Owen Roberts

He was the second son of Hugh Roberts and Jane Owen. He was High Sheriff of Philadelphia, 1716, 1723, Treasurer of Philadelphia County from 22 July 1712 to 1716. Member of the Common Council, and Member of the Provincial Assembly, 1711 and was Collector of Imposts, 1716-1723.

see: Welsh settlement of Pennsylvania . page 54 for family land holdings
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Owen Roberts, second son, b. 1. 10th mo. 1677. He inherited some land from his father, as above, but entering on mercantile life in Philadelphia, was never a Merion planter^ There was in 1716, an "ould Grave Yard" on his Merion property, from which bodies were removed to the ground, of the Merion Meeting. He was the worthy son of his father, and was honored by being made the high sheriff of Philadelphia county, 1716-23; the treasurer, 1712-16 j. collector, 1716-23, a member of the city council, 1712, and of the Assembly, 1711, &c. He owned 231 acres, of the east end of his father's original land, and by deed of 14 October, 1726, his relict, Ann,, then residing in Nantmell township (Chester county), conveyed the same to Jonathan Jones, of Merion. His will, signed 31. 1st mo. 1706, witnessed by Griffith John,. Evan Owen, John Roberts, and Robert Jones, was proved at Philadelphia in 1723. He named brother Edward, and appointed trustees, brothers-in-law Evan Bevan and RobertJones, with uncle John Roberts and Griffith John. He m. 23. Imo. 1696, Ann, daughter of John Bevan, one of the early settlers of Merion, who died after 1723. Issue, six children. His infant son, Owen Roberts, was buried at Merion Meeting, 7mo. 25. 1707, but he had another Owen, 6. 23. 8. 1711. Other children were Hugh Roberts, b. 30. 5. 1699. John Roberts, b. 12. 8. 1701, m. Mary Jones, and Awbrey Roberts, b. 24. 4. 1705.
~• from "The Welsh Tract" p. 102