Bowne House archivist Charlotte Jackson is the author of an article in the Fall 2022 issue of American Ancestors (the quarterly magazine of the New England Historic Genealogical Society) about the museum's archival collections:
“They Being Long Dead, Yet Speak: Three Centuries in the Bowne House Archives"
by Charlotte Jackson, Bowne House Archivist
This article presents an overview of Bowne House’s nine-generation historic documents collection which includes the first mention of the house by John Bowne in 1661 to photos of the Museum's opening ceremony in 1947. Charlotte Jackson’s illustrated article highlights John Bowne's own account of his fight for religious freedom, the letters of Colonial-era women, newly uncovered Quaker records, and documentation of the Bowne and Parsons families' participation in the Underground Railroad.
As Bowne House prepares to digitize its archival holdings in the coming year, we welcome the chance to introduce our rich holdings to a new audience of more than 30,000 readers of American Ancestors, a group of New England Historic Genealogical Society members and donors with common interests in history and heritage.