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230 Mary Bowne, born Nov. 13, 1814; living in 1899; married John Arrowsmith by whom she had William Arrowsmith Eugene Arrowsmith David Arrowsmith
231 Gertrude Eliza Bowne, born Oct. 2, 1816; died 1895; married David Campbell by whom she had Andrew Campbell
Jacob Campbell
Charlotte Campbell
Elizabeth Campbell Nina Campbell
232 Rhoda Bowne, born 1824; living in 1899; married Charles Brown by whom she had
Gertrude Brown
Charlotte Brown
Charles Brown
Parker Brown
Halstead Brown
Elizabeth Brown
233 Johannah Bowne, born MIch. 28, 1821; died Dec. 19, 1872; married Lewis Brown by whom she had
Almira Brown Addie Brown
234 John Bowne; died, unmarried, Mch. 13, 1856, aged 32, 11, 13.
235 Almira Bowne; living in 1899; married Charles Black by whom she had Joseph Black Charlotte Black
236 Clarkson Bowne; living in 1899; married, first, Mary F. Black by whom he had Lilly Bowne Two boys, who died young.
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He married, second, Addie Lambertson by whom he had Mary Bowne Johanna Bowne
The record is partially worn and two names are destroyed, viz .:
born Mch. 20, 1826. . orn Mch. 14, 1828. Also Rhoda Bowne is given "born March [28] IS24."
The following other entries are interspersed with the preceding: Bowne; died, March 4th, 1824, aged 54.
Obadiah Bowne: died November, 1828.
Gertrude Brown, born May 12, 1784.
Joshua Brown, born Sept. 5, 1785.
Charlotte Brown, born May 26, 1787.
Clarkson Brown, born Oct. 15, 1794.
From the Horner Bible and a Bible record supplied by Miss Harriet W. Bray.
141 CAPT. ANDREW BOWNE, son of John Bowne, 72, was born Mch. 28, 1789; died, Jan. 31, 1865, aged 75, 10, 3, and is buried in St. Andrews Churchyard, Staten Island, N. Y: He was a man of genial manners and great polish. He was a member of the New York drygoods firm of C. O. Halsted & Co. He married his cousin, Catharine Bowne, 148. She, under the name of Catharine Elizabeth, wife of Andrew Bowne, died, June 15, 1822, aged 26, 9, 4, and is buried in St. Andrews Churchyard, Staten Island, N. Y.
Issue
237 Obadiah Bowne. He married Frances Sarah . . ., who was born June 15, 1824; died Feb. S, 1866; and is buried in St. Andrews Churchyard, Staten Island. 238 Percy Bowne
147 . ANN BOWNE, daughter of Obadiah Bowne, 74, married Capt. Edward Kearny, of Key Grove, Keyport, N. J. See Kearny Family.
157 JAMES BOWNE, son of Obadiah Bowne, 94, born April 12, 1771; died June 16, 1807, and is buried in Presbyterian Churchyard, Middletown, N. J. His will dated May 25. 1807, at Freehold, and proved July 24, 1807, devised his estate to Samuel and Joseph Bowne, sons of Joseph Bowne, and to his nieces and nephews, children of Andrew and Rachel Winter.
158 RACHEL BOWNE, daughter of Obadiah Bowne, 94, married Andrew Winter. Issue, as per will of her brother, James, in 1807:
240 Anna Winter
241 Catharine Winter. [She married Samuel, son of Joseph Bowne.]
242 Andrew Winter
243 Obadiah Winter
244 James Winter
159 OBADIAH BOWNE, son of Gershom Bowne, 97, married Susan Rickey, about ISoo, and died 1823. He was born Nov. 28, 1774.
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Issue
245 Harvey Bowne
246 Alfred Bowne
247 Cyrus Bowne
248 James Bowne
249 Mary Ann Bowne
250 Harriet Bowne
251 Elizabeth Bowne
252 Martha Jane Bowne
Mr. James B. Platt, of "The Eagle," Poughkeepsie, N. Y., descends from this line.
