Colonel
Thomas
Owen
Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania
Son of Hugh Owen
and Jane Jennie (Haskins) Owen
Brother of
Lucy Owen
Husband of
Eleanor (Porterfield) Owen
— married
about 1755 in North Carolina
Descendants 
Died
at age 71
in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 20 Jun 2011
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Biography
Colonel Thomas Owen served with Bladen County Regiment, North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.
Thomas Owen is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A085304.
Thomas was a Revolutionary Colonel and served in political office in North Carolina at the time. He was one of the leaders of the Battle of Elizabethtown in August 1781. [1]
Col. Thomas Owen led the Bladen County Regiment at the battles of Little Lynches Creek, SC (8/11/1780), Camden, SC (8/16/1780), Tory Hole (8/27/1781), Brown Marsh (9/1781), Raft Swamp (10/15/1781), and the Evacuation of Wilmington (11/18/1781).
Thomas Owen was was born in 1735 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.[1][2]
He was a delegate to the Third Provincial Congress of August 1775 in Hillsborough and the Fifth Provincial Congress of November 1776 in Halifax. He served in the North Carolina House of Commons in 1777 and in the Senate in 1778-1780, 1784-1785, 1787, and 1790. He also was a delegate to the North Carolina Constitutional Convention in 1788 and 1789.
He was a large plantation owner in Bladen County, North Carolina.
He married Eleanor Porterfield in Fayetteville in 1782.[1] They had three children, two sons, and one daughter.
Thomas died in 1803[2] or 1806.[1]. He is buried in the Owen family cemetery in Bladen County, North Carolina.[3]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Thomas Owen Family Bible
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frank Burke Porterfield, The Porterfields (Roanoke, Virginia: Multiprint Inc, 1947), pp. 87-88, digital images, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066246737;view=1up;seq=95. Hathi Trust Digital Library (https://babel.hathitrust.org: accessed 30 September 2021).
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59652419/thomas-owen : accessed 19 November 2021), memorial page for Gen Thomas Owen (25 Apr 1735–22 Nov 1806), Find A Grave: Memorial #59652419, citing Owen Family Cemetery, Bladen County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Shirley (contributor 47044694) .
See also:
- The American Revolution in North Carolina, 1st Major in the Bladen County Regiment of Militia - 1775-1776, Colonel in the Bladen County Regiment of Militia - 1776-1783
- Wheeler, John H. Historical sketches of North Carolina, from 1584 to 1851. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Grambo, 1851. ppg. 184, 192, 320, 429
- North Carolina Government, 1585-1974, North Carolina Government, 1585-1974, North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State, Ed. John L. Cheney, Jr., 1975, ppg. 155, 158, 201,202,204,214, 219, 224, 765, 786, 1788, 1789
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Marty (Lenover) Acks
E Borgman
The source link to the Thomas Owen Family Bible is no longer any good.
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by E Borgman
Marty (Lenover) Acks
Owen-7565 and Owen-819 appear to represent the same person because: He and his wife are clear duplicates. No mismatching data. This merge ties this line of Owens to a deeper Porterfield pedigree.
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by Marty (Lenover) Acks
John Owen
I'm doubtful his father and mother are Hugh Owen and Jane Haskins. The dates don't add up and aren't consistent. Elsewhere I've seen John Owen and Ann Davis. I have yet to find actual evidence.
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by John Owen
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