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Title page; not in John Bowne's hand.

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

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

Debts owed by a Mr. Philips to John Bowne.

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

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.

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.

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

Three bible verses.

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

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).

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.

Account of money owed by Bowne to Humphrey Trimble.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Bowne's wife, Hannah, departs for London.

Account of Bowne's return voyage from Amsterdam to Flushing (continued).