160 MARTHA BOWNE, daughter of Gershom Bowne, 97, was born Oct. 13, 1776; married, Feb. 27, 1794, Isaac Bush, born, in Fishkill, Apr. 24, 1764; died Aug. 2, 1846. She died Apr. 5, 1846. They settled in Tompkins County, N. Y., near 1800.
Issue
253 Elizabeth Bush, born May 9, 1797.
254 Abraham Bush, born May 7, 1799.
255 Sarah Bush, born Jan. 16, 1802.
256 Catharine Bush, born Mch. 20, 1804.
257 Ann (Nancy) Bush, born Oct. 22, 1806.
258 Isaac L. Bush, born Jan. 24, 1809.
259 Susan Bush, born Mch. 12, 1811.
260 Martha Ann Bush, born July 29, 1813.
261 Gershom Bowne, born Nov. 18, 1816; died Apr. 2, 1832.
161 BENJAMIN BOWNE, son of Gershom Bowne, 97, was born Sept. 12, 1778; mar- ried, about 1803, Elizabeth Van Vlack. He died 1833.
Issue
262 George Bowne
263 Abraham Bowne
264 Robert Bowne
265 Gershom Bowne
266 Catharine Bowne
267 Mary Bowne
268 Elizabeth Bowne
162 CATHARINE BOWNE, daughter of Gershom Bowne, 97, born Feb. 18, 1781; married Abraham Bush, a relative of her sister Martha's husband. They moved to Otsego County, N. Y., about 1803, and raised a family.
163 ELIZABETH BOWNE, daughter of Gershom Bowne, 97, born Aug. 8, 1787; married, Floyd Coolidge, about 1808, and died 1815.
Issue 269 Floyd Coolidge 270 Mary Coolidge
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164 MARY BOWNE, daughter of Gershom Bowne, 97, was born Sept. 5, 1788; mar- ried, Joseph Scofield, about 1808; died 1858. No issue.
165 GERSHOM BOWNE, son of Gershom Bowne, 97, born Dec. 10, 1789; married, Elizabeth Hasbrook, about 1816, and died 1825.
Issue
271 Charles E. Bowne, born June 19, ISIS.
272 Francis H. Bowne, born Apr. 14, 1820.
273 Ann Elizabeth Bowne, born Nov. 28, 1821.
166 SAMUEL BOWNE, son of Gershom Bowne, 97, born June 23, 1795; married, Phoebe E. Rapelje, about 1820, and died 1853. They lived at Fishkill, N. Y.
Issue
274 Mary Ann Bowne
275 Elizabeth Bowne; died at Ridgewood, N. J., June 30, ..
276 Stephen Bowne
277 Samuel Bowne
167 JAMES BOWNE, son of Gershom Bowne, 97, was born Dec. 25, 1798; married, first, about 1820, Phebe Conklin: married, second, about 1836, Olivia Tappen. He was a mer- chant and resident, in 1869, for over fifty years in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He had been Mayor of that city and held many offices of trust and was a much respected man. He and his chil- dren were living in 1869, but his wife was dead.
Issue by first wife 278 Cornelia Bowne; married Dr. Parsons, of Marcellus, N. Y.
Issue by second wife
279 Sarah Ann Bowne
280 James Bowne
281 Tappen Bowne
282 Fanny Bowne
170 SAMUEL BOWNE, son of Joseph Bowne, 106, born Jan. 20, 1800; died April I, 1866; married, Feb. 16, 1825, his second cousin, Catharine, daughter of Andrew and Rachel (Bowne) Winter, born April 9, 1797; died June 19, 1880.
