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	Walter Gilbert Genealogy: John Bowne & Hannah Feake
		John Bowne was born in Flushing on March 13, 1656/7, and died in Flushing on August 30, 1673.
		John Bowne was born in Flushing on September 10, 1683, and died in Flushing on October 25, 1683.
		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.
	www.otal.umd.edu /~walt/gen/htmfile/590.htm (669 words)

	History, Architecture -- Bowne House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Built by John Bowne in 1661, Bowne House is considered to be one of the finest examples of vernacular Dutch-English architecture in the country.
		This structure is one of the oldest in the United States and is also the site of Bowne's defense of liberty of conscience (freedom of religion) in defiance of Governor Peter Stuyvesant's ban on the Quaker sect.
		Bowne House is just one of several historic places of interest along the Flushing Freedom Trail.
	www.fieldtrip.com /ny/83590528.htm (240 words)

	FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP - "Western Monmouth's Family Town" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		John Barclay was a Scot and the receiver-general of quitrents for the proprietary government.
		John Reid sold 200 acres of the tract to John Bowne in 1701.
		John Bowne, son of Captain John Bowne-a patentee and one of the five original settlers of the Monmouth patent granted by Governor Nicolls, was a member of the Provincial Assembly, taking part in the Second Assembly in 1704 and the Third Assembly in 1707.
	www.twp.freehold.nj.us /History_Article.asp?ContentArticleID=2 (1441 words)

	BOWNE HOUSE Page
		John Bowne, a Quaker, built the house but is (or ought to be) better remembered as the person who succesfully opposed New Amsterdam Governor Peter Stuyvesant's religious oppression in 1662.
		John Bowne had not yet built his house and settled there; shortly after moving in in 1662, he invited the Quakers to worship in his house and was shortly after arrested.
		John Bowne defended himself in consonance with the Flushing Remonstrance, successfully challenging the restriction of freedom of religion.
	home.att.net /~Berliner-Ultrasonics/bownehse.html (1875 words)

	Sign Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bowne's well-meaning attempts to prevent a cholera outbreak failed, and hundreds of New Yorkers died of the disease.
		John Bowne, who was the first representative of the Bowne name in this area, settled in Flushing in 1631.
		The John Bowne homestead, located at 37-01 Bowne Street, lies south of the park and remains the oldest private residence in the borough.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=7807 (699 words)

	scanned_virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		John refused, for the Quakers believed that all men were equal, and to remove one's hat would indicate the other was a superior man. Thus the Quakers refuse to doff the hat.
		John Bowne and James Glover took the oath of fielty to the Proprietors and loyalty to the Crown.
		John Bowne, III - was born in 1700, the son of Obadiah and Elizabeth Bowne.
	bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu /woodrow/Bowne_Footprints.html (18229 words)

	Henry Bowne 1752-1829 - Town of Charlton, Saratoga County, NY
		John BOWNE was born on 8 Mar 1790.
		Catharine BOWNE was born on 12 Mar 1792.
		Louisa BOWNE was born on 11 Mar 1800.
	www.townofcharlton.org /HCC_fam_bowne.html (323 words)

	Bowne House Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although the Bownes of England could trace their ancestry back to William the Conqueror's time and were connected to many titled and powerful families, we do not know what caused John Bowne with his father, Thomas, and sister, Dorothy, to leave Lime Tree Farm in Matlock, Derbyshire, England to travel to Boston in 1649.
		Bowne was arrested and imprisoned, and when he refused to pay a fine or plead guilty, Stuyvesant banished him to Holland, where he argued his case successfully before the Dutch West India Company.
		Later, Mary Bowne Parsons (1784-1839), a niece of Robert and wife of the horticulturist Samuel Parsons, was an ardent abolitionist and a funder of a school for indigent young women.
	www.bownehouse.org /history/bowne_family.shtm (824 words)

	Re: Joseph Thorne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mary Bowne (1660-1728) is the daughter of John Bowne (1627-1695) and Hannah Feake.
		John Bowne (b, 1627) is the son of Thomas Bowne (a Quaker leader).
		And, the Bownes did not sign the Remonstrance because they were of the Quakers religion who were being persecuted and a basic reason for the Flushing Remonstrance which stated the citizens declined orders to not harbor Quakers.
	thorn.pair.com /cgi-sys/cgiwrap/thorn/archive.cgi?read=2189 (169 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		John Bowne was arrested and taken to New Amsterdam, where the council found him guilty of providing lodging to the Quakers, and ordered him to pay a fine of one hundred and fifty florins.
		Bowne refused to do so, stating that liberty was promised to the Flushing townspeople in the patent granted by the prince, the States General and the West India Company.
		Bowne stated that he hoped that the Lord would give the Committee "eyes to see, and hearts to do justice, that you may find mercy with the Lord in the day of judgement" (Trebor 19).
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /students/ash3002y/gomez/bownepaper.html (882 words)

