Flushing resident John Bowne was arrested and was sent to Holland by New Amsterdam’s Governor-General Peter Stuyvesant to stand trial for practicing his Quaker faith. The year was 1662, and Stuyvesant ...

Two historic Flushing sites are one step closer to getting national attention. The House of Representatives approved legislation Monday to have the National Park Service study the John Bowne House … ...

Bowne House in Flushing has been closed for extensive restorations , it opened its doors to the public last weekend for a holiday party to remind Queens residents of a place that housed a family wh… ...

The long-awaited restoration of Flushing’s historic Bowne House could be ... from the Bowne House when, in the 1660s, John Bowne opened his ... Bowne, a prominent Quaker who emigrated ...

- John Bowne, he ended up being arrested for holding prohibited Quaker meetings in his home, that is to say, here at the Bowne House. And we know the saga of his arrest, and we know all this ...

THE BULK of the funding for the long-overdue restoration of the historic Bowne House in Flushing remains in place, but a portion will be held back until 2013, city officials said last week.

The exhibition also features documents from the trial of John Bowne, a Flushing resident who publicly opposed the ordinance. Bowne, an English settler, was arrested and sent back to Europe for ...