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[edit] Sources[edit] Related[edit] OverviewThis article is about Robert Cowan The Justice, who married the widow Elizabeth Anthony Irvine, in 1769. Prior to the Revolution Robert served as a justice to the Bedford County Courts. A loyalist, he fled with his wife and children to New York, and then England, at the beginning of the Revolution. [2] After the Revolution he apparently returned to America, as he appears as a lawyer in court cases, and in 1784 he gave consent for the marriage of his step daughter Nancy Irvine. [3] (It is possible that there were two separate Robert Cowans in Bedford County, one the Justice, and the other a lawyer. In this view the Justice was a loyalist and fled to England at the beginning of the Revolution. The other remained in America and practiced law after the Revolution. In the view adopted in this article, based on the legal backgound of "both men", it seems likely that they are the same person, and that Robert the Justice returned to Virginia at some point. There is some reason to believe he never left America, and filed his petition from New York, as he soon returned to reoccupy his lands in Bedford County. See N1, below. Additional evidence on this point is needed.) Robert References
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