Jared (Garrett, Jarrett) Bourne (Bowrne), Sr (1614-1681) was born in 1614 in Bobbingworth, Essex County, England. He sailed to Boston, Massachusetts in the summer of 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet, a group of eleven ships led by John Winthrop that brought 700 Puritans to New England. Jared is listed in the Winthrop records as Garrett Bourne, and although his ship is not known, it would have been one of the ships listed below.
Arbella (flagship), Ambrose, William and Francis, Talbot, Hopewell, Jewel, Whale, Charles, Success, Mayflower, or Trial.
Jared's older brother Richard Bourne (1610-1682) came to the colonies also, but in 1634 on a later voyage, and initially settled about 1635 at Plymouth, Massachusetts. He then moved on to Barnstable County, Massachusetts, where he married, had several children, and died under the name of Rev. Richard Bourne.
Jared Bourne's name appears many times in the colonial records of Muddy River, Massachusetts (a part of Boston up until 1705, when the town of Brookline was incorporated), and also Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Some of the highlights from these records are summarized below.
Jared married his first wife Mary Uxor (1614-1644) in 1634 in Boston, Massachusetts. There apparently is some evidence that Mary had a son Jaratt Bourn who was born in 1643, and died that same year.
Jared was admitted to the church in Boston on April 22, 1634, and he took the freeman's oath on May 6, 1635.
Jared became one of the first land owners in Boston when on November 8, 1637 (some sources give Dec. 18) he received 8 acres of land along with 59 others. Recorded deeds show that over the years he bought or received other grants of land as well.
Jared's first wife Mary died, and Jared married his second wife, a woman named Frances (b. 1614), in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Either Mary's death or the marriage to Frances took place on Mar 30, 1644, but is uncertain which event the date pertains to. It is possible that Mary died in childbirth.
Jared is appointed constable on January 12, 1653, and Edward Devotion replaced him in this office on August 9, 1654.
Jared removed from Boston (Muddy River) to Rhode Island on Feb. 13, 1654.
Jared sold land he held at Cambridge in 1664, then sold his lands in Boston in 1665.
Jared is admitted as an inhabitant of Portsmouth, Rhode Island on January 23, 1665.
Jared continued to reside in Portsmouth until after 1667, for on October 30, 1667 he was a deputy in the General Assembly (Legislature) of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
William Brenton, then (1666-1669) the Governor of Rhode Island, had arrived in Massachusetts in 1630 with Jared in the Winthroup fleet, and he employed Jared at the stone garrison house in Mattapoisett (now Gardner's Neck in Swansea). This garrison during King Philip's War (1675-1676) became known as the BOURN GARRISON HOUSE, for when hostilities began colonists from the surrounding country fled there with their families for refuge under Jared's command, where they were besieged by Indians until relieved by troops sent from Massachusetts. Jared was probably still living in 1681, as among the names of a coroner's jury on August 2, 1681 his son Jarrett Bourne is listed as Jr., presumably to distinguish him from the elder Jarett Bourne. There is no record of the elder Jared's death, but he is believed to have died about 1683 in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts. The burial location of Jared Bourne, Sr. is unknown, but some believe him to be buried with no marker in the Bourn Cemetery in Somerset, Bristol County, Massachusetts. The oldest marked grave in this cemetery is that of Jared's grandson Francis Bourn (1693-1758), and it is very likely that father Jared Bourne, Jr (1651-1718), the father of Francis, and the son of Jared, Sr, is buried here as well.
Jared Bourne, Jr (1651-1718), the son of Jared Bourne, Sr and Frances, was born March 7, 1651 in Brookline ("Muddy River"), Massachusetts; and married Elizabeth Brayton (1681-1718) on Dec. 8, 1681 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He died Oct. 13, 1718 in Swansea, Massachusetts. Although his burial is unknown, one of the several unmarked graves in the Bourn Cemetery of Bristol County, Massachusetts is highly likely to be his.
