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Articles of agreement made by Andrew Bowne James Bowne and obadiah Holmes 1686.
It being mutually agreed upon by Lidia Bowne and John Bowne her soon in perfuance of an agreement mad btween the aforefaid partyes the twenty third of defember one thousand
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six hundred and eighty and five To make choife of andrew Bowne James Bowne and obadiah Hulmes for ye divition of ye eftate of John Bowne defeated amongft and between ye widoo Lidia Bowne and y" Chilldren of the defeafed John Bowne and Gerfhom moot foon of ya defeafed John Bowne fister according to ye agreement of ye abovefaid partyes as witness our hands this twenty-ninth day of aprill one thousand fix hundred eighty and fix
1593273 LYDEA BOWNE JOHN BOWNE
It is agreed by us andrew Bowne James Bowne and obadiah Holmes to divide, ve eftate as followeth -- that is to fay-
firft that Lidia Bowne is to have all the buildings of the defeafed John Bowne with all im- proved lands with one third of the whole plantation Called weftfield during her naturali lif and then ye faid third with all buildings and improvements whatfoever fhall return to obadiah Bowne his heirs and afigns forever, and allfo ye fd Lidia Bowne is to have one third part of the moveables amounting unto ye fum of one hundred and fourteen pounds to be at her fole difpofall.
fecondly-John Bowne is to have the plantation called neichaios Containing five hundred accres it being given to his father by the proprietors in right of a patentefhip for his share or portion of his fathers land and for his fhare over and above what ye equal devition is John Bownes is to have one hundred pounds to have and to hold ye sd land to him his heirs and afigns forever and for his equal devition he is to have forty-one pounds.
thirdly-Gerfhom mot is to have tow hundred and fifty acres of land att fhupak-ameck which is to be his part or portion of land to have and to hold to him and his heirs and assigns forever notwithstanding it ye sd Gerfhum moot should dy without lawful issu of his body begoten that then ye sd land is to returne to John Bowne and Obadiah Bowne and to their heirs and afigns forever and allfo Gerfhom mot is to have forty one pounds of ye moveables for his devition of ye moveable eftate.
fourthly-Obadiah Bowne is to have all ye Remainder of the plantation Called Westfield be it more or less to have and to hold to him ye sd Obadiah Bown his heirs and afigns forever and ye sd Obediah Bowne is to have forty-one pounds for his fhare of ye moveables. fifthly-It is agreed that ye moedow is to be divided one third to Lidia Bowne and one third to John Bowne and half ye other third to be for Gerfhom mot and the other half to be for Obediah Bowne and at ye defeafe of Lidia Bowne her third is to return to John Bowne and obediah Bowne to be equally divided.
Sixthly-It is agreed that Deborah Bowne Sarah Bowne and Catharn Bowne fhall have each of them for theire portions sixty pounds and if the money du to ye eftate of John Bowne which is at graveend will over pay ye depts that are now owing that then ye overplus fhall be divided equally to each of ye three daughters over and above theire fixty pounds with ye produfe of ye land at midletowne in ye same method to be equally divided to ye daughters.
Seventhly-It is ordered and agreed that John Bowne fhall have ye portion of his youngeft fifter Catharn Bowne into his owne pofefion and when ye sd Catharn fhall com of age then ye sd John Bowne is to pay ye sd Catharn Bowne her portion * * * and ye portion of Deborah Bowne and Sarah Bowne is to Remaine in ye hands of theire mother and when they com of age that then ye sd Lidia Bowne fhall pay Deborah Bowne and Sarah Bowne theire Refpective portions.
eighthly-Whereas there was a miftake in not taking out Gerfhom Bowns fhare or the half of his itock out of ye whole eftate before divitien made it is ordered that Lidia Bown
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fhall pay for her part five pounds six fhillings John Bowne is to pay three pounds twelve fhillings obediah three pounds twelve fhillings and Gerfhom mot three pounds twelve fhillings.
ninthly-Whereas there is an order of Councell for two hundred acres of land not yet patented it is ordered that if it be got that Lidia Bowne to have one half and her foon John Bowne the other half.
