OWENS, JOHN
September 16, 1748. March Court, 1750. Sons: ZACHARIAH, THOMAS, JOHN (to each is devised a plantation). Daughter: SARAH OWENS. Stock mark of daughter: "crop in ye right ear and over keel in ye left." Stock mark of son JOHN: "a slit in the right ear and a crop in the left"; of son THOMAS: "a crop and over keel on right ear"; of son ZACHARIAH: "a crop and underkeel the left ear." Wife: ANN. Executors: WIFE and son ZACHARIAH. Witnesses: NATHANEL SPEENCE WESTE. THOMAS and JAMES Fox. Clerk of the Court: EVAN JONES. Coat of arms on seal.
(Source: Abstracts of North Carolina Wills, By: J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, 1910, Page 275)