This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/1155 Message Board Post: COWAN, William Tailor. 52. Prestonpans. Jacobite in the Duke of Perth's regiment. Captured at Carlisle. Prisoner at Carlisle, York and Lincoln. Transported on the "Johnson" master William Pemberton, from Liverpool. Landed at Port Oxford, Maryland, 5 August 1747. (P) (PRO) I am not related to this family, 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. 1983. pg. 32. Joyce