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- "Pioneers in Roane County, WVA", by John A. House, 1906, page 247.
John Goff married Elizabeth Welsh, sister of Mrs. James Riddle/Riddel.
The Will of Thomas Welsh of Prince George's Co., Maryland was made August 30, 1799, and recorded Oct.28, 1801 (Liber T. Folio 477). It names wife, Dorcas (Darcas), Son Richard, daughters, Rachel Reese, Dorcas Housely, Anne RIDDLE, (MY LINE), Mary Beck, Elizabeth Prather, Comfort Wood, & Deborah Edmondston, son-in-law Nathan Edmonston, and grandchildren--Thomas Jones, Catharine Jones, & Samuel Jones.
More About ANNE WELSH
Emigration: 1773 or 1774
Ethnicity/Relig.: Scottish Des.
He married Dorcas Ann Welch, a daughter of Richard Welch. Another source reports Dorcas' parents as Philip and Eleanor Welsch.
On January 26, 1802, James signed an indenture to Hiram Goff in Randolph County VA (WV) to clear forty acres of land, build a house and a barn and plant a hundred apple trees in exchange for "Salathiel Goff's Holly Meadows Farm." This farm was sold to George Long by James' son Benjamin November 2, 1819 for $5,400. [1]
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