When Joshua Boynton Sr. was born on 10 August 1646, in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William Boynton III, was 41 and his mother, Elizabeth Jackson, was 41. He married Hannah Burnap on 9 April 1678, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 12 November 1736, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 90, and was buried in Byfield, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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English: habitational name from a place in East Yorkshire named Boynton, from the Old English personal name Bōfa + the connective particle -ing- denoting association + tūn ‘settlement’. Alternatively, the name may have arisen from Boyton in Wiltshire (recorded in Domesday Book as Boientone) or from Boyington Court in Kent (recorded in 1207 as Bointon), both of which are named with the Old English personal name Boia + tūn ‘settlement’.
History: John Boynton emigrated from England to Salem, MA, 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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