Photo courtesy of NNY Genealogy.
From the Fonda List found at the Jefferson county genweb page;
JONATHAN COWAN son of Joseph Cowan (or Cowen)
Born: July 12, 1760 at Gloucester, Rhode Island (Glocester)
Died: November 27, 1840 at Watertown, N.Y.
Married: AMY
Born: 1766
Died: April 13, 1824 in town of Pamelia, Jefferson Co., N.Y.
Service: Jonathan Cowan enlisted at Bristol, R.I. in Capt. Abraham Windsor's Co. of Col. Chad Brown's Regiment of R.I. State troops December 1, 1776. He turned out an alarm and served one month at Bristol. This company was divided into classes. Cowan's class was ordered to Providence, R.I. and did duty of private for one month, February 1777. He took his father, Joseph's, place as substitute under Capt. Windsor in Col. Brown's regiment for one month. He did duty as a private in the same regiment in 1778. Service for 6 months and 9 days.
Archives Building, Washington, D.C., S.C. 12541
Remarks: Jonathan Cowan is buried in the village cemetery in Evans Mills, Jefferson Co., N.Y. In his pension, Jonathan Cowan says he was living in Bristol, R.I. when called into service. The date of death of Mrs. Cowan is found in notice in an early Watertown paper (Ind. Republican). Watertown history says that probably Jonathan Cowan's family were buried in the old Trinity cemetery, the ground where the City Hall now stands. Many of the bodies were never removed when the City took over the land.
From the Fonda List found at the Jefferson county genweb page;
JONATHAN COWAN son of Joseph Cowan (or Cowen)
Born: July 12, 1760 at Gloucester, Rhode Island (Glocester)
Died: November 27, 1840 at Watertown, N.Y.
Married: AMY
Born: 1766
Died: April 13, 1824 in town of Pamelia, Jefferson Co., N.Y.
Service: Jonathan Cowan enlisted at Bristol, R.I. in Capt. Abraham Windsor's Co. of Col. Chad Brown's Regiment of R.I. State troops December 1, 1776. He turned out an alarm and served one month at Bristol. This company was divided into classes. Cowan's class was ordered to Providence, R.I. and did duty of private for one month, February 1777. He took his father, Joseph's, place as substitute under Capt. Windsor in Col. Brown's regiment for one month. He did duty as a private in the same regiment in 1778. Service for 6 months and 9 days.
Archives Building, Washington, D.C., S.C. 12541
Remarks: Jonathan Cowan is buried in the village cemetery in Evans Mills, Jefferson Co., N.Y. In his pension, Jonathan Cowan says he was living in Bristol, R.I. when called into service. The date of death of Mrs. Cowan is found in notice in an early Watertown paper (Ind. Republican). Watertown history says that probably Jonathan Cowan's family were buried in the old Trinity cemetery, the ground where the City Hall now stands. Many of the bodies were never removed when the City took over the land.
Photo courtesy of NNY Genealogy.
From the Fonda List found at the Jefferson county genweb page;
JONATHAN COWAN son of Joseph Cowan (or Cowen)
Born: July 12, 1760 at Gloucester, Rhode Island (Glocester)
Died: November 27, 1840 at Watertown, N.Y.
Married: AMY
Born: 1766
Died: April 13, 1824 in town of Pamelia, Jefferson Co., N.Y.
Service: Jonathan Cowan enlisted at Bristol, R.I. in Capt. Abraham Windsor's Co. of Col. Chad Brown's Regiment of R.I. State troops December 1, 1776. He turned out an alarm and served one month at Bristol. This company was divided into classes. Cowan's class was ordered to Providence, R.I. and did duty of private for one month, February 1777. He took his father, Joseph's, place as substitute under Capt. Windsor in Col. Brown's regiment for one month. He did duty as a private in the same regiment in 1778. Service for 6 months and 9 days.
Archives Building, Washington, D.C., S.C. 12541
Remarks: Jonathan Cowan is buried in the village cemetery in Evans Mills, Jefferson Co., N.Y. In his pension, Jonathan Cowan says he was living in Bristol, R.I. when called into service. The date of death of Mrs. Cowan is found in notice in an early Watertown paper (Ind. Republican). Watertown history says that probably Jonathan Cowan's family were buried in the old Trinity cemetery, the ground where the City Hall now stands. Many of the bodies were never removed when the City took over the land.
From the Fonda List found at the Jefferson county genweb page;
JONATHAN COWAN son of Joseph Cowan (or Cowen)
Born: July 12, 1760 at Gloucester, Rhode Island (Glocester)
Died: November 27, 1840 at Watertown, N.Y.
Married: AMY
Born: 1766
Died: April 13, 1824 in town of Pamelia, Jefferson Co., N.Y.
Service: Jonathan Cowan enlisted at Bristol, R.I. in Capt. Abraham Windsor's Co. of Col. Chad Brown's Regiment of R.I. State troops December 1, 1776. He turned out an alarm and served one month at Bristol. This company was divided into classes. Cowan's class was ordered to Providence, R.I. and did duty of private for one month, February 1777. He took his father, Joseph's, place as substitute under Capt. Windsor in Col. Brown's regiment for one month. He did duty as a private in the same regiment in 1778. Service for 6 months and 9 days.
Archives Building, Washington, D.C., S.C. 12541
Remarks: Jonathan Cowan is buried in the village cemetery in Evans Mills, Jefferson Co., N.Y. In his pension, Jonathan Cowan says he was living in Bristol, R.I. when called into service. The date of death of Mrs. Cowan is found in notice in an early Watertown paper (Ind. Republican). Watertown history says that probably Jonathan Cowan's family were buried in the old Trinity cemetery, the ground where the City Hall now stands. Many of the bodies were never removed when the City took over the land.
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