John Insley Coddington, "A Bowne Problem," The American Genealogist 19 (January 1943), reprint

Read in the archive.org full text (October 2026; research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md). Coddington sets out the two seventeenth-century Bowne families of the middle colonies (reprint, p. 1):

• The Long Island Bownes: “Thomas Bowne, who was baptized at Matlock, co. Derby, England, 25 May 1595. He was a shearman, or cloth-worker, and he migrated to the New World early in 1649, accompanied by his son John and his daughter Dorothy (who married Edward Farrington). The family settled first at Boston, but removed soon after [1651; the scan is unclear] to Flushing, L. I., where Thomas Bowne died 18 Aug. 1677.” John Bowne “was born at Matlock 9 of 3rd. month (May) 1627, and died at Flushing 20 of 10 month (Dec.) 1695.”
• The New Jersey Bownes: “William Bowne, who is said to have come from Yorkshire with his wife Ann and son John, and to have settled at Salem, Mass., in 1631,” then Gravesend about 1645 and Middletown, Monmouth County, in 1664. His eldest son John Bowne, a Monmouth patentee and Speaker of the East Jersey Assembly in 1683, “died at Middletown 3 Jan. 1683/4.”

No kinship between the two families is known. The Capt. John Bowne who married Lydia Holmes, daughter of Rev. Obadiah Holmes (the Hatten research, research/hatten/Allee_Sawdy_Soule.md), is William’s son, and Unrelated to John Bowne of Flushing.