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| 31 October 1792 in Wilkes County, Georgia, Glen Owen, Thomas Owen, Jr., and Harrison Musgrove, appointed George Owen, their attorney, all of Wilkes County.189
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| | Glen and Dorothy Owen moved from Guilford County, North Carolina, to Wilkes County, Georgia, in 1784. Glen Owen paid taxes in Wilkes County, Georgia, from 1785 until 1793, when his land was put into Oglethorpe County. In 1785, Glenn Owens paid taxes in Captain Autrey’s District in Wilkes County, on 150 acres and six slaves. In 1786, Glen Owen paid taxes in Captain Harris’s District on 359 acres and four slaves. In 1787, Glen Owen paid taxes in Captain John Holmes’s District on 359 acres and seven slaves. The 1788-1790 returns aren’t extant. Glen Owen paid taxes in 1791 in Captain William Duke’s Company on 209 acres and four slaves. In 1792, Glen Owens paid taxes in Captain William Duke’s Company on six slaves and 350 acres in Wilkes County, on Dry Fork of Long Creek, adjoining Joseph Staton. In 1793, Glen Owens paid taxes in Captain William Duke’s Company on six slaves and 254 acres in Wilkes County, on Dry Fork Creek, adjoining John Tarver and Robert Jinnings. After Oglethorpe County was formed from Wilkes County, in 1793, Glen Owen’s land was in Oglethorpe County, on the county line of Oglethorpe and Wilkes Counties. From 1794 until 1805, Glen Owen’s land in Oglethorpe County, adjoined Daniel Lloyd and David Bates’s land in Wilkes County. Glen Owen lived in the same neighborhood as his brothers-in-law, John Hardeman, William Strong, and Richard Rafferty.190
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| | Glen Owen got a 70 acre land grant in Wilkes County, Georgia, in 1786.191 Glynn Owens got a 150 acre land grant in Wilkes County, in 1787.192
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| | On 26 November 1791, Glen Owen and Dorothy Owen of Wilkes County, Georgia, being legatees of part of the estate of John Hardiman, formerly of the Guilford County, North Carolina, deceased, sold to John Hardiman of Wilkes County, Georgia, all our right, title, claim, and demand as legatees or any other claim against said estate and have
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| 189 Farmer, Wilkes County, Georgia, Deed Books A – V V, 1784-1806, p. 271. Deed Book II, p. 306. Witness: D. Criswell, J.P. Registered 2 November 1792.
| | 190 Hudson, Wilkes County, Georgia, Tax Records 1785-1805, p. 58, 93, 124, 292, 382, 473, 576, 705, and 770.
| | 191 Georgia Land Grant Book III, p. 700.
| | 192 Georgia Land Grant Book MMM, p. 113.
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