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Griffith Owen was born in 1647 in Wales, the son of Robert and Jane (Vaughan) Owen.
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Griffith Owen was born in 1647 in Wales, the son of Robert and Jane (Vaughan) Owen.
Before emigrating to America, Griffith Owen studied medicine and moved to Prescott in Lancashire, England, where he practised as a physician for some years.
Griffith Owen came to Philadelphia in the ship Vine in company with his father and mother and bringing his wife, three children, and seven servants. They landed at Philadelphia September 17, 1684. Owen settled at first in Merion, now Lower Merion Township, in the tract of 40, 000 acres assigned by William Penn to the Welsh Quaker immigrants, but soon afterward moved to Philadelphia, where he built one of the most attractive houses in the new colony. William Penn, in his letters, refers to Griffith Owen's house with a touch of envy, as being finer than he himself could afford. Owen's medical practice was extensive and he had the reputation of being a skilled surgeon.
Owen was elected a member of the Colonial Assembly in 1686 and the three years following. In 1690 he was chosen a member of the Provincial Council, in which he continued to sit until his death, trusted and beloved by the Proprietor, who refers to him in his letters to James Logan as "honest Griffith Owen. " On one occasion, however, he strongly opposed the Proprietor's policy, when Penn proposed to sell part of the Welsh Tract to other incoming settlers. Griffith Owen led the opposition to this new policy and drafted the vigorous Remonstrance against it to the commissioners of the government, but the Remonstrance failed and the Welsh Tract was divided.
Throughout his life in the Pennsylvania colony, Owen was one of the foremost members of the Religious Society of Friends in public service. He is mentioned a hundred times in the Minutes of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. He was appointed to membership on the most important committees of the Meeting, and usually served as chairman. He was chosen to settle differences, to solve complexities, to deal with offenders, to raise funds and to select teachers for William Penn's Chartered School, now the William Penn Charter School. Owen was one of the outstanding Quaker preachers in the Colony. He traveled frequently on religious visits to England, to Maryland, to the Eastern Shore, to Virginia, and twice to New England. He was in the thick of the struggle over what at that time was called "the Apostasy of George Keith, " which rent the harmony of the infant colony.
Friends in Philadelphia issued a document - Our Antient Testimony Renewed - which was intended to clarify their theological position in this controversy. This document was in the main drafted by Griffith Owen who was chairman of the committee. It is an important paper since it is one of the very earliest confessions of faith of the Pennsylvania Quakers. It is strikingly theological and orthodox, with almost no emphasis on peculiar Quaker lines of thought. With William Penn, Thomas Story and others, Griffith Owen founded in September 1701 the Meeting of Ministers of Philadelphia (later called Meeting of Ministers and Elders). His interest in the Welsh Tract continued unabated throughout his life, and he often visited the three Welsh Meetings "over the Schuylkill, " namely, Haverford, Merion, and Radnor. He died in Philadelphia at the age of seventy.
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Griffith Owen was a member of the Colonial Assembly, the Provincial Council and the Religious Society of Friends. Owen also was a founding member of the Meeting of Ministers of Philadelphia.
Griffith Owen was married before he left England, but the family name of his wife, Sarah, is not recorded. She died in Philadelphia in 1702. In 1704 he married his second wife, Sarah Saunders, a widow, daughter of John Songhurst.
