Person:John Cowen (1)

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Contents 1 Tapestry 2 Sources 3 Related 4 Overview 5 Descendency 6 YDNA 7 Sons 8 Ancestry Lineages 9 PMT, Mann 10 PMT Brewster 11 PMT Short			Cowan Tapestry Register Data Notebooks Analysis Bibliography Graphics YDNA Cowan Links Index
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	This person is believed to be descended from Person:John Cowen (1) of the Scituate Cowans YDNA Group

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Sources

Ancestry Public Member Trees]

Mass Marriages 1633-1850, Ancestry Marriage of Rebecca Man to John Cowen 31 March 1756

New England Marriages prior to 1700, Ancestry Marriage of Rebecca ____to RIchard Man 1746

Background on Richard Mann, first husband of Rebecca Short/Brewster/Mann Cowen

Scot Prisoners sent to New England after the Battle of Worcester, 1651

Source:NEHGS, 1909 Marriage of John Cowen to Deborah Man

Related

Scituate Cowans

Overview

John is generally believed to have been born in Scotland about 1608. He is believed to be the John Coehon who arrived in Boston February 1652 on the ship "John and Sara". The ships passenger's list included 261 Scots captured by British forces under Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Worcester on September 3, 1651. [2]They were sold as indentured servants in New England, their term of servitude being seven years. In 1656 John Cowen married widow Rebecca Mann in Scituate. Marriage records of Norwich, England, show that Rebecca had married Richard Mann in 1636. The following year the couple emigrated from England to the Netherlands. A Richard Mann and wife Rebecca appear in Scituate records by 1644; this presumably represents the same couple. Richard died in 1655 while attempting to cross on the ice of nearby pond; the ice broke under him. He could not rescue himself, nor were others able to save him. A year later Rebecca married John Cowen. Rebecca is commonly identified by genealogists under her married name "Rebecca Mann", but some give her name as "Rebecca Small", based on the (reasonable) belief she is the same person who married Richard Mann in Norwich in 1636. A distinct minority give it as "Rebecca Brewster", but the basis for this view is unknown. Initially, John and Rebecca lived in Scituate, in the home of Rebecca's former husband, Richard Mann, but by 1670 John and his family were living in nearby Cohasset. John's date of death is commonly given as 17 December 1697, but this is the date on which he received a parcel of land. It is likely that he died before September 27, 1703 when his son Israel sold this same land.

General locale where John Cowen lived, 1656-c1700. Richard Mann, first husband of his wife Deborah Short, lived near Mann Hill south of Musquashuiat Pond north of Schituate Harbor. Richard died when ice on the pond broke under him, while trying to cross on the pond during the winter of 1655. John lived with Rebecca at Mann's home for the first few years of their marriage, later moving to Chohasset.

Descendency

Traditionally two separate lineages have been associated with the descendancy of John Cowen (1)=Rebecca Short. YDNA evidence for these lines indicates that they do not, infact, share a recent common ancestor. Examination of the lineage data, coupled with an examination of original source documentation, shows that the bulk of this traditional lineage does descend from John (1) and Rebecca.

Four individuals who believed they descended from John and Rebecca took the YDNA test through FTDNA. The first kit, (referred to here as Scituate A, traced descent from Israel Cowen (1), a son of John and Rebecca. The other three kits (Scituate B) traced descent from John Cowen (2), another son of John and Rebecca, through his son John Cowing (1). Descendants of John Cowing (1) matched each other closely, but did not match the single kit which traced descent from Israel Cowen.

John Cowen (2) presumed ancestor of the Scituate B line, had a son John Cowing (1), born in 1692. Massachusetts court records of 1729 identify four of John (2)'s sons and gives their place of residence. Son John is shown as living in that year in Provincetown, Massachuesetts, while the other three sons (Joshua, Caleb, and Israel), are shown living in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Rhode Island records, show that a John Cowing married Sarah Mitchell in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1718. Birth records for this couple show that they had a number of children at approximately 1 to 2 year intervals beginning in 1719, and continuing through 1734. From this we can infer that the couple and their children were living in Rhode Island from 1718 until after 1734. Among those children were sons James (74), John (3) and Joseph (2) through whom the Scituate B line traced descent.

These data show that The John Cowen who married Sarah Mitchell in Providence Rhode Island can not be the same John Cowing (1) who was living in Provincetown, Massachuesetts in 1724.

Traditional Descendancy	Revised Descendancy

YDNA

The Cowan YDNA project includes kits for a number of persons who claim descent from John Cowen (1). Comparison of YDNA show that these kits represent two distinct, and unrelated lineages. While we do not know which (if either) of these lineages truely descends from JOhn (1), we know that both can not. While both lines, designated Scituate A and Scituate B, both share the same Haplogroup designation, (E1b1b1), their YDNA dis-similarity exceeds 16%, indicating that the two lines do not share a relatively recent common ancestor. Thus, at least one (and conceivably both) groups has an error in their lineage data.

Sons

Ancestry Lineages

Data from Ancestry Public Member Trees were extracted 31 October 2013, using various search keys. The following provides a general summary of results, with an evaluation of what is the most likely "answer". Individual search results are shown further below, categorized by who was identified in various trees as the wife of John Cowen (1)

PMT, Mann

Ancestry include 18 Public Member Trees (PMT) for this couple, based on an exact search key of any event 1610+-5, any event 1700+-5, wife's name as Rebecca. Extracted 31 October 2013; Duplicate entries deleted when identifiable.

PMT Brewster

PMT Short

Ancestry Public member Tress 31 Oct 2013

1. ↑ John's date of death is commonly given as 17 December 1697, but this is the date on "when land granted to John by the town of Scituate was laid out.". It is likely that he died before September 27, 1703 when his son Israel sold this same land, hence a DOD of c1700 seems appropriate. Some give his place of death as Conhihasset Mass. This place name now seems to be preserved only as a street name in the area between Scituate, and Cohasset, Mass.
2. ↑ Wikipedia:Battle of Worcester: The Battle of Worcester took place on 3 September 1651 at Worcester, England, and was the final battle of the English Civil War. Oliver Cromwell and the Parliamentarians defeated the Royalist, predominantly Scottish, forces of King Charles II. The 16,000 Royalist forces were overwhelmed by the 28,000 strong "New Model Army" of Cromwell. About 3,000 men were killed during the battle and a further 10,000 were taken prisoner at Worcester or soon afterwards. The Earl of Derby was executed, while the other English prisoners were conscripted into the New Model Army and sent to Ireland. Around 8,000 Scottish prisoners were deported to New England, Bermuda, and the West Indies to work for landowners as indentured labourers. Parliamentary casualties numbered in the low hundreds.