David Boies362 was born 1689 in Northern Ireland362, and died 1752 in Blandford, Hampshire, MA362. He married Anne Huston on Bet. 1720 - 1747362.
Notes for David Boies: Thanks to P. W. Bateman. Site : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~batemanp/pilgrims/test0005.htm
The name Boies was originally du Bois or du Boyce. The family were Huguenots who, having been driven out of France by persecution for their faith, went to Scotland and England. During the strife and disorder of the Cromwellian period in England some members of the family left for Ireland. Finally some of the family went to America in the early part of the seventeenth century, establishing their homes in the New England Colonies. Deacon David Boies, was the progenitor of this branch of the Boies family He was born in 1689 and died in 1752. It appears quite certain that David Boies came from Northern Ireland, his birthplace probably having been County Antrim. Most traditions handed down through the years give Ulster as his place of birth. In 1982 very interesting information was discovered in a letter written by Jennie Vene Boise Smith dated Miami, Florida, July 15, 1924, which for the first time provides information that could be considered as fact. In this letter to a cousin in Cherry Valley, New York, she wrote, "Yesterday I received a letter from a genealogist in Lame, Ireland (whom Mrs. Smith later identifies as 'Miss Semple") who gives the name of the first Boies to come from France as Anthony DuBois who was born about the year 1590 in Bois le Duc. He came to Ireland, County Antrim, near Belfast, and married Frances Fulton, an English lady from Devonshire. Their son, William DuBois, married Elizabeth Graham of Ayrshire, Scotland. Their son, David, was our ancestor who married Annie Huston. These old people of Ireland know a great deal about their family history and take pains to pass it on down. Miss Semple says she finds no trouble at all in tracing the old families back... She knows several DuBois families who are descendants of Anthony DuBois and says that there is at present living in the old farm at King's Moss (co. Antrim), Robert DuBois and family, and she adds 'and a very good man he is.'" Miss Semple was known to other genealogists and historians in the United States. One was Charles K. Bolton who quoted from one of her letters in his Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America, in which she described Aghadowey in Co. Londonderry, saying that "throughout its length can be traced houses built by its first Scotch settlers." It was this same "Miss Mary Semple of Monthill, Lame, Co. Antrim" who assisted William Blair when he went to Londonderry in 1891to trace the Blair family from Scotland to Ireland, and connect them with the Blandford Blairs. Therefore, Miss Mary Semple should be considered as having been a most competent and reliable Irish researcher, and the evidence she found on the progenitors of David Boies may very well be accepted as factual. David Boies came to America in 1727, locating in Hopkinton, Mass., and later moved to Blandford Mass., of which latter town he was one of the earliest settlers. The official records of Blandford, Mass., of an early period make frequent reference to members of the Boies family as conspicuous in the affairs of the town wherein they held important places, legislative and executive, and were leaders among the people. They also show the important relations of these Boies ancestors to the church and the moral and material welfare of the community. David was a very pious man and on April 18, 1738, wrote a "Covenant with God", which for nearly 200 years has been treasured by his descendants as a precious memorial of his piety.
WILL OF DAVID BOIES In the Name of God Amen. The eighteenth Day of June in ye year of our Lord God 1750 I David Boies in Blandford in y County of Hamshier yeman being very frail and weakly in Body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be Given to God therefor Calling to mind ye Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die Do make and ordain this my Last will and testament that is to say Principally and first of all I Give and Recommend my Soul into the hands of God that Gave it and for my Body I Recomend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian Like and Decent manner at the Discreation of my Exacutor nothing Doubting but at the General Resarection I shall Recive y same again by the mighty Power of God and as touching such worldly Esteat as God hath Beene pleased to Bless me with in this Life I Give Bequeth and Dispose of y same in ye following manner and form imprimis - I Give and Bequeth unto anna my Dear and well Beloved Wife Sixty pounds Old Tenor and a Cow and all the Bedding and furnitur of my hous and also the East room of my Dwelling hous in Blandford and Convenience of the Seler while she lives I Give my well Beloved son David Boies my home place and one acre of that Loot I purchased of Ensign Adam Knox ye Two accres be Laid out along ye South Side of my home Loot from ye Street an along my home Loot until it Come to a Little Swamp I Give my son David also my Second Division Loot with all ye priveledges belonging to both first and second Divisions only ye East room of my Dwelling hous which I have Given to my Dear and well Beloved wife while she lives and then sd room to return to my son David I also Give and Bequeth unto my son David all that remains of my movable Esteat of evry sort and kind whatsoever I also order my son David to take care of his Dear mother and keep a Cow for her summer and winter and give her yearly and Every year twelve Bushals of meal as she needs it at her hous that is to Say eight Bushals of indian meal and four Bushals of Rye meal every year