590–591. John Bowne was born in Matlock, Derbyshire, England, on Wednesday, May 9, 1627, and died in Flushing, Long Island, New York, on December 20, 1695. Hannah Feake was born in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, in June, 1637, and died in London, England, on January 31, 1677/8. They were married in Flushing on Wednesday, May 7, 1656. She took the name Hannah Bowne. He is the son of Thomas Bowne. She is the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Fones) Feake. They had eight children:
| i. | John Bowne was born in Flushing on March 13, 1656/7, and died in Flushing on August 30, 1673. | |
| ii. | Elizabeth Bowne was born in Flushing on October 8, 1658. She married first John Priar and second Samuel Titus, son of Edmund and Martha (Washborne) Titus. | |
| iii. | Mary Bowne was born in Flushing on January 6, 1660/1. | |
| iv. | Abigail Bowne [#295]: She was born in Flushing on February 5, 1662/3, and died in _____ on June 16, 1688. | |
| v. | Hannah Bowne was born in Flushing on April 10, 1665. She married Benjamin Field in 1691. | |
| vi. | Samuel Bowne was born in Flushing on September 21, 1667. He married first Mary Beckit on October 4, 1691, in Falls of Delaware; they had ten children: Samuel, Thomas, Esther, Hannah, John, Mary, Robert, William, Elizabeth, and Benjamin. He married second Hannah Smith on December 8, 1709, in Flushing; they had five children: Sarah, Joseph, Emy, Benjamin, and Elizabeth. He married third Grace Cowperthwait on November 30, 1734; they had no children. More details available in EQG. | |
| vii. | Dorothy Bowne was born in Flushing on March 29, 1669. | |
| viii. | Martha Johanna Bowne was born in Flushing on August 17, 1673. She married Joseph Thorn in 1695. |
His second marriage was to Hannah Bickerstaff in Flushing on Monday, February 2, 1679/80. She took the name Hannah Bowne. She was born in England and died in Long Island, New York, on June 7, 1690. They had six children:
| i. | Sarah Bowne was born in Flushing on December 14, 1680, and died in Flushing on June 18, 1681. She died in infancy. | |
| ii. | Sarah Bowne was born in Flushing on February 17, 1691/2. There is no marriage information for her in the EQG. | |
| iii. | John Bowne was born in Flushing on September 10, 1683, and died in Flushing on October 25, 1683. He died in infancy. | |
| iv. | Thomas Bowne was born in Flushing on November 26, 1684, and died in Flushing on December 17, 1684. He died in infancy. | |
| v. | John Bowne was born in Flushing on September 9, 1686. He married Elizabeth Lawrence, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Townlay) Lawrence, in Flushing on July 21, 1714. | |
| vi. | Abigail Bowne was born in Flushing on July 5, 1688, and died in Flushing on July 13, 1688. She died in infancy. Her half-sister Abigail had died only a month earlier at the age of 26, six months after the birth of her only child. |
His third marriage was to Mary Cock probably Flushing on Monday, June 26, 1693. She took the name Mary Bowne. She was born probably Setauket, Long Island, America, in 1655. Per Long Island Genealogies, her parents were James and Sarah (_____) Cock. They had two children:
| i. | Amy Bowne was born in Flushing on April 1, 1694. She married Richard Hallett in 1717. | |
| ii. | Ruth Bowne was born in Flushing on January 30, 1695/6, and died in Flushing. She died young. |
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"