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| Flemings 7B's | Page in Fleming | WeRelate | DOB | POB | DOD | POD | DOM | POM | Spouse | Father | Mother | Commentary
| | Andrew | | Person:Andrew Cowan (6) | | | c1808 | Russell County VA | c1766 | | Mary Walker | | | Andrew is one of the Castle Woods Cowans. A Gentleman Justice, we have many references to him in court records. But unfortunately little concrete information about he himself, and his family. There is a persistent view that late in life he moved to Jefferson County, TN. There is an Andrew Cowan of about the right age in that area, and his known descendents match the Seven Brothers YDNA signature. However, the wife of Andrew the Gentleman Justice is believed to have died a widow in Southwest Virginia well after Andrew of Jefferson County appears in the records of that area. Current thinking is that Andrew the Gentleman Justice died in Southwest Virginia.
| | David | p360 | Person:David Cowan (1) | <1739 | probably Bedford, VA | 1811 | Sevier, TN | | | Jane unknown | John Cowan | Eleanor | Fleming knew almost nothing about David's history, before or after his appearance in Castle's Woods about 1770. In contrast, his history is now the best understood of the Seven Brothers.
| | James | 316-318, 319-et seq. | Person:James Cowan (14) | c1745 | Bedford, VA | <1815 | | c1767 | Abbeville, SC | Hannah Woods | | | Fleming does not distinguish between records for different James Cowan's present in various areas. He assumes that all of the records that he points to refer to the same James Cowan, and that James Cowan relocated to Old 96 District in SC about 1767. While we can be confident that James of Old 96 came from the general area of Old Augusta (specifically from Bedford County) we do not know what relationship he bore to the several James Cowan's in Old Augusta. He was probably their kinsmen, but its clear he was not the same person as (for instance) the James Cowan who settled in Beverley's Manor by 1746.
| | John | p363-365 | | | | | | | | | | | Flemming's John Cowan is probably the son of Samuel Cowan of Castle's Woods. His father was killed in an Indian raid about 1778, and his mother was Ann Walker, was later taken prisoner by Indians. John was raised to adulthood by Samuel's brother William. There are stories about "Major John Cowan" in Southwest Virginia during the Revolution, but there is no evidence that such a person existed at that time and place. There are multiple confusions in play in this regard, but the person identified as "Major John Cowan" seems to date to the War of 1812.
| | Matthew | | | | | | | | | | | | There is even less information in Fleming concerning Mathew Cowan, than there was for David. Indeed, there is little evidence to support the identification of a Mathew Cowan as one of the Seven Brothers. Several "Mathew Cowans" can be identified in the southeastern United States, but appear to be too young to correspond to one of the Seven Brothers.
| | Samuel | | Person:Samuel Cowan (1) | | | c1776 | Washington County VA | c1761 | Orange County NC | Ann Walker | | | Samuel is another of the Castle's Woods Cowans, marrying Ann Walker daughter of John Walker III of the Wigton Walker line. He was killed by Indians about 1778; his wife Mary was taken prisoner by Indians in a later raid. Son John was raised by his Uncle William Cowan.
| | William | p.371 et seq | Person:William Cowan (12) | c1740 | Bedford County VA | | | | | | | | Fleming identifies WIlliam (12) as the son of William the immigrant, or perhaps one of his brothers. He provides no information about William the immigrant, other than the "fact" that he was one of the Seven Brothers. The reason for identifying William (12) as the son of one of the immigrant 7B is likely that he was probably born about 1740 (Fleming gives c1750), and so could not be among the 1726 immigrants supposed to have come to America with the Walkers. That latter view is wholly unsupported by original source documentation, nor is it supported by White 1902, who mentions the Cowans only in passing in connection with their marriages to daughters of John Walker III.
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