Issue
283 Hannah Bowne, born Dec. 7, 1825; single.
284 William Bowne, born Nov. 24, 1827; died Sept. 5, 1883.
285 Samuel Winter Bowne, born Feb. 23, 1831.
286 Catharine Bowne, born Aug. 6, 1833; married Champ Lippencott.
287 Andrew Bowne, born May 3, 1836.
288 Amanda Whitfield Bowne, born Oct. 31, 1839.
171 EDWARD BOWNE, son of Joseph Bowne, 106, born Feb. 9, 1806; married, first, Elizabeth Parker; married, second, Eleanor Dickerson.
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Issue by first wife
289 Charles Bowne
290 Amanda Bowne
Issue by second wife
291 Edward Bowne: died young.
292 Edward Bowne
An Edward Bowne is buried in the Methodist yard at Little Silver, who died, Feb. 6, 1877, aged 70, 11, 27. He seems to have married Elma E. (Dicker- son?).
293 William Bowne
294 Augustus Bowne
295 Elizabeth Bowne
296 Eva Bowne
172 JOSEPH BOWNE, son of Joseph Bowne, 106, was born April 22, 1801; died, Mch. 28, 1872, aged 70, 11, 6. He married, Jan. 6, 1833, Margaret Bowyer Parker, the daughter of William and Mary (Woolley) Parker, from Poplar. He wrote, in 1869, concerning this family. She died, Aug. 11, 1888, aged 79, 4, 4.
Issue
297 Asbury Bowne, born Nov. 9, 1834; died Mch. 5, 1885. 298 Joseph Bowne, born July 21, 1837; married .; is in the feed business; lives
in New York.
299 William Parker Bowne, born Nov. 17, 1840; died Jan. 4, 1876.
300 Edward Bowne, born Oct. 10, 1842.
301 Borden Parker Bowne, born Dec. 19, 1844; died Aug. 19, 1845.
302 Borden Parker Bowne, 2nd, born Jan. 14, 1847.
303 Townsend Bowne, born June 21, 1849. He is a well-known physician in Lead- ville.
304 Letitia J. Bowne, born July 7, 1852.
Edward Bowne, 300, and Letitia J. Bowne, 304, still live on the old homestead at Atlantic Highlands, near Leonard's Corner. On this site, or adjacent, was the burying place of the Burdges, Tiltons and Bownes, but now removed.
*175 WILLIAM BOWNE, son of James Bowne, 107, was born, in Monmouth County, N. J., Aug. 4, 1750; died, in Trenton, N. J., 1842; married Anna Deats. She was a daughter of William and Mary Deats, and was born Feb. 8, 1767.
William Deats was a wheelright by occupation, and is said to have been "a workman of great skill and ingenuity." He lived about four miles Northeast of Flemington, N. J. He was a son of Adam Deats (Dietz) by his wife, Catherine Stonenberg. They were married, in New York city, Apr. 21, 1729. Adam Deats or, Dietz, as the name was originally spelled. was a German and was probably born in Windecken, Prussia. Adam Dietz was naturalized by act of the Council of New Jersey, in 1744. He bought two hundred and eight acres of land, in Amwell township, Hunterdon County, N. J., of Mary Kirkbridge, Nov. 26, 1747. Adam Dietz was a man of considerable prominence in church affairs, and an elder of the "High Dutch Calvinistical Church," of Amwell, at Ringoes, N. J., in 1747. His will is dated Feb. 20, 1769, and was probated MIch. 25, 1769. It names his wife Mary, who was no doubt his second wife,
*Supplied me by Miss Harriet W. Bray, from the memoranda of their descendant, Dr. Miller K. Reading, of !den. Va.
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and eleven children: Peter, Jacob, John, William, Adam, Patris, Christeen, Margaret, Mary Ann, Catherine, and Elizabeth.
The will of William Deats is dated Dec. 1, IS23, and was probated Feb. 13, 1824. It directs his executors to sell and convey all real and personal estate and apply the money "for the support and maintance of my aged and beloved wife, Mary Deats." In case of any sur- plus money, it was to be equally divided among his children, "Namely, Anna Bowne, the wife of William Bowne, John Deats and Mary Chamberlin, wife of Gideon Chamberlin."
