When John Owen was born about 1743, in Goshen, Goshen, Orange, New York, United States, his father, Timothy Eleazer Owen Sr., was 50 and his mother, Ruth Mowbray, was 30. He married Eleanor Crandall on 15 January 1761, in New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Goshen, Orange, New York, United States in 1790. He died on 13 December 1796, in Warwick, Warwick, Orange, New York, United States, at the age of 54.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Welsh: from the personal name Owain, from Latin Eugenius (see Eugene ). This Welsh personal name is cognate with Old Irish Eogán, see 2 and 3.
Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eoghain ‘son of Eoghan’. See McEwen .
Irish: from Ó hEoghain, ‘descendant of Eoghan’. See Ewen .
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