Family:Richard Willets and Abigail Bowne (1)

Richard Willetts

Quoted from the books of the Monthly Meeting of Westbury, Long Island: "Jericho, the 4th day of the 1st mo. 1688. I was born 25th of tenth month in the year 1660 and I continued with my mother until I was 25 years of age, and in the year 1686 on 25th day of the first month, I took Abigail Bowne to wife, and we continued together until the 24th of the 11 month following and then she borne me a daughter and she called her name Hannah and we enjoyed each other in great love until the 16th of the 4th month 1688 and the the Lord took her to Himself and left me, Richard Willetts a sorrowful man with my motherless babe."

Abigail Bowne

Abigail Bowne was born January 5, 1662/3. Abigail married Richard Willets on March 25, 1686 in Flushing, Long Island, Colonial New Amsterdam. She died on June 16, 1688.

Richard Willetts and Abigail Bowne Marriage

1. ↑ Wilson, Edith King. Bowne family of Flushing, Long Island. (New York: unknown, 1948).

   quoted statement of Richard Willets: ' ... in the year 1686 on 25th day of the first month, I took Abigail Bowne to wife ...'

2. ↑ "Records of the Society of Friends of the City of New York and Vicinity, from 1640 to 1800", in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
   Vol. 6, p. 97.

   The 25th day of the first month (March) 1686 At fflushing Rich'd Willits of Jericoe on Long Island husbandman And Abigaile Bowne daughter of John Bowne of Flushing on s'd Island.