Children of William and Mary Deats: Anna Deats, born Feb. 8, 1767. John Deats, born Feb. 1, 1769. Mary Deats, born . 1771.
William Bowne was a soldier in the Second Regiment, of the New Jersey troops, in the Revolutionary War, and was in the Battle of Monmouth with Colonel Ogden's regiment, which had been on the march and in the battle until, worn out with thirst, hunger and fatigue, was ordered by Gen. Washington to be withdrawn.
The following was furnished by the United States Commissioner of Pensions:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C. November 14, 1898.
Sir :-
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that William Bowne made an application for pension 4 August, 1820, at which time he was 70 years of age and residing in Hunterdon County, N. J., and his pension was allowed for eighteen months actual service, as a private in the New Jersey troops, Revo- lutionary War; a part of the time he served under Capt. Leonard and Col. Ogden. Place of his enlistment not stated.
Very respectfully, H. CLAY EVANS, Commissioner.
Mr. Millar K. Reading, Aden, Virginia.
During the Revolutionary War many of the New Jersey Tories, or refugees, fled to the state of New York, and were formed into a military corps under the name of "The Associated Loyalists." New Jersey certainly was very greatly afflicted by these Tory marauding parties, and the Whig inhabitants of Monmouth County were compelled to draw up articles of agree- ment for the purpose of retaliation. It is dated June, 1779, and is now in the office of the Secretary of State, Trenton, N. J. It is signed by four hundred and thirty-six persons, and William Bowne's name is among them.
After the Revolutionary War, he remained in Monmouth County for some time, and then removed to Hunterdon County. He located at Cherryville, where he resided for many years. He was by trade and occupation a shoemaker.
There was an Independence Jubilee held in Flemington, N. J., in 1826, and the venerable survivors of 1776 joined the procession at the courthouse. William Bowne was in the procession. There was one trait in his character worthy of eniulation by his descendants. He was an ardent patriot, firm in the faith that America was right and the greatest nation on earth! Broad and charitable in other matters, he always resented any aspersions on his state or country, when uttered in his presence. William Bowne died, in Trenton, N. J., probably in 1842, but the exact date of his death has not been ascertained.
Ile is buried in the graveyard at Hamilton Square, N. J.
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Issue
305 William Bowne, born 1790.
306 John D. Bowne, born Sept. 16, 1792.
307 Mary Bowne, born 1794; married James Owens.
308 Anne Bowne, born Sept. 19, 170S; married, in ISIS, Francis Reading. She died IS60. Parents of Dr. Miller K. Reading.
309 Charles H. Bowne, born Apr. 29, ISoo.
310 Catharine Bowne, born 1802; married Charles Lock.
Aden, Va., 1-21, 1898.
My dear Colonel Leach
Nancy Bowne, my mother, was own cousin to Dr. John Bowne, who lived near Ringoes, N. J., and practised his profession for nearly sixty years. She had an uncle Joseph Bowne. Her grandfather Bowne was nearly ruined financially during the Revolution-1776. These are traditional facts I have known all my life. My mother's uncle, Joseph Bowne, had a son, Joseph, who came to my father's house on a visit when I was a small boy. His home was not in Hunterdon Co., N. J. I met Hon. Joseph G. Bowne -- son of Dr. John Bowne, in Flemington, N. J., during the time he was State Senator, and we talked over our relationship at the time. After writing the above, I turned to "The Medical Profession, of Hunterdon County," as quoted from "Wick's' New Jersey Medicine," and I find Dr. John Bowne was born 2 Sept., 1767, upon a farm which was 28 June, 1768, the battle-field of Monmouth; the scenes of which battle were indelibly stamped upon his memory, and during which his father and family sought refuge in the woods, and two days later returned to a desolated home. Snell's History of Hun- terdon and Salem Counties, pp. 219 and 330. You will find there were articles of agreement for the purpose of retaliation against the "Associated Loyalists" of Monmouth County, in 1778. It is too long to quote here. but there were 436 names signed to this agreement. Among the signers annexed to this is my grandfather, William Bowne, and also his brother, Joseph Bowne.
