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/1154 Message Board Post: COWAN, Marjory Covenanter. Prisoner iin Burntisland, Dunnottar and leith. Banished to the Plantations, at Leith, 18 August 1685. Transported from Leith by George Scott of Pitlochie to East New Jersey, August 1685. (PC) 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