Thefe articles are agreed and concluded on this thirty [sic] ninth of aprill 16So and in ye fecond ycare of ye Reigne of James the fecond of england king &c by us
JAMES BOWNE OBADIAH HULMES Cherry Hall Papers.
3 JAMES BOWNE, son of William Bowne, I, was baptized, at Salem, Mass., Aug. 25, 1636. He was taken thence in 1644 or 1645, to Gravesend, L. I., by his father.
In 1665, he became one of the Monmouth Patentees and settled in that portion of the tract known as Portland Point.
While residing at Gravesend, he married, says the Town Book, Dec. 26, 1665, Mary, daughter of Richard and Penelope Stout. Other accounts fix the date of this event as Nov. 26, 1665, and Dec. 26, 1668, the result, undoubtedly, of careless transcription.
The approximate date of his settlement, in New Jersey, can be determined, as, Mch. 29, 1667, he was a witness in Gravesend, yet, on Dec. 14. 1667, he was residing at Portland Point, when he was elected a Deputy to represent Middletown in the General Assembly.
1669, May 3. He was chosen one of the Overseers, of Middletown, and the 25th of the same month and year, was appointed one of the deputies to act with the Patentees at the General Court to be held at Portland Point May 27.
1670, May 9. He filled a similar position.
1671, May 20. He was again chosen Overseer.
1675, Jan. 1. He was elected Magistrate of a Monthly Court of Small Causes.
1676, Jan. I. He was elected a Deputy to meet the Governor and Council at Wood- bridge; in October, next, and the year following, (Jan. 1, 1677), to again meet them in this capacity at Elizabethtown.
He was an Indian interpreter, with John Tilton, Sr., in 1671, at the purchase of Navasink lands.
1677-8, January. He was chosen Town Clerk and held the position until 16So.
1679, Jan. 4. He recorded his cattle-mark. Liber A., p. 1I, Freehold Records.
Hoge & Cattle Marks att Portland Point 22 Jan., 1668.
-- on the left iare And a fork on the ouder part of the right ear.
James Bowne his Mirke One - Wm Bowne his in - - - and Cut in the upper Sid off the Eare.
1679-80, Feb. 20. He was again chosen a Deputy to the General Assembly.
1680, Aug. 19. He made his report as Town Clerk on the result of the recent election of Magistrates.
It is made evident by the foregoing allusions that he was a man of ability and popularity. He acquired lands in Gravesend, seven acres of which, Apr. 25, 1670, he sold, giving his resi- dence as Portland Point.
In New Jersey, he received two hundred and forty acres "in right of himself and wife Mary Stout." In the division of town lots and outlying lands he received his share. And again, in 1670, he received two hundred and twelve acres; one hundred and twenty acres in
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November, 1675; one hundred and fifty acres in 1685; four hundred and eighty acres on Apr. IS, 1688, and one hundred and fifty acres on June 28, 1690.
He was a Grand Juror, 1693, at the Court of Sessions, Middletown.
He died in February, 1695, and administration was granted to his son, Capt. James Bowne, Mch. 14, 1695-6.
His personal inventory, taken Feb. 27, 1695-6, amounted to £102.6.o, and consisted largely of cattle, horses and pigs.
The date of his wife's decease I have never seen, nor have I seen any exact mention of his children. However, by existing records, it appears that he had:
Issue
13 James Bowne
14 John Bowne
15 William Bowne
16 Andrew Bowne
17 Samuel Bowne
One of these children, the eldest, tradition has it, was the first child born in Middletown, and was the father of a Samuel Bowne, born 1719.
4 CAPT. ANDREW BOWNE, son of William Bowne, I, was baptized, Aug. 12, 1638, at Salem, Mass. In 1645 or 1646, while yet a lad, he was taken to Gravesend, L. I., where his youth was spent. The earliest information concerning him associates his name with a sea-faring life, and it is doubtless from such an association that he obtained the title of Captain.