Barber & Howe, p. 373.
· After the close of the war, William Bowne came to Hunterdon County and married Annie Deats, daughter of John Deats and Ursilla Barton, daughter of Capt. Elisha Barton.
There was an Independence Jubilee in Flemington, N. J., 4 July, 1826, and in the proces- sion were the venerable survivors of the war of 1776. Among them you will find this same William Bowne, my maternal grandfather. Snell, p. 330.
That William Bowne and Dr. John Bowne were related, and that they both came from Monmouth County, after the Revolution, is a settled fact.
Very truly yours, M. K. READING.
176 JOHN BOWNE, son of William Bowne, 108, probably married Jane, daughter of Samuel Bowne, "the Tailor," and Patience Conover.
As son and heir of his father, he owned the homestead, at Atlantic Highlands (Old Port- land), in the year 1794. The house is now remodeled and removed. He died in 1847.
1847, May 24. Inventory of the personal estate of John Bowne, deceased, late of Middle- town, taken by Joseph Bowne and Nathaniel H. Roberts. Total amount, $713.15. Among the items are the following:
Book account "against his daughter Elenor Biven $30.
"against his daughter Eliza Beers 77.50
"against his daughter Sarah Burdge 68.62
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Book account "against his daughter Caroline Ketcham $38. 74 "against Samuel Bowne 38.74
Endorsed: "In Chancery." Between Oliver S. Holden and wife complainants & Jos. Hyers and others. Exhibit B.
Bennington F. Randolph, Master in Chancery, Oct. 10, 1850.
The following original papers are in possession of Dr. Andrews, of Navesink, N. J., executor of John Edgar Bowne, deceased, son of William Bowne.
1696, Aug. 7. James Bowne, yeoman, conveyed lands, at the Highlands, to his brother John Bowne, shoemaker, which he had from their father, James Bowne, deceased.
1732, Mch. 15. John Davis, of Middletown, miller, to John Bowne, cordwinder; lands. 1756, Feb. 19, - Davis had two daughters, Elizabeth, wife of David Burdge, and Phebe, wife of William Bowne, who are mentioned in an agreement of this date.
1760. David Burge and wife Elizabeth, quit-claim to William Bowne and wife Phebe. 1787, Mch. 12. William Bowne, yeoman, of Middletown, for £150.
paid by John Bowne, sold to him:
wench Philis
2 Beds & Bedding
4 horses 8 Cows
I dozen
3.tables
Io Hogs
I looking glass farming implements, etc.
waggon plow harness, etc.
Later, John Bowne sold the wench Philis to two New Yorkers, as appears in an endorse- ment on the back of this paper.
1732, Mch. 16. John Davis and Thomas Davis, of Middletown, yeomen, gave to Thomas Cooper, of the same place, mariner, "a cautionary bond," of £300, to fulfill an agreement to give him the possession of land lying on the North side of Claypit Creek, within four and a half years, or sooner. Thomas Davis was probably the brother of John Davis.
1733, Sept. 22. Release: Thomas Davis, of Middletown, yeoman, to John Davis, of the same place, miller, ten acres patented to Richard Davis, of Middletown, deceased.
1753, July 7. Thomas Cooper, yeoman, of Lower Freehold, sold to James Davis, of Middletown, for fio, two acres, at Shoal Harbour, which Thomas Cooper received from his father, Benjamin Cooper, by deed, May 30, 1744.
Witnesses: Samuel Bowne, William Bowne, and Elizabeth Bowne.
