Gordon Aronhime Papers - Southwest Virginia Card File. The Library of Virginia [Handwritten -some impossible to read] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ~~Card 141 of 162~~Samuel Cowan Cowan, Sam'l (____ --- 1776) Born ---- Died ---- Killed by Indians at Houston's Fort, Moccasin Creek - Summer 1776 ~03Apr1774 - 284 a[cres] both sides McKinney's Run, Plat(?) Blk/Bk H(?) ~Jun-July 1776 - Lived at Castlewood. Visiting at Houston's Fort, Moccasin Creek in Summer, 1776. Left Fort and was shot and scalped by Indians. Died next day - Miss Per__(?) stat__(?) Charles ___?___ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ~~Card 142 of 162~~Samuel Cowan ~17Nov1778 - Wm. Cowan granted Adm. estate of Samuel Cowan. Adm c______ to John Walker sec. for 600 [pounds]. Wm. Trimble, James Wharton, Joseph Muir(?), Fredrick Friley(?) and Edmund Smith to appraise estate of Samuel Cowan ~16Nov1779 - Inv estate of Samuel Cowan - scheduled(?) in court - WB1 p.33 ~1805 - Eldest son of Samuel Cowan, (died in year 1776), was John Cowan - OB3 p.347 Russell Co. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ~~Card 144 of 162~~ [another] Samuel Cowan ~20Jan1780 - on jury ~20Sep1781- wit to will of John Walker- WB1, p.31 ~27Mar1782 - w/Patrick Porter, sec for Fredrick Friley/Fraly as adm., estate of Richard Stanton. ~27Mar1782 - To be capt. of militia ~21Aug1782 - w/Patrick Porter, Colonel Ritchie, to divide the estate of Wm Cowan ~04Aug1782 - sec for John Campbell (__?__) as adm estate of Elisha Pepper ~21Aug1782 - w/Wm. Blakemore(?), Josiah Payne & Thos. English(?) to appraise estate of Jos___ Butcher(?) ~19Nov1782 - w/____ Ritchie, Josiah Payne, James Ally to appraise estate of Jesse Adams. ~20May1783 - For service rendered Capt. Snoddy's ____ in actual service.