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Old Chester
| Region | Affinity Group | Person | Note
| | Old Chester Cowan Tapestry | Pequea Creek Cowans aka "1720 Immigrant" | Person:David Cowan (15) | The immigrant Ancestor, c. 1720
| | Person:David Cowan (14) | Uncertain affinity
| | Person:John Cowan (39) |
| | person:William Cowan (28) |
| | Person:Henry Cowan (7) |
| | Octoraro Creek Cowans | Person:Hugh Cowan (4) | Immigrant Ancestor
| | Person:Robert Cowan (17) | of Fallowfield, Chester County, believed to be kinsman of Hugh Cowan (4), but not son.
| | Rockingham Cowans | Person:Henry Cowan (5) | Immigrant about 1746. Parents died on Voyage over, leaving Henry and other children. Settled in MD, moved to Rockingham VA.
| | Uncertain | Person:Margaret Cowan (16) | Married Hugh Gass, Lancaster and Cumberland Counties, remarried to William MaGill, to Old Augusta
| | Cowan's Gap Cowans | person:Samuel Cowan (17) | Settled in Cowan's Gap, Bedford County (now Fulton County), Todd Township.
| | Person:Hugh Cowan (7) | Settled on a Branch of Licking Creek, Bedford County, probably in
| | Roaring Springs Cowans | Person:Edward Cowan (1) | Immigrant, Settled at Roaring Springs, Bedford County, family history indicates he immigrated to America in 1785.
| | Franklin County Cowans | Hugh Cowan, b 1768, d 1828, m. 1799 Mary Van Lear, lived in Mercersburg.
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MD
- Person:Henry Cowan (5) in Rockingham County VA by 1788.
Old Augusta
- person:Andrew Cowan (4) Gentleman Justice of Washington County; Person:Andrew Cowan (20) is probably the same person.
- Person:David Cowan (1) of Albemarle County, VA, to SW VA by 1769, and to Sevier County TN, after the Revolution
- James Cowan of Albemarle County
- John Cowan of Albemarle County
SWVP
Smoky Mountains
There are several separate lines of Cowans who settled within the broad Smoky Mountain Tapestry area either during or shortly after the Revolution. Most of these Cowan's seem to be related to the Seven Cowan Brothers, and share a relatively recent, but unknown common ancestor.
| Region | Person | Note
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Greene
Jefferson County | Person:Robert Cowan (10) | Robert married Susannah Woods in Botetourt County, VA, sometime before 1776. During the Revolution he moved south into what is now Greene County, TN, dying there between 1789 (last property purchase) and 1797 (when sons sell his property). He had several sons who either remained in Jefferson County, or moved south, first to Blount County, and then to Franklin County by 1800.Seven Cowan Brothers
| | Person:John Cowan (51) | Son of Robert (10); To Blount County by 1797
| | Person:Andrew Cowan (31) | Son of Robert (10); To Blount County by 1797
| | Person:Robert Cowan (11) | Son of Robert (10); To Blount County by 1797
| | Person:Samuel Cowan (5) | Son of Robert (10); To Blount County by 1797. He is said to have died in Alabama in 1851m basis unknown.
| | Person:William Cowan (21) | Son of Robert (10); Fate unknown
| | Person:David Cowan (19) | Son of Robert (10); Fate unknown
| | Jefferson County | Person:Andrew Cowan (5) | Andrew Cowan, of Jefferson County, TN, Seven Cowan Brothers
| | Person:John Cowan (42) | Son of Andrew (5);
| | Person:Robert Cowan (16) | Son of Andrew (5);
| | Person:Samuel Cowan (19) | Son of Andrew (5);
| | Person:James Cowan (36) | Son of Andrew (5);
| | Person:Andrew Cowan (26) | Son of Andrew (5);
| | Person:William Cowan (36) | Son of Andrew (5);
| | Person:David Cowan (20) | Son of Andrew (5);
| | Sevier County | Person:David Cowan (1) | David came to Sevier County from Southwest Virginia, where he lived in Castle's Woods. Prior to that he was living in Albemarle County, VA, in close association with the Woods family. Seven Cowan Brothers
| | Person:Houston Evans Cowan | Lynelle Cowan Stevenson's brick wall
| | Andrew Cowan | Person:Andrew Cowan (22) Justice of Sevier County,. 1796, son of David (1)
| | Blount County | Person:William Cowan (12) | William came to Blount County before 1792, from Southwest Virginia, where he lived in Castle's Woods with his kinsmen Person:David Cowan (1) and Person:John Cowan (12). John came with him to Blount County, while David settled nearby in Sevier County. Seven Cowan Brothers
| | Related Line of Robert Cowan (10)
| This line is descended from Person:Robert Cowan (10) who died in Greene County TN about 1784. Several of his sons, John, Robert, Samuel, and Andrew Cowan, and soninlaw Samuel Handley settled near Nine Mile Creek in the western division of Blount County. Some members of this line would later moved to Franklin County TN, west of Chattanoga. Dr. James B. Cowan, whose genealogical letters figure prominently deciphering in Cowan family history (for better or ill), belong to this line. YDNA evidence indicates that this line is related to that of William (12), David (1), and John (12), but the nature of that relationship is unknown. Both Groups seem to be related to the Cowans who settled in Beverley Manor and in Albemarle County, during the middle 1730's. Seven Cowan Brothers
| | Person:John Cowan (12) | Son of Person:Samuel Cowan (1)
| | Person:John Cowan (51) | Son of Robert (10); To Blount County by 1797
| | Person:Andrew Cowan (31) | Son of Robert (10); To Blount County by 1797
| | Person:Robert Cowan (11) | Son of Robert (10); To Blount County by 1797
| | Person:Samuel Cowan (5) | Son of Robert (10); To Blount County by 1797. He is said to have died in Alabama in 1851, basis unknown.
| | Sullivan County | Person:Andrew Cowan (6) | more work needed
| | person:Robert Cowan (20) | Settled in What is now Sullivan County TN following Revolution.
| | Knoxville | Person:Samuel Cowan (18) | Early merchant in Knoxville, arrived before 1792
| | Person:Nathaniel Cowan (1) | Early Merchant in Knoxville, arrived before 1792
| | Person:James Cowan (35) | of Knoxville
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MISC
- Person:Janet Cowan (6) Possibly the wife of Alexander I of the Wigton line.
- Person:Samuel Cowan (3) 1775-1832, died Campbell County TN, Unknown affinity
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