This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nAC.2ACI/1499.1 Message Board Post: The following may be found in H. P. Smith, ed., History of Addison County Vermont (Syracuse NY 1886) p. 456: “James Cowen, who had served for a time in the Revolution, came to Goshen in 1823. He was a man of piety and of wonderful memory. It has been said that he could repeat the texts of every sermon he had heard for forty years, and could repeat vebatim a discourse two days after its delivery. He was in religious belief a Restorationist. His death occurred on the 13th of May, 1845, at the age of eighty-one. He occupied a piece of land north of the buryingground and across the brook.” You may check this book yourself on line: <www.middlebury.edu/~lib/AddisonCoHistory/DirectoryHAC.html> Probably you have tried the Goshen Town Clerk for any VR. If not the phone # is 802-247-6455 If James was in the Revolution, his name does not appear in the DAR Patriot Index (1967) or the first and second supplements. Born in 1764 makes him only age 12 when the Revolution began and still a teenager when it ended, but I suppose he could have served.