John Boaden (1664 - abt. 1743)

Born 1664 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Shorey) Grant — married 1 Jun 1732 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about 1743 at about age 79 in Marblehead, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

John Boden of this profile is possibly the John Boden given here: At the southerly end of Massacre Pond [October 6, 1703, Black Point Scarborough] a body of some 120-200 savages lay in ambush. In one concerted effort they way-laid and killed the Captain [Captain Richard Hunnewell-25] and nineteen of his men. Only one, John Boden, who escaped by flight, survived . The body of the deceased Hunnewell was horribly gashed and mangled. The slain were buried together in a single grave and covered with a high mound of earth. 'The Great Grave' was conspicuous for many years and is noted upon an old map." Honeywell Heritage Vol. 2, No. 1

John Boden of this profile is probably the John Boden [age 56] given here ___ "Henry Libby [Henry Libby-20] and his sons were all present at the first town meeting in 1720 [Resettlement of Scarborough]. He and John Boden were selected to show the old highways to the selectman." Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine page 307

John Boden's 1664 date of birth is taken from his deposition ... " John Boaden of Marblehead, says he was born at Spurwink about 1664 ... " COLLECTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY _

Cautionary Note: Date of Birth _ Image attached from GDMNH page 97 reflects John Boaden born about 1655, should be 1664, per his own depostion .

John Boden at the Lookout Marblehead, MA The place marked on the map "The Lookout " is the highest part of the hill, and it was to this place that the people came for the first sight of incoming vessels. It was the " lookout " place, and remained open for a hundred years after the first settlement of the town. A way to its highest part, from both north and south, however, has remained open to this day. After John Boden received a grant of land on its western side it became known as Boden's lookout  ; and, in 1822, it was called the South lookout, a name indicative of another place used for the «ame purpose. [page] 226 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3.

John Boden age 66 [born 1664] desposes at Salem Sept ___ 1730 ... (Reg xxix 270) New England Gleanings page 63 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 40 1886

[Bowden/Boden, John, and Joanna Colman, both of Dartmouth, Feb. 18, 1721. CR3 John, and wid. Sarah Oakeman, June 1, 1732. https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Marblehead/Images/Marblehead_M040.shtml

BOADEN: John Boden married widow Sarah [Shorey] Oakman " ... June 1, 1732 . He died in 1743, being " aged." His will, dated Nov. 4, 1737, was proved March 29, 1743. His wife Sarah survived him."

Noted: The widow Sarah Oakman, wife of Samuel Oakman, the said Samuel Oakman [Samuel Oakman-11], was first cousin, once removed, of John Boaden/Boden, of this profile, who married the widow Sarah [Shorey] Oakman. Samuel Oakman was the great grand child and John Boaden was the grand child of Ambrose Boaden Sr. [born about 1589] resided at Scarborough, Maine. Adrian Stanley _ 18 Jan 2021

" ... John Bowden of Marble Head in the County of Essex in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Shoreman ... sixty Acres of Upland & Salt Marsh be the same more or less In the Township of Scarborough in the said County of York bounded as followeth viz Easterly with Spurwink River Southerly with a Creek & run of Water running betwixt the Premisses & Samuel Oakmans Land running up to a Great Oak & from thence North West up into the Woods until the said sixty Acres be accomplished he paying in Proportion of the six Days Work reserved by Robert Jordan in his Deed ___ The Mark of John Boden (seal) The mark of Johanna + Boden (seal) Essex se | Mhead Jan’ry 18th 1726 John Boaden psonally appeared and acknowledged the In- strument on the other side to be his free Act & Deed York Deeds – Book XII Part 1 – 1726-1727 Folio 89

... Driven off . Simpson Boden deposes , 1 June, 1752, living more than 30 miles from York , æt. 53, that in Oct., 1727, with his father John Boden of Marblehead , eldest son of Ambrose Boden of Spurwink and some others were at Spurwink , and that Dominicus Jordan , eldest grandson of Robert Jordan of Spurwink met them and ran a boundary line be tween the land of said Ambrose Boden and of Maddiver and Oakman . Testimony to be used in an action of ejectment between Nicholas Edgcombe of Marblehead and John Rackliff and others , appellees. pages 158 159 THE GENEALOGICAL QUARTERLY MAGAZINE VOL. IV.

