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Descendants of Thomas BOYLSTON, Jr.

Generation No. 1

1. THOMAS² BOYLSTON, JR. (THOMAS¹) was born 1657 in Talbot Co, MD, and died 1730. He married MAHULDA BOX 1677 in Queen Ann, MD, daughter of THOMAS BOX and JANE ... She was born Unknown, and died Unknown.

Notes for THOMAS BOYLSTON, JR.:
These notes from Lynette Kurcina:

The first records Glady (Domonoske) found of the Boylston family were:

Court Proceedings 1664 John Balley vs. Raymond Staplefort.
Thomas Boylson, aged 30 worked on Balley and Staplefort plantaion 1664 -testifies- Thomas How aged 30 testifies.

Court Proceedings 1665 - p 423
John Balley summoned to testify against Raymond Stapleton. Thomas Boston, Fracis Moggs, Thomas How and Phillis his wife and Elizabeth Freeman 18 years old testified.

Court Proceedings 1666
Clarks fees of all witnesses issud for suit, Balley vs Staplefort. For Francis Megg's and Thomas Boulston time, being carpenters and come purposely from Choptank and were a full month before they could return thither again is between them both 60 days at 30 lbs. Per day.

Land Office Annapolis Maryland
Liber #9, Folio 63 Now Dorchester County
Thomas Boylston 300 acres Boylston's Neck Jan 1665

Hall of Records -Annapolis, Maryland
Deed 105 Land office of Maryland
Thomas Boylstone from Perwick
John Powick of Charles Co. MD. for the sum of 7000 lbs. of tobacco and caske. 3000 lbs. Of good tobacco and caske and 4000 lbs. Of good tobacco and Caske to be paid upon the 10th day of Oct. 1666 for which sum John Powick confirms unto Thomas Boylstone and Thomas How, dwelling in Province of Maryland, all land being called Powick's Ridge lying situate and being in Talbot Co. on northside of Choptank river upon a ridge near a creek callen Bullen Brook, beginning at a marked Oke and bounded by land laid out for Adrew Skinner and running 400 paces to a marked oak. Etc.
One thousand acres of land unto Thomas Boylstone and Thomas How.
October 12, 1656 Maryland Archives Vol. 49 page 513

(Perwick is a small town on the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man is part of the British Island, situated midway between England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Was this record a misprint of Powicks name or was Thomas Boylstone from Perwick? Glady's, who viewed the record did not conclude that Thomas Boylstone was from Perwick, however if anyone does see this record, it would be interesting to see how the other records were written at that time. It may not be significant, but I don't want to overlook this.)

Liber #12 Folio 126 Dorchester Co.
Boyston's Neck 300 Acres
Know all men by these presents, I Thomas Boylston of Talbot Co., carpenter, have bargained, alienated, and sold unto William Lewis of said County, Planter, a tract of land called Boylston's Neck, etc.

I have here unto set m hand and seal this 19th day of March, anno 1668.
The sign of Thomas Boylston
Signed

In the book Talbot County Maryland Land Records, by R. Bernice Leonard I found additional records:

19 March 1665/6, Thomas Bolton, planter, to William Lewis, planter- 450 acres "Boylton Neck" at the head of the Nanticoke River. Wit: Webb

20 July 1668 Francis Armstrong to Jeremiah Markcome -release of B/S Markcome passed to Thomas Boyleston and from Boyleston to Armstrong. Wit: Daniel Clarke Walter Dickinson.

7 Sept. 1666 Alexander Maxwell and Mary, his wife, to Henry Pratt, planter 100 acres "Maxby" on west side Coursey Creek adjoining the land laid out for William Hill, Wit: Thomas Bylston, William Taylor.

When looking at the original manuscripts, they are often hard to read. After viewing original manuscripts from the early PA area (now Delaware), I thanked the many people who took it upon themselves, the painstaking job, of putting these documents to print. When determining what records belong to our family, you can see by the above records that the name is often spelled differently, sometimes in the same record. It takes a lot of time and comparison to determine if a record is a Boylston/Boydston record. Names were often written as they sounded. In the translation from early record to print, some names were hard to read and some were misspelled.

