Person talk:John Bouton (5)

Lots of Genealogical Flim-Flam and Corresponding Rebuttal on His Person Page [29 August 2015]

Moved it to the talk page for the curious to review. Starting over on the person page. Note than almost nothing is known about this man.--jaques1724 00:31, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Possibly the son of Count Nicholas Boughton (or Bouton); and a Huguenot who fled to England where the Government offered to send emigrants to America on the condition they would swear allegiance to the Crown of England. A registry of such emigrants was kept at London, and only one person by the name Bouton is found on that registry, embracing a period of 100 years from 1600 to 1700. It is supposed that said person was the John Bouton, who embarked from Gravesend, England in the Barque ASSURANCE on July 1635 and landed at Boston, MA in December 1635.

See also: http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cofairfield/pages/norwalk/norwalkgr.htm#1 (scroll down to /2/ The Genealogical Registry of Norwalk)

From: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bbessac&id=I4319 : NOTE: This web page also contains inaccurate information.--jaques1724 00:31, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

From "Ancestry and Descendants of Henry Perkins Smith and Christiana (Long) Smith - with added data of Henry's brothers and their families and of Henry's father's and mother's brothers and sisters and their families" compiled by Georgina (Hathaway) Randall - 1958 beginning of page 104: A "Jo Bowton" sailed of the Assurance from the Thames River in England in 1635 to Boston Harbor in New England, according to Hotton's list for July 24, 1635. This may have been this John Bouton. He was a single man at the time, age 20 years. He did not become of record in Boston as he seems to have left there soon for the new settlement on the Connecticut River, then called Newton, later named Hartford. He died there less than nine years after his arrival. He does not seem to have had a prominent part in anything of a public nature and was not one of the original founders who divided the land of Hartford among themselves in 1639. He is not even of direct record in Hartford, which is probably because he was occupied in the service of someone else.

It is highly probable that he was associated in Hartford with Nathaniel Kellogg, who was the uncle of Daniel Kellogg who married John Bouton's daughter Bridget. It is not known whether or not they came from Boston together or whether Nathaniel may have come from England shortly before or soon after John. It is however fairly clear that John married Alice Kellogg about 1636 / 7.

References on Bouton: Information on this family is very badly confused and many erroneous statements have been made and are still being made as to John, his antecedents, and his descendants. The record given here is based upon information in the following sources: Jacobus: History and Genealogy of Families in Old Fairfield, part 1, page 94 American Genealogist, 11:118 Hoppin's The Washington Ancestry, vol 3, page 489 et seq. Thom's Ancestry of Margaret and William J. Thom (many pages) Brent Schottman brentschottman@@home.com Ancestry and Descendants of Henry Perkins Smith and Christiana (Long) Smith "Ancestry and Descendants of Henry Perkins Smith and Christiana (Long) Smith - with added data of Henry's brothers and their families and of Henry's father's and mother's brothers and sisters and their families" compiled by Georgina (Hathaway) Randall - 1958 Page 104

[Stamford, CT Families (1641-1935).GED by Barbara Kaye] This John Bouton was probably born in England and was not the son of a French count, as suggested by James Boughton in his book "Bouton-Boughton Family." He was also not the John Bouton who went to Norwalk, CT, as stated in the above-metioned book. His son, John Bouton II, was a founding father of Norwalk. Refer to an explanation found in "The Washington Ancestry & 40 American Colonial Families" by McLain Johnson--page 489.

3 [16849.GED] John Bouton was born between 1610 and 1615 in England. He married Alice Kellogg?, certainly no later than 1639, probably in Hartford, Hartford County, CT. He died before 1647 in CT; the exact date or place of his death is unknown. The James Bouton: Bouton-Boughton Family genealogy of 1890 is filled with errors. William Marvin in NEHGR 1897 (51:330-4) critiques the above with full references. Many early writers confused the immigrant John Bouton with his son John who settled at Norwalk. A frequently mentioned ancestry for John Bouton is that he was the son of Count Nicholas Bouton, a French Hugenot. The Hugenots, along with the Puritans, fled the religious persecution on the Continent. T. R. Marvin believed it was just as likely that he was a relative of John Bowghton of Colchester, Essex, who was summoned before the Vicar-General on 2 March 1527 (See Annals of Non-Conformity in Essex by Rev. T. W. Davids, London 1863 and Strype, Ecc. Mem., 1:119). John arrived in Boston late in the year 1635, single, according to the Hickok genealogy. He left Boston at once, residing at Watertown MA (Hicks, Torrey) and at Newtown (later called Hartford, on the Connecticut River. He was too young to be an important man in this migration to Hartford, and as he died relatively young, he took no prominent part in anything of a public nature. Hickok says John was serviced to another, doubtless associated with Nathaniel Kellogg, and may have arrived at Hartford in November 1635 with Matthew Marvin Senior, who arrived at Boston on the "Increase" in June 1636. Some sources err in saying he went to Norwalk CT in 1651, but it was his son John who was at Norwalk, because widow Alice had already remarried by that time and was residing at Norwalk. The name of John Bouton (Bowton), age 20, appears 76th on the list of 174 male and 40 female passengers who embarked 24 July 1635 on the "Assurance" of London, Isaac Bromwell and George Pewsie, Master, A Jo. Bowton, aged 20, embarked to be transported to Virginia. They had been examined by the Minister of the Towne of Gravesend of their conformitie in religion, and the men had taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacie.