Jonathan | Joseph | Ruth | Ebenezer | Nathaniel | George | two unknown females
Randall Owen gives Jonanthan and Mary four additional children, Caleb, b ~1691 (m Elizabeth Brewster - one son), Joshua, b 1692 - d 1769 (m Margaret Woodworth - ch Jemima, Leonard, Elijah, and Keziah), Ann, b 9 Nov 1693, and Aaron b 1696
Jonathan (~1690 Brookhaven - 1759)
There apparently is some confusion (and why not? - everything else is confused) between this fellow and the Jonathan who married Bethia Terry. Hook says they are different people because (a) Jonathan married Bethia Terry at Southold rather than Brookhaven (although this fellow married his 2nd wife at Southold -?), and (b) this Jonathan was in Connecticut at the time Jonathan-married-to-Bethia was in Orange County.
m (bef 1703) Mary Unknown (bef 1689 CT - bef 1718 CT)
doesn't this seem a little young - Jonathan 13???
m 2 (1718 Southold, Suffolk, NY) Rachel Woodworth
She was b Westchester, d 1768 - d/o Benjamin Woodworth and Hannah Damon
Children (not all proved)
Jonathan ~1730
Ebenezer ~1735-6
Jedidiah (Jarediah) ~1738-9
Jesse 1741
Notes from Hook:
1720 July 13 - father Jonathan referred to as "Sr" for the first time
[Brookhaven Records, B: 388-9]
1724 March 11 - Jonathan jr recorded ear-mark [ibid, B:517]
17xx - moved to Greenwich
1734 June 20 -
"Jonathan Owen, carpenter, of Greenwich" purchasing land from the estate of Timothy Knapp, 20 June 1734 at a place "cauled Field." [Greenwich Conn. Land Record, vols 4,5,6]
1735 March 29 - Jonathan jr mentioned in a land division
[Brookhaven Records C:170]
1736 April - "Jonathan Owen of Greenwich, Conn," was granted four parcels by the town of Greenwich
- sold land there to Daniel Knapp et al
- bought a parcel there from James Knapp
- sold land there to Benjamin Brush.
1740 June - "Jonathan Owen of Greenwich" was granted three more parcels of land by the town
- bought land in Greenwich from Samuel Lockwook and Samuel Ferris
- brother Joseph appears in Greenwich records at this time
1745/6 Jan 25 -
1747 Aug 24 -
1747 Sep 1
"Jonathan Owen of Greenwich" warranted five separate deeds which disposed of his property in that town
1747 Sep 1 - not found in Greenwich records after this date
17xx - moved to Dutchess (now Putnam) Co, NY
1760 Aug 22 - witnessed the will of William Southerland of North Castle [New York Wills, 6:86]
1768 May 12 - administration of estate of (possible) wife Rachel Owen of Westchester given to Moses Wayman [New York Wills, 7:465]
Hook, James William. "The Owen Family of Suffolk, Orange and Westchester Counties, New York." The American Genealogist, v31 #1 (121) January 1955 pp. 36-40.
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Joseph (22 Jun 1706 Brookhaven - 11 Oct 1759 - Bedford, Westchester Co., NY)
family records say he was born 22 June 1706; gravestone says he was 53 when he died on 11 Oct 1759
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
sister of Temperence Helme who married our next ancestor, Ebenezer Owen
Children
Hannah ~1730
Ruth ~1732 - m John Woolsey - son John
Peminah ~1734 - m Caleb Sands - 8 ch
Joseph 5 Sep 1735 - m Millicent Horton - 8ch
Sarah~19 Nov 1737 - m Stephen Horton
Martha ~1739 - m Samuel Sands
Mary ~1741 - m Josiah Woolsey
Thomas ~1742 - m Rachel Unknown - 2ch
1718 June 30 - Will of Arthur Fently, Brookhaven, witnessed by Joseph Owen
Notes from Hook:
1729 Nov - request for ear-mark {Brookhaven records] - this is the only record of him in Brookhaven
1729 Nov 2 - married Hannah Helme, Bedford, Westchester, NY
- probably moved to Westchester shortly after his marriage, but no records there until 1740, when he moved to Greenwich (brother Jonathan already living there)
1740 - describing himself as of North Castle, Westchester, NY - bought land in Greenwich from Abraham Rundell
1740 - ditto - bought a house and 3 acres in Greenwich from Ephraim Palmer
1740 - describing himself as of Greenwich - bought 40 acres from Samuel Smith
These lands were located near Round Hill - 2 mi north of Greenwich
bef 1746 March
- disposed of all these properties (wife's name not mentioned in deeds)
[Greenwich Deeds, 5:34. 226-7, 299; 6:207. 372; 7:217]
17xx - moved back to Westchester Co
1759 - died, Westchester - buried in the Owen-Raymond cemetery near his parents
1789 Dec 31 - wife Hannah died, aged 82 - according to gravestone
She was b 8 Dec 1713 Brookhaven - d 31 Dec 1785 Bedford according to Cal Owen's file
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Ruth (~1708 Brookhaven - )
m ~1723 Isaac Lawrence (707 in Eastchester, Westchester, NY - 1768)
s/o Isaac Lawrence & Ann Squires
Children
Isaac
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Ebenezer (1710 Brookhaven - 1759 Walkill) - our next ancestor, according to Hook - has his own page
m (~1735) Temperance Helme (~1712 Brookhaven - )
d/o William Helme & Temperance Woodhull
Children: Ebenezer (1737-1800)
m Ann Unk (1738, Blooming Grove, Orange, NY- Feb 1814, NewtonTwp).