	Queens College - CUNY
		Bowne House was built circa 1661 by John Bowne, a Quaker, who settled in Flushing when New York was under Dutch rule.
		The Bowne House Historical Society, which has operated the house as a museum since 1947, is seeking an affiliation with the Historic House Trust of New York (HHT), and is in the process of transferring ownership of the house to the City of New York.
		In addition to John Bowne, the family included prominent businessmen, such as Robert Bowne (1744-1818), the founder of Bowne and Co., the oldest public company in the United States, who was also a founding director of the Bank of New York, New York Hospital, and the American Chamber of Commerce.
	www.qc.edu /nis/Releases/spring%202004/bowne.php (1379 words)

	H.S. 425 John Bowne High School
		John Bowne is best known for its agricultural program - a working farm in the back of the school where students plant vegetables, and raise chickens.
		A student writes that she feels John Bowne should not be labeled an "Impact School" in need of special attention.
		John Bowne was a great school, and that is where I learned to become a woman.
	www.insideschools.org /fs/school_profile.php?id=1077 (1446 words)

	Keese Genealogy
		John Bowne was born at Lime Tree Farm near Matlock, Derbyshire, England and baptized at Matlock 9 March 1626/27.
		John Bowne was not a Quaker prior to his arrival in Flushing.
		Anne was the sister of John Winthrop (1587/88-1649), commander of the Winthrop fleet and first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the daughter of Adam Winthrop.
	home.austin.rr.com /keese/map.html (3777 words)

	Bowne Family
		ANTHONY BOWNE died on the Lime Tree Farm in Matlock Derbyshire England.
		John was given his freedom and returned to America.
		John born 13 Mar 1656/7; died 30 Aug 1673.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/chickened/bownefamily.html (575 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		John Bowne is famous for refusing to take his hat off when the Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant entered his house to arrest him because Bowne allegedly had allowed Quakers to meet in his house.
		Mary Bowne is said to be the daughter of William Bowne by Mary Haverland and was born circa 1650.
		John Hicks was an Anabaptist, and sources show that he had several wives during the same time periods.
	www.netlizard.com /matt2/boone.html (1883 words)

	Public School (PS) 20 John Bowne Elementary in Flushing, New York/NY - School Tree
		P.S. 20 John Bowne Elementary is classified as a "Primary School".
		P.S. 20 John Bowne Elementary was operational at the time of the last report and is currently operational.
		P.S. 20 John Bowne Elementary IS NOT a Charter school.
	www.schooltree.org /362058002105.html (131 words)

	Bowne House \| NYCkidsARTS - New York City's cultural guide for kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Every piece of furniture in the house is an original that belonged to the Bowne family, making this museum a display of three centuries of one family's changing tastes.
		John Bowne, who built the house, was an ardent proponent of freedom of religion and conscience who was banished to Holland for standing by his principles.
		A class visit to Bowne House consists of a group orientation, during which a docent describes the historic setting of the house, followed by a tour of the structure itself.
	www.nyckidsarts.org /orgs/one?org_id=391&borough=Queens&discipline=&keyword=&search_p=t&offset=0 (407 words)

	NYC ARTS - Organization Details
		It was in this house that Quaker John Bowne took his stand against the outlawing of that religious sect by Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
		Bowne's advocacy of freedom of conscience, which caused him to be banished to Holland (he was later vindicated), contributed to the adoption more than a century later of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
		In 1945, after occupancy by nine generations of Bownes, the house was purchased by the Bowne House Historical Society.
	www.nyc-arts.org /oDetail.aspx?OrgID=1019&v=false (211 words)

	Coralynn's Winthrop Family
		She married John BOWNE on May 7, 1656 in Flushing, Long Island, NY (son of Thomas Bowne and Mary).
		John Bowne b 3/31/1656-57, Flushing, Queens, NY Elizabeth Bowne b 10/8/1658, Flushing, Queens, NY d 10/14/1721.
		The Flushing Remonstrance, the Bowne House where Quaker meetings were held; her husband being arrested and one time sent to the Netherlands to stand trial, as Quakers were illegal under Dutch law.
	hometown.aol.com /elacia3577/myhomepage/favorite.html (1575 words)

