All this discussion about Ralph Fuqua and Priscilla Owen had me thinking that somewhere I had notes on this Thomas Owen. I dug them up today and they are as follows: "Historical Sketches of the Campbell, Pilcher and Kindred Families" by Margaret C. Pilcher, Nashville 1911. Chapter on the Owen Family, p. 318..."in the fourth quarter of the seventeenth century, William Penn, the Chiefest of the Quakers, had already projected his plans of a government founded on brotherly love, and from him a large number of Welch Quakers, let by Rowland Ellis, purchased five thousand acres of land in Pennsylvania. They arrived in America in 1682, another colony coming in 1686. There were also a number of Owens of these colonists, amont them being three brothers from Wales. Thomas, John and William Owen, who arrived in the Colony of Virginia about the same time and settles in Henrico, twenty miles below where Richmond now stands. It is not know whether they were related to the Owens whe settles in Pennsylvania or not. The original will of Thomas Owen is recorded in Henrico County, Virginia, dated 1741 and probated in 1744; but the earliest mention of the family is in the will of Thomas Brookes, as recorded in Henrico County, dated 1694, probated in 1695. In it he names wife Joanna, and two sons-in-law, Thomas and William Owen. Thomas Owen married Elizabeth Brookes, and William Owen married another daughter of Thomas Brookes. It is supposed that John Owen, the second brother, did not marry, as we have no record of his family. It is thought that he went to South Carolina or Georgia. He was lost sight of by his brothers and their families, who remained for some years in Virginia. We have no record of the family of William Owen, the third brother, who married a Miss Brookes. Thomas Owen is the first of the family on record in Virginia. He and is wife Elizabeth Brookes, lived in Henrico County and reared a family. There are no details preserved concerning either of them, but is may be safe to state that the life and character and habits of this couple must have been good, for the character of their children and the families into which they married, is sufficient to indicate their high position in life. They lived and died in the above-named county. Thomas mentions his wife, Elizabeth Brookes, in his will. Their son, John Owen with wife Mildred Grant (daughter of Thomas Grant and Isabella Richardson) his father-in-law Thomas Grant and his brothers -in-law William Allen and Daniel Grant, removed to Granville Co., N.C. in 1765. p. 319...As we have no record of the descendants of John and William Owen, we will being with Thomas Owen, who married Elizabeth Brookes of Henrico County, Virginia. They had four children. We suppose all were born in Henrico County Virginia. They were John, Thomas, William and Mary." --------------------------- Nowhere in this article on Thomas Owen and Elizabeth Brookes is there the mention of a daughter Priscilla. Can anyone give me the source that attaches Priscilla to Thomas and Elizabeth (Brookes) Owen? Thank you Pat C. Johns in Va.