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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694

John Bowne (1627-1695), Quaker of Flushing, Long Island. Bowne's journal contains entries of births, marriages, and deaths in the family; a few business and personal accounts; mentions of several Quakers both in Britain and the American colonies; accounts of his voyages to and from England; his arrest and imprisonment in 1662 for holding Quaker meetings in his home; his trial before Peter Stuyvesant and deportation; and his appeal to the officials of West India Company in Amsterdam for freedom of religion.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 98.

Title page; not in John Bowne's hand.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 97.

Debts owed by various people in Boston to John Bowne for wine.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 96.

Debts owed by various people in Boston to John Bowne for wine.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 95.

Debts owed by a Mr. Philips to John Bowne.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 94.

Debts owed by various people in Boston to John Bowne for wine.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 93.

Account of money borrowed by Bowne from Thomas Horner and William Harrison on Bowne's return voyage from the Netherlands; both Horner and Harrison died at sea on the voyage; followed by a math problem illustrating 2³⁶; however, Bowne has given the wrong answer (it is 68,719,476,736); followed by a note mentioning a James Pratt at the Swan with Two Necks, Pudding Lane, a tavern destroyed in the Great Fire of London, 1666.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 92.

Note regarding two Quaker books published in 1662 that Bowne sought while in England in 1663 and a note mentioning a William Bett and his wife, Mary, of New Street, Horselydown, Southwark.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 91.

Note in a different hand mentioning Elizabeth Miers, an early Quaker missionary; page inverted relative to others in this sequence.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 90.

Three bible verses.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 89.

Note regarding coach service to Gloucestershire and Tewksbury and directions for sending a letter to a William Bullock.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 88.

Note to seek out Dr. Thomas Stockton, Coldharbour, London, an uncle of Richard Stockton of Flushing; followed by a note about Thomas Fones, an uncle of Hannah Feake Bowne, John's first wife, and a note regarding trade in beaver and otter skins with Thomas Foster of Jamaica, Long Island (died 1663).

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 87.

Account of food and drink purchased from Mary Dobson, a tavern owner, by Bowne while he was jailed; noting a payment to her and with a note on her family in England; the dates given here conflict with Bowne's account of his imprisonment and banishment where he states that he sailed from New York December 31, 1662.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 86.

Account of money owed by Bowne to Humphrey Trimble.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 85.

Bowne is owed wheat for beer and owes a shoemaker for shoes and beer.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 84.

Bowne's account with Aron Highberson [i.e. Adriaen Huybertsen Sterreveld?] for grain, transporting Bowne's wife, and firewood during Bowne's imprisonment.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 83.

Bowne trades in cloth and wool with Emanuel Woolley of Newport, R.I.; followed by a list of some of the towns and people visited by Bowne in England in 1663 and an accounting of his sales of green ginger in May 1664.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 82.

List of recipients of letters to be forwarded by William Reape of Newport, R.I.; not in Bowne's hand.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 81.

Note by Henry Currer, originally from Kildwick, Yorkshire, regarding various Quakers in Yorkshire.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 80.

Note mentioning several Quakers to visit in Ireland and England; followed by a note by Isaac Horner regarding a certificate and four lines of verse in Bowne's hand.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 79.

Money received by Bowne from several people to purchase goods or be given to relatives in England.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 78.

Money received by Bowne from several people (continued); followed by a goods purchased by Bowne for his daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, and Abigail.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 77.

Records the marriage of John Bowne and Hannah Bickerstaff, his second wife, her death, the birth and death of a daughter, Sarah, the birth of another daughter named Sarah, and the death of John Clay, a Quaker of Flushing.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 76.

Records the births and deaths of two of Bowne's infant sons, John and Thomas, and the birth of another son named John.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 75.

Records the birth and death John and Hannah Bowne's daughter, Abigail, the marriage of John Bowne and Mary Cock, and the birth of a daughter, Amy.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 74.

Three Psalm verses; not in John Bowne's hand.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 73.

Account of Bowne's 1676-1677 sea voyage from Long Island to England (continued).

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 72.

Account of Bowne's 1676-1677 sea voyage from Long Island to England (continued).

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 71.

Account of Bowne's 1676-1677 sea voyage from Long Island to England.

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John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat], leaf 70.

Bowne's wife, Hannah, departs for London.