John
Bouton
aka Bowton, Boughton
[uncertain]
Born before in England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Joan (Turney) Bouton
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Alice (Unknown) Marvin
— married
1636 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died about
after about age 39
in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony
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Disputed Origins
It has not been proven with scholarly research that John Bouton was a son of Nicholas Bouton and Claudine DeMoroges. See Notes section for further details. These unsourced parents have been detached from his profile.
Biography
about 1615 John Bouton was born in England[1][2][3]
- Untrue: He was almost certainly born earlier. His son (John Jr) was a landowner in Norwalk in 1655, his first appearance in New England records.[4]. Note that he is listed as "John Bowton"; this was Jr. as Sr. had already died by this date, his widow having remarried to Matthew Marvin[5] If we assume he was over 21, say 24 at a minimum, that places his birth at 1631. Say then that his parents were married in 1630 and following WikiTree standards for guesstimation, his father was 25 at marriage. That makes John Sr. born likely about 1605, not 1615.
1635 immigrated in the Assurance to Boston, Massachusetts[1]
- Untrue: The Assurance sailed to Virginia, not New England.[6] The statement was made in the infamous 1890 "Bouton-Boughton" genealogy[7] which is now known to be riddled with errors and conflation and was repeated by Ezra Stearns in 1908 and by others since.[8]
about 1636 John Bouton married Alice (Unknown) at Hartford, Connecticut
- Unsupported. The links here have no primary source. If they did marry in 1636, then John Bouton had a prior wife as discussed above given that his son John was likely born by 1630. Original source citations:[1][2][3][5]
9 March 1642 died at Hartford, Connecticut [1][2][3]
Most of the early printed information on this immigrant has been refuted, leaving us with very little information. He may have been born by 1605 probably in England and died before 1647.[5] His wife Alice _____ remarried Matthew Marvin, their son Samuel was baptized in Hartford, Feb 1647/8.[9]
Children
- John Bowton this profile asserted without source that he was born October 1636 at Hartford, Connecticut. This is not supported and almost certainly untrue as he was a landowner in Norwalk by 1655 and therefore likely born 1630 or earlier[4]m. Abigail Marvin (daughter of Matthew Marvin, John's step-father) January 1657[3] in Norwalk, Connecticut, 7 children[2]
- Richard Bowton b.1639 at Hartford, Connecticut, d. June 27, 1665 at Norwalk, Connecticut. m. [Turney-134 | Ruth Turney] in 1664 at Norwalk, Connecticut,[3] 1 child.
- Bridget Bowton b. 1642 at Hartford. Connecticut, d. 1689 at Norwalk, Connecticut m. Daniel Kellogg about 1658 at Norwalk, Connecticut, 9 children.[10] Daniel is presumed to be a younger kinsman of Alice, though the exact relationship is unknown.[1][2][3]
Notes
- From "Amiro/Lingley/Robertson/Hamelburg 5/22/06" from Ancestry.com: The James Bouton: Bouton-Boughton Family genealogy of 1890 is filled with errors. William Marvin in NEHGR 1897 (51:330-4) critiques it with full references. Many early writers confused the immigrant John Bouton with his son John who settled at Norwalk.
- A frequently mentioned ancestry for John Bouton is that he was the son of Count Nicholas Bouton, a French Huguenot. The Huguenots, along with the Puritans, fled the religious persecution on the Continent. T. R. Marvin believed it was just as likely that he was a relative of John Bowghton of Colchester, Essex, who was summoned before the Vicar-General on 2 March 1527 (See Annals of Non-Conformity in Essex by Rev. T. W. Davids, London 1863 and Strype, Ecc. Mem., 1:119).