1819, Mch. 11. Indenture. John Maxon, son and heir of Joseph, deceased. of Middle- town, to Jacob Burdge, of the same place. Joseph Maxon did in his life time sell to William Bowne, swamp land, on Claypit Creek, which. on the death of William Bowne, fell to his son, John Bowne, who sold the same to Jacob Burdge, as appears by a deed signed by John Bowne and his wife Jane, June 15, 1795, and no bill of sale of Joseph Maxon to William Bowne be- ing extant, and the said John Maxon knowing of the aforesaid sale made to William Bowne by his father, etc., makes a new decd, etc. One of the boundaries is the "old saw mill dam."
Issue
311 Elias Bowne; unmarried.
312 Robert Bowne; unmarried.
313 William Bowne
314 Thomas Bowne
315 Caroline Bowne; married Mr. Ketcham.
316 Elenor Bowne; married Mr. Biven.
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317 Eliza Bowne; married Mr. Beers.
318 Sarah Ann Bowne; married, Nov. 9, 1826, David, son of Jacob and Martha (McLean) Burdge, born March 5, 1800; died June 9, 1838.
All were deceased prior to 1894.
One of these girls married for a second husband, Mr. Patterson; another, perhaps Sarah Ann, married a Mr. Conkling.
The following epitaphs probably relate to members of this family:
Elias Bowne died 27 August 1870. Aged 73-7-12.
Deborah Bowne wife of Elias Bowne died 16 July 1869 aged 69-9-11.
Deborah C. Bowne died 28 Sept. 1860 aged 25-8-7.
Elias Bowne born 23 May 1839; died 12 Dec. ISSO.
Sarah Ann wife of Elias Bowne, died 16 June 1870.
Ellar F. Bowne, Daughter of Elias & Sarah Bowne died 5 Nov. 1868.
Sarah Ann, daughter of Elias & Sarah Ann Bowne died 20 Aug. 1870.
Hiram Albert, son of Elias & Sarah Ann Bowne, died 2 March 1882.
180 MARIA BOWNE, daughter of James Bowne, 109, perhaps a half-sister to Richard Bowne, married Joseph Maxin, and had
Issue
319 Emeline Maxin, who married Richard, son of Richard Bowne.
181 RICHARD BOWNE, son of James Bowne, 109, of Middletown, N. J. He married Lydia Taylor,* widow of Mr. Wright. Lydia Taylor had by her husband Thos. Wright,
Issue
Maria Wright, born Dec. 25, ISO1; married William Morris. t Ann Wright; married Richard Morris. t
Richard Bowne had by his wife, Lydia Taylor,
Issue
320 Ann Bowne, born June 3, 1804.
321 George Bowne, born Apr. 25, 1806; died Jan. 8, 1809.
322 Richard Bowne, twins, born Nov. 14, 1809.
323 George Bowne, died May 30, 1891, 324 Sarah Bowne, born May 20, 1815; died Oct. 26, 1821.
Richd Bowne died Aug. 5, 1841 aged 63, 8, 24. Stones in Fairview Cemetery from Baptist Churchyard, Middletown.
Lydia Taylor, wife of Richd Bowne died Aug. 2, 1869, aged 89, 8, 12, hence born Nov. 20, 1779.
184 OBADIAH BOWNE, son of Joseph Bowne, 110, born Aug. 19, 1765; living in 1812; was probably he who is alluded to in the following memoranda:
1790. Deed of Obadiah Bowne and wife Anne (Anne Longstreet).
1792, June 4. Obadiah Bowne and Anna, his wife conveyed land to Ezekiel Johnson. Witnesses: Denife Denife and Dan' Denife.
*Lydia the wife of Richard Bowne is reputed to have been born Tilton and successively married Morris, Wright, Taylor and Bowne.
+Wm. and Richd Morris were sons of Abraham and Polly Morris of Waycake.
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1794, June 11. Obadiah Bowne of Freehold and Anne his wife conveyed land in town- ship of Dover to Joseph Bowne of Freehold. Witnesses: John Forman and John Freeman.
