10. MARTHA SHINN (2).--JOHN (1). This daughter appears upon Burlington Record of Marriages many times as a witness, and on the fifth of the
twelfth month, 1696 (O. S.), she and Joshua Owen appeared before Burlington Meeting and declared their intention to marry. On the 5th of March, 1697, the Society set them at liberty and they were in all probability
married that month. Joshua Owen was a respectable landholder of Burlington County and a native of Wales. He and Martha lived in Springfield Township for many years and passed uneventful lives. Joshua died before 1729,
for in that year Martha (Shinn) Owen married Restore Lippincott, one of the most prominent men of the period. The Burlington Record of Births does not give us the children of Joshua and Martha Owen and we are
forced to construct a list from the Record of Marriages. On 4/4/1740 Thomas Evins and Rebecca Owen, daughter of Joshua, were married at Burlington Meeting House in the presence of Joshua, Rowland, Mary and
Sarah Owen, Benjamin and Martha Marriott and forty-one others. On 7/29/1730 Joshua Owen, son of Joshua, and Mary Butcher, daughter of Samuel, were married at Springfield Meeting House in presence of Mary and
Rowland Owen and thirty-six others. On 3/17/1738 Rowland Owen, son of Joshua, and Prudence Powell, daughter of John, were married in presence of Joshua, Mary and Sarah Owen and thirty-six others. On
6/6/1722 Margaret, daughter of Joshua, and Benjamin, son of Silas and Mary (Shinn-Stockton) Crispin, were married. In 1730 Benjamin Marriott married Martha Owen, daughter of Joshua.
From these recitals it is evident that the children of this couple were: 51. (1) Martha Owen, who married Benjamin Merriott. 1730.
52. (2) Joshua Owen, who married (1) Mary Butcher 7/29/1730;
(2) Sarah Branson 1/5/1743.
53. (3) Rowland (Roland) Owen, who married Prudence Powell 3/17/1738.
54. (4) Rebecca Owen, who married Thomas Evins 4/4/1730.
55. (5) Sarah Owen.
56. (6) Mary Owen, who married Henry Burr. 1736
57. (7) Margaret Owen, who married Benjamin Crispin 6/21/1722.
By the second marriage of Martha (Shinn) Owen to Restore Lippincott there was no issue. |