Francis Bourn (1693-1758), the son of Jared Bourne, Jr and Elizabeth Brayton, was born _____, 1693 in Swansea, Massachusetts; and married
Charity Wheaton (1697-1762) there on Feb.23, 1716. He died _________in 1758 in Swansea. He and his wife Charity are buried in the Bourn Cemetery of Bristol County, Massachusetts, theirs being the two oldest graves that are still marked with headstones.
Andrew Bourn, Sr (1722-1777), the son of Francis Bourn and
Charity Wheaton (), was born ________, 1722 in Roxbury, Massachusetts; married Phebe Bain Richardson (1725-1810) on Feb. 23, 1744 in Church, West Virginia (Virginia in those days). He died March 15, 1777 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, where he is buried in the Old Kirk Yard Cemetery.
Andrew Bourn, Jr (1746-1814), the son of Andrew Bourn, Sr and Phebe Bain Richardson, was born Nov. 7, 1746 in Attleboro, Massachusetts; and married his first wife Sarah Cummings (1745-1826) there on April 13, 1769; and his second wife Lucinda Barrows in Attleboro as well on Jan.5, 1799. Andrew served as a sergeant in the American Revolution from Aug 23 to Sept 2, 1778 in Col. John Daggatt's regiment in Rhode Island in Capt. Elisha May's Company. He also served as a sergeant in Col. Isaac Dean's regiment, as a member of Capt. Samuel Robinson's Company on a march during an alarm to Tiverton, Rhode Island on Aug. 4, 1780. He died Sept 3, 1814 in Attleboro, where he is buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery.
Nehemiah Bourne (1772-1834), the son of Andrew Bourn, Jr and Sarah Cummings, was born May 14, 1772 in Attleboro, Massachusetts; married Sarah Barrows (1780-1844) there on Oct. 23, 1800. He died _________, 1834 in Rupert, Vermont. He is buried in the Old Pawlet Cemetery in Pawlet, Vermont.
Rev. Milton Bourne (1810-1865), the son of Nehemiah Bourne and Sarah Barrows, was born ________, 1810 in Attleboro, Massachusetts; and married
his first wife Rebecca Miller (1813-1850)___________________in 1839 in Fox River, Illinois; and married his second wife Malinda Malvina Adeline Gardner (1829-1907) ___________________ on Aug. 12, 1850 in _____________, Wisconsin. He died May ___, 1865 in Macomb, Illinois, where he passed away on his farm. His burial location is unknown, but it is possible that he is buried on his farm.
children - BOURNE (with Rebecca Miller)
Olivia Bourne (1840-).
Milton E. Bourne (1844-).
Josephine Bourne (1845-1936).
Charles Bourne (1847-1900).
Warren Bourne (1849-).
children - BOURNE (with Malinda Malvina Adeline Gardner)
Willard Stewart Bourne (1893-1988), the son of Fred Ellsworth Bourne and Lucy Rose Barnes, was born Jan 9, 1893 in Beatrice, Nebraska. He and his brother Donald were sent overseas to France with the U.S. Army during WWI, where they served at times in military labs running tests for germs, and such. Willard, a year or so after coming home from the war, married his first wife Shirley Jarrett (1902-1908) on Dec. 27, 1920 in Vallejo, California, Shirley being the daughter of Joseph Jarrett (1879-1934) and Alvina Doke (1882-1967). However, Willard and Shirley divorced a short while after their daughter Betty was born. Willard during Prohibition was working in San Francisco as a federal liquor inspector, when he was transferred in 1925 to Hawaii. There he married his second wife Elise Destinne Forester (1897-1952) on June 9, 1925 in Honolulu, on the same day that they arrived in the islands on the same ship. Willard, during his time in Hawaii, generally worked for local government and the military, until he landed a position in the late 1940s with the the Veterans Administration (V.A.). He was still with the V.A. when Elsie predeceased him on Dec. 22, 1952 in Honolulu. Willard eventually retired, and moved to Lemon Grove, California, where he bought a fruit orchard. He died on Sept. 5, 1988 in San Diego, California. His ex-wife Shirley died on Sept. 13, 1988 in Suisun City, California, and she is buried nearby in Rockville Cemetery. Her only child Betty Bourne follows.
