Lucretia Bonython

Biography

From “Pomeroy Twigs: Boynthon” < link >

Lucretia Leigh, born on 4 August 1584, in St Stephens by Launceston, Cornwall, England, her father, William Leigh, age 21 and his wife Phillipa Prest Prust, age 17.

Married 3 April 1580, in St Columb Major, Cornwall, tey were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters.

She died on 6 April 1646, in Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 61.

their children were

1. Grace (baptised 1610 at St Breage's Church, Breage),
2. Elizabeth;
3. Susannah (baptised February 1614).

Another source lists his children as John, Thomas, Gabriel, Thomas, Winifred & Eleanor.

The truth may be that these may all have been his children - certainly John; Elizabeth & Eleanor can be accounted for.

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire
page 99
‡capt. Richard,patentee of what is now Saco and Old Orchard, s. of John Bonython and Elinor, d. of Wm. Myleinton. Although his father inherited the manor of Bonython in the parish of Cury, almost at Land's End, Richard was b. at the maternal est. in St. Columb Major on the Cornish north coast, bp. 3 Apr. 1580. As a younger son he was trained to arms and commanded a company in the wars with France. The Lewis and Bonython patent, 4 × 8 miles, was like several others except that it was taken more seriously. Mr. Lewis had been over before it was granted, came over with it and remained in charge here, while Capt. Bonython remained behind to send over the 50 people whom they were to send within seven yrs. Nothing indicates his earlier arrival here except that his house was ready for the first court held in the Province, 25 Mar. 1636, when William Gorges appar. gave place to him in the center of bench. See Doc. Hist. iii. 92, 96. P. & C. i. passim. Folsom's ‘Saco’ does full credit to his character and conduct under difficult circumstances. He sat in the court held 6 July 1646 after Mr. Vines left the country, and 14 July 1647 he exch. lands with Dr. Robert Child for a lot for his dau. Elizabeth on the other side of the river. He may not have d. here, and may have taken John with him, but cert. he was dead or away by 1654, when John was pulling down the buildings of his brothers-in-law. His grs., a child, Thomas Cummings, is termed ‘executor to Capt. Richard Bonython,’ but the will has not been found. Lists 235, 241, 242, 281. He m. Lucretia Leigh, d. of Wm. and Phillippa (Prest) of St. Thomas-by-Launceston. Living 1647. The bap. of their ch. are rec. in the parish of St. Breage: Grace, bp. Apr. 1610. Elizabeth, bp. Sep. 161-. List 235. M. ab. 1647 Richard Cummings(3). Susannah, bp. Feb. 1614, m. Richard Foxwell