This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COWDEN, COWEN, COWIN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nFQ.2ACEB/26.92.2 Message Board Post: Lisa, Years ago while hunting for my John COWEN in the NC Archives and his children I found estate records on Samuel COWDEN and Walter COWDEN but somehow missed the will. The papers I got have an account claim for burial clothes submitted to the Mecklenburg Co. Justice of Peace Edwd Giles on August 28, 1782 by a Hannah COWDEN. Was this Robert COWDEN'S wife paying burial expences for her two brothers-in-law? I am searching for the whereabouts of my John COWEN'S daughter, Hannah COWEN. Could your Robert's wife Hannah be our Hannah COWEN? Do you have any information on Samuel and Walter? Samuel's wife must have already been deceased as a Samuel Stephenson and Samuel Fraser posted a Guardian Bond in the amount of Eighty Pounds for the guardians for his three minor daughters (as spelled) guardian for Betsy COWIN was Andw BARRY; for Martha COWIN was SAMUEL STEPHENSON ; and Charles SMITH for Margaret COWEN. I failed to notice before but there is a second bond for Eighty Pounds by Andrew Barry and John Sharpe. There are also records for their accounting in year 1797. Did Samuel and Walter have any sons? Will be glad to mail you copies, if you don't have them. E-mail me. Betty Frazer frazerjr@vci.net