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About James "the Younger" Boutwell
Family
Married Alice Lyng. They had 4 children: Sarah Thompson, John Boutwell, Deborah Boutwell and James Boutwell.
Origins
Will of Robert White - May 27, 1617
- Item I give and bequeath unto Jeames Bowtell the younger, son of my saiddaughter Sarah Bowtell, the summe of five pounds of good and lawfull mony ofEngland, to be paid unto him when he shall come to ye sixteenth yeare of hisage.
Biography
http://richardpyoung.org/getperson.php?personID=I1802&tree=young01
PLEASE NOTE: This is not the James Boutwell that was born in Shalford, Essex, England in 1616/1617. That James Boutwell remained in Shalford, married Elizabeth had 7 children between 1640 and 1662 and died in Shalford in 1685. K84T-QDX is his current ID.
Life Sketch
Please note that the family name is found in records with the following spellings: Boutwell, Boutell, Boutelle, Boutall and Bowtell (other spellings may exist).
From the notes of Donald Erlenkotter: "James came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s. Farmer and Savage both have him as of "Salem and Lynn," but aside from the probate of his will, no records have been found for him at Salem [Farm, Sav]. Alonzo Lewis, in his History of Lynn, placed James at Lynn in 1636 in the first edition of 1829, but in the second edition, published in 1844, listed him among those new inhabitants appearing about 1635 [Lew]. Savage also gives the year 1635 for James' appearance at Salem and Lynn [Sav]. Both Farmer and Lewis erroneously give the name of James' oldest surviving son as "Samuel" instead of "James." The identification of James Bowtell of Salem and Lynn with the man of this name who was at Trumpington, Cambridgeshire is based on the close match between their families. Each had a wife names Alice, and children names James and Sarah [Bou14]. There is no record of the James at Trumpington after 1635 in the parish records there (which now are preserved only in Bishop's transcripts). Then, at just about this time, James and his family appeared in New England. It seems highly unlikely that two such families existed simultaneously with no overlapping of records. The identification of Alice (Ling) Bowtell with the Alice who was baptized at Horseheath, Cambridgeshire is suggested by the proximity of Horseheath to Trumpington: the two parishes are separated by less than fifteen miles. The parish records of Horseheath give the marriage of John Lyng and Ann Whiskin on 1 Nov 1603, the burial of Anna Ling on 29 Sep 1631, and the burial of John Ling on 4 Oct 1631. The almost simultaneous death of Alice's parents very likely could have influenced her decision to marry within a few months. Also, the second (surviving) son of James and Alice Bowtell was named John, and a commo n practice was for the second son to be named after the wife's father. If James came to Lynn in 1635 or 1636, he was there when the town was known by its original name of Saugus. The name of Lynn was adopted at a meeting of the General Court on 20 Nov 1637 [MABay]. He probably was at Lynn by 1637 because in that year Daniel Howe, Richard Walker, and Henry Collins were chosen in a town meeting as a committee to divide the lands; or, as it was expressed in the record, "to lay out farms" in Lynn [Lew]. James received 60 acres in the division of lands at Lynn in 1638/9 [EsQC, Lew]; as described below, it appears that his land was in the present town of Lynnfield. James' grant of land in Lynn was adjacent to that of Nicholas Potter, and was sold prior to 1644 to Samuel Bennett of Lynn, who then sold it to Nicholas Potter on 25: 1st mo 1644 [25 Mar 1644]. Identification of this land is given in an indenture between Nicholas Potter of Lynn and Thomas Welman and John Knight of Lynn dated the 17th day of the 12th month, 1653 [17 Feb 1653/4] and recorded on the 10th day of the 6th month, 1670 [10 Aug 1670], in which "ye said Nicholas with ye consent of his wife, for & in consideration of ye sume of twenty six pounds sterling" sold land with the following description [Essex Deeds, Books 3, p. 286]: two three score acre lotts, joyninge together, one of ym lately in ye tenure of ye sd Nicholas Potter & other in ye late tenure of James Boutwell, bounded sotherly with ye farme of Goodman Talmage, & three acres of marsh lately belonging unto ye aforsd Nicholas Potter, & easterly with ye comon, westerly with ye river yt cometh out of Stones meddow, & northerly with ye land of ye sd Thomas Wellman and John Knight, & alsoe three acres of medow lately in ye tenure of ye sd Nicholas Potter, adjoining to ye aforesd purchased land on ye south . . This indenture was acknowledged by Nicholas Potter on 27:5 mo 1670 [27 Jul 1670]. A record of the sale of this land to Samuel Bennett has n ot been found; the sale probably took place before the establishment of counties in 1643. However, further information about the property is given in the record of the transaction between Bennett and Nicholas Potter, recorded on 2 Sep 1654 [Essex Deeds, Book 1, p. 25]: Samuel Bennett of Lyn in Essex County carpenter sold unto Nicholas Potter of Lyn, bricklayer, sixty acres of land lying northwards from Adams Hauks his farme adjoyning to the land of the said Nicholas Potter dated 25:1st mo 1644.
--- on FamilySearch 7 Oct 2017
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James "the Younger" Boutwell's Timeline
| 1616 |
February 25, 1616
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Shalford, Essex, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1635 |
January 18, 1635
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Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1640 |
1640
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Wales, United Kingdom
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| 1642 |
1642
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Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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| 1645 |
February 26, 1645
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Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1649 |
1649
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Salem, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
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| 1651 |
September 26, 1651
Age 35
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Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British North America
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