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Martha SHINN (SHEENE) [753]

  General Notes:

Data from Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy : "Burlington MM 1696/7,1,1. Martha ltm Joshua Owen""
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From the "History of SHINN Family <http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/glchit.pl?file=%2F_glc_%2F3047%2F3047_76.html&query=gaskill%20&Welcome=1033476748> :
10. MARTHA SHINN (2).--JOHN (1).
This daughter appears upon Burlington Record of Marriages many times as a witness, and on the fifth of the twelfth month, 1696 (O. S.), she and Joshua Owen appeared before Burlington Meeting and declared their intention to marry. On the 5th of March, 1697, the Society set them at liberty and they were in all probability married that month. Joshua Owen was a respectable landholder of Burlington County and a native of Wales. He and Martha lived in Springfield Township for many years and passed uneventful lives. Joshua died before 1729,

  Noted events in her life were:

• Religion. Quaker

Martha married Joshua OWEN [945] [MRIN: 413] in 1697 in Burlington, Burlington, New Jersey, USA.