and also to provide fire wood for her Cut and ready at her Door and also to Lay in Sufficient of sauce for her and I order that she shall have part of the apples or syder every year this I order my son David to Do for and give unto my Dear wife in Lew of her thirds if she Look after any thirds of ye Esteat my son David is free from being obliged to provide and Do these things for my Dear wife befor mentioned item- I Give unto my well Beloved son John Boies Thirty Accres of land of that two hundred acres I purchased of Colnal Francis Brindle ye south side of sd Loot item- I Give unto my well Beloved son William Boies forty acres of said Loot which forty accres I order to be laid out next to my son John Thirty accres item- I Give unto my son Samuel Boies thirty accres of y above said Loot to be Laid out along side of his own hundred accres Likewis I Constitut make and ordain my son Samuel my only and Sole Exacuter of this my Last will and testament to take care of his mother my Dear and well Beloved wife that she be not wronged of what I have left her and to see that She Suffer not for Lacke of anything I have Left her I Likewis order if there by any monney Left after all is cleared off that it be equaly Devided between my Dear wife and my Children; and I do hereby utterly Disanul all and other every former Testament will and Legasies and Exaucutor ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last will and Testament in virtue whereof I have hereunto sate my hand and Seal the Day and year above writen Signed and Sealed in presence of witnesses my son Samuel Boies is to have that Lot of Land I purchased from Ensine Adam Knox now for his possession (Excepting yt acre and Three Quarters above men-tioned) my son Samuel paying the sixty Pounds old Tenor that I laid out for him the alteration made or the interlining with Respect to the acre and three quarters was made before signing further I Bequeth to my son Willm Boies Ten acres of Land to be Laid out with the forty above mentioned and to be taken from the Thirty acres of Land which I gave to my son Samuel Boies signed sealed (illegible) In presence of us:
James Morton James Montgomery s/ David Boies John Hamilton[ceily22.FTW]
Thanks to P. W. Bateman. Site : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~batemanp/pilgrims/test0005.htm
The name Boies was originally du Bois or du Boyce. The family were Huguenots who, having been driven out of France by persecution for their faith, went to Scotland and England. During the strife and disorder of the Cromwellian period in England some members of the family left for Ireland. Finally some of the family went to America in the early part of the seventeenth century, establishing their homes in the New England Colonies. Deacon David Boies, was the progenitor of this branch of the Boies family He was born in 1689 and died in 1752. It appears quite certain that David Boies came from Northern Ireland, his birthplace probably having been County Antrim. Most traditions handed down through the years give Ulster as his place of birth. In 1982 very interesting information was discovered in a letter written by Jennie Vene Boise Smith dated Miami, Florida, July 15, 1924, which for the first time provides information that could be considered as fact. In this letter to a cousin in Cherry Valley, New York, she wrote, "Yesterday I received a letter from a genealogist in Lame, Ireland (whom Mrs. Smith later identifies as 'Miss Semple") who gives the name of the first Boies to come from France as Anthony DuBois who was born about the year 1590 in Bois le Duc. He came to Ireland, County Antrim, near Belfast, and married Frances Fulton, an English lady from Devonshire. Their son, William DuBois, married Elizabeth Graham of Ayrshire, Scotland. Their son, David, was our ancestor who married Annie Huston. These old people of Ireland know a great deal about their family history and take pains to pass it on down. Miss Semple says she finds no trouble at all in tracing the old families back... She knows several DuBois families who are descendants of Anthony DuBois and says that there is at present living in the old farm at King's Moss (co. Antrim), Robert DuBois and family, and she adds 'and a very good man he is.'" Miss Semple was known to other genealogists and historians in the United States. One was Charles K. Bolton who quoted from one of her letters in his Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America, in which she described Aghadowey in Co. Londonderry, saying that "throughout its length can be traced houses built by its first Scotch settlers." It was this same "Miss Mary Semple of Monthill, Lame, Co. Antrim" who assisted William Blair when he went to Londonderry in 1891to trace the Blair family from Scotland to Ireland, and connect them with the Blandford Blairs. Therefore, Miss Mary Semple should be considered as having been a most competent and reliable Irish researcher, and the evidence she found on the progenitors of David Boies may very well be accepted as factual. David Boies came to America in 1727, locating in Hopkinton, Mass., and later moved to Blandford Mass., of which latter town he was one of the earliest settlers. The official records of Blandford, Mass., of an early period make frequent reference to members of the Boies family as conspicuous in the affairs of the town wherein they held important places, legislative and executive, and were leaders among the people. They also show the important relations of these Boies ancestors to the church and the moral and material welfare of the community. David was a very pious man and on April 18, 1738, wrote a "Covenant with God", which for nearly 200 years has been treasured by his descendants as a precious memorial of his piety.
