Moved to Indiana 1832 - Bought a farm near New Paris (Kosciusko County)

Thomas Cowan, youngest son of the second William Cowan, was married in Ohio to Jean Gamble, who was of Scotch-Irish descent and came to this country from Ireland with her father and a half-brother in the ship that brought the tea to Boston Harbor in old Revolutionary times, and was on board the vessel when the tea was thrown into the harbor at the memorable Boston tea party. He moved to Indiana in 1832, bought a farm near New Paris and died in 1846, leaving his aged wife (who died in 1851), one son and two daughters. The daughters married and settled in Kosciusko Ind. The son, William, a well-known and highly respected citizen, was in 1840, married to Narcissa Jones, daughter of Samuel Jones, a pioneer of Noble county, Ind., by whom he had two daughters: Mary B. and Jane G.