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Biographical Description

Jacob Goodwin was born in Chowan County, North Carolina in about 1734. A resident of Perquimans County, in 1782 he signed a petition asking that Peter, a local man of mixed African American and American Indian ancestry, be allowed to remain unenslaved. Goodwin died in Perquimans in 1803.

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