In September, 1677, Moses Rusden, an apothecary, of Westminster, near London, Eng- land, sold to Dr. De Hart, of New York, a quantity of drugs, which were carried to the pur- chaser in the "good ship Providence," of which Andrew Bowne was commander. On May 2, 1681, Capt. Bowne swore to the truth of the above facts in a trial brought by the widow of Rusden against De Hart for the value of the drugs, which he defended claiming inaccuracy in the bill.
New York Wills.
1678, Nov. 18. Capt. Andrew Bowne, Mariner, was given a power of attorney, in Lon- don, England, by William Jones and Rit Ryls (or Rels), to collect the debts due the estate of John Winders, lately deceased. of New York. This document was witnessed by Tuthill and Gershom Bowne, who were sworn in reference to the proceedings, Aug. 9, 1679, in New York. New York Wills.
In 1680, he was employed by a company to navigate a vessel and received the following instructions which he endorsed:
"My orders from my owners " "London ye 9 of April, 1680. Capt. Andrew Bowne
Y'r orders Are that you take the first opportunity you see convenient And Sayle from Gravesend to the Downes and from thence Make the best of your way You Cann to New Yorke And thenn unload your ship and deliver yr Goods According to yr bills of Loading And Lay your Ship in ther for London directly and Make what dispatch you Cann from thence for London And this is the Orders of yr friends
Wm Antelby [Autelby] phillip ffrench Andrew Smithey for Mrs. Eliz. Meriwether for myselfe & ye rest of ye trustees of ye Credits of John Parker & John Denhan! Geo. Cole Thomas Gibbs"
Crawford Papers.
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On Aug. 25, 1680, Andrew Bowne, "of the Cittic of New York, Merchant," sold lands, in Gravesend, and later, residing in New Jersey, Aug. 25, 1691, and at other dates, sold lands, lying in the town of Gravesend, L. I., which had belonged to his father, William Bowne.
About 16SI or 1682, Capt. Andrew Bowne abandoned the sea and established himself as a merchant in the City of New York.
1683, Sept. 20. He served on the jury in the Court of Admiralty, of New York, and the following month, Oct. 10, 1683, he was commissioned by Gov. Dongan, a Judge of the said court.
New York Wills.
1685, July 23. A warrant was issued to Gershom Bowne, Andrew Bowne and others to jointly appraise the pinck Charles.
Albany Records.
1684, June 13. A similar warrant was issued to Capt. Andrew Bowne and others to appraise the ship Gideon.
Albany Records.
1684-5, Nov. 3. Andrew Bowne, Merchant, was commissioned Alderman, of New York City; and again Oct. 16, 1685.
In 1685-86, he removed from New York to Middletown, Monmouth Co., N. J., where he registered his cattle-mark on the Town Book, Feb. 16, 1686-7. Thenceforth he became a conspicuous figure in New Jersey history.
In 1690, he was appointed a Justice, in Monmouth County, and remained such in the years 1695, 1696, 1697 and 1698.
1692. He was Judge, of the Court of Sessions, and President of the same, 1693, 1697, 1698, 1699, sitting in Middletown.
1698-9. He was one of the Judges of the Court of Common Right held at Perth Amboy.
From 1692 to 1700, under the administration of Governors Hamilton and Basse, and from 1703 to 1705, under the administration of Lord Cornbury, he was a Member of the Governor's Council.
In 1708, he was appointed to a place in Lord Lovelace's Council, but was dead when his commission reached here.
1704, Burlington, N. J., Dec. 11. Lord Cornbury created him Third Judge of the In- ferior Court of Common Pleas, to be assisted by John Bowne, Richard Saltor, Obadiah Bowne and Anthony Woodward, Justices of the Peace of Monmouth County.
In the following year, Nov. 6, 1705, Lord Cornbury elevated him to the Supreme Court of New Jersey, to officiate as Third Judge and Assistant to the Chief Justice presiding thereat.
1697, July 15. Jeremiah Basse was appointed Governor by the Proprietors. Finding it needful to proceed to London, he notified the Council, May 9, who appointed Andrew Bowne, May 10, 1699, Deputy Governor, to act in his stead; on the 15th inst., he took the oath of office. He was superceded in this office by Andrew Hamilton, who arrived in December, 1699.
