OWEN
,
GRIFFITH
(
1647
-
1717
),
Quaker and medical man
;
son of
Robert
(q.v.)
and
Jane
Owen
,
Dolserau
,
Dolgelley
. He served as a
medical man
in
Lancashire
for some time before he emigrated in
1684
, with his aged parents, to
Pennsylvania
, where he settled in
Merion
(‘
Welsh Tract
’). He travelled much on behalf of his faith and it would seem that
William
Penn
had a high opinion of him. He returned in
1695
, in which year he published
Our Ancient Testimony
, to controvert the views of
George
Keith
. With his son he discovered a remedy for the ‘
Barbadoes distemper
.’ [He d. in
1717
, ‘aged 70’ — see
J. E.
Griffith
,
Pedigrees
, 201.]
Bibliography:
-
T. M. Rees
,
A history of the Quakers in Wales and their
emigration to North America
, 1925
;
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
;
-
Notable Welshmen (1700–1900)
,
1908
;
-
T. A. Glenn
,
Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania
, Oxford,
1911-13
.
Author:
Rev. Thomas Mardy Rees, (1871-1953), Neath
