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About William Owens, I
For William's biography, please see http://www.genealogybyvirgil.com/william.html
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/O wen-1906
William Owen (son of Bartholomew Owen and Joanna Johanna Jennings)739 was born Abt. 1672, give or tale a few years, in Southwarke Parish, Surry Co., Va, and died October 23, 1752 in Halifax Co., Va.He married Lydia Lunsford.
Notes for William Owen:
[v22t2912.ftw] WILLIAM OWEN
William was born in the early 1670s in SurryCounty. Virginia and died in Halifax Co VA 8n 1753 - the same year that Halifax Co was formed from part of Lunenburg County.Note that with the shift in these county lines, as in so many other cases, William may not have moved.The son of Bartholomew Owen and Joanna Jennings, There is unverified family lore that William married his stepsister, Miss (first name unknown) Brookes, the daughter of Thomas Brookes and Susannah Wyatt. Miss Brookes apparently died before 1703.The 2nd wife of Thomas Brookes was William's widowed mother, Joanna (Jennings) Owen.
On 1 Oct 1702, William Owen purchased 100 acres of land in Goochland Co, VA from Seth Rench for one hundred pounds of merchantable tobacco.The land was located on the south side of Chickahominy Swamp.He held this land one year and sold it to John Woodson for 1500 pounds of tobacco and 8 Pounds Sterling.For those uninitiated into the mystique of this particular area, it should be noted that today the Swamp, and, indeed, Chickahominy River itself, are highly infested with the dread Water Moccasin.
Miss Brookes died childless about 1700. William appears to have been unmarried when he sold property in 1703.
When William, died, he named his son-in-law, John Kirby and grandson Francis Kerby as Executors of the estate. When the will was presented at Halifax County Court on 20 Mar 1753, John Owen, William's eldest son, represented by Thomas Nash, Gent., his atty, enterd a caveat because John's first name had been omitted (through clerical error) from the court copy of the will. Also, Francis Kerby could not function as executor because he was still a minor. The case was continued to next courst. The will of William Owen, deceased, was proved on 15 May 1753 by John Kerby and Francis Kerby, executors, and wtnesses, William Mullins, Jacob Adkins, and Joseph Keaton,..
Note: The above website is not factually correct.
- *The Kirby Kin by Tommye Quarles Meyer, copyright 1993, $45: 9952La Tuna Canyon Road, Sun Valley,CA91352-2237
- Virginia Genealogies, Vol. II
- Surry Co VA Court Records: Inventory of Bartholomew's estate 1677
- Halifax County, VA Court Records
Will
"I William Owens of Halifax County be in my perfect sences but low & weak in constension '(consteusion?') and don't now how sune it may please God to call me out of this state of life and I think it fel to gif what Leattel good health geaven me to my sattesfaxon as follows my sole to the Lord my maker and my boddy to the earth In the name of God amen Also to myson (blank) Owens I give to him and his heares for Ever one shellen starlen. Also to myson William Owens I give one shellen starlen to him and his heares for Ever. Also to myson Lansford (Lunsford? tear through the first part of the name) Owens one shellen starle... (page torn) ...is Eares for... (page torn) ...ver . also to (unreadable) one shellen starlen to her and her Eares for Ev…' (page torn)' ...Dafter Marey Genens one shellen starlen to her a... (page torn) ...Eares for Ever. Also to my Dafter An Medlin I give one shellen starlen to her and her Eares for Ever. Also to my Dafter Joaner Kearbey I give one negro gal named Diner and her In Cres to her and her Eares for Ever. Also to my Daftor Leyda Adkins I give one shellen starlen to her and her Eares for Ever. Also to Frances KERBY one Bed and furniture and one Pot and for Dishes and for Basons a set of Wedes and a fro to him and his Ares for Ever. Also to my grandson John Kerby I give my horse bridle and Saddel to him and his Ares for Ever. Also John Kerbey Senr and Frances Kerbey hole Execetors of my last Will and Testement after my D... (page torn) ...This my Last Will made the 23 day of october in the Year of our Lord God 1752 as witness our hands Sined Sealed In The Presence of ous"
William his mark Mullins William his mark Owens SS
Jacob(his mark Adkins
Joseph Keatton
Transcription by Virgil Owens, 5th great-grandson. I have kept the original spelling and punctuation but anything in (italics) was added by me
- Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 30 2020, 22:22:43 UTC
- Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 28 2020, 15:42:33 UTC
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William Owens, I's Timeline
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1673
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Southwarke Parrish, Surry County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1690
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1700
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Prince George, Prince George, Virginia, United States
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1703
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Henrico, Virginia
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1704
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Prince George, Virginia, United States
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1706
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Prince George, Virginia, British Colonial America
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1706
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Virginia, United States
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January 3, 1713
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Prince George County, Virginia
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1713
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