In 1701, he was suggested by the West Jersey Proprietors as a fit person either for mem- ber of the Council or for Governor of New Jersey, and in the same year received a similar en- dorsement from Mr. Dockwra and other East Jersey Proprietors for like positions, who wrote, that "Andrew Bowne, Esq., present Governor of East New Jersey," was "a man of Probity, much esteem'd in the Province, of Unblemished Reputation and intirily affected to his Maj;"> person & Governm'." A commission, appointing Andrew Bowne, Governor, was thereupon issued, Mch. 25, 1701:
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"by the Committee of proprietors of the province of East New Jersey in America Residing in or about London on behalf of themselves and the rest of the ye Proprietors of the said Province." Signed by Wm Dockwra Peter Sonmans for myself & all the Interests of Arent Sonmans decd. Tho. Cooper Clemt. Plumstead Thos Barker Tho. Hart
This commission was refused recognition by those in authority, who claimed that it was insufficiently attested and that it needed a majority of the Proprietors' signatures to displace them. Simultaneously Dockwra sent the following letter, which doubtless failed for the same reasons that the Governor's commission did.
London 25° March 1701
Thomas Gordon
The Generall neglect of yor duty in the Imployment of Attorney Generall of our Province of East-New- Jersie giving the Proprietors no manner of account of their Concernes in the execution of that Office, but concealing Yor proceedings therein from the Proprietors from time to time whereby you have abetted & suffered many Frauds to be put upon them who placed you in that station, And haveing seen good testimony of Yo' misbehavior and factious doings in promoteing Confusion & disorder in the Province to the great disturbance of the Planters and Inhabitants, & dishonour of the Proprietors and their Governmt. together with your notorious injustice to others who has intrusted you, has renderd you utterly unfit to be any longer continued in their service, Wherefore these are to let you know that the Comitte of Proprietors have signed another Comission for the said office of attorney Generall dated the 25 March 1701 and sent it over under the publick seal of the said Province upon arrivall whereof we do dismiss you from the said office forever. Thos: Hart Tho. Cooper Clemt. Plumsted
Peter Sonmans for myself & all the Interest of Arent Sonmans deceased. Thoss: Barker Wm Dockwra
Mr. Gordon "For Mr Thomas Gordon
at Amboy
In East - New Jersie These"
Later in this year, Dockwra wrote still another letter which is so full of interest and dis- plays so clearly the cause of the provincial tension that I insert it verbatim:
London 28 Novembra1701
Honoured Sir
This friggot the Jersie ffriggot halting still at Portsmouth I kept the enclosed Coppie of my letter of the 6th Septemb): sent Mr. Slater with the postscript of the 18: of October to send in Company with this, as also have enclosed another Comission for an attorney-Generall wth a blank, and another Deputation for Secretary & Register also in blank, lest Mr. White should be dead or Mr. Slater has miscarried wch God forbid. Likewise I have sent you a Coppie of the Bill (which must needs have heard of) that was brought into last Parliament, and begann in the House of Lords for Reuniteing to the Crown the Governm's of all the Proprietary Collonyes & Plantations in America, to all which I referre you, adding no more now, because wee have not our matters in pursuit ripe enough to transmitt to East Jersey as yet but to close this, Give me leave to tell you That Notwithstanding S' Thos Lane & all his party wth their Champion Goliah L.M. who have boasted incredibly of their bringing in Coll. Hamilton again, over your Heades in East Jersey, and those his opponents in West Jersie too, And such mighty power full friends at Court wth such a vigilant Agent to attend & Improve their great Interest for Coll: Hamilton to be nominated the first Governor according to their Peticon which no doubt he took care long since should sail over in print to Jersey & New York to proclaim Victory before ye Battle was half done, & so uppish they were as to crow-Who will take upp 50 to one that Coll. Hamilton will be the Kings Governor of New Jersie, I say notwithstanding all their noise & boasting their 50 to one sank to 20 lately & this last week to ten & shrunk to parr at last -- And for a welcome intimation to you which I pray comunicate to Mr. Hartshorn. Mr. Royce, Capt. Bown & the rest of yo' friends, We have found such wayes
