Person:Hugh Cowan (8)

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Overview

Internet Archive, George Overcash Seilhamer, 1908

Hugh Cowan, was born in 1768, and died April 19, 1828. He was a cabinet maker at Mercersburg, Pa. He owned the two-story brick building adjoining the house owned and occupied by Dr. Peter W, Little. Mr. Cowan was married January 3, 1799, to Mary Van Lear, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Chambers) Van Lear. She was borna near Mercersburg, Pa., in 1780, and died March 3, 1839. Their children were

Joseph Van Lear,

Maria,

Susan,

Eliza,

William,

Jane,

Van Lear and [????]

Matilda.

Mrs. Van Lear was a daughter of Rowland Chambers, a descendant of Rowland Chambers, one of the earliest settlers in the Cumberland Vallev. She was bora in 1746, and died November 9, 1886. The Van Lean were of Dutch extraction and early settlers in the Conococheague Valley.

Comment

It is conceivable that this is the same person as otherwise identified as person:Hugh Cowan (7). The ages of he and his wife are about right. Mercersburg is fairly close to Culbertson's Row where Person:Samuel Cowan (17) is supposed to have come from immediately prior to settling in Cowan's Gap. His presumed kinsman, Hugh (7), dissappears from the record of that area after the 1820 census, and its possible he and his wife moved to Mercersburg, to be closer to her parents.