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John BOWNE[1]

Male 1627 - 1695


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  • Born  9 May 1627  Lime Tree Farm, Matlock, Derbyshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    • Compendium lists birth year as 1626.
    Gender  Male 
    Residence  1661  Flushing, Long Island, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • Built the old Bowne House here in 1661. (Compendium of American Genealogy, First Families of America; Vol VII, pg 834, 1942; Penrose Library)
    _UID  528B780136D64A408501A78C7EEA8CAA430D 
    Died  20 Oct 1695  Flushing, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Buried  23 Oct 1695  Flushing, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • He is probably buried in the Flushing Meeting Graveyard.
    Person ID  I510  OuthouseLine2014
    Last Modified  1 Jan 2007 

    Father  Thomas BOWNE,   b. 20 May 1595, Matlock, Derbyshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Jul 1677, Flushing, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Mary BOWNE,   b. 1597, Matlock, Derbyshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Aug 1647, Matlock, Derbyshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  Bef 1627  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F244  Group Sheet

    Family 1  Hannah FEAKE,   b. Abt 1637, Watertown, Middlesex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Jan 1677, Peel Mtg Pl, St.John St, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  7 May 1656  Flushing, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    • One GEDCOM lists Hannah b. 8 Oct 1658 as a daughter of this couple. She died bef 10 apr 1665.
    Children 
     1. John BOWNE,   b. 13 Mar 1656, Flushing, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jun 1673, Flushing, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    >2. Elizabeth BOWNE,   b. 8 Aug 1658, Killingworth, Matinecock, L.I., NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Oct 1721, Flushing, Long Island, Kings, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    >3. Mary Johanna BOWNE,   b. 16 Jan 1660, Flushing, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1728, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location
    >4. Abigail BOWNE,   b. 5 Feb 1663, Flushing, Long Island, Kings, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jun 1688, Jericho, Long Island, Kings, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    >5. Hannah BOWNE,   b. 2 Apr 1665, Flushing, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Dec 1707, Flushing, Long Island, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    >6. Samuel BOWNE,   b. 21 Jul 1667, Flushing, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Mar 1745, Flushing, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Dorothy BOWNE,   b. 29 Jan 1669, Flushing, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Nov 1690, Flushing, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    >8. Martha Johanna BOWNE,   b. 17 Aug 1673,   d. 1 Aug 1750, Flushing, Long Island, Kings, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified  1 Jan 2007 
    Family ID  F227  Group Sheet

    Family 2  Hannah BECKERSTAFFE,   d. 7 Jun 1690, Long Island, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  2 Dec 1679  Flushing, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    Children 
     1. Sarah BOWNE,   b. 14 Dec 1680,   d. 18 May 1681
     2. Sarah BOWNE,   b. 17 Feb 1682,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. John BOWNE,   b. 16 Sep 1683,   d. 25 Sep 1683
     4. Thomas BOWNE,   b. 26 Nov 1684,   d. 17 Dec 1684, Flushing, NY Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. John BOWNE,   b. 9 Sep 1686,   d. Yes, date unknown
     6. Abigail BOWNE,   b. 5 Jul 1688,   d. 13 Jul 1688
    Last Modified  29 Aug 2004 
    Family ID  F228  Group Sheet

    Family 3  Mary COCK,   b. Abt 1655, Prob. Setauket, Long Island, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married  26 Apr 1693  Flushing, Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7, 8] 
    Children 
    >1. Amy BOWNE,   b. 1 Apr 1694,   d. 1733
     2. Ruth BOWNE,   b. 30 Jan 1696, Infancy Or Childhood Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified  29 Aug 2004 
    Family ID  F229  Group Sheet

  • Notes 
    • John Bowne came to Boston in about 1648 with his father and sister Dorothy. Per the NEHGR:

      7 Jan 1649, John says in his journal "I entered Mr. Phillips service." (William Phillips, vintner and innholder at Charlestown). Oct 24, 1650, "we came abord the shipp charles at Nantaskett, that day I parted with my deare father at boston, the 25th day my sister Dorothy come abord at Nantasket to take her leave of me." &c.

      John Bowne, Born 1627, married (1) 7 May 1656, Hannah Feake, daughter of Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Fones and widow of (1) Henry Winthrop and (2) Robert Feake of Watertown. In 1663, John Bowne was banished to Holland but was allowed to return. He lived at Flushing, Long Island, from 1650 until his death in 1695, having had numerous children.

      Per the EQG, vol. 3 (New York Monthly Meeting), p. 41: "John most active mbr; treasurer for mtg 1691; his banishment brought religious liberty"


      Flushing Meeting Graveyard http://www.nyym.org/flushing/graveyard.html The Graveyard at Flushing Meeting House 137-16 Northern Boulevard Flushing, New York 11354

      In 1676, before the Meeting House was built, John Bowne donated land and arranged for a burial ground on Northern Boulevard. The Meeting House was built on land purchased adjacent to the graveyard in 1694. Today, after a great deal of expense and volunteer effort, the graveyard is cleared and blooms with indigenous flowers and bushes. Old elm trees and oaks shade the perimeter and help set the quiet garden apart from its bustling neighbors. It is a startlingly beautiful, peaceful place in the midst of downtown Flushing, and it is a perfect place to remember the Quakers who lived here before us, and who lived such extraordinary lives.

      The early Quakers did not use headstones and so it is difficult to say who was buried in the Meeting House graveyard before 1820. It is believed that John Bowne is buried here, as the Bowne family plot is in the graveyard, but there is no existent headstone marking his grave. When Quakers did begin using headstones, they were often small and plain with no more than a name or initials on it. Many of these small stones have sunk into the earth or shifted out of position over the years. At least one stone was stolen. --

  • Sources 
    1. [S278] Winthrop Woman, Seton, Anya, (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1958).

    2. [S198] Compendium of American Genealogy.

    3. [S210] Ancestral File (LDS).

    4. [S210] Ancestral File (LDS), 8XVC-H0 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S17] American Marriages Before 1699, Clemens, William Montgomery, (Pompton Lakes, NJ: Biblio Co., 1926).

    6. [S198] Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol VII, pg 834. (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S210] Ancestral File (LDS), 8XVC-GS (Reliability: 3).

    8. [S157] GILBERT, Walter.


  

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