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and means to let Ilis Maj:tie be well informed, and so riveted those Lords whose propper stations are fittest for our assistance, and havcing gained already such previous points ag" Coll: Hamilton that truly I do believe it is already determined to Reject him, tho it will not be made publick untill the Comission & Instructions for a Kings governor & the surrender be finished & signed, And then it will soon be known that wee that have said less has struck at mark and done the more to rid you of a Scotch yoak & youle finde we have not labourd in vain, but publick dispatches are so dilatory that I cannot see less than two months vet will run out before the preliminaries will be settled & the surrender signed. And till that be done the King will not name any Person to be Governor tho there be severall Candidates (english men to be sure) who are prepareing to make interest by friends &c: to get the Imploymt And I have seen their papers, Peticons &c: but they are not advised to give the King any peticon untill He have the Governm' in ye Crown. I'le not write their names now for that will stretch out more room about them than is left in this margin; to which I resolve to confine myself to night, But in my next I will tell you who they are-one of them you must know better than I- but whether He or ye others I shall be Pleasd with Exchange, for an Engsh Gentleman, to Govern an English Collony: so comitt you to ye divine Protection and Rest St
Yor: M: II: S:
Wm Dockwra
Like other members of his family, Capt. Andrew Bowne was a sturdy representative of the faction which based its claims to land titles upon the validity of the Indian purchase and to the integrity of the patents issued before the news of the Duke of York's transfer to the Proprietors had reached this shore. In all the contests of this element he was an outspoken champion. In turn he was ardently supported by them. He supported Rich". Salter, another of their representatives for the positions of judge, deputy, etc., whom he claimed was calum- niated by the Proprietors. He signed the remonstrance against the Proprietors, in 1700, and in the same year, with Rich4. Hartshorne, wrote a letter to England concerning the disturb- ances prevalent in New Jersey.
In 1701, he was one of those who signed the petition for a suitable Governor, and in 1707, was a contributor to the Cornbury fund. His every action bespeaks him a fearless man. There are references to the public career of Andrew Bowne in the first volumes of the New Jersey Archives, especially in Vol. II, pp. 327, 328, 329, and Vol. III, pp. 481, 482, 483.
The residence of Capt. Andrew Bowne was perhaps near Freehold, as, in 1709-10, among the acts passed determining county boundaries is one that alludes to "the land that was for- merly Capt. Andrew Bownes," and which lies on the line between Monmouth and Middlesex Counties.
Capt. Andrew Bowne slowly became incapacitated for public work.
In 1703, Lord Cornbury in a letter to the Lords of Trade stated that "Mr. Andrew Bowne was not able to travell soe farr," meaning from Middletown, his home, to Burlington, where the Council and Assembly were sitting.
Later, September, 1706, he again wrote to the Lords of Trade that "Mr. Revell, Mr. Davenport and Capt. Andrew Bowne are all three dangerously ill at this time and I am afraid of an incurable disease, I mean old age, besides other distempers."
Shortly after this, Capt. Andrew Bowne died.
He made his will May 16, 1707, wherein he declared himself a resident of Middletown. He gave his negro man, Robin, his freedom at the expiration of six years; Jack, the same in seven years; mentioned his loving wife, whom he appointed sole executrix, and who in the testamentary letters, is called Elizabeth; and also his grand-children John, Anne and Lydia. His executrix dying before his estate was fully settled, letters of administration were granted thereon to Obadiah Bowne, Esq., Sept. 15, 1715-16; and on Nov. 19, 1716.
1724, July 2. Jolin, Ann and Lydia, heirs of Andrew Bowne and his wife Elizabeth released Obadiah Bowne, Gent.
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The only child of AAndrew Bowne was:
17ª Elizabeth Bowne, who married, first, Nov. 9, 1687, John Haines, in the Dutch church, at New York.
