James Boutwell Jr (1617 - 1651)

Born 25 Feb 1617 in Shalford, Essex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Alice (Ling) Boutell — married 1631 in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, England

Descendants

Died 26 Sep 1651 at age 34 in Salem, Massachusetts

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Biography

Son of James Boutell and Sarah White Boutell. It has been suggested that he married Alice Lawson, but this is unproven, and it is unclear who the mother of his children is, and whether her name was Alice, or Alice Lawson. Children: Included James Boutell III and John Boutell. Possibly others. JAMES1 BOUTWELL was born 1616 in Salem, Middlesex, Mass., and died September 26, 1651. He married ALICE LAWSON January 26, 1641 in Salem, Mass.. She was born 1621.

Children of JAMES BOUTWELL and ALICE LAWSON are: 2. i. JOHN2 BOUTWELL, b. April 06, 1645, Reading, Mass.; d. July 17, 1713, Reading, Mass.. ii. JAMES BOUTWELL, b. 1642. iii. SARAH BOUTWELL, b. 1647. iv. DEBORAH BOUTWELL, b. 1649.

From: Full text of "Genealogical guide to the early settlers of America"

"James Boutell emigrated to New England in 1632 and settled in Salem and Lynn, Mass. and afterwards in Reading. The name, which was originally 'Bontville,' and so appears on the roll of Battle Abbey, and the family is of Norman descent. The termination of the name was changed at a later date and became 'Bontwell.' James Boutell married Alice ________ and had a son John, born at Reading in 1645, who served in the Narragansett war."

From: Full text of "Genealogical guide to the early settlers of America" BOUTELL, BOUTWELL :— John Boutwell, of Cam- bridge, Mass., by wife Margaret had Mary, born Oct. 26, 1646, and John, died 1674. James Boutwell of Salem and Lynn, Mass., 1635, was made freeman 14 March, 1639, died ^S 1 - I* 1 his will of 22 Aug., 1651, he names wife Alice, son James and John and Sarah.

His will mentions: son James & John, daughter Sarah, wife Alice.

Arrival:

U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about James Boutelle

Name: James Boutelle

Arrival: 1635 Salem, Massachusetts

Source Publication Code: 1262

Primary Immigrant: Boutelle, James

Annotation: Date and place of settlement or date and place of arrival. Names not restricted to the Order of Founders and Patriots of America.

Source Bibliography: COLKET, MEREDITH B., JR. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657. Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975. 366p. Page: 34

Massachusetts, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890 about James Boutwell

Name: James Boutwell

State: MA

County: Massachusetts Colony

Township: Freeman 14 March

Year: 1639

Database: MA Early Census Index

Wrote Will, 22 Aug 1651:

Lynn Village (Essex) Massachusetts Bay Colony

Witnessed by John Deakin, Wlm Longley

Marriage

Husband: James Boutell

Wife: Alice Ling

Marriage:

Date: 26 JAN 1630 OR 26 JAN 1631

Place: Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, England^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Marriage: "Cambridgeshire Marriages"
   FindMyPast Transcription (accessed 9 January 2024)
   Alice Ling marriage to James Bowtel on 26 Jan 1631 in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, England.

See the Changes page for the details of edits by Tom and others.

• Find A Grave

• (NEHGR LV:22-30)

• Genealogical guide to the early settlers of America by Whittemore, Henry

(1898) p. 51.

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Julie Baldwin for creating WikiTree profile Boutwell-85 through the import of Jhoward.ged on May 31, 2013.
• WikiTree profile Boutwell-23 created through the import of Tom.ged on Jun 1, 2011 by Tom Elliott.

Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Julie and others.

• Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s (Gale Research, Farmington Hills, MI, USA, 2012)

• Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Massachusetts Census, 1790-1890 (Ancestry.com Operations Inc, Provo, UT, USA, 1999). Microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.

• Will, 22 Aug 1651: image of will

• Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686 (The Essex Institute, 1911) Vol. 1, Page 245-6
• Ancestry.com. Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi. Ancestry Record 60541 #1159821
• Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi. Ancestry Record 60525 #118128270
• Boston, Massachusetts; Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 Source Information Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018. Ancestry Record 61401 #16373033