Nathaniel Owen
Born: ~1727 [7 Feb 1727, according to Randall Owen]
In: Brookhaven?, Suffolk (Long Island), NY
Died: ~1806 [20 Apr 1802, according to Randall Owen]
In: Orange County, NY
Father: Jonathan Owen
Mother: Bethia Terry
Siblings: Gershom ~1724
[Nathaniel] ~1727
John ~1729
Joshua ~1730
Married: (1) Unknown (possibly Susannah?)
Children: Susannah ~1747
m John Van Tuyl
Jonathan 1749 - Aug 1814
m Eleanor Kortright
Bethia ~1750
m William Summerlin
Sarah ~1754 - 1822
m William Bodel/Bodle
(2) Elizabeth Jane/Jayne - 24 June 1757 (NY Marriages, p. 288)
[Randall Owen says her dates were
b: 7 Feb 1739 d: 8 Aug 1820, which causes a problem, no?]
Children: Joshua 14 Nov 1760 - 21 Oct 1839
m Zipporah Winters
She d 25 Dec 1831
David ~1762
(3) Nancy Darby - 18 Jan 1778 (Goshen Presbyt. Church records)
Children: William ~1779
m Elsie McCord (see Jonathan’s son William)
Julianna ~1782
m (1) William McBride
m (2) 13 Mar 1803 - Goshen Presbyterian - James Carpenter
Temperance ~1784
Notes from Hook:
lived near brother Gershom, on the border line between Ulster and Orange counties, in the Walkill precinct of the Minisink patent, and quite far away to be worshiping at the Goshen Church. Land in the Minisink angle was granted to Nathaniel Owen and to Jonathan, George and Henry Smith and to Isaiah Veal and Wait Carpenter - 21 Mar 1770.
Timeline
~1727 - born, Brookhaven?
17xx - married unknown
~1747
daughter Susannah born
1749 son Jonathan born
1749/50 Jan 22- daughter Bethia born (no documentation for date)
1753 Sept 29 - daughter Sarah born (no documentation for date)
17xx - wife died
1757 June 24 - married Elizabeth Jane/Jayne
Bond signed by James Jackson and John Yolverton/Yelverton.
One lineage says Elizabeth was d/o William and Tabitha Norton Jayne
- also says she died in 1820 - which, if true, means she and Nathaniel divorced before 1778
1760 Nov 14 son Joshua born
1761 Feb 16 - March 4 - will of Timothy Owen of Goshen, cordwainer
wife (no name)
ch Timothy, John Israel, Anning, Moubery, Sarah, Elizabeth
(Oldest son sometimes crazy)
exec Girshom, Nathaniel Owen of Ulster Co, Ebenezer Owen of Pochack
wit Abner Brush, John Gale, James Little
1761 Oct 27 - will of John Little of Orange Co, farmer - wit Nathaniel Owen
~1762 son David born
1763 Dec 1 - Nathaniel Owen d. - who is he?
Hook thinks he was the son of Jonathan Owen and Mary Brewster
1765 April 10 - Nath’l Owen [et al]. . . intruders on certain unknown lands, in the County of Ulster.
(History of the Town of Wallkill, Dorothy Hunt-Ingrassia)
1768 Dec 15 - Petition of Jonathan Smith, Joshua Smith, Isaiah Veal, Nath’l Owen, Henry Smith, Wait Carpenter for part of lot No. 14 in the Minisink Angle.
1769 - Nathaniel Owens member 1st Persbyterian Church, Goshen
1770 Mar 21 - petition granted for the land in the Minisink angle
1771 Jan 21 - return of survey for . . . Dan’l Owen . . . of a tract of 600 acres of land in lot No. 14 in the Minisink angle in the county of Ulster, (Calhoun, Orange County) - assume mistake of Dan’l for Nath’l
~1772 son Jonathan m Eleanor Kortright
1778 Jan 18 - married Nancy Darby (Goshen Presbyterian)
~1779 son William born
~1782 daughter Julianna born
1782 son David m (probably) Martha Armstrong
1784 May 11 - Nathaniel Owen, with consent of wife Nancy, of the Precinct of Wallkill in the County of Ulster to James Butler late of the Precinct of Gosehn for $600.00 a tract of 146 acres. Identified as on the new east and west line which divided the counties of Ulster and Orange now in the possession of James Butler. Term of one year. Witnesses Stephen Smith and Nathaniel Owen, Jr, and ?? Wickom? 30 June 1786
~1784 daughter Temperance born
1790 census - ?
1790 New York, Ulster, Walkill
p. 216/59 Nathaniel Owens 2 2 3 0 2
1791 March 9 - certificate of location for Nathaniel Owen, of a tract of land containing 200 a on the west side of Seneca lake, between the lands ceded to Massachusetts and the lands set apart for the troops of the state of New York (Land Papers, Starkey, Yates Co) - Una doesn’t know which Nathaniel this is - our Nathaniel sr, our Nathaniel jr, or another Nathaniel entirely
1796 Apr 23 - wrote will
1800 May 30 - Nathaniel Owen, merchant, of Walhill, Orange County, New York - sold to William Owen, yeoman of Walkill, Orange Co - 200 acre tract in his [William’s] actual possession for $7000.
1800 May 30 - Nathaniel Owen appointed William Owen as his attorney to collect and pay debts of Nathaniel Owen
1800 census
- not found
1802 Feb 25 - William Owen, trader and his wife Elsey of Wallkill - 1st part
William Ellison, New Windsor, Orange Co, gent - 2nd part
Nathaniel Owen, merchant, Walkill - 3rd part
William McBride and Juliana his wife AND Temperance Owen of Orange Co - 4th part
John Remsen, Abraham Brinkerhoff, John Outhouse, NY - 5th part
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th parts relinquished their rights to the 5th part for 50 cents each
recorded 27 March 1802
1802 Apr 20 - died
1802 May 15 - sons/ Jonathan and William, and Stephen Smith renounced their rights as executors of Nathaniel's will
Early Orange County Wills (F127 O8 E27 1991)
Nathaniel Owen Walkill Liber B, p. 324
dated 23 Apr 1796 probated 3 May 1802
wife - no name given
sons - Jonathan, Joshua David, William
dau - Susanna w/o John VanTyle
Bethia w/o Wm. Summerlin
Sarah w/o Wm Bidle
mentions - Juliana Owen; Temperance Owen
ex - Jonathan Owen, William Owen, Stephen Smith - all dec. before probate -> Reuben Hopkins appointed.
wit. - Reuben Hopkins, George Smith, Moses Hatfield
NOTE: I had assumed that "all dec. before probate" meant "all deceased . . . . " It is possible it meant "all declined . . . ." At any rate, they were not deceased, and they did renounce their rights to execute the will:
Whereas on the third day of May in the year one thousand and eight hundred and two at Goshen in the said County of Orange before James Everett there unto by us delegated and appointed the said will was proved and in is now approved and allowed of by us and the said Jonathan Owen, William Owen, and Stephen Smith the executors they did by an instrument in writing under their hands and seal bearing date the fifteenth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and two renounced the executor ship of the said will and refused to be concerned therein and now being desirous that the goods chattels and ?of the said deceased by be ? and faithfully administered applied and disposed of according to the true intent and meaning of his said will a copy (A copy whereof is present is here unto annexed) do grant unto you the said Reuben Hopkins in whose fidelity we much confide full ? and ? to collect levy recover and receive all and singular the good chattels and credits of the said deceased and the same to administer and dispose of according to the . . . and effect of the said will . . .
Orange County NY - Will Book b: 323-4
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