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(II) Walter (1) de Boynton, son of Bartholo- mew de Boynton, was living in 1091.
(III) Bruis de Boynton, probably a son of Wal- ter (1) de Boynton, left his name on a document dated 1I29.
(IV) Sir Ingram de Boynton, knight, succeeded
Bruis de Boynton, and lived in 1159. He left a son, his heir.
(V) Thomas (1) de Boynton, son of Sir In- gram de Boynton, married and left at least one son.
(VI) Robert de Boynton, son of Thomas (I) de Boynton, flourished in 1205, and by his wife. daughter of Thomas Burgh, Esq., left a son.
(VII) Ingraham (1) de Boynton, son of Robert (1) de Boynton, was living in 1235 and 1258. He married Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir Walter Grindall, by whom he had one child or more.
(VIII) Walter (2) de Boynton, son of In- graham (1) and Margaret (Grindall) de Boynton, lived in 1273, and married the daughter of Ingram Mounscaux, and had issue.
(IX) Ingraham (2) de Boynton, son of Walter (2) de Boynton, was living in 1272 and 1307. He married a daughter of St. Quintine and had one child or more.
(X) Sir Walter (3) de Boynton, son of In- graham (2) de Boynton, was knighted in 1356, be- ing in the service of the Prince of Wales, in Brit- tany. He married a daughter of William Alton. and left issue.
(XI) Sir Thomas (2) de Boynton of Acclam, son of Sir Walter (3) de Boynton, was lord of the ancient demesne of Boynton, of Acclome and Are- some, in right of his mother, and of Rouseby, New- ton, and Swaynton, by his wife Catherine, daughter and co-heir of Sir Gifford Rossells, of Newton, Knight. He left a son.
(XII) Sir Thomas (3) Boynton, Knight, son of Sir Thomas (2) de Boynton, married Margaret, daughter of Speeton, of Sawcock, and left issue.
(XIII) Sir Henry Boynton, Knight, son of Sir Thomas (3) Boynton. joined Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, who had taken up arms against Henry IV. in 1405. They were defeated and Sir Henry, with seven others, was executed at Sadbury, in Yorkshire, July 2. 1405. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Merrifield, Knight, and by her had daughters, Janett and Elizabeth, and two sons, Thomas, who died at the age of twelve years, and William, next mentioned.
(XIV) William (1). son of Sir Henry Boyn- ton. married Jane, daughter of Simon Harding. and left a child or children.
(XV) Sir Thomas (4), Knight, son of Will- iam (1) and Jane (Harding) Boynton, made his will July 28, 1408, which was proved on September 6 following. He married Margaret, daughter of William Normanville, and they had two sons- Henry, the elder and heir, and Christopher, the sub- ject of the next paragraph.
(XVI) Sir Christopher (1), younger son of Sir Thomas (4) and Margaret (Normanville) Boynton, had his seat at Sadbury, in Yorkshire. He married the daughter of Sir John Coignes, of Ormesbury. Knight. and had issue.
(XVII) Christopher (2), of Sadbury, Knight, son of Sir Christopher (1) Boynton, also had estates in Heslerton and Newton, and in the parish of Wintringham. His first wife was Eliza- beth, daughter of - - Wanford, by whom he had one son, William, who died without issue. By his second wife, Jane, daughter of Robert Strangeways, of Kelton, he had daughters, Elizabeth and Jane, and two sons. Sir Christopher, whose male issue is extinct, and Robert, next mentioned.
(XVIII) Robert (2). son of Sir Christopher (2) and Jane (Strangeways) Boynton, of East Hes- lerton, died in 1526, leaving by his wife Agnes sons :
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Jo'mn, of East Heslerton ; Richard, of Newton, who died in 1539; William, a priest. and James, men- ti red in the next paragraph.
( XIX) James, son of Robert (2) and Agnes Boynton, of Wintringham, made his will in 1534 and died the same year, leaving a widow Jane and sons Roger. William and Christopher.