... John Boaden of Marblehead, says he was born at Spurwink about 1664 and that he and Sam Hill carried the chain to run out Robert Jordan's tract of about two thousand acres." There was five settlements on the said Nonesuch land, he says, and they were all tenants of said Jordan. " The fact that neither Joanna nor John sign their names goes to show that educational facilities in their earlier years were limited. THE SETTLEMENT OF SCARBOROUGH [Maine Historical Society]

Bowen/Boden John-*, born in 1670 [should be1664], resided at Scarboro for twenty-seven years, according to a deposition, when he removed, perhaps, directly to Marblehead. He may be the " John Boden of Marblehead " who married Rebecca Fowl of Boston May 26, 1713 (Boston marriages). That he was the son of Ambrose Bowden of Scarboro is conclusively proven by York Deeds, volume XII, pages 79 and 175. It appears by the genealogy (page 38), that he had lived in Dartmouth, Mass., where he married, in 1721, Joanna Colman. His last (third?) wife was widow Sarah Oakman, whom he married in 1732. He died in 1743, being "aged" about seventy- three [age about 79], according to the year of his birth. This seems to fit his case, but his marriages were all late in life, the first when he was forty-three years old. BOWDEN NOTES. BY CHARLES E. BANKS, M. D.

Marriage Intention to Joanna Ingersall https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9NW-HCS?i=76

Research Note

Noted: The list below is all the children mentioned in John Boden's Will dated 4 Nov 1737 List of Children from the Boaden/Boden/Bowden Genealogy _ BOWDEN GENEALOGY. _ The Essex Antiquarian Volume 10

I. Benjamin*. See below (2).

II. Samuel*. See below (3),

III. Jonathan*. See below (4),

IV. Mary*. probably m. Samuel Merritt, July 22, 1733; living in 1737.

V. Abijah*. See below (6),

VI. Simpson*. See below (7).

VII Hannah*, living in 1737.

VIII. Rebecca*, living in 1737.

IX. Susanna*, bapt. Sept. 15, 1723, in Marblehead; living in 1737.

John Boden' Will

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-VNZY?cat=412735

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-VNZR?i=175&cat=412735

John was born about 1664. He was the son of Ambrose Boaden and Mary Unknown. He passed away in 1737.

Sources

• THE SETTLEMENT OF SCARBOROUGH page 438 SECOND SERIES VOL. VI COLLECTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x000932982?urlappend=%3Bseq=464

• Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine; by Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry S. (Henry Sweetser), 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe VOLUME 1 https://archive.org/details/genealogicalfami00litt/page/307/mode/1up?q=Boden

• York County (Me.)., Richardson, H. W., Sargent, W. M., Chapman, L. B., Bowler, E., Maine Historical Society., & Maine Genealogical Society (1884- ). (1989). York deeds. [1642-1737] Book 12 [1726-1727]. Portland: J.T. Hull. Folio 89 https://archive.org/details/yorkdeeds121main/page/n276/mode/1up?q=boaden

• Boaden Genealogy Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Vol. 2 page 97

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• Bowen/Boden Genealogy The Essex Antiquarian Volume 10

[see for additional infomation on John Boden's male children] https://archive.org/details/essexantiquaria00perlgoog/page/n54/mode/2up

• The Essex antiquarian Volume 13

https://archive.org/details/essexantiquariav12v13sale/page/736/mode/1up?q=Oakman

• York deeds / edited by William M. Sargent. v.16.https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924026110506?urlappend=%3Bseq=427

• Samuel Oakman https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Oakman-11

• https://www.honeywellfamily.com/newsletters/issue2-1.html

• Capt. Richard Hunnewell https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hunnewell-25

• Henry Libby https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Libby-20