - Brad Goff's page

Melba's Southern Families by Melba Goff Allen (Goff's of Duplin Co. from William Goff, 1605 , came to VA)

Goff Mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding the Goff surname and variations. Mailing address for postings is goff-l@rootsweb.com. To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to goff-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or goff-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode). Leave the subject line blank.

Gough cemetry

Gooch links

The Gooch Pedigree

McGough links

McGeough genealogy
Gofs
John Gofs m. Elizabeth King 1738; John Gofs m. Mary Bacon 1770 ; John Gofs m.Mary Willis 1798. Information supplied by Betty bdickson@mindspring.com

References

Richard L. Jensen. British Immigrants and Life in Utah
Dollarhide, W. British Origins of the Quakers to the Delaware Valley, 1675-1725
Rollman, Hans. Anglicans, puritans and Quakers in 16th- and 17th Century Newfoundland.
Olive Tree Ships' Passenger Lists
A. Ffestin Hughes. The Welsh in Australia
Jim W. Faulkinbury, Foreign-Born Voters of California in 1872.

Smith, Elsdon C. (1969) American Surnames, Baltimore.

Hanks, P. and Hodges, F. (1994) A Dictionary of Surnames , New York, 1994

Hook, J.N. (1982) Family Names: How Our Surnames Came To America , New York.
Immigration.Emigration