Richard Owings1

#15611, (say 1665 - 1716)

Family

Rachel Robert b. s 1668, d. 1729
Children 1.Rachel Owings5 (c 1683 - 1761)
 2.Richard Owings5 (c 1688 - c 1736)
 3.Henry Owings+5 (c 1692 - c 1764)
 4.John Owings5 (c 1694 - 1765)
 5.Robert Owings5 (1698/99 - 1759)
 6.Samuel Owings+1 (1702 - 1775)
 7.Joshua Owings5 (1704 - 1787)
(another source names the wife of Richard as Rachel Beale/Bale; still another as the daughter of Robert Pugh of Llwyn-dedwydd.)2,3 
Birth*say 1665He was born say 1665.1 
Marriage*circa 1682He married Rachel Robert circa 1682.4 
before 1703He migrated to Baltimore Co., MarylandG, before 1703.5,6 
Death*1716He died in 1716 at MarylandG.1,7 
"Owings was a captain of rangers along the frontier and the Potomac; on 20 Oct. 1706 was living at Herring Creek, A. A. Co., when he purch. Cole’s Chance from John and Johanna Cole; d. by 14 Nov. 1716 when admin. bond was posted by Rachel Owings with Richard and Henry Owings; Rachel was d. by 27 May 1729 when her s- and heir, Richard, offered the home plantation for sale."8 

Citations

  1. [S1444] Edward C. Papenfuse, A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature 1635-1789 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979, 1985), online http://msa.maryland.gov, p. 627, "Richard Owings (?-1716)."
  2. [S1443] Rev. Ethan Allen, The Garrison Church: Sketches of the History of St. Thomas' Parish, Garrison Forest, Baltimore County Maryland 1742 - 1852 (New York: James Pott & Co., 1898), p. 135. "Samuel Owings, whose name appears in the earliest record of St. Thomas' Parish, was the son of Richard and Rachel (Beale or Bale) Owings, and was born April 1, 1702 . . ."
  3. [S521] Robert W. Barnes, compiler, Baltimore County Families 1659-1759 (Baltimore: Clearfield Company, 1989, 1986), p. 486. "Richard Owings. . . m. Rachel Robert, dau. of Robert Pugh of Llwyn-dedwydd, and sis. of Hugh Robert, the Quaker minister."
  4. [S1444] Edward C. Papenfuse, Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, p. 627 [inferred from year that first child was born].
  5. [S1444] Edward C. Papenfuse, Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, p. 627.
  6. [S521] Robert W. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, p. 486. "was in Balto. Co. by 1703 as a taxable in n. side of Patapsco Hund."
  7. [S521] Robert W. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, p. 486. " d. by 14 Nov. 1716."
  8. [S521] Robert W. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, p. 486.