Person:Owen Gwathmey (4)

[Anc Hannah Temple Gwathmey adgedge.ged]

! (1) "Descendants of Benjamin Arnold," by Mrs. McIvor, p.44.

 (2) Bessie Temple Gwathmey Scott. Notes on Gwathmey homes. Cites: (a) Gwathmey family Bible .
 (3) "Antiques Recovery - Rural, Urban Crime Units Solve Theft," by Ed Kelleher, unknown Ric hmond, VA newspaper, 10 Sep 1982.
 (4) "Virginia Historical Magazine," Vol. 16, p.103,104. "The Brooke Family," by Prof. St. G eorge Tucker Brooke.
 (5) "King William County, Virginia From Old Newspapers and Files," by Elizabeth Ryland, p.3 0.
 (6) Carolyn Tayloe Davidson Carey, Greenwood Village, CO. Cites: (a) Family notes by Wm. W . Gwathmey II, Devall L. Gwathmey, Elizabeth C. Gwathmey. (b) Abingdon Register. (c) Carolin e G. Jones, "Canterbury," Walkerton, VA. (d) "Virginia Genealogist," Vol. 6, p.7. (e) "Virgin ia Gazette," 21 Sep 1776, "Deaths-Mr. Owen Gwathmey of King William Co., age 49 years."
 (7) "King & Queen Co.," by Beverley Fleet, p.86.
 (8) "William Temple of Prince George's Co.," by Lucy Temple Temple, p.40.
 (9) "Genealogical Abstracts from 18th-Century Virginia Newspapers," by Robert K. Headley, J r. (Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1987) p.146. Cites: (a) "The Virginia Gazette," 21 Se p 1776.
 (10) Rev. William Hatchett's Family Bible (American Bible Society, New York, 1834). Transcr ipt of family records of Bible in possession of Hatchett Chandler, Montgomery, AL.
 (11) "Old New Kent County - Some Account of the Planters, Plantations, and Places in King W illiam Co., St. John's Parish" by Malcolm Hart Harris (1977) p.461,464-465,959,961. FHL #975. 5H2har. Cites: (a) Bible Records of the family of Temple Gwathmey, probably copied by Maj. J . Temple Doswell, s/o Paul T. Doswell/Fannie Gwathmey.
 (12) "Gwathmey Family Record," by Mildred Bates Gwathmey (Mrs. Edward Moseley Gwathmey), Sp artanburg, SC, 1955. Cites: (a) Bible of Dr. William Gwathmey of "Burlington," Aylett, King W illiam Co., VA.
 (13) Bible record in possession of Mr. Joseph Gwathmey of Burlington, Beuhlahville, King Wi lliam Co., VA. Transcript furnished by Mrs. W.W. Whitefield,, Paducah, KY, "DAR American Mont hly Magazine," Vol. 36, No. 6 (Daughters of the American Revolution, 1910) p.763. FHL #973.B2 dar.
 (14) "Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg) - 1736-1780" (Williamsburg, Va.: The Institute of Ear ly American History and Culture, 1950). FHL #29723. Cites: (a) "The Virginia Gazette," printe d by John Dixon and Wm. Hunter, September 21, 1776, Page 2 Column 2.
 (15) Grace M. Larson, Pima, AZ.  LDS Individual Entry, #1553500/89 263 0232, FHL. Cites: (a ) Vital records.
 (16) Caroline Jones of Canterbury, Walkerton, VA.

! Birth: (2,4,6,11,12,13) s/o Richard GWATHMEY/Diana MOORE. (6e,9a,14a) Age 49 at death in 1 776 [b. 1727]. (10) s/o Richard GWATHMEY, s/o Owen a Welshman. (15) 7 Dec 1725.

 Marriage to Hannah TEMPLE: (1,2,6,11,12,13) (8) Between the time her father wrote his 2nd a nd 3rd wills. No dates given. His 1st will was dated 1744, proved 1749.
 Death: (6e) 21 Sep 1776. (9a,14a) Death notice dtd 21 Sep 1776. Of King William Co., VA. (1 1) Was living at "Canterbury" at the time of his death.
 Burial: (16) "Canterbury," Walkerton, VA. [NOTE: St. Stephen's Parish, King & Queen Co., VA . See notes below.]

