John Cowan (I) died in Rowan County, North Carolina in 1788. I know he died leaving 4 minor children. I don't know how many (if any) children he had of legal age. John Cowan (I) died without a will and according to a court document John Cowan (II) was guardian of Alexander Cowan. David Forster took Isaac Cowan. William Cowan took Joseph Skiles Cowan and Thomas Cowan took Esther Cowan." My question for the Forster researchers out there is did any of you have a David Forster who was possibly married to a Cowan, Dobbins, Graham or a Skiles Woman, and who also adopted (or took guardianship of) the young Isaac Cowan, a minor, in or about 1788 in Rowan County, North Carolina? My thinking here is that possibly David Forster was an UNCLE of Isaac Cowan, which means he would have possibly been married to a Cowan woman (or a Dobbins, or Skiles, or Graham, or????) I have not been able to find any information from the Cowan direction, so I am hoping that by going in through, so to speak, "the back door" through the Forster's that somebody may know something about this Cowan family. I am related to Joseph Skiles Cowan, son of John Cowan (I). I am also very interested in finding who John Cowan/en was married to. This has been my blank wall for quite a while and I'd like to find the missing woman who married John Cowan/en. Maybe my John Cowan married a Forster woman? Any help would be sincerely appreciated.