185 DR. JOHN BOWNE, son of Joseph Bowne, 110, was born, Sept. 2, 1767, on a farm, which was the Battle-field of Monmouth, June 28, 1778. He died, Nov. 4, 1857, at Barber's · Station, now the residence of his son, Hon. Joseph G. Bowne. He married Ann Cole, who was born Mch. 5, 1770, and died Feb. 18, 1856. In 1795, Dr. Bowne moved to Ringoes, where he practiced for over sixty years.
"JOHN BOWNE
Was born September 2d, 1767, upon a farm which was, in June 28, 1778, the battle-field of Monmouth. . 1s was common at that period, the Tories, emboldened by the near approach of the British, threatened the lives and property of the adherents of the patriot cause. The Doctor's father was a zealous Whig and actively engaged in the militia of the county. He had just returned home, suffering from intermittent fever. The family were so harassed by the loyalists that it became necessary to leave their home two days before the battle, and take refuge in a woods at some distance. The house was in the meantime visited by a faithful slave, who conveyed to the family such comforts and necessaries as he could collect. They returned to their desolated home two days after the battle. The scenes which they then witnessed made such an impression on the mind of young Bowne, that he was able, eighty years afterward, to describe them with a vividness and clearness surpassing any written history. When his memory failed as to any recent events, he still remembered and recounted the events of the Battle of Monmouth.
Having taken a full course of study in the Freehold Academy, he studied medicine, first, with Dr. Moses Scott, of New Brunswick, and second. with Dr. William Shippen, of Philadelphia. He was licenced to practice in 1791. He commenced practice in the same year in Prallsville, Hunterdon County, whence he migrated, in 1795, to Ringoes,* where he was engaged in active practice for more than sixty years. In addition to his practice, he superintended and conducted the affairs of his farm with practical success.
He was intelligently conservative in the adoption of new modes of practice. He advocated inoculation by smallpox, and was very successful in its management. His biographer says that he had as many as three hundred patients with the inoculated disease at one time. It was his custom to select a house in each neighbor- hood to which the children, after a preparatory course at home, were sent, to remain during the course of the disease. When vaccination was discovered, he adopted it after putting his vaccinated patients to the severest tests and clearly proving its protective power.
He was a man of cheer, fond of anccdote, quick in reply, and possessed of a temperament which rendered labor light. Business and duty were not hardships to him. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, at Mt. Airy, and for more than fifty years one of its ruling elders. In the eventful times in which he lived. he was warinly attached to the institutions and liberties of his country, and was ready on all suitable occasions to give expression to his opinions, and to sustain these with argument spiced with the wit and humor for which he was noted. He never descended to the vulgar, nor in any way brought reproach upon the Christian name which he so uniformly illustrated, and to which so early in life he connected himself.
He accumulated much wealth, and died, on November 4, IS57, on the farm on which he had lived for nearly sixty-two years." Medical and Surgical Reporter, Biographical Sketch by Jno. Blane, M. D., Novem- der, 1859. From Wickes' History of Medicine and Medical Men, in New Jersey, Newark. N. J., 1879, pp. 163 and 164.
Issue
325 Cornelia Bowne, born May 3, 1795; died May 6, 1802.
326 Joseph Gardiner Bowne, born Mch. 28, 1804; living, at Barber's Station, N. J., 1879.
187 PETER BOWNE, son of Joseph Bowne, 110, was born June 27, 1772; he married, first, Jane, daughter of Thomas and Jane Thompson, who lived on Stone House farm above Freehold. He married, second, Amelia H. Craig, daughter of John and Ann Craig, who died, June 3, 1855, aged 77, 5, 17. He died, Oct. 3, 1835, aged 63, 3, 6, and is buried in Tennent Churchyard.
*He bought a farm between Ringoes and Prallsville of two hundred acres, in Raritan township, called for some time ' Cal: Dale" and now "Bowne," on the Menington Branch of the Beividere Div. of T'enn. R. R. Lambertville is four mites distant.
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