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(V) Nicholas (2), son of Nicholas (I) Booraem, was born near New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1736, and served in in the revolu- tionary army. Among his children was Nicholas, who is referred to below.
(VI) Nicholas (3), son of Nicholas (2) Booraem, was born near New Brunswick, New Jersey, and died in 1869. During the war of 1812 he served with distinction as the colonel of a New Jersey regiment and lost his hearing by the explosion of a cannon during a battle. He was a Whig, a member of the New Jersey assembly, one of the associate judges of the court of common pleas for Middlesex county, and for forty-two years the county treasurer. He was also an elder in the First Reformed Church of New Brunswick. By his wife, Sarah ( Willet) Booraem, who came also of revolutionary stock, he had twelve children: I. Eliza, married the Rev. John Van Arsdale. 2. Ellen, married Thomas Booraem. 3. Eme- line, married Charles Smith, M. D. 4. Louisa, married Nicholas Edgar Bookstaver. 5. Henry who entered the United States navy and was killed while home, in the great tornado that swept over New Brunswick, 1836. 6. Au- gustus, M. D. 7. Theodore, who is referred to below. And five other children who died in their youth.
(VII) Theodore, son of Nicholas (3) and Sarah ( Willet) Booraem, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1831, and died there in 1885. He studied law with Senator Schenck and Judge Van Dyke, and then began
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as a general practitioner in New Brunswick. He went into the insurance business and gave much of his time to the settling up of estates. He was a Republican, and for some time was the collector of Middlesex county. By his wife, Mary (Foster ) Booraem, he had three children: 1. Theodore B., who is referred to below. 2. Margaret, married Rev. Henry J. Scudder and is now with her husband a mis- sionary of the Reformed Church in America in India. 3. Harriet.
(VIII) Theodore B., son of Theodore and Mary (Foster) Booraem, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 30, 1861, and is now living in that city. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1881 with honors, and then studied law with A. V. Schenck. He was ad- mitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in 1884, and as counsellor in 1887. He then began practising in New Brunswick, where his success was brilliant and his advancement rapid. In 1892 he formed a partnership with John S. Voorhees, which continued until the death of the latter. He has devoted much time to corporation law and its problems, is the representative of many of the principal firms in New Brunswick, and is officially connected with many companies. In 1904 he was ap- pointed assistant United States attorney for the district of New Jersey, which office he held until April 1, 1906, when he resigned and became judge of the Middlesex county court of common pleas, in which position he re- mained until April, 1909, when he became prosecutor of the pleas of Middlesex county, which office he now holds. He has also been city attorney for the city of New Brunswick, and a director in a number of business corpo- rations of the city. He is also a member of many organizations, among them being the Holland Society of New York, and the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he is an active member. He is a member of the Second Reformed Church of New Brunswick.
April 16, 1895, Theodore B. Booraem mar- ried Helen Constance Randall, of New Bruns- wick, whose maternal grandfather, Abraham Suydam, was one of the prominent early pio- neers of New Brunswick, president of the Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank, and at one time owned half of the site of the pres- ent city.
Charles Tiebout Cow- COWENHOVEN enhoven, of the city of New Brunswick, law- yer, ex-judge and ex-prosecutor of the pleas,
is a descendant of one of the earliest colonial families of America. The immigrant ances- tor, Wolfert Gerritse Van Cowenhoven, came from Holland in 1630 and founded the colony of New Amersfoort on Long Island, a patent for the lands having been granted him by Gov- ernor Van Twiller. One of this family was Jacob Wolpherson Van Cowenhoven, delegate to the states-general of Holland ; and a famous descendant in the American line was Egbert Benson, the eminent jurist. Another early ancestor of Charles Tiebout Cowenhoven was Nicasius de Sille, one of the nine selectmen in the council of Governor Stuyvesant, Schepen, and mentioned in the list of "great citizens" in the year 1657.
Charles Tiebout Cowenhoven is a great- grandson of Catherine Remsen and is grand- son of Garetta Tiebout, his parents having been Nicholas Remsen Cowenhoven (who came to New Brunswick, New Jersey, from Brooklyn, New York), and Anna Rappelyea (who was born in Somerset county, New Jer- sey). Judge Cowenhoven's father was not en- gaged in professional or business occupation, but lived a quiet and retired life, and was rec- ognized and respected as a gentleman of the old school. His family consisted of the follow- ing children: I. Garreta T., married David Bishop, of Bishop Place, College avenue, New Brunswick. 2. Catherine, married (as his first wife) Rev. Dr. W. J. R. Taylor, a distin- guished divine of the Reformed church, and father of Rev. Dr. Graham Taylor, of the Chicago University, and of Rev. Dr. William R. Taylor, pastor of the Brick Church of Rochester, New York. 3. Maria Sefferts, married (second wife), her brother-in-law, Rev. Dr. W. J. R. Taylor. 4. Sarah Lefferts, married Oscar Johnson Jr., of the old Johnson family of Long Island, nephew of the late Bishop Whitehouse, of Illinois. 5. Cornelia Van Vechten, died unmarried. 6. Marianna A., resides with her brother in New Bruns- wick. 7. Nicholas Remsen, died young. 8. Charles Tiebout.
