COWHERD, Jonathan, entered service from 1775 Culpeper County, VA, where he was born October 1755, moved to Green County, Kentucky, 1796 where pensioned 1833, & died there 20 July 1744, married April 1777 Elizabeth (Marriage Bond 2 April 1777 signed by her father Thomas Kirtley), Culpeper County, VA, widow born 13 January1760; widow pensioned 1845 Green County, Kentucky; 12 children, in 1845 eldest deceased, 2nd child Willis age 65, and oldest child Simon Coleby age about 45. Query letter in pension or bounty land warrant record 1939 from Miss Maud Cowherd, Campbellsville, Kentucky, states soldier was brother of Revolutionary War soldier James Cowherd (R668)