21-4. Joshua2 Boynton (William), 'carpenter,' born 10 : 6 mo. 1646; married in Newbury, 9 Apr., 1678, Hannah Barnet or Burnet.* … He married (2) 29 Nov., 1725, Mary, widow of Richard Syle, the schoolmaster. … He married (3) in Haverhill, 30 Oct., 1727, Mary, widow of John Boynton. By deed, dated 7 Jan., 1673, his father conveys to him that land 'I bought of Mr. John Clarke, that is lyeing and being in the Towneship of Newbury, in the neck of land sometimes called Steere Common, as it lyeth bounded, on the westerly end, by land of Mr. Henry Sewalls, the southerly side bounded by land of Mr. Richard Dumers from the smith corner tree, that parts it and Mr Sewalls land and Mr Dummers, runing on a straight line easterly to a bound at the head of a creeke, and then that creeke being the bounds of it, vnto the River, on all parts elce bounded by the River.' (Essex Deeds, 3 Ips.: 342). On this farm he lived more than fifty years. He was of Rowley, 1725, of Bradford, 1729, and of Haverhill, 1733. In a deed to his son William, dated 10 Feb., 1728-9, he says he was a soldier under Major Appleton in the 'warrs at Narragansett' (Essex Deeds, 92:275). His will, dated 20 Dec., 1729, proved 12 Nov., 1736, mentions all the children … (Essex Probate, 320:315).
*The record of his marriage to Sarah Browne, Apr. 1678, was probably a mistake of the clerk, duly corrected by the after entry as above. See original record in Newbury."
