Isaac Boston, III

Isaac Boston, Jr., eldest son of Isaac and Rachel (Tomlinson) Boston, was born in Somerset Co., Md., probably at Morumsco, about 1728; he died, possibly in Somerset Co., not long after Apr. 1765

He appears in the Somerset Co., tax lists in his father's household in Pocomoke Hundred 1744-48, then from 1750 to 1758 as head of his own household, also in Pocomoke Hundred. With him in 1750 was his brother Samuel. In 1754-56 he owned one negro.

In 1750 a warrant was issued to arrest George Laws if he should appear to be produced at court the third Tuesday of Nov. to answer to Isaac Boston, Jr., to whom Laws owed £4.6.4. It was subsequently ordered that Samuel Boston recover against Isaac Boston 72 pounds of tobacco for attendance on behalf of Isaac against Laws (Som. Jud. Rec. 1749/51, pp. 227, 238).

On 13 Jan. 1756, for £19.16.8, Isaac, described as "planter," sold to Samuel Adams 19 2/3 acres, part of a tract originally called "Sayward's Purchase," now called "Boston's Purchase," one dividing line marked by a white oak with "stands on the Island commonly called the Great Island and to the Eastward of the foot path that leads from the said Samuel Addams to Easaw Boston through the afd. Great Island" (Som. Deeds 23:114). Later, on 6 July 1756 Isaac mortgaged to Thomas Marshall, for £100, three parcels of land: 181 acres of "Sayward's Purchase" on the eastern side of Morumsco Creek, which "came to him by descent of Isaac Boston his late father," also a 25 acre tract called "Boston's Green," and a 47 acre tract called "Vacancy," together with "1 negro Jeffrey, 2 yoke of oxen, 1 cow, 2 heifers, 1 young steer, all marked with a crop in the left year and one year bit in the right and now in the present dwelling plantation of sd. Isaac" (Som. Deeds 22:134). The money was to be "Virginia currency in Spanish whole gold" at 6% interest until 26 July 1757. On 6 July 1757 Isaac deeded this land to Thomas Marshall, along with the salve, and cattle "marked with a cross in the left ear and under bitt to the right." On 7 July Isaac's mother, Rachel, for £21, released to Thomas Marshall her dower right in the third part of the land; Thomas Ballard and David Boston were witnesses (Som. Deeds 28:181, 182).

Ten days later, on 16 July 1757, Isaac secured a new grant from Lord Baltimore of "Boston's Chance," actually a resurvey of "Seward's Purchase" on the south side of Morumsco Creek near Boston's Upper Landing between said Isaac and Esau Boston, a tract of 260 1/2 acres (Md. Land Office, Liber BC & GS No. 7, p. 388).

In the March court of 1757 it was ordered that Ezekiel Mathews appear to answer to Isaac Boston for £27 current money of Virginia of value of £40 of Maryland "which to him he owes and unjustly detains," on a not of account of 3 Oct. 1756 (Som. Jud. Rec. 1754/57, p. 257). In Mar. 1764 a court order was issued to the sheriff to "take and keep" William Wilson, son of George, planter, to answer to Isaac Boston. The case was postponed, and finally at the March Court, 1765, Isaac voluntarily suffered his suit to be discontinued (Som. Jud. Rec. 1763/67, p. 172). At the same time (Mar. 1765) Isaac presented to the court a petition to be granted a commission to survey the bounds of his tract "Boston's Purchase," and the commission was appointed, consisting of Sampson Wheatley, Planner Williams, and Isaac Coulbourn.

The next month, 15 Apr. 1765, Isaac Boston, now described as "Mariner," for £200, deeded to Kellum Langford 350 acres of land on the "North side of Pocomoke Bay and on the West Side of a Creek of the said Bay and on the West Side of a Creek of the said Bay called Murrumsco Creek between the lands of Thomas White and Prior" known as "Boston's Purchase," which had been patented to Isaac's father, Isaac the Elder, which he by will did among other things give and devise and bequeath unto his two sons David and Samuel Boston and whereas the said David and Samuel Boston died intestate and without issue" the land thus descended to Isaac the Younger as elder brother and heir at law (Som. Deeds 24:251). This was evidently the last of his father's land. There is no evidence that Isaac was married or had children, certainly not the children assigned originally to him.

Wise, Matthew M. The Boston Family of Maryland,. 2nd ed. p. 21.