- John arrived in Boston late in the year 1635, single, according to the Hickok genealogy. He left Boston at once, residing at Watertown MA (Hicks, Torrey) and at Newtown (later called Hartford, on the Connecticut River. He was too young to be an important man in this migration to Hartford, and as he died relatively young, he took no prominent part in anything of a public nature. Hickok says John was serviced to another, doubtless associated with Nathaniel Kellogg, and may have arrived at Hartford in November 1635 with Matthew Marvin Senior, who arrived at Boston on the "Increase" in June 1636. Some sources err in saying he went to Norwalk CT in 1651, but it was his son John who was at Norwalk, because widow Alice had already remarried by that time and was residing at Norwalk. The name of John Bouton (Bowton), age 20, appears 76th on the list of 174 male and 40 female passengers who embarked 24 July 1635 on the "Assurance" of London, Isaac Bromwell and George Pewsie, Master. A Jo. Bowton, aged 20, embarked to be transported to Virginia. They had been examined by the Minister of the Towne of Gravesend of their conformitie in religion, and the men had taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacie.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Hoppin, C. Arthur, 1932, >The Washington ancestry, and records of the McClain, Johnson, and forty other colonial American families. Volume III, Greenfield, Ohio, Reprinted by Quintin Publications, Orange Park Florida, 1932. Page 498.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Marvin, George Franklin and William T. R. Marvin. Descendants of Reinhold and Matthew Marvin. Boston, MA: T R Marvin & Sons, 1904.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Torrey, Clarence A., 2004, New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland. Page 85, 431.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut: With a Plan of the Ancient Settlement ...by Edwin Hall Publication date 1847 p. 17 see NEHGR 51:330
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Matthew Marvin and his second wife, Widow Alice Bouton" by William T.R. Marvin The New England historical and genealogical register by New England Historic Genealogical Society Publication date 1874 Vol. 51 p. 330
- ↑ Passengers on Ship Assurance of London from London England to Virginia 1635 https://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/assurance.htm
- ↑ Bouton--Boughton Family; Descendants of John Boution, a Native of France, who Embarked from ...by James Boughton , Willis A. Boughton Publication date 1890 p. 1
- ↑ Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation by Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date 1908 Vol 2. p. 841
- ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Hartford (Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.) p. 276
- ↑ The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New. Page 41
See also
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bowton
- Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) Vol. 2, Page 841-2
- Ancestors & descendants of Clark Proctor Nichols and Sarah (Sally) Stoughton : in England and America, 1620-2001, The Bouton Family, p.85 https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/157587-ancestors-descendants-of-clark-proctor-nichols-and-sarah-sally-stoughton-in-england-and-america-1620-2001?viewer=1&offset=1#page=96&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=
- The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Vol 65, p. 97-106. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12960/97/0
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"His first wife was Joan Turney, who died soon after his settlement in Norwalk. He married there January 1, 1656, Abigail Martin ...., she was born ... and died at Norwalk about 1672. He married (third) Mrs. Mary Stevenson, widow of John Stevenson, who was killed ..."
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Genealogical_and_Family_History_of_the_S/cfoI0UIOCKQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA842&printsec=frontcover
edited by GeneJ X
This source is plagued with issues related to John and his spouses, and conflates this John and his son, John according to other sources (TAG 11:118; NEHGR 51:333; Washington Ancestry, pg 495). The Stearns reference is most likely based on The Bouton-Boughton Family https://archive.org/details/boutonboughtonf00bouggoog/page/n17/mode/1up which both TAG and NEHGR report as quite erroneous. NEHGR 51:333 says that the marriage with Joan Turney is "proved false by the documents cited above".
I don't think Joan Turney was a real person - or at least she was not associated with John Bouton. Reference to her might be fine in Research Notes citing Stearns and the Bouton book, but I think she should be detached as his wife.
Thoughts?
I don't know what Stearns was relying on for his materials. If later, scholarly material, reports his marriages differently, then, in my book, to the research notes she goes.
Sondra, PGM has been added as co-manager. It is hoped that you will aid in updating this profile, using reliable sources. For instance, the parents here are not reliably sourced, and people from this day did not use middle names - i.e. William.
Cheryl Skordahl, PGM Co-Leader
Same wife Joan, same birth date and place, same approx death date and place. Daughter on -436 is not sourced nor is she shown in source attached to -25, so she is likely not his daughter. No sources on -436. Please merge.
Where did Joan Turney as wife come from?