This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowden Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SRB.2ACE/917.1125.1.2 Message Board Post: BTW Dee - where did you find that info? I'd been all over Heritage Quest and Ancestry.com, also into the DAR Patriot Index (they're not there), and have written off to the Nat. Archives. You seem to have pulled it right up. Marti