( XX) Roger. eldest son of James and Jane Boynton, was also of Wintringham, and resided at Knapton, in that parish. He died in 1558. By his wife Jenct. daughter of - Watson, he had sons : James. Richard, William. Edmund, and a daughter Alice
(XXI) William (2). third son and child of Roger and Janet ( Watson) Boynton, resided also at Knapton, in Wintringham. He died in 1615, leaving a widow Margaret, who was his second wife ; Sins Francis, Daniel, John and William, and daugh- ter. Anne and Margaret.
( XXII) William (3), youngest son of William (2 and Margaret Boynton, was executor of his father's will. and residuary legatee. He continued to reside at Knapton, where his sons William and John were born. ( Mention of the latter and de- scendants appears in this article).
(XXIII) William (4). son of William (3) Boyn- .ton, was born in 1606 at Knapton, East Riding. Yorkshire, England. With his brother John he em- Farked at Hull in the fall of 1638 and arrived in Boston that same year. The party was under the charge of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, and they settled in Rowley, Massachusetts, where William Boynton was assigned a lot of land on Bradford street, to which he subsequently added by extensive purchases in various parts of the county. During his lifetime he gave a farm to each of his children, and the re- mainder of his estate he left to his wife, Elizabeth Jackson, who came with him from England. In the records he is called a planter and weaver. but in the docds he is called a tailor. He must have been a man of education and influence, for he taught the school from 1656 to 1681, and was probably the first person employed as schoolmaster in the town. The children, born in Rowley. Massachusetts, were : John. Elizabeth, Zachariah, Joshua, Mary, Caleb and Sarah.
(XXIV) Joshua, third son and fourth child of William (4) and Elizabeth (Jackson) Boynton, was born March 10. 1646. at Rowley, Massachusetts. In 1673 his father gave him a farm in Newbury con- taining a hundred acres, where he lived more than fifty years. He was a soldier under Major Appleton in the wars at Narragansett in 1675, and also under Captain Brocklebank when the latter was slain by the Indians in April. 16,6. Joshua Boynton was thrice married. His first wife was Hannah Barnet, of Newbury, to whom he was united April 9. 1678. She died January 12. 1722. at Newbury, and he mar- ried widow Mary Syles, of Rowley, who died July 28. 1727. On October 30 of that year he married Mary, widow of his cousin. John Boynton. There were twelve children in all. of whom the first five at least belonged to the first marriage. There is some discrepancy in the dates of birth of the others, and the record gives the last seven as born at Row- ley. Joshua Boynton's will was proved November 12. 1736. showing that he had reached the age of ninety years.
(XXV) William (5), fourth son and child of Jo-hua and Hannah (Barnet ) Boynton, of New- bury, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, May 26, 1600. He received a grant of Narragansett lands
in right of his father. He first lived in Byfield parish, Newbury, and early in 1730 removed to Kingston, New Hampshire. On October 15. 1682, William (5) Boynton married Joanna Stevens, born at Salisbury, Massachusetts, October 15, 1692. There were nine children: Dorothy, Hannah, William, Richard. Joshua. John, Martha, Betty and Martha. Richard Boynton. of Boston. received letters of ad- ministration on his father's estate, June 1. 1771, which would indicate that William (5) Boynton died at the age of eighty-one year's.
(XXVI) John. fourth son and sixth child of William (5) and Joanna ( Stevens) Boynton, was born Angust 31. 1724. at Rowley, Massachusetts. He married Anna Smith, and their children were : David, Richard, William, John. Molly, Betsey and Anna.
(XXVII) William (6), third son and child of John and Joanna ( Stevens) Boynton, was born Sep- tember 20. 1761. at Nottingham. New Hampshire. He married Molly Huckins, and they had eight chil- dren: William, Joseph, Marv. Nancy, Joanna Stevens. Ebenezer, Charles Glidden and Sarah Jane. William Boynton died September 20, IS14. at the comparatively early age of fifty-three.
