Lydia Bowne

Additional Curator's Notes:

This can be very confusing but attention to details will help you to merge correctly. Among the many children of Rev. Obadiah Holmes and wife Katherine Hyde were two sisters, Mary and Lydia. Mary was born before and died in 1690 in Rhode Island. She married Capt. John Browne. Note the "r" in his name. Sister Lydia was born by 1637 and died in 1693 in New Jersey. She married Capt. John Bowne, pronounced Boone. Note there is no "r" in his name. If you are careful about the spelling of the husband's surname and the place of death, you will be able to keep these sisters separated. Maria Edmonds-Zediker, Volunteer Curator, 8/10/2011.

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Obadiah Holmes and Katherine Hyde had 10 children. All but Joseph and the young John who died as an infant were listed in Obadiah's will:

4. Lydia, born probably in England by 1637; married 1663 to John Bowne; 4th great grandmother of Abraham Lincoln, listed in father's will. She died after 1684 / 1693 at Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Biography

LYDIA HOLMES: Lydia (also spelled Liddiah and Lydiah) Holmes, daughter of Obadiah and Katherine Hyde Holmes, was born in America; birth date not known. In 1663, she married Captain John Bowne. William and Ann Bowne, the parents of John Bowne, had been neighbors of the Holmes" in Salem, Massachusetts. John Bowne was an original negotiator for land in the Monmouth country during an exploration ofthat area in 1664 or 1665. Jonathan Holmes, brother of Lydiah, had also been one of the original explorers of the Monmouth country and had participated in the negotiations with the Indians. John Bowne was one of the original twelve
patentees of the Monmouth (or Nicolls) Patent. John and Lydiah Holmes Bowne moved from Newport, Rhode Island, to Gravesend, Long Island, soon after their marriage. In 1667, John and Lydiah Holmes Bowne moved from Gravesend to Middletown, East Jersey (now New Jersey). To his daughter Lydiah, Obadiah Holmes, in his letter to his children, wrote: "My daughter Lidiah remember how Lidiah"s heart was opened her ear bored her spirit made to be willing to receive and obey the apostle in what the Lord required and was baptized and entertained and refreshed the servants of the Lord." John and Lydiah Holmes Bowne had at least two children.

Family

Lydia Holmes married Capt. John Bowne, son of William Bowne and Anne (Unknown) on 26 Dec 1663 at Gravesend, Kings County, New York. They settled at Middletown in New Jersey. One of their daughters, Sarah, married Richard Salter. Hannah, the daughter of Richard and Sarah Salter, became the wife of Mordecai Lincoln and the mother of his son John - "Virginia John" he is styled - who was the great-grandfather of Abraham Lincoln. 2

10 children of Lydia Holmes and John Bownw are listed at FindAGrave:

1. John/1 Apr 1664 m. Frances Bowman
2. Obadiah/18 Jul 1666 m. Elizabeth Bowne
3. James/abt 1667
4. Deborah/16 Jan 1668 m. Gershom Mott
5. Sarah/27 Nov 1669 m. Richard Saltar
6. William/abt 1670
7. Catherine/abt 1671
8. Andred/abt 1672
9. Samuel/abt 1673
10. Elizabeth/1675

Church records

• 1664 Apr 01 John, son of John Bowne and Lidia. [3]
• 1666 Jul 18 Obedye, son of John Bowne and Lidia. [3]
• 1668 Jan 26 Deborah, dau. of John Bowne and Lidia. [3]
• 1669 Nov 27 Sarah, dau. of John Bowne and Lidia. [3]

Settlement of husband's estate

27 May 1684 Lydia as administratrix of the estate of John Bowne, deceased late of Middleton, in division of property mentions children as John, Obediah, Deborah, Sarah, Catherine. 28th May letters admin issued to her, then a bond Lydia, son John and Andrew Bowne of New York, merchant, for the administration. [4]

