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Even Edwin
Edwin is mentioned as a son of George in the family record (owned by Mrs. Isabel J Emerick of Oswego, NY); Hook thinks he might be the Even Owen (and Oven Evens!) mentioned in the Brookhaven records. HOWEVER, this is only an educated guess on Hook’s part - he himself says that other relational arrangements are possible (Even could be a brother - or even the father - of George).
~1663 - born - Bristol, Gloucester, England
1683 Dec 1 - Even Owen purchased a house and lot in Brookhaven from Robert Goulsbery [Book B, pp 175-7, Brookhaven].
1684 Apr 3 - "Oven Evens" who probably was Evan Owens was granted 20 acres "on the west side of the hyway over against his lot" [Brookhaven Records, Book B, pp 3, 4, 129 - It is not clear exactly which record is on which page, nor am I sure whose lot was “his lot”]
1684 - between April 3 & Aug 25 - died
1684 Aug 25 - estate inventoried - administration granted to his widow and relict, Martha, and George Owen. The appraisers of his estate were Samuel Ackerly and John Thomas [Sessions Book, 1669-1684, Suffolk Co, #1, pp 163-4; also NY Gen and Biog Record, 12:133.]
"No children have been found for Even; unless of course we should be proved wrong in believing that the first progenitor was George."
Hook, James William. "The Owen Family of Suffolk, Orange and Westchester Counties, New York." The American Genealogist, v 30 #3 (119) July 1954, p. 131
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John our next ancestor, I believe, despite what Hook says - his own page (this same info, actually)
Listed as a son of George in the family record. Hook says he is "probably" the John mentioned in the Southold records.
~1666 - born - Bristol, Gloucester, England
Notes from Hook's article (p 134 in the July issue):
1692 June 17 - enlisted man in Capt George Bradshaw's Suffolk County Company
[Report of the State Historian, Colonial Series, 1:418].
1690-1703 -
The same source [Report of the State Historian, Colonial Series, 1:401, 2:469, 479] records military activities of a John Owen without stating his residence.
1698 census - Southold - (Charles B Moore [Town of Southold Indexes (1868), p 106] names him as a soldier and as in the 1698 census)
1699 - witnessed deed, Southold
1700 Oct 15 - warrant "for joiner work on the barge"
issued by
sheriff of Suffolk County for [NY State Library Bulletin 58, March 1902, Calendar of Council Minutes, 1688-1783, pp. 149, 150, 167.]
1702 Apr 27 - warrant
"joiner work done at the fort"
issued by
sheriff of Suffolk County for [NY State Library Bulletin 58, March 1902, Calendar of Council Minutes, 1688-1783, pp. 149, 150, 167.]
1702
- witnessed deed, Southold
1736/7 Jan 7 - died - Southold, Suffolk Co., NY.
Hook says "his wife may have been the Mary Owen who died at Southold 18 May 1740, and he may have been father of some of those of the Owen Name who later appear in the early Southold records." He also says one of those possible children might have been Jonathan.
NOW - this Jonathan (possible son of John, possible son of George) is the one I think is the ancestor of our Jonathan Owen. The line goes like this:
1. John ~1666
2. Jonathan 1696 - m Bethia Terry - sons Gershom, Nathaniel, John, Joshua
3. Nathaniel ~1727 - m 3 times
4. Jonathan 1749 - 1814
Hook says he would be inclined to agree with this lineage for our Jonathan if it were not for family tradition which insists he was the son of Ebenezer. Since he has assigned our Jonathan to Ebenezer, he gave Nathaniel a son Jonathan b ~1765 - d 1809 - but that is possibly another mistake, because the Jonathan who died in 1809 was probably the son of Gershom Owen, who married Mary Dunning and died in 1800 - a misreading of the gravestone is suspected, because both Jonathans are given the death date 10 May - but one in 1800 and one in 1809.
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Moses
Listed as a son of George in the family record.
~1668 - born - Cork, Ireland
m Mary Unknown (b ~1672)
children: Even
George
Moses
from Hook v 30, p. 134-5
1687 Aug 1- first appears in records of Brookhaven,- purchased from John Tooker a "house and lot scituate in Brookhaven joining to a hygh way by Thomas Jenner's home lot on ye north side and ye land of John Jenner on the south side, etc. with all improvements thereon [Book B, pp 278-9, Brookhaven].
1694 - elected constable
1699 - collector
1701 - Trustee (Selectman)
1713/4 Jan 25, calling himself a carpenter, he gave property to his "son Even Owen"
1718 Sep 6, gave property to his "son Gorg (George) Owen"
witnesses to both these were George and Sarah Phillips. (George Phillips = fourth pastor of Brookhaven Church)
- does not appear in Brookhaven records after 1718
- does not appear on list of principal freeholders Oct 1719 - >
probably died 1718/9
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Jonathan - our next ancestor according to Hook, has his own page (with mostly this same info)
Listed as a son of George in the family record.
