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Mary Boydston (Pruitt)

Also Known As: "Boydstun / Pruitt"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Frederick, Maryland
Death: May 22, 1809 (67)
Frederick, MD, United States
Place of Burial: Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky, United States of America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Samuel Walker Pruitt, Sr. and Elizabeth Pruitt
Wife of James Boydston
Mother of Priscilla Cecil; James Boydston, Jr.; Pvt. Samuel Boydston; William Boydston; John B. Boydston and 3 others
Sister of Samuel Pruitt, II; John Abraham Pruitt; Mourning Webb and David Pruitt

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About Mary Boydston

From http://bradboydston.blogspot.com/p/boydston-clan.html

This genealogy appeared on the Chattanoogan.com website, without attribution, August 2000. A version of it appears in an article on the Hamilton County Tennessee Genealogical Society site and can be found here. It is attributed to John Wilson, 14 February 1993.

William Boydston, was born in 1680 at Eastern Shore, Maryland. He married Sabra Polke in 1705. Their son, David Boydston, was born in 1710 and married Mahala Snow, then Sarah Pruitt.

A son, James, was born in Maryland in 1738. He married Mary Pruitt, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Hawker Pruitt, in 1757.

Their children were

  1. Mahulda who married Thomas Hill,
  2. James Jr. who married Sarah Alvis,
  3. Samuel who married Sarah Reed,
  4. John who married Nancy Ann Gardner,
  5. William and
  6. Sarah who married John Stringfield.

The second wife of James Boydston was Tabitha Smith.

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Mary Boydston's Timeline

1742
January 21, 1742
Frederick, Maryland
1759
April 22, 1759
Frederick County, Maryland
1760
1760
Maryland, Colonial America
1762
March 15, 1762
Frederick County, Maryland
1764
1764
Frederick Co., MD
1764
Frederick County, Maryland
1768
1768
North Carolina
1774
1774
Virginia, USA
1809
May 22, 1809
Age 67
Frederick, MD, United States