Charles Tiebout Cowenhoven was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, December I, 1844. He was graduated from Rutgers Col- lege in June, 1862, studied law in the office of Abraham V. Schenck, of New Brunswick, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attor- ney in November, 1865, and as counsellor in February, 1869. From 1869 to 1874 he served as president judge of the court of common pleas of Middlesex county, being the youngest man appointed to that bench. He was prose-
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cutor of the pleas of Middlesex county from 1877 to 1882, and was again president-judge of the court of common pleas from 1885 to 1890. Judge Cowenhoven has always prac- ticed his profession in New Brunswick. He has a large general clientage, and is known for par- ticular ability and success as an advocate. He has conducted many important criminal cases, and especially has made a marked reputation in noteworthy capital trials. His membership in organizations includes the Masonic order and the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Married, 1870, Helen A. Towle, whose father, Henry Towle, Esquire, was of English birth and a prominent merchant. Children : I. Charles Tiebout Cowenhoven, Jr., counsellor- at-law in New York City; married Emily Kearney Rogers. 2. Marie T. 3. Nicholas Remsen Cowenhoven, attorney-at-law in New Brunswick.
DALY Peter Francis Daly, attorney and counsellor at law, and surrogate of the county of Middlesex, was born in the city of New York, May 19, 1867, son of Timothy and Catharine (O'Grady) Daly, na- tives of county Galway, Ireland. When he was six years old, his parents removed to New Brunswick, New Jersey. His early educa- tion was gained at St. Peter's parochial school and the Livingston high school, both in New Brunswick. He studied law in the office of Hon. James H. Van Cleef, and was admitted to the bar at the November term of court in 1888, being then in his twenty-first year. Soon afterward he became a member of the law firm of Van Cleef, Daly & Woodbridge, which re- lation was continued for three years, and since that time Mr. Daly has practiced alone. Dur- ing the first ten years of his professional career, he was engaged in most of the im- portant criminal cases tried in the county, but now and for the past ten or more years his practice has been almost wholly on the civil side of the courts; it is extensive, important, and of general range. He has been counsel for the Workingmen's Building and Loan As- sociation of New Brunswick, one of the most important and progressive organizations of its kind in the state, since its incorporation, about fourteen years ago.
Ever since he came of age, Mr. Daly has been an influential factor in politics in New Brunswick and Middlesex county, and he oc- cupies a prominent position in the councils of the Democratic party of the state. He early became a member of the city Democratic com-
mittee with the specific purpose of purifying the politics of his own ward, the sixth. His intense earnestness and strong personality soon marked him as a leader, and he had the pleasure of causing to be adopted a set of rules for primaries calling for clean methods. Hav- ing secured the necessary legislation, he set about to see it put in force, and proved equally successful as an executive officer. His ener- getic fight for above-board primaries is a part of the history of the ward. He was almost killed at one of the primaries, when the lights were smashed and the building fired, but he has the satisfaction of knowing that since then there has not been a dishonest Democratic pri- mary in the sixth ward or any other ward of the city. Such a spirit proved his strength and brought credit and confidence to his party. He has been called upon by his party to pre- side at its gatherings, has efficiently filled the office of chairman of city, county and congre- gational conventions, and was for several years the chairman of the Middlesex County Demo- cratic executive committee. The sixth ward elected him to the office of alderman, show- ing its appreciation of his services by giving him a rousing majority. He ran far ahead of his ticket. As party leader in the board of aldermen, and as chairman of the finance com- mittee, during his two years' term, his duties were arduous. It was while he was chairman of the finance committee that over five hun- dred thousand dollars of the bonded indebted- ness of the city matured. The bonds had been bearing seven per cent interest, and they were renewed at four per cent, and some as low as three and one-half per cent. That year was known as the great refunding year, and was the most important period in the financial history of the city in a quarter of a century.
