Boynton, William F. (1780-1835)

Name:

Boynton, William F. (1780-1835)

Other Names:

Boynton, William Farwell

Born:

06/01/1780

Birthplace:

Pepperell, MA

Died:

09/27/1835

Death Location:

Nashua, NH

Residence:

Dunstable (Nashua), NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Tavernkeeper, Nashua, NH

Father:

Boynton, Joseph

Mother:

Tarbell, Sarah

Relations:

Son-in-law of Rev. Joseph Kidder of Nashua

Spouse:

Married Sarah Kidder (1777-1831), 1806

Children:

Boynton, Caroline (b.1807; unmarried)
Boynton, William (d. at Indiana)
Boynton, Sarah (b.1809; unmarried)
Boynton, Mary White (b.1811)
Boynton, Elizabeth (unmarried)

Notes:

From accession 1922.2: Given in memory of Silas Gibson, the donor's father, who was "for many years a resident of Nashua, New Hampshire". According to the donors, the "lowboy was used before it came into our father's possession --by the Rev. Mr. Kidder one of the first ministers of Nashua." The Rev. Joseph Kidder (1741-1818), born in Billerica, MA, settled in Dunstable (now Nashua), NH in 1766. The following year he married Mary (White) Badger (1738-1835) of Haverhill, MA.

Silas Gibson (1802-1895), the donor's father operated a tavern in Nashua, opposite Kidder's former residence. One of the previous operators of the tavern is believed to have been Kidder's son-in-law William F. Boynton. Kidder's wife, whose dowry is said to have included a sideboard "imported from England", outlived her husband and "for sixteen years received aid from the Widow's Charitable Fund of this state." Donor's father probably acquired dressing table either through Kidder's impoverished widow or through the son-in-law.

Morgan H. Stafford, A Genealogy of the Kidder Family Comprising the Descendants in the Male Line of Ensign John Kidder, 1626-1676: Of Cambridge and Billerica in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, 1941), 60-61.

Evergreen Cemetery, Nashua, NH