Mathew Boyce of Rowley & Leeds

• probably the of son 'Jo. Boyes, the townend'; this prospective father...John Boyes married at Leeds 5 December 1603 Grace Moxom [Registers of the Parish Church of Leeds, Publications of the Thoresby Society, 1:262, 282; also NEHGR 60:385].

• returned to England having first emigrated to Mass. colony
• evidently then travelled back to Massachusetts somewhat later on and spent final years in Rowley.

1) http://www.greatmigration.org/newsletter/pdf/gmn_v18_03.pdf " Mathew Boyse and unnamed wife joined the Roxburychurch in early 1638 (#176, 177) [GMN 6:25]. A 14 January 1661 deposition after his return to England calls him:“Mathew Boyes of Leeds, Yorkshire, aged about fiftyyears” [EQC 3:235]. This is compatible with the baptism 15 December 1611 at St. Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, of Mathew son of Jo. Boyes, the townend; John Boyes married at Leeds 5 December 1603 Grace Moxom [Registers of the Parish Church of Leeds, Publications of the Thoresby Society,1:262, 282; also NEHGR 60:385]. [This corrects the erroneousorigin given by me in GMN 6:25.] A marriage license was issued in 1638 to Matthew Boyes, clothier of Leeds, and Mary Gleadston, spinster, 22, of All Saints, Pavement, to be married there [Paver%E2%80%99s, 127]; Mathew Boyes and Mary Gleadston married at All Saints, Pavement, York, 15 September 1638 [YPRS 100:91]. It is not clear how, but Mathew was a cousin of Rev. Elkanah Wales of Pudsey (near Leeds), not son-in-law as stated in Moore, 84–85 (Elkanah had no children [Wales%E2%80%99 1669 will, transcribed in John Redington of Topsfield (1909), 43–47]). "