The distinction of being the father of the resolution that reduced the rate of interest on unpaid taxes from 12 to 8 per cent falls to Mr. Daly. As chairman of the sewerage committee he put through the big sewer in the sixth ward, down Hamilton street and along the Mile Run brook to the canal, the beginning of the sewerage system in that section of the city. He personally negotiated for and se- cured the right of way. for the sewer over private property without the cost of one penny to the city or to the property owners benefited. His public services were always heartily given. He was called upon to act as treasurer of the aldermanic committee of relief for the fami- lies of the local soldiers who so bravely left
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the city to espouse their country's cause in the Spanish-American war. He was a valued member of the city centennial committee and was secretary of the committee on memorial to the local sailors who lost their lives upon the ill-fated "Maine." In short, he is a rep- resentative citizen, a man of the people, whose sympathies have been with every public en- terprise that tended to the advancement of the city's and country's interest. In May, 1899, he was appointed counsel of the board of free- holders. As counsel to the board Mr. Daly retained his independence and fearlessly op- posed all measures which appeared to him to be against the public good. Politics never dictated his duty to him. He rendered his opinions without fear or favor and was sub- servient to no one. These things show the character of the man.
He was deputy and attorney to Leonard Furman, surrogate of Middlesex county, from 1892 to 1902, and in the year last mentioned was himself elected surrogate of the county. He served one full term of five years, and in 1907 was re-elected to a sec- ond term in the same office. At his first election in 1902, he ran nine hundred votes ahead of his ticket, and when a candidate for a second term he ran eighteen hundred ahead of the general ticket. During his connection with the surrogate's office, he has made a par- ticular study of the matters pertaining to that office, and to-day he is considered by the bar of the county a specialist in probate practice and pleading, one whose opinion is sought by other members of the bar. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association. He was the counsel who directed the incorpora- tion of the boroughs of South River, Roose- velt and Spotswood, and now is counsel for those municipalities and also for the borough of Helmetta. At different times he has been township attorney for Piscataway, Raritan, Monroe, East Brunswick and Sayreville town- ships. He is noted for oratorical ability, both at the bar and before popular gatherings, and enjoys extensive personal popularity.
Mr. Daly was founder and first grand knight of New Brunswick Council, Knights of Co- lumbus, and is a charter member and past ex- alted ruler of the local lodge of Elks. He was president of the Catholic Club when twenty years old, president of Division No. 5 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians at twenty-two, and still holds membership in both of those bodies, and also in the Royal Arcanum, Ger- man Society, Aurora and the Catholic Benevo-
lent Legion. He is a member of St Peter's Church, New Brunswick.
Mr. Daly married, in September, 1893, at the church of the Sacred Heart, New Bruns- wick, Mary Rose Mansfield, daughter of Will- iam and Margaret ( Fitzgerald) Mansfield, her father being a member of the firm of Harding & Mansfield, wholesale and retail shoe dealers. They have one daughter, Margaret Rosina Daly, born in New Brunswick, February, 1895, now a student at Rutgers Preparatory School.
It cannot be for a moment BOWNE doubted that the Quakers were in their principles of religious freedom on a much more higher plane both morally and in equity than the Puritans. They were indeed a better-hearted, harder-thinking, and therefore broader-minded class of men. They were perfectly aware that their acts were frequently such as to make them felons in the strict sense of the written law, yet their strong sense of right and justice were such that they dared to render a passive resistance so power- ful that these laws were finally repealed. Al- though the crime for which the Quaker suf- fered in England was far graver than any of his transgressions on New England soil, the severe penalties in the mother country being for refusal in times of great political danger to take the oath of allegience and supremacy and to pay the legal tithes in the parishes in which they resided, the penalties inflicted by the English authorities never reached the stern . punishment and brutal treatment meted out to the followers of George Fox by the Pil- grim Fathers, their associates and the Dutch inhabitants of New Netherland. This perse- cution was at its height during the early days of the settlement of the new world, and one of the greatest sufferers from it and also one of the most eminent examples of successful resistance to it is the case of the founder of the Bowne family and his illustrious son.
(I) In the year 1649 a certain Thomas Bowne, born at Matlock, Derbyshire, England, in the Fifth month, 1595, and baptized the following 25th day, arrived in Massachusetts Bay, and shortly afterwards settled in Flush- ing, Long Island, then belonging to the Dutch government. He died September 18, 1677, leaving behind him three children : I. John, re- ferred to below. 2. Dorothy, born August 14, 1631, removed to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1649. 3. Truth, who remained in England.
(II) John, only son of Thomas Bowne, the emigrant, was born in Matlock, March 9, 1627.