1689, Aug. 24. John Haines or Haynes, of New York, now in New Haven, in New Eng- land being sick, etc., made his will. Proved in New England, May 27, 1690. In it he men- tioned :
His loving wife Elizabeth.
To son John Haynes, in Barbadoes, property in that place.
To son Andrew Haines.
"Mr. Andrew Bowne, my father-in-law."
Mr. Tho. Wenham, Merchant, of New York.
Robert Haynes, his brother, and Samuel Branch, his brother-in-law; both of the Island of Barbadoes.
Executors: His father-in-law Bowne, brother-in-law Branch, brother Robert Haynes, and Mr. Wenham. Recorded in New York Wills, Lib. IV.
1689, Dec. 9. An inventory of the estate of "Mr. John Haines, Merchant, of N. Y.," was taken by John Bowne and Wm. Richardson, of Monmouth County, East Jersey. At- tested, Sept. 28, 1691, by John Bowne and Richardson, and on April 12, 1692, by Andrew Bowne. New York Wills.
After her husband's demise, Elizabeth Bowne married her cousin, Obadiah Bowne, 9, and had
Issue John Bowne Lydia Bowne Ann Bowne
Additional corroboration of the kinship existing between the Bownes and the Haynes is found in the following memorandum, taken from the Bowne papers, at Crawford's Corners: 1684, Jan. 9. Joseph Cox, of Barbadoes, gave his note for £25, and authorized it to be paid by Mr. John Hill, merchant, in London, to John Haynes.
1715, Apr. 22. An inventory of the personal estate of Elizabeth Bowne, widow of Andrew Bowne, was taken and amounted to £478-9-9.
Among her effects were: 2022 ounces of silver made into half a dozen forks, two putingers, three pasters or saltcellers, a mustard pot and spoon, two more saltcellars, seventeen spoons, a tumbler, a caudle cup, a plate and three tankards, all valued at £8c-19-3.
6 GERSHOM BOWNE, son of William Bowne, I.
I have never seen any statement of the kinship of Gershom Bowne to others of his name, but by deduction, I believe him to be a son or grandson of William Bowne, 1, though he might be a nephew. It has recently been suggested, with plausibility, that, as Capt. John Bowne did not marry Lydia Holmes until he was about thirty-five years of age, he had been previously married and was, probably, the father of Gershom.
In 1678, he was a witness, in London, England, to a power of attorney.
1683. He petitioned the Govenor and Council for five hundred acres of land.
1684, July 6. He was one of several appointed to appraise the ship Betty, of Carolina. Albany, N. Y. Records.
1685, July 23. He was one of several appointed to appraise the pinck Charles.
Albany, N. V. Records.
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1686, July 26. He secured five hundred acres in Middletown, on Hop river branches. Bounded East by Jno. Bowne's land; West by Wachalonk; North by Middletown Path, etc.
In 1690, he still held land in Monmouth County but was dead in 1709.
Issue
18 William Bowne
1704. William Bowne and wife Bridget made a deed to ..... Covenhoven.
1705, Feb. 18. William Bowne, (son of Gershom), and Bridget made a deed to .
1709, Sept. 20. William Bowne, of Middletown, yeoman, and Bridget [possibly Herbert], his wife, son and heir of Gershom Bowne, deceased, conveyed to Matthias Van Brackle, of Middletown, cordwainer, land which the said Gershom Bowne obtained from the Proprietors in 1686. This William Bowne was presumably identical with William Bowne. yeoman, of Middletown, who conveyed land to Mathias Van Brackle, shoemaker, on March 10, 1717, and was doubtless the William Bowne who recorded the earmark, Jan. 12, 1715; that formerly belonged to Capt. Andrew Bowne. To his taking up the cattle-mark of his uncle (?) there would be no objection, as Capt. Andrew Bowne's only male representative was his grandson, John, yet a minor.
Whether this William Bowne had issue I am not informed, but believe the following allu- sions to a Gershom Bowne make it likely that he was his, (William's), son.
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