Person:John Boynton (9)

Estate of John Boynton of Rowley

"I John Boynton of Rowley being weeake of body but of Competent vnderstanding and memory doe make and ordaine this my last will and Testament In primis I will and bequeath my soule into the hand of allmighty god that gave it and my body to the earth in hope of a blesed Resurection And as for my outward estate that god hath giuen me I will and dispose as followeth first I will and bequeath vnto my welbeloued wife Ellen boynton my house and orchard and barne and house lot with all the land aboue it being all estemated sixe Acres with one third part of my meadow beyond hounslay hill one acre of marsh at the oyster poynt and one acre of marsh at the farme or northeast feild and also two Rod in bredth of on the orchard that I bought of my Brother william boynton on that side next to my orchard from the street to Ipswich field and two gates on the Commons and this I giue hir during hir naturall life also I will and giue hir all my stocke and moueables that I doe not dispose of to be at hir will and despose (if she need it not for hir comforthable mantenance) vnto all or any of my Children as she shall thinke most Convenient As for my son Joseph Boynton I will and giue vnto him besides what he hath all Redy my Rough marsh my gate marsh at hogg Iland and the highway marsh in the same hog Iland marsh and my vpland in the farme and two acres of gate land beyond hounslay hill and one gate on the commons As for my son Calleb boynton I will and giue him all the land that I bought of my brother william boynton excepting the two Rod below the street that I haue given to my wife also one third part of my meadow beyond hounslay hill and out of this I giue him I will that he pay vnto my daughter Hannah as hir portion twenty pounds at the day of hir marriage or when she cometh to the age of twenty yeares as for my son Samuell Boynton I will and giue vnto him my land at Batcheler feild and swampe by it also all my land at new plaine and one third part of my meadow beyond hounslay hill and two acres of salt marsh by the Riuer side and I will that out of this that I doe giue vnto him he pay twenty pounds as a portion vnto my daughter Sara when he attaines vnto age to Receaue this that I giue vnto him as his portion John to haue the improuement till then

"As for my son John Boynton I will and giue vnto him my house orchard barne and all the land and meadow and gates that I haue giuen vnto my wife dureing hir naturall life to be his portion after his mothers decease also I doe further will and giue vnto him in hand as in Consideration of his service in helpeing of me since he was at age two heifers one gate on the commons and the mare and I will that out of what he hath and is to Receaue he pay twenty pounds as a portion vnto my daughter Mercy that now is married Also my will is that for my wifes more Comforthable Subsistance that my son John Boynton doe enter vpon the land I haue giuen vnto my wife prouided that he pay vnto his mother yearely during hir life forty shillings in Corne or to his mothers Content and that she haue halfe of the house for hir owne use and that he keepe hir one Cow sumer and wenter and fire wood what she shall spend to prouide Redy and laid at the doore and to let hir haue the use freely as hir owne of the trees that grow on the two Rod of the orchard that was my Brothers dureing hir life or else to pay hir three pounds ║yearly║ to hir Content which she shall chuse Also my will is that my son John Boynton be excequtor vnto this my last will and testament Unto which I set to my hand and sealle this Eighth of ffebruary 1670 it is also my will That if any of these my sons to whom I haue giuen my lands be minded to sell ther land or any part of it that they doe first offer it to some other of ther brothers that they may haue the Refusull of it before it be sould to any other out of the famelly."

John (his J b mark) Boynton.

Witness: Maxemillion Jewett, Samuell Brocklebanke, William Boynton. Proved in Ipswich court Mar. 28, 1671 by Lt. Samuell Brocklebanke and Wm. Boynton.

Inventory taken Feb. 27, 1670, by Maxemillion Jewet, Samuell Brocklebanke, William Boynton and Gorge Kilborne: … total 233li. 13s. Debts due from the estate, 14 li.

Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 28, 1671 by John Boynton, executor.

Essex County Probate Files, Docket 2957."^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} 22. John¹ Boynton, in Jewett, Amos Everett, [Editor], and George Brainard [Compiler] Blodgette. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts: A Genealogical Record of the Families who Settled in Rowley before 1700 with Several Generations of their Descendants. (Rowley, Mass.: Amos Everett Jewett (Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Mass.), 1933)
   26.

   "22. John¹ Boynton, "tailor," had an acre and half house lot on Bradford Street, next to his brother William's lot, 1643. He married Ellen or Ellenor Pell. … He was about 48 years old, 1662, and was buried 18 Feb., 1670-1. His will, dated 8 Feb., 1670, mentions wife, Ellen; brother William, sons Joseph, Caleb, Samuel, and John who has the homestead; daughters Mercy, Hannah and Sarah (Essex Probate)."

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
   2:214-16.
3. ↑ Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1928-1931)
   1:443.

   BOYNTON, John [sr. (court record, Essex Co. Quarterly Court)], bur. Feb. 18 1670.