Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

John Cowgill
MSA SC 5496-51873

Sources:

Archival Sources-

Cowgill Papers, Talbot County Historical Society.

TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records) Liber STH 67, Folio 269-270, MSA CE 91-4. William W. Davis & Sarah B. his wife to Ezekiel Cowgill, September 13, 1856. 

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Records, MD) Household of Ezekiel Cowgill, 1860, Easton, Talbot County, Page 70 [MSA SM 61-218].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Records, MD) Household of John Cowgill, 1870, District 1, Talbot County, Page 62 [MSA SM61-280].

Books-

"A Monument to 18 Brave Men." Star Democrat, Easton, MD: Chesapeake Publishing Company.

Krech, Shephard. "The Participation of Maryland Blacks in the Civil War: Perpectives from Oral History." Ethnohistory 27, No. 1 (Winter, 1980): 67.21.

United States War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series I Vol. XLVIII Part II: Correspondence Etc.   Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896.
Internet Sources-

"Camden Friends Meeting." Delaware Public Archives.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, VA) for John Cowgill, 1880, White Stone, Lancaster County, Page 45. Ancestry.com.

U.S. Civil War Draft Registration Records for John Cowgill, 1863-1865, Maryland, 1st Congressional District, Vol. 1, Page 135. Ancestry.com.

U.S. Civil War Draft Registration Records for James Cowgill, 1863-1865, Maryland, 1st Congressional District, Vol. 1, Page 133. Ancestry.com.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934. Record for John Cowgill. Ancestry.com.


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