Mary Beckett

     Mary was born in 1670 in England. She was the daughter of Edward Beckett & Mary Percy. After the death of her parents, she was raised by Elizabeth of Hervorden, who was the Abbess of Reichsabtei, Herford. It was after her death that she came to New England with Elizabeth Lowe.¹ Mary married Samuel Bowne, son of John Bowne and Hannah Feake, on 4 August 1691 in Morrisville, Camden County, New Jersey, at the Falls of the Delaware River.