Hannah Feake

1637 - 1678  (~ 40 years)

• Name	Hannah Feake  [1, 2]
  Birth	Jun 1637	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Female
  Death	31 Jan 1678	London, England   [3, 4, 5, 8, 9]
  Burial	2 Feb 1678	London, England   [5]
  Person ID	I10090	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Lt. Robert Feake,   b. Abt 1602, England d. 1 Feb 1661, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 59 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Fones,   b. 21 Jan 1610, London, England d. Aft 10 Jan 1653, Hell Gate, Long Island, New Netherland (Age > 43 years)
  Marriage	Between 2 Nov 1631 and 27 Jan 1632	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [6]
  Divorce	May 1647	New Netherland   [10]
  Family ID	F5243	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Bowne,   b. 9 May 1627, Matlock, Derbyshire, England d. 20 Dec 1695, Flushing, Queens, New York (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	7 May 1656	Flushing, New Netherland   [4, 6, 8, 9, 11]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Bowne,   b. 6 Jan 1661, Flushing, New Netherland d. 1728, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F1430	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  From Genealogies of Long Island Families: "Hannah died, while on a religious visit to England, at the house of John and Mary Elson in London, Jan. 31, 1677/8, buried Feb. 2, 1677/8." From an unknown source: "Hannah became a Quaker minister. She died in London after traveling there on a missionary trip. Her interest in the Quaker religion began as curiosity of her husband and herself when they attended a meeting in the woods. Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Amsterdam, was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church (Calvinist) and would not permit any other religion but his own, so therefore Quakers and other religions had to meet secretly. The resistance of her husband when arrested by the Sheriff on orders from Peter Stuyvesant is probably directly related to the First Amendment to our Constitution guaranteeing Freedom of Religion. "The Bowne house is probably the oldest standing home still in existence in New York City. The house built in 1661 is located at 37-01 Bowne St., in Flushing Queens. It is open to guided tours by the Bowne House Historical Society. "Hannah Feake, the second daughter of Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones and sister of Elizabeth Feake, would go on to become an important figure in the fight for religious freedom in Colonial America. Governor Peter Stuyvesant banned the rights of Quakers to assemble and worship. On 27 December 1657, thirty townsepeople of Flushing, Queens, signed the Flushing Remonstrance protesting this ban. The ban was later tested when Hannah, being a Quaker minister herself, held services in her own home. Her husband was arrested and returned to England, only to be released and allowed to come back again, contributed to the principles codified a century later in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights granting religious and political freedom to all citizens." Note: The above notwithstanding, the Wyckoff House in Brooklyn also has a claim to being the oldest house in NYC. However, only a small portion of the existing Wyckoff structure dates back to 1652, whereas the basic frame of the Bowne House dates to roughly 1661.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1387] Eardeley Genealogy Collection at the Brooklyn Historical Society. [S4399] Find a Grave page for Mary Johanna Bowne Thorne. [S199] Genealogies of Long Island Families, From the New York Genealogical and Bibliographical Record ed. Henry B. Hoff. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society. [S1272] George E. McCracken, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 86:132, 86:209 (1955), 87:28, 87:104 (1956), 92:229 (1961), 94:243 (1963), 136:303 (2005). [S2306] The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012. [S3825] Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103:246, Oct 1949., says "6th month 1637". [S1131] Bowne Family of Flushing, Long Island by Edith King Wilson and Jacob Titus Bowne. New York, 1948. [S3825] Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103:246, Oct 1949. [S2308] Donald Lines Jacobus, "That Winthrop Woman Again!" New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 97:131, 1966. [S1272] George E. McCracken, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 86:132, 86:209 (1955), 87:28, 87:104 (1956), 92:229 (1961), 94:243 (1963), 136:303 (2005)., date only.