Glady's Domonske did an excellent job researching the Boydston/Boydstun family and provides many records in her book. She concluded that we are the descendants of Thomas Boylston of Maryland and that he was not the Thomas Boylston from Boston who came in 1635.

In the book Bond's Genealogies and History of Watertown by Henry Bond, there is a Boylston geneology. It states that Henry Boylston of Lichfield England estate at Weston, Staffordshire had a son Thomas who died in 1648. The children of Thomas of London were; John, of Market Bosword, who had 19 children, Thomas who came to America in 1635 and settled in Watertown (now Boston), Edward unmarried, and Richard a clothier.

In this book on page 702 the name (Boidson) is in parenthesis as a variation of the name. On page 90, the names Boylson, Boyson, and Boalson are listed with this record as variations of the name or how the name is found in records. Glady's did not think we were related to this family because they did not use Boydston. The records I found indicate they did use both Boylston and Boydston(Boidson).

In the book The Great Migration Begins by Timothy Hawkins, another record of the Boylston family using Boydston is found:

On 1 April 1651 "William Clearke of Watertown, Weaver, sold to "Timothy Haukins of the same town, carpenter," thirty-five acres of upland, being the first lot in the third division of the Great Dividens, granted by the town to Thomas Arnold, sold by him to Thomas Boiddson, and by him to the said Clearke [MLR 1:22].

It is possible that Thomas Boylston of Maryland was the cousin of Thomas Boylston of Watertown.

In Gustine Weavers book, The Boydston Family, written in 1926 she wrote, "Three sons of Sir Mathew Boyd came to American in the 17th Century. They were Cornelius, Marmduke and Gustavius." She writes "Cornelius was the father or grandfather of Thomas Boyd who married Mahulda Box and he was the father of David Boylston/Boydston born 1710. So far this assumption hasn't fit into the fact that the Boydstons used the name Boydston, Boylston, Boidstone, and Boilstone. The above first names don't appear to have been passed down, and the time line for this assumption doesn't match. Glady Domonske goes into detail in her book about why this assumption is inaccurate.

Children of THOMAS BOYLSTON and MAHULDA BOX are:

	i.	JOHN³ BOYLSTON, b. 1678, Piney Ridge, Dorchester Co, MD; d. Unknown; m. .. HARRKNEY, 1698, Cecil, MD; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
2.	ii.	WILLIAM BOYLSTON, b. 1680, SEE NOTES b. Calvert Co, MD; d. 1761.\\\\
	iii.	ELIZABETH BOYLSTON, b. 1682, Piney Ridge, Dorchester Co, MD; d. Unknown; m. THOMAS CRUMP, 1703, Ann Arundel, MD; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
	iv.	DINAH BOYLSTON, b. 1684, Piney Ridge, Dorchester Co, MD; d. Unknown; m. JOHN BREWER, 1704, Ann Arnudel, mD; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
	v.	JILLION BOYLSTON, b. 1686, Piney Ridge, Dorchester Co, MD; d. Unknown; m. AMOS HARRISON, 1703, Talbot Co, MD; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
	vi.	GRACE BOYLSTON, b. 1688, Piney Ridge, Dorchester Co, MD; d. Unknown; m. JOHN MICHALL, 1704, Talbot Co, MD; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
	vii.	MARY BOYLSTON, b. 1690, Piney Ridge, Dorchester Co, MD; d. Unknown; m. JONATHAN MILLER, 1716, (or 1708??) Prince George Co, MD; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
	viii.	JOHN BOYLSTON, b. 1692; d. Unknown.
	ix.	JANE BOYLSTON, b. 1692, Piney Ridge, Dorchester Co, MD; d. Unknown; m. WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1716, Prince George Co, MD; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
	x.	THOMAS BOYLSTON III, b. 1695, Baltimore, MD; d. Unknown; m. SARAH KING, 1715, Talbot Co, MD; b. Bet. 1685 - 1695; d. Unknown.

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