(XXVIII) Ebenezer. third son and fifth child of William (6) and Joanna ( Stevens) Boynton, was horn December 26. 1798. at New Hampton, New Hampshire. In his youth he moved to the neigh- horing town of Meredith, where he was rearcd to agricultural pursuits. In 184I he moved to Plym- outh. New Hampshire, where he .remained for twelve years, going in 1853 to Canterbury, New Hampshire, and finally in 1866 to Lisbon, where he spent the last fifteen years of his life. Mr. Boynton was married four times, and had eleven children by the first and second marriages. In 1823 Ebenezer Boynton married his first wife, Betsey S. Hart, born at Meredith, New Hampshire. November 1. 1803. She died June 13. 1836, after giving birth to five children: Abigail H., Dr. Charles H., Mary E., Ann M., who died young, and Dr. Orrin H. On October 8. 1836. Ebenezer Boynton married his second wife. Susan R. Huckins, who died in 1856, at the age of forty-five, leaving six children: James II. Nancy F., Edwin W., Arthur W., Luctte S .. and Annie M. . On October 20, 1856, Ebenezer Boynton married his third wife. Mrs. Hannah H. Chency, and in 1866 he married his fourth wife, Mrs. Betsey Kelsey. Ebe- nezer Boynton died March 16. ISSI. at Lisbon, New Ilampshire.
(XXIX) Dr. Charles Hart, elder son and scc- ond child of Ebenezer Boynton and his first wife. Betsey S. Ilart, was horn September 20. 1826, at Meredith. New Hampshire. He remained on the home farm for several years, attending the district schools part of the time. When about eighteen years of age he bought his time of his father for one hundred dollars and went to Brighton, Massachu- setts, where he was employed for one scason. Re- turning to New Hampshire, he learned the carpen- ter's trade. at which he worked for seven years, saving enough meanwhile to provide for his educa- tion. every dollar of which he paid for out of his own earnings. Ufc attended the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton for four terms, and then began the study of medicine with Dr. W. D. Ruck. of Manchester, New Hampshire. In 1853 Dr. Boynton was graduated from the Berkshire Medical College at Pittsfield. Massachusetts, and the next year he took a post-graduate course at the Harvard Medical School. Ile then began practice
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at Alexandria, New Hampshire, but in 1858 he moved to Lisbon, where for nearly fifty years he was a valued physician, whose reputation extended over a considerable portion of Northern New Hamp- shire. Dr. Boynton belonged to the White Moun- tain Medical Society, of which he was twice presi- dent, and he was also a member of the New Hamp- shire Medical Society. He served seven consecutive years on the board of education in Lisbon. In poli- tics he was a stanch Republican, and represented the town in the legislature of 1868-69. He belonged to Kane Lodge, No. 64, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and to Franklin Chapter, Royal Arch Ma- sons, both of Lisbon. In 1854 Dr. Charles Hart Boynton married Mary Huse, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Iluse) Cummings, of Lisbon. They had one child, Alice M., whose sketch follows. Mrs. Boynton died July 28, 1876, aged forty-eight years. (XXX) Alice M., only child of Dr. Charles Hart and Mary (Cummings) Boynton, was born at Alexandria, New Hampshire, September 30, 1857. She was educated in the Lisbon schools, and at Montebello Seminary, Newbury, Vermont, and on September 15, 1887. was married to William Wallace Oliver, of Lisbon. (See Oliver, IV).
(XXIII) John, younger son of William (3) Boynton, was born at Knapton, Wintringham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in 1614. With his elder brother William he joined the expedition fitted out under the auspices of Sir Matthew Boyn- ton and others, who had made extensive prepara- tions for a settlement in New England. Sir Matthew remained behind and joined the fortunes of Oliver Cromwell. The remainder of the party embarked at Hull in the autumn of 1638 and arrived at Boston, in New England, in the same year. Many of the families were wealthy, and with the means brought with them purchased a tract of land situ- ated between the towns of Newbury and Ipswich. which they took possession of in April, 1639, and called it Rowley, in honor of their minister, Mr. Ezekiel Rogers, who had been sometime preacher at the village of that name in Yorkshire. John Boynton was a tailor by trade, but tilled "the acre and a half of land" that was assigned to him in 1640, next his brother William's, and died February 18, 1670. He married Ellen Pell, of Boston, whose name is also found spelled Eleanor and Helen. Their children were: Joseph, John, Caleb. Mercy, Hannah, Sarah and Samuel.
