Edward Cowan YDNA Line

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Overview

This Group is identified as Group-10 in the Walker YDNA project. As applied here on Werelate it is referred to as The Edward Cowan line, named for Person:Edward Walker (24).

Edward stated in his Revolutionary War pension application that he was born in North Carolina in 1757. We do not know where in North Carolina, or who his parents were. He is often given a POB of Duplin County probably he is known to have been living there at the time of Revolutionary War Service. Sometime after the Revolution he left that area, and next appears in Sullivan County TN, where Jane Horne in 1790. They may have lived for awhile in Russell County VA as a man by that name appears on tax records between 1800 and 1805. In any case, by 1805 were living in Sullivan County TN. They seemed to have moved around a fair bit, living in a number of different locations. Initially, they seemed to have lived in the Horse Creek watershed. At some point they may have lived on Reedy Creek across from Long Island in Kingsport. in 1813 they moved to the Bays Mountain area, perhaps settling near Blairs Gap Road on the Sullivan/Hawkins County line. A few years later, by about 1818, the family moved to Mulberry Creek, a tributary of Powell River in what is now Hancock County. Edward died here in 1838. Edward and Jane had at least 10 children, including seven boys.

Many of the kits in this group descend from Edward, though the lineage data provided for Group 10 is not sufficiently detailed to know that for certain. A number of kits trace to ancestors in South Carolina, and probably have as deeper ancestor, a common Patriarch with Edward. Two clear instances of this are

• Kit 752 tracing descent from Richard Walker b. 1790 in Chester County SC
• Kit 36059 tracing descent from Person:Hansford Walker (1) b. 1809 in Barnwell SC

In both cases the eldest know ancestor is contemporary with the children of Edward, but clearly not one of his sons. It would seem likely that they share a relatively recent common ancestor with Edward, and perhaps their fathers were Edwards brothers or uncles. If that's the case, we can speculate that when Edward moved westward into Tennessee, his kinsmen move south into South Carolina.

YDNA

The following provides a dissimilarity comparison between kits with at least 37 markers in FTDNA's Walker YDNA project.

Discussion

Generally speaking, the persons whose kits are shown above, show minimal dissimilarity in terms of their YDNA. These kits show negligible similarity to all other kits in the Walker YDNA project. It is likely that all of the kits in this group share a relatively recent common ancestor. Most probably resend from Edward Walker=Jane Horne, who married in 1790 in Sullivan County TN. A few kits, however, probably descend from someone other than Edward. Kit 752, for example, traces descent to a Richard Walker born in SC in 1790. Edward married in 1790, but in Sullivan County TN, and it is unlikely that he could have been the father of Richard. It is likely that Richards father was a close relation of Edward, and conceivably a brother or uncle.