Family:John Cowen and Sarah Mitchell (1)

Child List

Intermediate Source:shashie50, Nov 2013 personal communication to WMWILLIS Original Source: Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914 at FamilySearch

Children are entered as individual records in this dataset

SMITHFIELD TWP, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

father: John Cowen

mother: Sarah

Intermediate Source:shashie50, Nov 2013 personal communication to WMWILLIS Original Source: Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914 at FamilySearch

Children are entered as individual records in these FamilySearch records.

SMITHFIELD TWP, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

father: John Cowen

mother: Sarah

Notes

From Natalie Cowan, November 2013, Personal Communication.

John and Sarah Mitchell's marriage can be found in a list of marriages entered in the Providence city records. Smithfield, Glocester, Central Falls, Foster, Chepatchet, Scituate etc were all Providence, and split off into smaller and smaller units throughout the years. Samuel Wilkinson Justice of the Peace of Smithfield entered a list of marriages he had performed in the Providence Town Book, FHL microfilm 915069.

John purchased land in Smithfield a few months later, and his list of children can be found in LDS 959589. The youngest brother, Benjamin, married, but had no children. (I've seen a will on microfilm). John is described as a tailor in some land transactions. He purchased/exchanged land in Smithfield for property in Glocester, and transactions with his sons followed through the years. These families appear in census, land, freemen, military records, etc. My husband's ancestor John b. 1724/5 was identified as John Jr when he m. Mary Ballou. He had a son John, b. 1762. James had a son John b. 1754 often referred to as Ensign John (who had a John b, 1784).

There is also a John Cowen family in Warren and some believe this is John 1724/5 with a second wife (I don't think that's possible because they were in the Revolutionary War records from different towns--I need to document this). And a Ward Cowen in Providence.

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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

Cowen Birth Records for Scituate, RI, pre 1800

1. ↑ "Providence Marriages", in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
   vol. 2, part 1, p. 131.

   MITCHELL, Sarah and John Coman [sic], March 25, 1718.
   [Note: Cowen in Providence BMD and in births of their children.]

2.   Snow, Edwin M; Dennett L. Richardson; Michael J Nestor; and Charles V Chapin. Alphabetical index of the births, marriages and deaths recorded in Providence, R.I. (Providence [Rhode Island]: Sidney S. Rider, 1879-[1946?])
   1:77.

   Cowen, John, and Sarah Mitchell, March 25, 1718.

3.   Family Search https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8K5-KBK MM9.1.1/F8K5-KBK