When Sarah Boynton was born on 12 July 1753, in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Joshua Boynton III, was 37 and her mother, Martha Stickney, was 38. She died on 31 August 1778, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 25.
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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.
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