~1668/9 - born -Cork, Ireland (family account says he was born 1671)
1689 Aug 9 - m Mary Brewster (1671 Brookhaven - 1746 Bedford) - Windham, Windham, CT
Children: Jonathan (~1690 Brookhaven - 1759)
m (bef 1703) Mary Unknown (bef 1689 CT - bef 1718 CT)
m 2 (1718 Southold, Suffolk, NY) Rachel Woodworth
She was b Westchester, d 1768 - d/o Benjamin Woodworth and Hannah Damon
Joseph (22 Jun 1706 Brookhaven - 11 Oct 1759 - Bedford, Westchester Co., NY)
m (2 Nov 1729 - Bedford, Westchester Co., NY) Hannah HELME
She was b, 8 Dec 1713 Brookhaven - d 31 Dec 1785 Bedford
d/o William Helme & Temperance Woodhull
Ruth (~1708 Brookhaven - )
m ~1723 Isaac Lawrence (707 in Eastchester, Westchester, NY - 1768)
s/o Isaac Lawrence & Ann Squires
Ebenezer (1710 Brookhaven - 1759 Walkill)
m Temperance Helme (~1712 Brookhaven - )
d/o William Helme & Temperance Woodhull
Nathaniel (~1712 Bedford, Westchester) - 1763 Orange Co, NY)
George (1716 Brookhaven - Aug 1770 Goshen, Orange, NY)
m Elizabeth Unknown
Female 1716 Brookhaven
Female ~1720 Brookhaven
Notes from Hook
1690 Mar 31 - bought from Joseph Davis of Brookhaven "a certain house, barn and homestall? together with orchard, fencings and other improvements now in possession of John Smith being on the north side [of] the land now in possession of John Muncey and a hyway on the south side"; witnessed by Thomas Helme and George Owen and registered by Timothey Brewster [Book B, pp 289-90. Brookhaven].
1701 Mar 10 - request of Jonathan Owen to the Trustees of Brookhaven on 10 Mar 1701 for land "on the southernside of the 20 aker lot given to his [Jonathan's] father Owen by the town over against his brother George Owens house" [Book C, p. 35]
He is shown by subsequent records to have been a carpenter and was designated later in Suffolk and Orange county, NY, deeds as "Planter," "Yeoman," and "Gentleman."
1750 - died - Bedford, Westchester, NY
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George
Not listed as a son of George in the family record (owned by by Mrs. Isabel J Emerick of Oswego, NY), but Hook found a record in which Jonathan, son of George, refers to the land of his brother George, so. To this he adds the information that the only grants in Brookhaven (to an Owen) prior to 1701 were to George the father, so. It is probably fair to infer that George was a son of George, and was somehow left off the family record. [And if this was the family record which made our Jonathan the son of Ebenezer, then - if one mistake, why not two?]
~1672 - born - Cork, Ireland
m UNKNOWN UNKNOWN. (b bef 1668 in Somers, Westchester Co., NY)
Children - not known for certain, but may have been:
George Jr (could have been son of Moses) [Randall Owen gives him a birth date of 1688]
Sarah - b 20 Sep 1690, d 23 Apr 1768, and m about 1711, Eleazer Hawkins; lived at Stony Brook, LI. ( According to Ralph Clymer Hawkins, Hawkins Genealogy (1939) cited by Hook)
Aaron - moved to Westchester Co [Randall Owen gives him a birthdate of ~1692]
Eleazer
Timothy - moved to Goshen, Orange, NY - will 1761 [Randall Owen gives him a birth date of ~1694]
Will mentions children: Timothy, John, Israel, Anning, Mowbray, Sarah, Elizabeth; his oldest dau Ruth had received her portion at marriage; his eldest son was crazy and executors to take charge of his portion
wife was probably Ruth, d/o John Mowbray
execs - my friends, Gersham Owen, Nathaniel Owen, of Ulster County, and Ebenezer Owen of Pochaik"
Gershom & Nathaniel = sons of probable cousin Jonathan3 (John2, George1)
Ebenezer = s/o probable cousin Ebenezer3 (Jonathan 2, Georgei)
Hook, v 30, p141.
I give so much detail about Timothy because (1) he moved to Orange Co, NY (where our Jonathan started out) (2) his sons moved to the same area of western New York our Jonathan did
Notes from Hook v 30, p. 131-4
1688 Dec 8 - George Owen (Hook says it is probably this fellow, because George sr was “quite likely” dead by now) bought property in Brookhaven, LI from Obed Seward [Book B, p 281, Brookhaven]. Moses Owen witness.
1690 Aug 1 - bought land from Joseph Davis, described as bounded by the home lot of Samuel Acrely on the west, by common land on the north, by the land of Benjamin Smith on the south, and by land of Mr. Bryan on the east. This deed was witnessed by Thomas Helm and Moses Owen. [Ibid, pp 290-1].
1694 - elected Trustee of Brookhaven (Moses constable this year)
1701 - constable of Brookhaven (Moses Trustee this year)
1701 Mar 10 - request of Jonathan Owen to the Trustees of Brookhaven on 10 Mar 1701 for land "on the southernside of the 20 aker lot given to his [Jonathan's] father Owen by the town over against his brother George Owens house" [Book C, p. 35]
1703 Apr 11 - registered ear mark for cattle
1704 - tax list, Brookhaven (also Moses and Jonathan)
1713 Apr 3 - fifty acres of land were laid out for George Owen on "west side of town southerly of Smithtown."
1719 Oct - George Owen, George Owen Jr, Jonathan and Aaron Owen, were on the list of principal freeholders of Brookhaven. This is the first record found by the writer of a George Owen called "Jr." (This George Jr. of 1719 must certainly be placed as a grandson of the first settler George.)
1719 Dec 14 - resigned seat in Meeting House (also Aaron Owen and several Brewsters)
1721 - Gorg Owen gave to his "brother Joanthan" 16 acres of land "lying between Jo Akerly's path and ye and of Green's lot." [Book C, p. 110, Brookhaven]. This gift may have been in anticipation of death, and his death may have occurred not long thereafter.
~1721 - died
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