DAVID OWEN 27
The Campobello Owens were of Welsh origin, being descended from the Owens of Glansevern, with the family seat in Montgomeryshire, in Wales.
David Owen, the subject of this sketch, was a son of Owen Owen, a grandson of David Owen, who died in 1777. He was an M. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1780, and for forty years lived in Campobello, as nearly as he could, the life of an English Squire. He was a scholarly man, and left many valuable MSSand maps, some of which are still in existence.
While in Florida, in 1882, the writer met there a young man who informed him of having seen a quantity of old papers, belonging to the Owen family, in a junk store at Eastport, and which seems to have included diaries, deeds, leases, agreements of various descriptions, and even family love letters. Many of the most important documents were subsequently rescued and carefully preserved,
Mrs. Wells, the writer of the foregoing sketch, had privately printed in Boston, in 1893, an historical sketch of Campobello, comprising 47 pages.
The journal of Captain William Owen, R. N., together with other notes and documents upon the history of the Island, edited by Prof. W. F. Ganong, of Smith College, Northampton, Mass., was published in the collections of the N. B. Historical Society, pages 193-220. [ED.