 (11) Was on the Commission of Justices for King & Queen Co., VA.
 (11) An officer in the King & Queen Co. Militia.
 (11) Acquired the lands along the upper side of the Mattapony River which became known as " Canterbury." He was established there sometime prior to 1750 and was living there at the tim e of his death. (2) Of "Canterbury," King and Queen Co., VA, where the Mattapony and Pamunke y Rivers unite to form the York River. (3,12) Settled at Canterbury, King & Queen Co., VA.
 (2) 1735: Built "Canterbury," not a mansion but in old English style. It was situated on the high banks of the Mattaponi River, where one can see far into King William Co. across the r iver, "Roanoke" directly across and "Mt. Pisgah" further up the river. "Canterbury" is two miles above Walkerton, which is the Post Office. The house sets back 1/2 mile from the highway . It was built of English brick with basement and a story and a half of brick walls 14 inches thick, shingle roof and dormer windows. In the floor of the lefthand closet next to the man tel in the parlor was a secret trap door leading to the cellar into what was supposedly a win e closet, but probably a place for hiding valuables. The dining room was in the basement. The ground was not dug out in front of the windows. The kitchen was outside, 72 feet from the house. On the south side the garden gate led into a walk a long way beneath a grape arbor, with a huge microphylla rose covering an immense space on the left. Beneath the shade of this ar or were always, in the summertime, several 4 gallon stone jars for cucumbers which were brined right from the vines in the nearby vegetable garden and covered with fresh grape leaves. A long the river bank were tall Lombardy poplars, traditionally supposed to indicate that the l andlord was a whig. This house burned 11 Mar 1885. Both were later rebuilt but not on the sam e plans, although the walls were the originals. (11) The house was said to be a typical Virgi nia House of a story and a half, with the dormer windows and shingled roof, and large end chimeys. The house was later used as a kitchen and it was burned, leaving only a lone chimney wi th the swinging crane in its place.  A lighter boaded with "colored people" discovered the fire and came ashore and assisted in saving a good deal of the furniture, a mantel and severa l doors.
 (11) 1752: A large part of Lewis Burwell's Pamunkey Neck plantation was sold to Owen Gwathm ey of King & Queen Co. This part of the original tract was called "Burwellton," which contain ed 1,343 acres, and was the first large tract in the Burwell grant to be sold. It lay along t he Mattapony River. Since that time, it has been called "Burlington," and title to the land h as remained in the Gwathmey family. (14) Owen Gwathmey of "Canterbury" bought "Burlington" i n King William Co. in 1759 from the Burwells. (5) The 2 farms known as "Burlington" and "Th e Meadow" were part of a 5,000 acre patent to Lewis Burwell of York Co. in 1699. Also include d in the patent, which extended southwardly to Herring Creek, were the farms now known as "Ve rmont, "Frenchtown," "Wakefield," and "Retreat." There was an old tradition that the name "Bu rlington" was orignally "Burwellton."
 (1,6e,8,9a,14a) Of King William Co.
 (3) 1759: "Burlington" was built. When it was burglarized in Sep 1982, it was the first tim e since the house was built that no one was living in it. The owner, John R. Gwathmey, had di ed 30 Aug 1982, and the burglary occured the night of his funeral. The house was on 800 acre s at Aylett, King William Co., VA. A grandfather clock, valued at $50,000, which had been shi pped under sail from England and brought by river barge from Norfolk, and paintings dating t o the early 18th century were some of the items stolen. John R. Gwathmey had kept what had be en in the house for scores of years. He inherited Burlington from his father, to whom it ha d been handed down as part of a 3,000 acre British royal land grant, Burwell. (See notes unde r son Maj. Joseph Gwathmey and his son William.) (7) "Burlington" adjoined "Vermont," home o f the Rylands. The house at "Vermont" was almost exactly a duplicate of the house at "Burling ton."
 (5) 1767, 12 Feb: John King reported a bay horse with a star in her forehead strayed or sto len from Capt. Owen Gwathmey in King William Co. near Aylett's.
 (11) "He had his eccentricities and three dislikes in particular, rats, Baptists, and Torie s."
 (11) A staunch churchman and attendant on services at the Apple Tree Church.
 (2) He owned 3 plantations on the Mattapony. He left "The Meadow" to his son Owen, "Burling ton" to his son Joseph, and "Wakefield" and "Canterbury" to his other children. (11) His so n Joseph Gwathmey received the home place, "Burlington." His son Owen received the land on th e river called "The Meadow." He left "Canterbury" to his son Temple, whose sons left it to Robert Temple Gwathmey, who in 1850 divided the place between his sons Alfred Brooke Gwathmey and Charles Browne Gwathmey. In 1977 it was owned by the children of Alfred Peachy Gwathmey: W illiam and Richard Gwathmey and their sister Caroline G. Jones.