This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/1133 Message Board Post: COWAN, John Royalist soldier captured at Worcester. Transported from Gravesend to Boston on the "John and Sarah", master John Greene, 13 May 1652. (NER) I am not related to this person, I am just passing on this information, which comes from a book titled "Scots Banished to the American Plantations 1650-1775" by David Dobson. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore. 1983. pg. 234. Joyce