Osgood Field, The Fields of Sowerby, near Halifax, England, and of Flushing, New York, with some notices of the families of Underhill, Bowne, Burling, Hazard and Osgood (1895)

Read in the archive.org full text (October 2026; research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md). Field descended from John Bowne through Hannah Bowne and Benjamin Field. His appendix quotes John Bowne’s journal, the Friends’ registers and English probate records.

• John Bowne (pp. 112-114): “We learn from the journal of John Bowne, which is still preserved, that he was baptized at Matlock, in Derbyshire, March 9th, 1627, and his father, Thomas, on May 25th, 1595, at the same place. They left England together in 1649.” He “married Hannah, daughter of Robert Feake of that place, and previously of Watertown, Mass., on May 7th, 1656.” Sent prisoner to Holland; the Directors “in a dispatch dated April 16th, 1663, reprimanded Governor Stuyvesant”; home at Flushing “on the 30th of 1st month, 1664.”
• Hannah (Feake) Bowne (p. 113): “who had received ‘the gift of the ministry,’ sailed from New York for England on the 24th of 3d month, 1675, on a religious visit”; her husband “joined her in London on the 13th of 11th month, 1676.” Her death “is recorded in the register of Friends at Devonshire House, London, as having occurred on the 31st of 11th month, 1677, and the entry adds ‘age about 40.’”
• Thomas Bowne (pp. 113-114): died at Flushing, “according to the Friends’ register on the 18th of 7th month, 1677, which adds, ‘aged upwards of 82.’”
• John Bowne’s later marriages and death (p. 114): Hannah Bickerstaffe, at Flushing, 1679 (d. 1690); Mary Cock, 1693; he died “on the 20th of 10th month, 1695, ‘aged about 68,’ according to the register.”
• Captain Underhill’s letter (p. 114), Southold, 12 April 1656, to John Winthrop Jr. (MHS Collections, 4th ser., vol. 7): “I ware lateli at Flushing. Hannah Feke is to be married to a verie gentiele young man of good abilitie of a loveli fetture and good behayiour.”
• The Bownes of Matlock (pp. 114-115): Bowne’s diary, “7th 1st month, 1663”: “At night I came to Matlock to the Lintree.” The will of “Anthonie Bowne of the Lime Tree in the psh of Matlock, yeoman,” 1 Dec 1619 (Lichfield), names “son Ralph Bowne” and “my wife Ales Bowne,” executrix “together with his youngest son, Thomas Bowne”; administration on “Alice Bowne, late of the Lyntree near Matlocke,” 12 Sept 1634, to “John Bowne of Matlocke, yeoman, son of the deceased.” Field: “there is hardly a doubt but that the ‘youngest son Thomas Bowne,’ of Anthony’s will, was the person of that name who sailed for America in 1649.” Thomas Bowne’s will of 1675 names “his brother John.” “The Matlock registers do not commence till 1637.”
• Robert Feake (p. 117): Field has him at Flushing in 1650 and dying in 1668, with administration to a widow Sarah on 19 June 1669. That administration belongs to his son Robert (Cock genealogy, p. 288); the father died at Watertown in 1661/2.