Origins

Summary of the Will of Obadiah Holmes, written 9 April 1681 at Newport, Rhode Island. He bequeathed to:

• daughter Mary Brown five pounds
• daughter Martha Odlin ten pounds
• dughter Lydia Bowne ten pounds
• five pounds each to children of daughter Hopestill Taylor; ten pounds to one if only one survives
• son John Holmes ten pounds
• son Obadiah Holmes ten pounds
• ten pounds each to children of son Samuel Holmes
• ten pounds, ten shillings and a bible each to all grandchildren now living
• ten pounds to grandchild Martha Brown
• twenty pounds to wife Catherine
• The above bequests to be made within one year after decease of wife Catherine Holmes.
• Son Jonathan Holmes executor Overseers Mr. James Barker, Sr., Mr. Joseph Clarke, and Mr. Philip Smith, all of Newport.
• Witnesses Edward Thurston, Weston Clarke who proved the will 4 Dec 1682

References

• The American Family of Rev. Obediah Holmes. Page 61. <Archive.org>
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gdtrowbri...
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45106775/lydia-bowne
• The Jerseyman, Volume 7, edited by Hiram Edmund Deats. Page 3. <GoogleBooks>
• The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln. By James Henry Lea, John Robert Hutchinson. Page 94. <GoogleBooks>
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Holmes-739 cites

1. Reading, Miller K. William Bowne, of Yorkshire, England and his Descendants. Flemington, New Jersey. H. E. Deats:1903. Page 22 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=BTY3AAAAMAAJ&printsec=front...
2. Lea, J. Henry. The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln. Boston, New York. Houghton Mifflin Company:1909. Pages 70-86 https://archive.org/details/ancestryofabr1284leaj/page/68
3. Teunis G. Bergen. "Record of Births of the Society of Friends at Gravesend, L. I." The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. vol. 4. New York, N.Y.: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
4. Page 59 East Jersey Deeds https://books.google.ca/books?id=xUflaip4hREC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=J...
5. page 77 East Jersey Deeds https://books.google.ca/books?id=xUflaip4hREC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=J...
6. Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.
7. Genealogies of RI Families, Vol I Title: Genealogies of Rhode Island Families 1600s-1800s,, Vol I (Family Tree Maker CD ROM #180)
8. The Chad Browne Memorial Title: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial: Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne with an Appendix Containing Sketches of Other Early Rhode Island Settlers 1638-1888 (300 Copies Printed for the Family; Brookln NY 1888. Reprinted by Heritage Books, Inc. 2001.)
9. New Jersey Historical Society. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey; Calendar of New Jersey Wills. Paterson, N. J.: Press Print. and Pub., 1901. p. 49.
10. Chester, Chris. "The Brouwer Genealogy Database." freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata. Accessed 28 Jan 2017. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index... Lydia Holmes
11. NJGS. "Bowne: Lydia Holmes" njgsbc.org. Accessed 08 Feb 2017. http://njgsbc.org/indexes/bergen-county-families/

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Holmes-142#Children
  • Anderson in "Great Migration Directory" asserts that Obadiah departed from Stockport, Lancashire; arrived in New England by 1638 and resided in Salem, Rehoboth and Newport (Rhode Island). He was certainly in Salem by 3 May 1640 when his daughter Martha was baptized at the First Church there.[6] … On 24 March 1639/40, Obadiah was excommunicated, and his wife, Katherine, was removed from the First Church of Salem[6] (page 8 of the source). However, according to the church records, subsequent to that, three of his children were baptized in that church: Martha on May 3, 1640 (page 17), Samuel on August 20, 1642 (page 18), and Obadiah on June 2, 1644 (page 20)
• The Holmes Family: The Reverend Obadiah Holmes to Susannah Holmes, Wife of Joseph Masters and Mother of Margaret Masters of Harrison County, Ohio. Compilation of Stephen Allen Leeper as of December 2016. <PDF>