http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/shcgl.html Manuscripts Department - Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION - #3748 THOMAS COWAN LETTERS - Summary Cowan, Thomas, fl. 1850-1851. Letters, 1850-1851. 4 items. Letters from Cowan, a student at Trinity School near Raleigh, N.C. (not Trinity College), to his parents in Smithville (now Southport), Brunswick County, N.C., concerning food, activities, Raleigh, his sister at school in Raleigh, his brother John and others at home, and Rev. P. T. Babbit, director of the school. Gift, 1966. ONLINE CATALOG TERMS: Babbit, P. T. Cowan family. Cowan, John. Cowan, Thomas, fl. 1850-1851. Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century. Raleigh (N.C.)--Social life and customs--19th century. Schools--North Carolina--History--19th century. Trinity School (N.C.)--Students--History--19th century. http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/f/Fisher_Family Folder 100 Volume 11-B. "A book containing a list of lands purchased by Thomas L. Cowan of the North Carolina Land Company in Mississippi in 1845." The North Carolina Land Company included Charles Fisher, Thomas G. Polk, who emigrated to Mississippi, and Thomas L. Cowan. There are also inserted leaves listing land purchases in St. Helena District, Louisiana. Formerly Volume 44. http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/w/Wolfe,Thomas_Roberdeau Thomas Roberdeau Wolfe (1819-1856) was the second child and first son of Mary Ann Patten Wolfe (1795-1822) and Dr. Thomas Wolfe (d. 1825). Mary Ann Patten Wolfe, born in Alexandria, Va., was the first child of Mary Roberdeau Patten and Thomas Patten. Dr. Wolfe was the second son of Lewis Wolfe, attorney in Winchester, Va.; state senator, 1804-1811; and trustee of Winchester Academy (est. 1786). Dr. Wolfe was born in Winchester, Va., and educated in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he studied medicine. After working as a doctor in London, he returned to the United States, where he set up a practice in Philadelphia. Later he settled in Winchester and married a Miss Cowan with whom he had four children: Alfred; Addison; Catherine; and Sidney. His first wife having died, on 14 May 1816, he married Mary Ann Patten. He and his family moved to Culpepper Courthouse in 1818. The couple had four children: Mary DeNeale (b. 1817); Thomas Roberdeau; Joseph Lewis (1821-1833); and James Edward (January-July 1822). Mary Ann Patten Wolfe died 23 August 1822, and Dr. Wolfe died 25 December 1825. http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Henderson,John_S.html John Steele Henderson Papers 436 Volume 7: "Reminiscences of men and women who once lived in Salisbury, North Carolina," written by Archibald Henderson at Poplar Grove in April 1878. Among those mentioned are Peter Brown and his descendants, p. 3; Albert Torrence, p. 13; A. T. Powe and his connections, p. 15; Daniel Cress, p. 29; John Murphy and his son William; and Thomas L. Cowan.