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died in Flushing, Long Island, December 20, 1695. Accompanying his father to the new world, he returned to England in 1650, and re- turned to America the following year, visiting Flushing with Edward Farrington, who is sup- posed to have married his sister, Dorothy. Soon after this the entire family settled in Flushing, and in 1661 he built the "Bowne House" which was used as a meeting place for Friends for nearly forty years. In 1656 his wife Hannah became a Friend, and her husband, a Church of England man, attending one of the meetings from curiosity, was so deeply impressed with their form of worship, that he invited them to meet at his house and soon after became a member himself. These Quaker meetings in a town founded by Massachusetts Puritans under a Dutch gov- ernment, was more than the townsfolk could stand, and August 24, 1662, complaints were made by the Flushing magistrates "that many of the inhabitants are followers of the Quak- ers who hold their meetings at the house of John Bowne." Under the Dutch colonial law at that time, religious gatherings of any kind except those of the Dutch Reformed religion, were subject to a penalty of fifty guilders for the first offence, double for the second, and arbitrary correction for every other. Accord- ingly, September 1, 1662, John Bowne was arrested and charged with "harboring Quakers and permitting them to hold their meetings at his house," and was cast into prison at Fort Amsterdam. Two weeks later he was tried and condemned to pay £25 Flemish and the costs of his trial, and warned that a second offense would mean double this fine, while any further persistence in such conduct would bring banishment from New Netherland. John Bowne refused to pay, was confined in a dungeon on bread and water and still re- maining obdurate he was finally sent as a pris- oner to Holland. He was finally released and returned to America by way of England and the island of Barbadoes, reaching Flushing, March 30, 1663. The document which the directors of the West India Company sent to the officials of New Netherland is too long to quote here, but it is of peculiar historic inter- est as the first official proclamation of religious liberty for any part of America except Mary- land, and its promulgation stopped the perse- cution of the Friends on Long Island with the exception of the unauthorized acts of Gov- ernor Peter Stuyvesant.
August 7. 1656, John Bowne married (first ) Hannah, daughter of Lieutenant Robert
Feake, who died February 2, 1678, at the resi- dence of John Edson, in London, England. Her mother, Elizabeth Fones, the widow of Henry, son of Governor John Winthrop, of Massachusetts, was the daughter of Thomas Fones, an apothecary of London, by his first wife, daughter of Adam Winthrop, of Gro- ton. Her pedigree begins with William Fones, Esquire, who married the daughter of Sir Robert Hyelston, knight, and was the father of George Fones, of Saxbie, who married a Malbanck of Malpas, Cheshire, and had a son William of Saxbie, whose grandson, John of Saxbie, was the great-grandfather of Thomas Fones, of London, the grandfather of Hannah (Feake) Bowne. Hannah (Feake) Bowne became a minister among Friends and made two religious visits to England and Ire- land and one to Holland. Her husband joined her in England in 1676 and accompanied her in her religious service until she died the following year, and his testimony concerning her, given at her funeral at the Peel meeting, is remarkable for its tenderness and beauty.
John and Hannah ( Feake ) Bowne had eight children : 1. John, born March 13, 1657, died August 30, 1673. 2. Elizabeth, October 8, 1658, died February 14, 1722; married Samuel Titus. 3. Mary, January 6, 1661. 4. Abigail, February 5, 1663, died May 14, 1703 ; married, March 25, 1686, Richard Willets, of Jericho, Long Island. 5. Hannah, April 10, 1665, died December 30, 1707; married Benjamin, son of Anthony Field, of Long Island. 6. Samuel, referred to below. 7. Dorothy, March 29, 1669, died November 26, 1790; married, May 27, 1689, Henry, son of Matthew Franklyn, of Flushing. 8. Martha Johannah, August 17, 1673, died August 11, 1750; married, Novem- ber 9, 1695, Joseph, son of John Thorne.
February 2, 1680, John Bowne married (second) Hannah Bickerstaff, who died June 7, 1690. She bore him six more children : 9. Sarah, December 14, 1680, died May 18, 1681. 10. Sarah, February 17, 1682. 11. John, Septem- ber 10, 1683, died October 25, 1683. 12. Thomas, November 26, 1684, died December 17, 1684. 13. John, September 9, 1686, mar- ried, July 21, 1714, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Townley) Lawrence. 14. Abigail, July 5, 1688, died July 13. 1688. June 26, 1693. John Bowne married (third) Mary, daughter of James and Sarah Cock, of Mat- tinecok, Long Island, who bore him two more children : 15. Amy, April 1, 1694. 16. Ruth, January 30, 1696.
