Jones Geneaology Report 2024.02.18 - Person Sheet
Jones Geneaology Report 2024.02.18 - Person Sheet
NameWilliam Cowan
Birth25 Dec 1749, Chester, Deleware, PA
Death19 Sep 1838, Westmoreland County, Penn
OccupationBlacksmith, Farmer, Toll Keeper
FatherHugh Cowan (<1700-1782)
MotherMary Scott (<1725-)
Misc. Notes
Moved to Bourbon County, Kentucky 1788
The ancient Scotch Highland clan of Colquhon (Cahoon) was stanch Catholics until the Reformation, when one branch embraced the Protestant faith and to emphasize the event changed their name to Cowan. In 1732 two brothers and a nephew came to America. The brothers settled in New York City. The nephew, William Cowan, removed to Pennsylvania, fought in the siege of Louisburg in 1745 and subsequently united with his neighbors in their defense against the Indians. Among his papers is a duplicate of the article transferring his allegiance from George m. to the Continental Congress dated in 1776. He married Annie Wilson and in 1788 removed to Bourbon County, Ky., his' family consisting of three sons and three daughters.
n 1834 William Cowan, Sr., with the remainder of his family, excepting one daughter, settled in Plain Township, Kosciusko County, he giving each of his children eighty acres of land. The country was still occupied by the Pottawatomie and Miami Indians. The settlers boiled potatoes for their hogs and the whites of 1835 can remember seeing a circle of Indians grouped around the great fireplace in (W. C's.) kitchen waiting for the potatoes to be done, when each would plunge a sharp stick into the kettle, capture a potato and proceed with great gravity to peel and eat it. " The only time I ever remember hearing them laugh aloud was when looking at a doll of mine, prettily dressed and that had joints in its limbs, they would pass it from one to another, make it assume different positions and then laugh. It was the only "schamoke" man's invention I ever saw them notice," says one of the family. William Cowan, Sr. (third in direct line of the name), died in 1838.
1775 Appointed captain under Colonel Gurney and Maj. John Davis, Pennsylvania service
William Cowan enlisted, 1775, and served over a year as captain of Associators. He was a pensioner when he died in Westmoreland county, 1838, aged eighty-nine.
Pennsylvania service. He was born in Chester; died in Westmoreland County, Pa.
Captain William Cowan, appointed April 19, 1775 (by John Morton, speaker of the Pennsylvania assembly) captain of a company of foot in the Third Battalion of Associators in the county of Cumberland for the protection of the province and the defense of liberty
The ancient Scotch Highland clan of Colquhon (Cahoon) was stanch Catholics until the Reformation, when one branch embraced the Protestant faith and to emphasize the event changed their name to Cowan. In 1732 two brothers and a nephew came to America. The brothers settled in New York City. The nephew, William Cowan, removed to Pennsylvania, fought in the siege of Louisburg in 1745 and subsequently united with his neighbors in their defense against the Indians. Among his papers is a duplicate of the article transferring his allegiance from George m. to the Continental Congress dated in 1776. He married Annie Wilson and in 1788 removed to Bourbon County, Ky., his' family consisting of three sons and three daughters.
n 1834 William Cowan, Sr., with the remainder of his family, excepting one daughter, settled in Plain Township, Kosciusko County, he giving each of his children eighty acres of land. The country was still occupied by the Pottawatomie and Miami Indians. The settlers boiled potatoes for their hogs and the whites of 1835 can remember seeing a circle of Indians grouped around the great fireplace in (W. C's.) kitchen waiting for the potatoes to be done, when each would plunge a sharp stick into the kettle, capture a potato and proceed with great gravity to peel and eat it. " The only time I ever remember hearing them laugh aloud was when looking at a doll of mine, prettily dressed and that had joints in its limbs, they would pass it from one to another, make it assume different positions and then laugh. It was the only "schamoke" man's invention I ever saw them notice," says one of the family. William Cowan, Sr. (third in direct line of the name), died in 1838.
1775 Appointed captain under Colonel Gurney and Maj. John Davis, Pennsylvania service
William Cowan enlisted, 1775, and served over a year as captain of Associators. He was a pensioner when he died in Westmoreland county, 1838, aged eighty-nine.
Pennsylvania service. He was born in Chester; died in Westmoreland County, Pa.
Captain William Cowan, appointed April 19, 1775 (by John Morton, speaker of the Pennsylvania assembly) captain of a company of foot in the Third Battalion of Associators in the county of Cumberland for the protection of the province and the defense of liberty
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