(XXIV) Captain Joseph, oldest child of John and Ellen (Pell) Boynton, born in Rowley in 1644, was captain of the military company, town clerk, and representative to the general court many years. He was a pinder for the north-east field, 1670-71. He with his wife Sarah (his son Benoni, and his wife Ann) was dismissed from Rowley Church to Groton, December 4, 1715. He returned to Rowley and died December 16. 1730. He married (first), May 13, 1669, Sarah, daughter of Richard and Ann Swan, of Rowley. She was born in Rowley, in 1646, and died in Groton, February 27. 1718. He married (second) Elizabeth Wood, published March 5, 1720. His children, all by the first wife, were: Joseph. Sarah Ann, Richard, John, Benoni, Jonathan, Hil- kiah and Daniel.
(XXV) Sergeant Richard, second son and fourth child of Joseph and Sarah (Swan) Boynton, was born in Rowley, November 11, 1675, and died in West Parish. Rowley (near Georgetown), December 25, 1732. He married, December 24, 1701, Sarah, daughter of Lieutenant John and Martha (Thorla)
Dresser, of Rowley. She was born in Rowley, April 4, 1678, and died April 6, 1759. Their children were: David, Nathan, Richard, Sarah, Martha, Nathaniel and John.
(XXVI)) Nathaniel (1), fourth son and sixth child of Sergeant Richard and Sarah (Dresser) Boynton, was born in Rowley, August 18, 1712, married, March 8, 1737, Mary, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Stewart, of Rowley, born October 26. 1715. They were admitted to the church in George- town, September 5, 1736. She spinster, 1737; he yeoman, 1737-1754. He was shipwriecked with fifty others near Annisquam, Cape Ann, and lost, May 13, 1762. Their children were: Mary, Eunice, David. died young ; Thomas, died young; David, Mary, Nathaniel, Thomas, Richard. Lois, Asa and Stephen.
(XXVII)) David, third son and fifth child of Nathaniel and Mary ( Stewart) Boynton, was born in Rowley, and baptized January 19, 1746, and died in Meredith, New Hampshire, in 1822. He removed from New Rowley (Georgetown), Massachusetts, to Meredith, New Hampshire. about 1790. He mar- ried (first), January 7. 1773, Susannah Woodman, of Rowley; and (second), previous to 1794, Lydia, widow of William Sibley. She died October 19, 1826. His children were: Susannah, Betsey. Na- thaniel, Polly, Jonathan, Francis W., David, Nancy, and Sarah.
(XXVIII) Nathaniel (2), eldest son and third child of David and Susannah ( Woodman) Boyn- ton, was born in New Rowley, March 20, 1778, and died at Albany, Illinois, November 22, 1847. He married, October 3. 1806, Hannah F. Morse, born at Peacham, Vermont, December 31, 1789, died at Albany, Illionis, August 14, 1847. Their children were : Benonia, Lyman D .. Asa, Samuel W., Moody, David, Susan, Charles, and Maria.
(XXIX) Lyman D., eldest son and second child of Nathaniel and Hannah F. (Morse) Boynton, born September 2, 1809, died at Concord, May 2, 1878, married ( first ), May 1. 1833, Roccenia Web- ster, born in Danville, Vermont, August II, ISOS; died in Concord. July 6, 1848: (second), November I, 1849, Esthier G. (James) Mears, born January 7. 1813, in Sanbornton. The children by the first mar- riage were: Frances M., Sarah R., Susan R., Lyman WV., Charles M., Emeline P., Mary J .; and by the second wife: Mary Eaton, the subject of the next paragraph.
(XXX) Mary Eaton, only child of Lyman D. and Esther G. (Mears) Boynton. was born August 14, 1850, and married Lewis B. Hoit (see Hoit, IX). (Second Family.)
As the founder of the Boynton fam- BOYNTON ily now being considered was, con- paratively speaking, a recent arrival in America, it is impossible to obtain any informa- tion relative to its ancestors across the sea.
