When Reverand William Thurston Boutwell was born on 3 February 1803, in Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Nehemiah Boutwell, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Cleaves Jones, was 26. He married Hester Crooks on 11 September 1833, in Chippewa, Michigan Territory, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Stillwater, Washington, Minnesota Territory, United States in 1850. He died on 10 October 1890, in Stillwater, Washington, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Boutwell Cemetery, Stillwater Township, Washington, Minnesota, United States.