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May term 1839 Barren Co. C.O. 7-36&40
At a county Court began and held for Barren County on Monday the 20th day of May 1839. Present
WM. EDWARDS, JOHN MARTIN, ASA GARRY(?), JAMES MURELL
JOHN OWEN a resident citizen of Barren County aged 75 years and JOSEPH OWEN a citizen of Hart
County aged 73 years came into Court & made oath to the following statements that WILLIAM
OWEN late of Barren County was the husband of TABITHA OWEN of said County that said WILLIAM OWEN
died on the 27th day of March 1826 in said County and that the said TABITHA OWEN is the widow of
said WILLIAM OWEN and is now living and resides in said County and that the said TABITHA and
WILLIAM OWEN were married in the County of Lunenburg & state of Virginia in the latter part
of the year 1782. They further state that the said WILLIAM OWEN entered the service in the Army
of the Revolution in the month of February or March in the year 1779. He joined Captain JOSEPH
WARING Company of drafted militia men for a tour of six months and the company was orginized at
& marched from Lunenburg Couthouse. He served the term of six months as a substitute for his
father DAVID OWEN, that the said WILLIAM OWEN returned home from the army to Lunenburg County
where he resided sometime in the month of August 1779. He was in the battle of Stone near
Charleston(?) as it was then called while on the tour that the next term he served of six months
he joined Captain WALKERS Company of Militia & marched from Lunenburg Courthouse in the
first part of the month of June 1780 and went to the South, in this tour he was in the battle of
Camden or Gates defeat as it was then called, he returned home in the month of November or
December 1780 that the next service he rindered he started from Winningham Mill in Lunenburg
County as a substitute for his father DAVID OWEN in the month of February 1781 and he was the
the battle of Guilford while on this tour of three months, the next services he rindered he
joined Captain JOSEPH KNIGHTs Company of militia the regiment was commanded by Colonel DAVID
STOKES and was at the seige of York and taking of Cornwallis. that the statements here made are
all from their own knowledge accept the statements about the said WILLIAM OWENS having been in
the different battles, they state this upon the information of the men and officers after they
had returned from the different campaigns
JOSEPH OWEN aged 73 years came into open Court and made the following statements that he has
known JOHN OWEN from his youth that he said JOHN OWEN went into the service of the Revolutionary
Army some time in the month of January 1781 in Captain FRANCES DEGRAFFENREIDs(?) Company of
drafted men to go against the Brittish and Tories and that he the said JOHN OWEN returned from
the army about the 1st of May 1781 and that the said JOHN OWEN again joined Captain JOSEPH
KNIGHTs Company of three months men and went against the Brittish at Yorktown under the Command
of Col DAVID STOKESs and he the said JOHN OWEN returned home to Lunenburg County in the month of
November 1781.
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