Family Documents

Henry Goldman's first appearance in Mecklenburg County NC records is his signature as witness on the will of George Shufford, dated August 16, 1762. It is possible Henry married a daughter of this family, beut we have no record naming Henry's wife. It is likely one of her daughters carried her name.

Henry purchased 101 acres, on both sides of Little Coldwater Creek, in Mecklenburg County on Jene 24, 1764. He could have leased this land for some time before this. It was about half way between Salisbury and Charlotte Town, in the area close to the present towns of Kannapolis and Concord, sccording to Dorthy Carter. Our source of records on the Goldman family. This was the piedmont foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, with many swift streams, forest, hills and meadows. It was the ideal place for a small farmer working his own land such as Henry Goldman.

Henry had three sons, Henry, Charles, and John and six daughters, Mary, Catherine, Elizabeth, Rachel, Leah, and Martha.
        
By the time Henry made his will in 1781, he was already sick and looking to provide what security he could for his children. His wife had died only a short time before this, and the Revolution was raging at his very door. He left his land to his sons Henry and John, with another tract going to Elizabeth, and his distillery to Charles. It is likely Henry, as the oldest son, tried ot care for his younger siblings on this land for a time after his father's death.

One of Henry's daughters married Charles Hart II and he took over care of Leah, and maybe some of her siblings, probably before he moved to Kentucky. We have not found a record of Charles Hart's marriage, but at his death Margaret Hart was his wife. Henry Goldman does not name a daughter Margaret in his will. We do not know if Margaret was a second name for Catherine or Mary, or if Henry had a seventh daughter named Margaret. Elizabeth was still known as Elizabeth Goldman and under the care of Charles Hart in 1797, so she did not marry him. Other researchers contend that Henry's daughter Mary married Jacob Dye. We have marriage records for Rachel and Martha, so Catherine is the most likely Goldman to have married Charles Hart.

Charles Hart stated in his pension application he moved to Kentucky in 1790. It is possible John Goldman, Elizabeth Goldman, Martha Goldman, and Rachel Goldman also traveled with this same group. They all end up in Kentucky around the Mercer County area. Henry Goldman with his wife, Eleanor Cronkwright, and his borther-in-law, Isaac Cronkwright, could have traveled with them. Henry's father-in-law, Hercules Cronkwright, and others of this area had moved to Kentucky in 1788.

Charles Hart settled on Chaplin River of Mercer County, Kentucky close to Charles Powell, Sr. Henry Goldman, John Goldman, and the Cronkwrights settled on Beech Fork, probably not far from the Mercer County line in southeastern Washington County.


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