Pension records, Thomas Cowan, Rowan County NC Family Record Clerk's Transcript ****************************************************************** File transcribed and contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Billy Markland http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/rowan/pension/cowan2.txt USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ****************************************************************** Thomas Cowan Revolutionary War Pension Application-W18922 Family Record Clerk's Transcript National Archives & Records Administration M804-667 Transcribed by Billy Markland State of North Carolina Rowan County Be it remembered that a court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions begun and held for the county and state aforesaid in the town of Salisbury, on the first Monday in February 1854, the same being a court of Record, Thomas L. Cowan, the Declarant and Applicant for a Pension claim for the services of Thomas Cowan, decd. as a Captain in the Rowan Division of Militia during the Revolutionary War, under the Act of Congress passed the 4th of July 1836. granting Pensions to certain widows; and for the purpose of establishing the age, marriage and death of both him and his wife, as well as for the further purpose of showing how many children they had and raised, and how many are dead and how many are living, - Brought into open Court, the Family Bible of the said Thomas Cowan decd. containing the Family Record, and is as follows; Viz: Thomas Cowan was born January 23d. AM 17489 [sic] Mary Barkley was born October 4 AM 1755 Thomas Cowan & Mary Barkley was married Decembr 30th. Anno Mundi 1773 Catharine Cowan was born October 14th. AM 1774 Mary Cowan was born February 25th. AM 1776 Margaret Cowan was born July 13th. AM 1777 Sylvia Cowan was born January 3d. AM 1779 Thomas L. Cowan was born July 8th. AM 1780 Ann Cowan was born March 10th. AM 1782 Jean Cowan was born February 28th. AM 1784 Elizabeth Cowan was born Septemr 24th. AM 1785 James Cowan was born February 2d. AM 1788 Aable [sic] Cowan was born October 4th. AM 1789 Agness Cowan was born December 27th. AM 1792 [Note: Nancy is written to side] Abigail Cowan was born September 18th. Am 1794 Hezekiah Cowan was born March 29th. AM 1796 Levina Cowan was born November 16th [of?] 1799 Thomas Cowan Departed this life Decembr 4th 1817 in the seventieth year of his age Mary Cowan departed this life on Friday the 5th day of August 1836 at 7 oclock PM State of North Carolina Rowan County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, February term, 1854 I, James E. Kerr, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid, certify that the foregoing transcript from the family bible of the late Thomas Cowan, together with the said family bible was presented in open Court, and that the transcript was compared with the original entries in said family bible b the Justices presiding as the Court, and that it was [ordered] by said Court that the clerk certify that the foregoing is a rue copy of the original entries in the family bible of Thomas Cowan Deceased, late of Rowan County. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal this the 10th day of February 1854. James E. Kerr Clerk