COWHERD, William {I462} (b. )
Given Name: William
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Probate: Date: ABT 1792
Place: Westmoreland Co., VA
Given Name: Benjamin
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: BROCKMAN'S SCRAPBOOK
Title: BROCKMAN'S SCRAPBOOK
Author: William Everett Brockman
Publication: 1952
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Given Name: Thomas
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Given Name: Winnifred
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Given Name: James
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Event: Type: Military
Date: BET 1756 AND 1763
Note: Ensign in Col Boquet's regiment during the French and IndianWar.--History of Orange Co. by W>W> Scott pg 59.
Property: 2000 acre land grant
Date: BET 1756 AND 1763
Place: North Fork of the Elkhorn River, Scott Co., KY
Death: ABT 1760
Given Name: Reuben Travis
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Death: 1830
Given Name: Elizabeth
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Death: 18 MAR 1791
Given Name: Francis
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Event: Type: Military
Date: Revolutionary War
Note: Attained rank of Capt. in the Revolutionary Army and was a soldier inCol. Field's Regt. at the Battle of Point Pleasant.
Occupation: planter/soldier/Justice of the Peace/High Sherriff
Place: Orange Co., VA
Event: Justice of Peace & High Sherriff
Type: Elected
Date: post Revolutionary War
Place: Orange Co., VA
Event: long known as May Cowherd
Type: Misc
Note: History of Orange Co, by W>W> Scott pg 61.
Death: 1833 Orange Co., VA
Given Name: James
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Event: Type: Military
Date: 1777
Place: Culpepper Co., VA
Note: Served as PVT & SGT in Capt John Gillson's Co, 10th Va Regt. Hemarched to New Castle Deleware, to Middle Brook, NJ where he joinedWashington's Army. He was ordered back to Va.
to recruit under Lt. Thomas Barbee. Then returned to the Army atValley Forge and fought at Monmouth, White Plains, West Point &Savannah during seige. While on a vessel going to Charleston helanded on Mosquito Island, then to Florida where he was taken prisonerin 1779 & was taken to St Augustine, Fla. He was released in 1780 inCharleston.
Occupation: farmer
Death: 19 APR 1841 Taylor Co., KY
Given Name: Sarah M
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Given Name: Colby
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Occupation: land-owner
Note: He was an extensive land owner in Orange Co. Va. He owned 52 slavesin 1840.
Death: 1847 Orange Co., VA
Given Name: Yelverton Peyton
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Death: AFT OCT 1804
Given Name: Reuben
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Probate: Date: DEC 1846
Place: Louisa Co., VA
Given Name: Tabitha
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Note: never married
Given Name: Frances "Fanny"
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Note: died single
Given Name: Drucilla
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Given Name: Willis
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Event: lived in
Type: Misc
Date: 1820
Place: Orange Co., IN
Death: AFT 1848 Hardin Co., KY
Given Name: Mary "Polly"
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Given Name: Simeon
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Event: Type: Military
Date: 25 NOV 1805
Place: Green Co., KY
Note: Simeon was a member of the famous "Cornstalk Militia", having beencommissioned as an ensign of the 16th Regiment fro Green Co., KY
Death: ABT 1846 KY
Given Name: Buford
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Imported GEDCOM file
Title: Imported GEDCOM file
Occupation: slave-trader
Death: AFT 1823
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