(III) Samuel, sixth child and second son
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of John and Hannah (Feake) Bowne, was born in Flushing, Long Island, September 21, 1667, died May 30, 1745. He was a minister among Friends. October 4, 1691, he married (first ) at Philadelphia Meeting, Mary, daugh- ter of Captain Becket, who died August 21, 1707. She bore him ten children : I. Samuel, referred to below. 2. Thomas, born April 7, 1694, married, March 7, 1715, Hannah, daugh- ter of John Underhill. 3. Eleanor, April 20, 1695, married, October 9, 1718, Isaac Horner, of Mansfield, Burlington county, New Jersey. 4. Hannah, March 31, 1697, married, April 6, 1717, Richard Lawrence. 5. John, Sep- tember II, 1698, died 1757; married, 1738, Dinah Underhill. 6. Mary, October 21, 1699, married, January 14, 1720, John Keese. 7. Roabord, January 17, 1701, died before July 3, 1746, when his daughter Mary married Henry, son of Robert and Rebecca Haydock, married November 16, 1724, Margaret, daugh- ter of Joseph Latham of Cow Neck, Hemp- stead, Long Island. 8. William, April 1, 1702, died April 15, 1702. 9. Elizabeth, October II, 1704. 10. Benjamin, March 13, died May 13, 1707. December 8, 1709, Samuel Bowne married (second) Hannah Smith, of Flush- ing, who died October II, 1733. She bore him five more children : II. Sarah, September 30, 1710, married, March 12, 1729, William, son of William Burling. 12. Joseph, Febru- ary 25, 1712, married (first) November 13, 1735, Sarah, daughter of Obadiah Lawrence, who died January 5, 1740, and (second) June 13, 1745, Judith, daughter of Jonathan Mor- rell. 13. Anne, October 17, 1715. 14. Ben- jamin, August 1, 1717. 15. Elizabeth, Novem- ber 26, 1720. November 14, 1735, Samuel Bowne married (third) Mrs. Grace Cowper- thwaite, who died November 22, 1760. She bore him no children.
(IV) Samuel (2), eldest child of Samuel (I) and Mary (Becket) Bowne, was born in Flushing, Long Island, January 29, 1693, died in 1769. September 20, 1716, he married Sarah Franklin, who bore him six children: I. William, March 6, 1720, died October 18, 1747 ; married Elizabeth Willett, who died the same year as her husband. 2. Samuel, re- ferred to below. 3. Mary, March 3, 1724, married Joseph Farrington. 4. Amy, 1724, married George Embree. 5. Sarah, 1726, married William Titus. 6. James, 1728, mar- ried, 1767, Caroline Rodman ; his son Walter married Eliza Southgate and was mayor of New York City.
(V) Samuel (3), second child and son of
Samuel (2) and Sarah (Franklin) Bowne, was born May 14, 1721. He married Abigail Burling, born February 25, 1724. Their eleven children were: I. Edward, born Sep- tember 3, 1742, died September 22, 1742. 2. James, March 20, 1744. 3. Samuel, August 4, 1746, died August 21, 1746. 4. Elizabeth, November 19, 1748, died November 22, 1752. 5, Samuel Jr., June 25, 1750, died July 23, 1752. 6. Matthew, July 19, 1752. 7. Abigail, October 21, 1754. 8. Sarah, January 14, 1757, died May 22, 1760. 9. Mary, August 8, died August 24, 1761. 10. William, referred to below. II. Samuel Jr., April 5, 1767, married Hannah
(VI) William, tenth child and sixth son, the fourth to reach maturity, of Samuel (3) and Abigail (Burling) Bowne, was born March 9, 1763. May II, 1791, he obtained in New Jersey a marriage license to marry Sarah Newbold, born March 22, 1769. She was the daughter of Caleb Newbold and Sarah, daughter of Samuel Haines and Lydia, daugh- ter of Thomas and Deliverance (Horner) Stokes. Samuel was the grandson of Rich- ard and Abigail Haines, the emigrants, and son of William Haines and Sarah, daughter of John Paine, the emigrant. Caleb was the son of Thomas Newbold and Edith, daughter of Marmaduke and Ann ( Pole) Coates, the emi- grants. Thomas was the son of Michael New- bold and Rachel, daughter of John Clayton, the emigrant, and Michael was the son of Michael Sr. and Ann Newbold, the emigrants to Burlington county, New Jersey. The chil- dren of William and Sarah (Newbold) Bowne were : I. Samuel, who died unmarried. 2. Abi- gail, married George, son of Budd and Sarah (Haines) Hawwood. 3. William, who died unmarried. 4. Edward, referred to below.
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