	Queens Boulevard: The Street That’s Out Of Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The tapes were, in part, a launching pad for promoting the Association’s goal of moving John Bowne to the old Flushing Airport or to the Flushing Meadows/Kissena corridor area.
		But on Tuesday, in a private room at John F. Kennedy Airport, 70-year-old Polish-born Catholic Zofia Voroniecky was reunited with members of the Jewish families she saved during the Holocaust.
		John Ciafone, a community activist and presence within the northwest Queens school district for several years said the intruder that molested four children in P.S. 89’s empty stairwells never should have had the opportunity to strike his young prey.
	www.queenscourier.com /archives/2000/lead120700a.htm (705 words)

	History of Flushing Meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		John Bowne, fully aware of the risk he incurred, invited the Friends in Flushing to hold their meetings in his home.
		As John Bowne refused to pay the fine or escape when the prison door was left unlocked, Governor Stuyvesant felt forced to banish him from the Colony.
		John Bowne donated land and arranged for a burial ground on Northern Boulevard in 1676 (See Historic Graveyard), and in 1692 Bowne and John Rodman bought three acres of land from John Ware adjoining the graveyard to be used for a meeting house site.
	www.nyym.org /flushing/history.html (2856 words)

	John Bowne High School in Flushing, New York/NY - School Tree
		John Bowne High School is classified as a "High School".
		John Bowne High School was operational at the time of the last report and is currently operational.
		John Bowne High School IS NOT a Charter school.
	www.schooltree.org /362058002014.html (203 words)

	Flushing Meeting Graveyard
		In 1676, before the Meeting House was built, John Bowne donated land and arranged for a burial ground on Northern Boulevard.
		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.
		John Murray, Jr., known for his benevolence and as one of the founders of the Free School Society and The Society for the Manumission of Slaves, is buried here.
	www.nyym.org /flushing/graveyard.html (372 words)

	gbbow040
		John experience persecution at the hands of the Dutch so William was again ready to seek his freedom to worship elsewhere.
		William's son John Bowne is listed as one of the four recipients of the deed.
		At that time Letters of administration were granted to John Bowne of Middletown, NJ on the estate of his father William "heretofore of Gravesend and of late Middletown".
	www.maierassociates.com /Genie/gbbow040.html (827 words)

	Edward² and Dorothy Bowne Farrington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He and his brother-in-law, John Bowne, together with brother-in-law, Robert Terry, husband of sister, Sarah, received a Flushing Patent in 1666 from Gov. Richard Nicholls.
		Dorothy came to America with father and brother, John, who became a famous Quaker spokesman, in 1649 and to Flushing in 1651.
		The John Bowne who, with other Englishmen from LI, mostly Baptists, obtained a large patent in Monmouth Co. in 1664-5, is probably no relation to the Quaker John Bowne6.
	home.earthlink.net /~anderson207/Edward2Farr.html (372 words)

	Bown Family History - Othery Parish Records
		Bowne Hugh of Moorsfinch - Married 05/03/1639 Elizabeth Linterne Bown Ann Burial 16/05/1661 Daughter of Richard Bond?
		Bown William Son of John Bown 26/11/1679 Bown John Son of Richard Bond?
		John of the Parish of Compton Burdon 10/01/1736 Mary Paddock Bown John or Mary ???Burial 08/10/1758 Bowne Joseph Burial 05/04/1763 Brown William Married 07/10/1793 Sarah Hade Brown?
	www.bownco.co.uk /bownfamily/parishrecords.htm (100 words)

	Community Gazettes - District 24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		John Bowne High School in Flushing and Springfield Gardens High School in Jamaica will now be monitored closely by uniformed police officers and supervisors who will enforce disciplinary code and maintain safety and security, according to School Chancellor Joel Klein.
		Students at Bowne were well aware of the increased security and had mixed reactions to it.
		Councilman James Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows) said “Johne Bowne High School is an excellent school, and its students, teachers and administrators deserve our praise for their ongoing efforts to keep it that way, however John Bowne has experienced a recent rise in crime in and around the school.” The school is within Gennaro’s district.
	www.gothamgazette.com /community/24/news/1097 (631 words)

	Holmes Family History
		And it is through Lydia and John Bowne that the senior Obadiah Holmes stands as an ancestor of Abraham Lincoln.
		Not only were the Bownes important in colonial political history but Captain bowne married into a family equally influential in the field of religion.
		Captain Bowne's wife was Lydia Holmes, youngest daughter of the Reverend Obadiah and Katherine Hyde Holmes.
	rootie.geeknet.com /holmes.html (1589 words)

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