WILL OF DAVID BOIES In the Name of God Amen. The eighteenth Day of June in ye year of our Lord God 1750 I David Boies in Blandford in y County of Hamshier yeman being very frail and weakly in Body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be Given to God therefor Calling to mind ye Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die Do make and ordain this my Last will and testament that is to say Principally and first of all I Give and Recommend my Soul into the hands of God that Gave it and for my Body I Recomend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian Like and Decent manner at the Discreation of my Exacutor nothing Doubting but at the General Resarection I shall Recive y same again by the mighty Power of God and as touching such worldly Esteat as God hath Beene pleased to Bless me with in this Life I Give Bequeth and Dispose of y same in ye following manner and form imprimis - I Give and Bequeth unto anna my Dear and well Beloved Wife Sixty pounds Old Tenor and a Cow and all the Bedding and furnitur of my hous and also the East room of my Dwelling hous in Blandford and Convenience of the Seler while she lives I Give my well Beloved son David Boies my home place and one acre of that Loot I purchased of Ensign Adam Knox ye Two accres be Laid out along ye South Side of my home Loot from ye Street an along my home Loot until it Come to a Little Swamp I Give my son David also my Second Division Loot with all ye priveledges belonging to both first and second Divisions only ye East room of my Dwelling hous which I have Given to my Dear and well Beloved wife while she lives and then sd room to return to my son David I also Give and Bequeth unto my son David all that remains of my movable Esteat of evry sort and kind whatsoever I also order my son David to take care of his Dear mother and keep a Cow for her summer and winter and give her yearly and Every year twelve Bushals of meal as she needs it at her hous that is to Say eight Bushals of indian meal and four Bushals of Rye meal every year and also to provide fire wood for her Cut and ready at her Door and also to Lay in Sufficient of sauce for her and I order that she shall have part of the apples or syder every year this I order my son David to Do for and give unto my Dear wife in Lew of her thirds if she Look after any thirds of ye Esteat my son David is free from being obliged to provide and Do these things for my Dear wife befor mentioned item- I Give unto my well Beloved son John Boies Thirty Accres of land of that two hundred acres I purchased of Colnal Francis Brindle ye south side of sd Loot item- I Give unto my well Beloved son William Boies forty acres of said Loot which forty accres I order to be laid out next to my son John Thirty accres item- I Give unto my son Samuel Boies thirty accres of y above said Loot to be Laid out along side of his own hundred accres Likewis I Constitut make and ordain my son Samuel my only and Sole Exacuter of this my Last will and testament to take care of his mother my Dear and well Beloved wife that she be not wronged of what I have left her and to see that She Suffer not for Lacke of anything I have Left her I Likewis order if there by any monney Left after all is cleared off that it be equaly Devided between my Dear wife and my Children; and I do hereby utterly Disanul all and other every former Testament will and Legasies and Exaucutor ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last will and Testament in virtue whereof I have hereunto sate my hand and Seal the Day and year above writen Signed and Sealed in presence of witnesses my son Samuel Boies is to have that Lot of Land I purchased from Ensine Adam Knox now for his possession (Excepting yt acre and Three Quarters above men-tioned) my son Samuel paying the sixty Pounds old Tenor that I laid out for him the alteration made or the interlining with Respect to the acre and three quarters was made before signing further I Bequeth to my son Willm Boies Ten acres of Land to be Laid out with the forty above mentioned and to be taken from the Thirty acres of Land which I gave to my son Samuel Boies signed sealed (illegible) In presence of us:
James Morton James Montgomery s/ David Boies John Hamilton
More About David Boies: Record Change: 12 August 2004
More About David Boies and Anne Huston: Marriage: Bet. 1720 - 1747362
David Boies (b. 1689, d. 1752)
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