Thomas Boylston (bef. 1614 - abt. 1653)

Born before 12 Feb 1614 in London, England

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Unknown) Chenery — married 1640 (to about 4 Oct 1653) in Watertown, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died about 4 Oct 1653 after about age 39 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Puritan Great Migration Project WikiTree [send private message] and US Presidents Project WikiTree [send private message]

Thomas Boylston migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 1, p. 368) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Thomas Boylston is an ancestor of a US President/Vice President Join: US Presidents Project Discuss: Presidents

Biography

Thomas Boylston was a direct ancestor of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States of America.

According to outdated research by Bond, Thomas, from Fenchurch Street, London, was one of the sons of Thomas Boylston, a cloth worker of London, who died 1648, and brother of John, Edward and Richard.^[1] However, more recent research concludes otherwise. Robert Charles Anderson in the Great Migration series, (Volume 1,A-B p 371) states that he was baptized on 12 Feb 1614 at St Dionis Backchurch, London, son of Edward and Anne (Bastian) Boyston citing the work of Don C Stone, The Boyston Family in England and Their Connection with the Pipe Family (Unpublished manuscript 1997) p 15.^[2] (See also The Lanman family by Don Stone (1968).^[3] This view is also supported by Gary Boyd Roberts author of Ancestors of American Presidents (2009).^[4]

Thomas was baptized 12 Feb 1615. Thomas Boylston, aged 20, signed up for passage on the ship Defence on 2 July 1635. The last passengers to sign up did so on 17 July, so the ship probably sailed within a day or two after that. Thomas came to Massachusetts and settled in Watertown.^[5]

Thomas Boylston married Sarah (Unknown) between 1635 and 1640. They had the following children:^[1]

• Elizabeth, b. 21 Sept 1640; m. John Fisher^[2]
• Sarah, b. 30 Sept 1642; m. Thomas Smith, a butcher of Charlestown; d. 8 Aug 1711 Charlestown^[2]
• Thomas, b. 26 Jan 1644/45; m. Mary Gardner^[2]

On 26 July 1652, he pledged his half house in Watertown for the benefit of his wife and children,^[6] He died before 4 Oct 1653, when his wife was appointed administrator of his estate.^[1] Also, an inventory was taken of the estate of Thomas Boylston, "late of Watertown deceased", debtor, in 1653.^[7] He was certainly dead before 12 March 1654/5^[2] when his widow married John Chinery.^[1]

Sources

^{[2] [1]}

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Henry Bond. Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston. Boston: N.E. Historic-genealogical Society, for the benefit of the "Bond fund", 1996. Open Library Pages 90-91
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Great Migration 1634-1635, A-B. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 1, A-B, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. Page 368 link
3. ↑ Don Charles Stone, The Lanman family: the descendants of Samuel Landman of Boston Massachusetts, 1687 with data on the Boylston family in England and America (Lancaster, PA: 1968) Chapter 3: Boylstons in England and America p 9 - Available for checkout See also the author's web site
4. ↑ Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009), p. 6. Ancestor of both John Adams and his wife Abigail Smith Adams. Thomas Boylston, bp. St. Dionis Backchurch, London 12 Feb. 1614/15, of Watertown, d. 1653, [m] c. 1639 Sarah _____. Parents Edward Boylston and Anne Bastian.
5. ↑ "Passengers of the Defence, Master Edward Bostocke, Voyage of 1635" (Link via Wayback Machine, capture date 24 Oct 2016.)
6. ↑ Middlesex County, MA: Abstracts of Court Files, 1649–1675. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), (Unpublished abstracts by Thomas Bellows Wyman, "Abstract of Middlesex court files from 1649," n.d.) Vol. 1, Page 5
7. ↑ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) Page 2397:1

• Find A Grave: Memorial #38428126 - Memorial only, not burial record