(I) Michael Boynton and his wife, whose Chris- tian name was Ann, emigrated from England during the first half of the last century and settled in Bed- ford, New Hampshire, where he engaged in dairy- farming, lumbering and teaming. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States and in poli- tics supported the Democratic party. In his religious faith he was a Congregationalist. His death oc- curred in 1885, and his wife died in 1890. They were the parents of seven children. three of whom, Ann, William H. and Charles, are living. The others were: John, Mary, George and Sarah.
(II) William Henry, second son and third child of Michael and Ann Boynton, was born in Bedford,
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March 9, 1840. He grew to manhood in his native town, and after concluding his attendance at the public schools he assisted his father in carrying on the homestead farin. Like the majority of young men in that locality he varied the monotony of farm- ing by engaging in the cutting and hauling of tim- ber to a place of manufacture during the winter sea- son. In 1875 he purchased a farm of sixty acres in Goffstown, whither he removed, and has ever since followed agriculture with prosperity, keeping a herd of excellent cows and selling a large quantity of milk annually. In politics he is a Democrat. In 1864 Mr. Boynton was united in marriage with Rosanna Bartlett. daughter of Samuel Bartlett, of Jericho, Vermont. They have two children : Emma L., who is the wife of Harry Hicks, of Fitchburg. Massachusetts, and has four children: Evelina, Lil- lian, Mary, Ernest: and George W., who married Eva Gillingham, of Bedford, and has three children : Mildred. Hazel and Ellen. Mr. and Mrs. Boynton attend the Congregational Church.
HAM The Ham family is one of the oldest and most honorable in New Hampshire and New England, its founder settling in New Hampshire about 1650. Its members have been prominent in the locality where they settled, and many prominent citizens elsewhere trace their de- scent from the immigrant ancestor of this family. (1) William Ham emigrated from Old England to New England about 1640; he was at Exeter in 1646, and later removed to Portsmouth, as early as 1650. In 1652 the town gave him a grant of land where is now the great paper mill on what is called Freeman's Point, but which for two hundred years was called Ham's Point. Mr. Ham was a promi- nent and influential citizen of the town, and one of the large tax payers.
(11) Lieutenant John, son of William Ham, was born in 1649, and died in 1727, aged seventy-eight. When a young man he settled in Dover, being the first of the name to go there, and from him all of the Dover Hams are descended. His first home- stead was at Tole End, near the second falls of the Cocheco river. Later he bought land of Peter Coffin, south of Garrison (or Great Hill), on the east side of what is now Central avenue. That piece of land remained in possession of John Ham and his descendants for two hundred years. John Ham was a prominent citizen and received several grants of land from the town of Dover. He was lieuten- ant of the militia company which did service in the contests with the Indians. He was town clerk several years and had much to do in town affairs. Ilis will, like that of his father. is recorded in the ancient record book at the State Library in Con- cord. Mr. Ham's wife was Mary Heard (Ilurd), daughter of Captain John lleard ( Hurd), who was one of the remarkable men of Dover and had his residence, a garrison house, at Garrison Hill. She died in 1706. Husband and wife were buried in the cemetery at the east of the Methodist Church in Dover.
(III) Benjamin, son of John and Mary (Heard) (Hurd) Ham, was born in 1693, and died in 1781. aged eighty-eight. He resided with his father and inherited the home farm. lle was a constable in 1731 and in years following, an important office then, one of its duties being to collect taxes. At the division of the common lands in 1732 he had a full share, showing that he was a wealthy man. Hle was surveyor in 1738 and years following. IIc
was a sturdy churchman, and was for many years a church member. He married, in 1720, Patience (a daughter of Nicholas) Hartford. She joined the First Church in 1737.
(IV) John (2), son of Benjamin and Patience (Hartford) Ham, was born in 1736, was baptized by Parson Cushing, October 23, 1737, and died in 1824, at the age of eighty-eight years. He lived with his father on the home place which he inherited at his father's death. He held no offices but was one of the best farmers and best citizens of the town. The name of his first wife is unknown. His second wife was Elizabeth Seavey, of Rochester, who was great-granddaughter of William and Mary Seavey, of Portsmouth, who were the immigrants to Portsmouth from England. (See Seavey, I).
