— born in Washington Co., NC [now TN]:
2.  Levi GOIN, b. 2 Nov 1779; d. 19 Jun 1865, Grainger Co., TN; bur. Big Barren Church Cem.
3.  Sarah GOIN, b. ca. 1782
4.  Uriah GOIN, b. ca. 1785
5.  Isaac Abraham GOIN, b. ca. 1789/90; d. 26 Dec 1875, Claiborne Co., TN; bur. Pleasant Point Cem.

1.  Marriage Record:

2.  1790 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):  not found, but TN was not yet a state, and there was no census of the part of NC that became TN.

3.  1800 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):  the TN census was lost.

4.  1810 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):  the TN census was lost.

5.  1820 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):  22 TN county censuses were lost, including Greene, Claiborne, and Washington.

6.  1830 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #60 of 97; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1830

TN

Claiborne Co.

Roll 180

p. 134

Ln. 14

Thomas Goin

000 000 000 100 - 000

no slaves

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	70-79	1750-1760	= Thomas

Listed one line above Isaac GOIN, Sr. (æ 30-40), who is one line above Isaac GOIN, Jr. (æ 20-30), who is one line above William GOIN (æ 20-30).

7.  Goldene Fillers Burgner.  1958.  North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee, 1778-1791.  Betty Cartwright & Lilian J. Gardiner, Memphis, TN (reprinted 1981 by Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC):

p. 25	Washington County	1784	657	Solomon Murphy	150 a.	Joining Edmund and Horners Lines.
p. 29	Washington County	1786	751	Abraham Heston	50 a.	On the southside of Cherokee Creek.
			756	Thomas Goin	225 a.	On the waters of Cherokee Creek joining Tiptons line.
p. 71	Greene County	1787	2015	Thomas Goin	300 a.	On Lick Creek including his improvement.

Our subject is said to have been a recipient of grants number 657 and 751, but clearly this is not the case.

8.  Marjorie Hood Fischer.  1996.  Tennesseans before 1800: Washington County.  Frontier Press, Galveston, TX.

This book is an index to court records before 1800.  There are numerous entries for Thomas GOAN / GOIN / GOING in the county court minutes and county pleas, plus one entry for a deed.  Index entires aren't dated, so you would have to look each one up to get the dates.

9.  Byron Sistler & Barbara Sistler.  1990.  Index to Tennessee Wills & Administrations, 1779-1861.  Byron Sistler & Assoc., Inc., Nashville, TN.

p. 139	Goin, Thomas 1858 wb-3-419 (Gr) Goin, Thomas S. 1854 wb-3-193 (Gr)
Our subject is said to have a will recorded in Claiborne County, however, no such will is indexed here, and this book purports to index every extant ante-bellum will book in the state.  Note that the earliest will book available for Claiborne County begins in 1839.  The only two Thomas GOINs (or variations) indexed are the two shown above.  ["Gr" stands for Grainger County.]

10.  Goldene Fillers Burgner.  1983.  [Abstracts of] Washington County Tennessee Wills, 1777-1872.  Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC (reprinted 1992).  No entry for our subject.

11.  Descendants of Thomas GOIN (online at the Drake-Rockcastle Family History & Genealogy web site).

12.  WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com):  There are over 50 files here containing our subject.  The majority give him wife, Rebecca CLARK, while many do not name his wife.  One gives him a second wife, Sarah JONES, while another gives him just one wife, Jemima SINNES.  I have no idea which is correct.

13.  Email from Pat Ann JONES, descendant of our subject, who is emphatic that our subject's wife has not been identified.