Ancestry of
Zach Braff

TV, Film and Stage Actor

Israel Cowing

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Zach Braff — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 476 
  • Father:
  • Israel Cowing 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Balch   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Sep 1724 
  • Birth Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Dec 1802 
  • Death Location:
  • Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • New Meadows Burying Ground, Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Deborah Turner
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1749 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Charles Cowing

  Calvin Cowing (Ahnentafel No:238 )

  Turner Cowing

  John Cowing

  Christiana Cowing

  • Notes: 

  • Israel Cowing's surname is also seen as Cowen.

• Sources for Israel Cowing

  • ¹ Cowan Clan United: Quarterly Newsletter, JAN 1970, Vol. 1, No. 4, p. 70.
  • ² Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980, FHL 7586547, Image 483, Cemetery record for Israel Cowing.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 1, p. 98, Birth record for Israel Cowen.
  • ⁴ Crasmun, Martha, Descendants of Israel Cowing (08 JUN 2006).
  • ⁵ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 3, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 61.
  • ⁶ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 3, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2019), 192.

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