William (1740-1805)
m Elizabeth Burden
(17 Apr 1758, Bristol Co., RI - 22 Mar 1812, Blooming Grove, Orange, NY)
Nathaniel
No info at all about him in the Hook article.
I had confused him with the man Hook identifies as the son of Jonathan and Bethia Terry Owen - and other people have made Nathaniel s/o Jonathan and Bethia the father of our Jonathan!
Temperance (1745 -1829)
m David Horton (18 Dec 1744, Goshen, Orange, NY - 4 May 1813)
s/o David Horton & Mary Warner
Ann (1746-1810)
m Colville Shephard 29 Mar 1785 (19 Dec 1746 - Sep 1810)
s/o David Shepard & Sarah Bradner
Charity (1749 - ?)
m Daniel Decker (~ 1747 - bet. 8 - 15 Jun 1786)
Jonathan - our next ancestor (1749 - 1814)
m Catherine Eleanor Kortwright
Keturah born ~1751
Julianna born 1755
Notes from Hook
1741 Sept 21 - listed as a freeman at Bedford, Westchester
17xx - moved to Walkill, Orange, NY
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Nathaniel (~1712 Bedford, Westchester) - 1763 Orange Co, NY)
Notes from Hook:
probably but not proved son of Jonathan. Little has been ascertained about this man and his possible family, and we merely assemble here a few records which may pertain to him and to his probable sons, Jonathan and Nathaniel
Nathaniel Owen died intestate in Orange County in 1763 and letters of administration on his estate were granted to Samuel Jones, 1 Dec 1763 [NY Wills, 6:448]
A Jonathan Owen on 27 Dec 1763 witnessed a deed of "Bridget Jones, John Jones and Thomas Jones executrix and executors of the last will and testament of Evan Jones, Surgeon, late of Hermitage in the County of Ulster" that conveyed land to Samuel Brewster which ahd been in his possession "for the past year."
A Nathaniel Owen enlisted as a militiaman from Suffolk Co, LI, NY - 18 Apr 1758, in Capt Alexander Smiths Company. A Nathaniel Owen was registered Oct 1769 as a member of the Goshen Presbyterian Church. A Nathaniel Owen, Jr, witnessed a deed of Nathaniel and Nancy Owen, 11 May 1784 (see Nathaniel s/o Jonathan s/o John), and unless a son of that Nathaniel who died before he made his will, must have belonged to a cognate branch of the family. A Nathaniel Owen served from Ulster County in the Rev. and a Nathaniel Owen is shown in the 1790 census at Walkill, Ulster, NY - 2m 16+, 2m 16-, 3 f, 2 slaves.
Hook, James William. "The Owen Family of Suffolk, Orange and Westchester Counties, New York." The American Genealogist, v 31 #1 (121) January 1955 p. 40
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George (1716 Brookhaven - Aug 1770 Goshen, Orange, NY)
m Elizabeth Unknown
Apparently there were 4 or 5 men of this name in the Brookhaven records. The assumption of a George son of Jonathan is based on the fact that after the passing of eleven years (1725-1736) without mention of a George in the records, one came prominently into the records about the time that Jonathan departed from them. In those days it ws common to elevate the son of a long prominent citizen to the position of his father when the latter, because of age, withdrew. (Hook's explanation)
Notes from Hook:
1736 May 4 - George Owen elected Trustee of Brookhaven
2 May 1737 - assessor and Trustee (this is the last year that Capt Jonathan was elected trustee)
14 Feb 1738 Capt Jonathan Owen and George Owen were the only Trustees to join with 28 other inhabitants in a petition protesting against creating a sheep pasture in the town. [Brookhaven TR, C:185, 187] Being the only Trustees to sign may imply a close connection between them.
1740 - George Owen elected Trustee
1741 - George Owen (called Leftenant Owen) elected Trustee
1745 - assessor
1749-1753 - commissioner of roads (with John Brewster) - called Captain.
1758 - on Brookhaven rate list - last appearance in records except for
1767 June 15 - "meadow formerly possessed by George Owen" was mentioned
Hook thinks he and John Brewster moved to Orange Co, NY about 1760, and he died soon after -
by 1767 the record indicates that he had either died or removed before that date.
A George Owen died in Orange Co in Aug, 1770 - will names wife Elizabeth, son George, other children not named.
There may have been in the family of this George the Nathaniel who enlisted in Capt Alexander Smith's Co of Suffolk Co Militia, 18 Apr 1758.
There was a Samuel Owen who in 1743 "hath taken his grandfather's mark" the description of which is identical with the one which was given Jonathan on 20 Jan 1692.
Hook, James William. "The Owen Family of Suffolk, Orange and Westchester Counties, New York." The American Genealogist, v 31 #1 (121) January 1955 pp. 43-4.
Female 1716 Brookhaven
Female ~1720 Brookhaven
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