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Christopher Cowan (1780-1835) was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, industrialist who built the city's first rolling mill. He was
the son-in-law of Major Abraham Kirkpatrick, Revolutionary War soldier and one of Pittsburgh's early pioneers. The collection
consists of correspondence, agreements, powers of attorney, and other papers, concerning the estate of Abraham Kirkpatrick
and the disposal of land in Ohio's Virginia Military District. Includes an unsigned letter to Col. John Neville, Woodville,
Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania 1784, containing entries made while the writer traveled through the area of southern Ohio, with a
sketch showing rivers, names of settlements, and Indian camps.
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