Billy Markland has transcribed some Cowan Info and has it posted on his web site. Thought that some of you might be interested in his work. Below is a sample> <g> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familyinformation/transcrp/cowanclerk.html Thomas Cowan Revolutionary War Pension Application-W18922 Family Record Clerk's Transcript National Archives & Records Administration M804-667 Transcribed by Billy Markland State of North Carolina Rowan County Be it remembered that a court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions begun and held for the county and state aforesaid in the town of Salisbury, on the first Monday in February 1854, the same being a court of Record, Thomas L. Cowan, the Declarant and Applicant for a Pension claim for the services of Thomas Cowan, decd. as a Captain in the Rowan Division of Militia during the Revolutionary War, under the Act of Congress passed the 4th of July 1836. granting Pensions to certain widows; and for the purpose of establishing the age, marriage and death of both him and his wife, as well as for the further purpose of showing how many children they had and raised, and how many are dead and how many are living, - Brought into open Court, the Family Bible of the said Thomas Cowan decd. containing the Family Record, and is as follows; Viz: Thomas Cowan was born January 23d. AM 17489 [sic] Mary Barkley was born October 4 AM 1755 Thomas Cowan & Mary Barkley was married Decembr 30th. Anno Mundi 1773 Catharine Cowan was born October 14th. AM 1774 Mary Cowan was born February 25th. AM 1776 Margaret Cowan was born July 13th. AM 1777 Sylvia Cowan was born January 3d. AM 1779 Thomas L. Cowan was born July 8th. AM 1780 Ann Cowan was born March 10th. AM 1782 Jean Cowan was born February 28th. AM 1784 Elizabeth Cowan was born Septemr 24th. AM 1785 James Cowan was born February 2d. AM 1788 Aable [sic] Cowan was born October 4th. AM 1789 Agness Cowan was born December 27th. AM 1792 [Note: Nancy is written to side] Abigail Cowan was born September 18th. Am 1794 Hezekiah Cowan was born March 29th. AM 1796 Levina Cowan was born November 16th [of?] 1799 Thomas Cowan Departed this life Decembr 4th 1817 in the seventieth year of his age Mary Cowan departed this life on Friday the 5th day of August 1836 at 7 oclock PM For the Thomas Cowan Declaration http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familyinformation/transcrp/t_cowan.html and for the Magistrates' Certification of Declaration http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familyinformation/transcrp/magi_cer.html This is the URL for other Rev. War Transcriptions that may be of interest. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familyinformation/transcrp/revidx.html Search Engine is located on this URL!!!! http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familyinformation/