Betty Bernice Bourne (1921-1924), the only child of Willard Stewart Bourne and Shirley Jarrett, was born on Aug. 20, 1921 in Siskiyou County, California, when her mother age 19, and her father age 28. However, her parents separated and divorced when she was still very little, and she and her mother ended up living in Vallejo in Solano County, while her father moved back to Berkeley in Alameda County, where his parents were then living. Betty's mother Shirley was next married for a few months in 1929 to a young lawyer in Sacramento named Ralph Radford Amaden (1905-1956), but they soon separated, and she moved back once again to Solano County. There she met Gordon Wesley Loney (1907-1993), whom she married in 1935 in Carson City, Nevada, when Betty was 13-years old. Betty's new stepfather Gordon was a member of one of the early pioneer families to settle in the Gordon Valley in Napa County, and he adopted Betty, when he married her mother. Betty then spent her remaining teenage years on the Loney Ranch, and when she was 19-years old, she married Henry Blake "Buddy" MacKenzie (1918-1984) on Sept. 15, 1940 in Vallejo. She and Buddy settled in Vallejo, where they raised a family of three children, while he worked there at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. When Buddy retired from this job in 1969, after working there for 35 years, he and Betty moved to her parents ranch in Gordon Valley, where he helped his father-in-law manage the property, which was an orchard for a time, and later a vineyard. Buddy and Betty had been married for 43 years, when he passed away on March 20, 1984 at the Loney Ranch from Alzheimer's disease, and was buried at the Rockville Cemetery, a few miles down the road from the ranch.
Betty, a year and a half after Buddy died, married Jose Abraham Quijas (b. 1952) on Sept. 21, 1985 in Reno, Nevada. Because Quijas, who was Betty and Buddy's former son-in-law, was a Mexican national with an arrest record, this marriage was to try and keep him from being deported, which would separate Betty and Buddy's grandchildren from their father. His ex-wife Shirley (Betty's daughter), the grandchildren, Betty, and her parents then all lived together in the main house on the Loney Ranch, which Betty continued to manage after her parents passed away. Shirley remained in the main house, when Betty, around 1992, moved to a smaller house on the property to live with her former neighbor John Derald Lopez (1920-2015). Betty and John stayed together for the next 23 years, until 2015 when he died in his sleep at age 95, while sitting in his favorite chair. Betty then moved back into the main house to be with Shirley, until Betty sold the ranch to her cousin Don Gordon. She and Shirley then moved to a new home in the city of Fairfield, where they were living on April 18, 2023, when Shirley died. Betty passed away the following year on Aug. 29, 2024 at the age of 103 years, while still living in the same house. She is buried in Rockville Cemetery, where she shares a headstone with her first husband Blake MacKenzie.
children - MACKENZIE
Carolyn Marie MacKenzie was born on Aug. 30, 1942 in Vallejo, California, where she also grew up. She married Robert Winston Miller (1941-2014) on June 15, 1968 in Solano County, and they had two children.
Gerald Joseph MacKenzie was born on March 3, 1945 in Vallejo County, California, where he also grew up. He married Terri Backus (b. 1947) on Aug. 31, 1968 in Santa Cruz County, and they had two children. He and Terri later divorced, and he subsequently remarried. He died on Sept 1, 2016 in Wildomar, California, where he was living with his second wife. He is buried in the Dixon National Cemetery.
Shirley Marian MacKenzie was born on March 14, 1950 in Vallejo, California, where she also grew up. She married Jose Abraham Quijas (b. 1952) on Aug. 13, 1976 in Carson City, Nevada, and they had three children. She and Jose later divorced. She died on April 18, 2023 in Fairfield, California, where she was living at the time with her aged mother.
REFERENCES:
Lopez, Betty, 2011, Interview with Betty Lopez by Janet and Mike Clark on July 25, 2011 at the Loney Ranch.
Governor, A. O. Bourn, and Bristol, R. I. (1875), "A Sketch of the Descendants of Jared Bourn who settled in Boston about the year 1630"
by Janet & Michael Clark
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