(V) John (3). son of John (2) Ham, was born March 8, 1779, and died April 22, 1860, aged eighty- one years. He always resided in Dover on the farm which had come to him through four generations of long-lived Hams. He was born when the Declara- tion of Independence was only three years old, and he lived down to the beginning of the Civil war. During that time he did his part to make Dover a prosperous and growing town. When he attained his majority, Dover Landing had become one of the great trade centers of the state. All the set- tlers north of that place came to Dover with . their teams loaded with produce to exchange for merchandise that was brought there on ships that sailed up and down the Cocheco and the Piscataqua ; the rivers were full of them going and coming. Dover was also a shipbuilding as well as a ship- sailing center of trade. Dover Landing was the business center of the town then, and for forty years later.
In his early manhood Mr. Ham was a clerk in one of the stores there, and learned the ways of busi- ness and the value of things. He was sober and in- dustrious, and took good care of his earnings; he was trusty and honest, so people could always rely on what he promised them; he had sturdy inde- pendence; his ancestors' from their first coming to Dover all had been members of the First Church, and he had been baptized in that faith by the noted Rev. Dr. Jeremy Belknap, pastor of that church, when he was born. Notwithstanding all that he severed his connection with the First Church, and joined the Society of Friends, in which faith he remained to the end of his life, and in the later years of his life was well known throughout that section of New Hampshire by the honored title of "Friend John Ham.'
Mr. Ham inherited a large and valuable farm from his father, so did not continue in mercantile business, but devoted his time chiefly to agriculture. in which business he was an up-to-date manager. When the Cocheco Mills commenced their opera- tions in Dover in 1812, and through the years that followed, Mr. Ham had ample opportunity to dis- pose of all of the products of his farm, and much more besides, at a profit. The winter season and good sledding brought great numbers of ox teams from the north country to Dover with produce. Mr. Ham had large barns in which the teams were cared for and he took whatever produce they could not readily dispose of, and later sold at a profit when the market was not glutted with teams or over- stocked with goods.
So the years passed busily and quietly on. Friend Ham did not spend his surplus earning's for New England rum, as many Dover farmers of that period
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did: instead of that he carefully invested it, and cared for his investments without being parsimon- ious with his family or stingy in helping good causes. He was a generous nian. The result at the end of four score years was perfectly natural; he was one of the wealthiest men in Dover, and every dollar of his wealth was an honest dollar.
When Mr. Ham became a voter for the first time, in 1800, he took his stand with Thomas Jeffer- son, rather than with the Federalist, John Adams. He remained a Jeffersonian Democrat and voted the Democratic ticket down to James Buchanan's administration, when he voted the Republican ticket, declaring that the Democratic party had deserted him, and not he the party. Such is a pen picture of Friend Ham; a man of medium height, quiet ways, a pleasant voice, and a kindly looking coun- tenance. Age did not dim his mental power; and although afflicted with rheumatismn for several of his last years, he kept control of his business affairs with unerring judgment.
John Ham married (first), August 14, 1803, Mercy Wentworth, who was born February 26, 1785. and died April 24, 1836, daughter of Bartholo- mew and Ruth ( Hall) Wentworth. Their children were: Hall, Charlotte, Ruth. Joseph, Elizabeth, Ed- ward, Sarah and Martha. Hall was born April 7, 1804, and died in 1841. He married Sarah Furbish, of Eliot, Maine, and left four children. Charlotte, born May 6, 1806, died October 1. 1860. She mar- ried. October 14, 1827, Nathaniel Clark, and lived in Dover. They had three children. Ruth, born December 23, 1808, married, November 7, 1830, Hiram R. Roberts, a prominent citizen of Rollins- ford. Joseph, born December 21, 1811, married Mary, daughter of William and Love ( Murray ) Randall, and lived in Dover. Edward, born No- vember 1, 1813, died single in 1840. Elizabeth, born December 11, 1817, married Joseph Kay, and lived in Dover. Sarah, born May 28, 1819, married her cousin, Edwin S. Wentworth. Martha, born Sep- tember 14, 1824, married (first). Daniel Varney, of Dover, who died June 11, 1866: (second), Feb- ruary 13, 1868, John F. McDuffie, of Rochester.
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