This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/1031.2 Message Board Post: I am related to Cowan's from Cowan's Gap, Pa. it maybe close to your Cowan town ? I'd like to see 1868 map showing it? I have a Samuel John Cowan(b1753 Ireland) married Mary Mueller(Miller) from Boston they lived in Lancaster area then was moving to NC and broke down and settled in Cowan's Gap they had 4 sons John(b1793), Hugh, William, David, Teaney Cowan