The Boydston-Snow Connection

Version: 28 Aug 2025

The Boydston-Snow Connection

By Marcia C. Field and Richard L. Tolman, Ph. D.

The Boydston-Snow Problem

Boydstons of the 18th century married Snows. Much has been said and published¹,² about the marriage³ of David Boydston to Mehitabel Snow (a Mayflower descendant) although there is no known marriage record. There are two David Boydstons in the literature that are contemporaries; a Massachusetts one and one from Virginia. The aforementioned David Boydston—called David (I)—was ostensively born 2 May 1726 at Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (no source). Mehitabel Snow, dau of Jabez and ‘Elezebeth’ Lewes Snow, was born 22 Apr 1731 at Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts.⁴,⁵ The uncomfortable fact is that she married⁶ 23 Aug 1753 at Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Samuel Hopkins, not David Boydston. They had five children and when Samuel died, Mehitabel married⁷ (2) 27 Sep 1766 at Harwich Rubin Ryderr. There was another Mehitabel Snow born⁸ 16 Jan 1733 also in Harwich to John and Hanah Merrick Snow, but she died in 1755,⁹ no known marriage or issue. There is a real question whether David (I) Boydstone b. 1726 exists as there are no Massachusetts records; he is also not findable in New England in the 1790 U. S. Census.¹⁰ Several published genealogical histories (Weaver, Bates,¹¹ and Domonoske 3rd Ed¹²) maintain that David (I) b. 1726 at Boston existed, but their accounts merge David (I) with the second David Boydstone (II) b. 1710 in Prince William County, Virginia. He is suggested to have died 1797 (no source) at Speedwell, Claiborne, Tennessee, although Claiborne County did not exist in 1797 (created abt 1810); in 1797 this area was still ‘Indian Lands’.¹³ David (II) died 1811 at Greene County, Pennsylvania vide infra. The tertiary sources have him born in 1710 and 1716; since 1710 would make him 101 years at death, 1716 will be considered as the birthyear.

In the 17th century there were several prominent Massachusetts Boylston families. Dr. Thomas Boylston born 26 Jan 1644 at Watertown, Massachusetts, died 16 Dec 1695, buried¹⁴ at Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts; a ggf of Abigail Adams. Thomas married Mary Gardner, and they had children: Richard, Peter, Abigail, Zabdiel, Sarah, and Dudley.¹⁵ His father Thomas (1612-1653) had no other sons.¹⁶ There is no known son or grandson David in this family! Without the DNA of a direct descendant of the David (I) b. 1726 it is not possible to determine his ancestry due to the paucity of other records. Domonoske implies the Maryland Boydston/Boylston and Boston families are related, with a Common Ancestor in Renfrewshire, Scotland descending from an original Boyd family. Bates and Weaver totally disregard the Eastern Shore of Maryland Boylston family merging them with a Boston family.

The first to expose these problems with Boydston/Snow in 1971 was A. B. Domonoske, the husband of Gladys Boydstun Domonoske and an author of a chapter in her book The Boydstun-Boydston Family,¹⁷ a compilation of mostly tertiary sources. Mr. Domonoske dispels several other myths about this family (pp. 30-39) in the book as well. Chief among the other errors is the confusion over the names Boylston and Boydstun/Boydston.¹⁸ The family used both names interchangeably as well as other spellings. Others are aware of this problem; namely Charles M. Ward, Jr., the state historian of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.¹⁹ It is the scramble of genealogists to show or prove a descendance from a Mayflower passenger that is the genesis of all this (incorrect and sometimes outrageous) speculation. The 17th and 18th centuries in the American colonies suffer from a paucity of primary records so it has been very important for genealogists to avail themselves of ‘attic sources’. An attic source is one that relies on oral tradition and personal family papers (in the attic). These sources have been important for the research into the Boydston family: Domonoske and Bates both rely a great deal on the collective memories of various enumerated descendants. There are very few primary or secondary sources available for the time period of this essay; two important secondary sources are Geneanet²⁰ and the U. S. and International Marriage Records on Ancestry.

There was a David Boylston (II), called hereafter David Boylston of Virginia, who was born 1716 at Prince William County, Virginia and died²¹ 3 Aug 1811 at Paisley, Greene, Pennsylvania. He married²² in 1737 at Maryland Mahala Snow; she was born 1718 in Maryland. Many²³ have presumed this to be the missing marriage record for Mehitabel Snow—probably not—Mehitabel Snow (of Massachusetts) was born 1731 and was only 6 yrs old in 1737. David and Mahala went to western Pennsylvania (Washington County) in 1779.²⁴ He is found in the 1790 U. S. Census²⁵ of Washington County, Pennsylvania and in the 1810 U. S. Census²⁶ in Greene County (created in 1796 from Washington County). David’s son, David Jr. (1740-1826), fought in the Revolutionary War.²⁷,²⁸

According to Bates and Weaver, the ‘family’ subsequently moved to eastern Tennessee where they settled on the Nolichucky River.²⁹ Actually, only David Boylston of Virginia’s sons James, William,³⁰ and perhaps Jesse went to Tennessee;³¹David Boylston of Virginia stayed in Greene County, Pennsylvania and died there in 1811. The family of David Boylston of Virginia moved from Virginia to settle around the beginning of the 18th century in Maryland later moving to western Pennsylvania in Washington County. The Maryland family is from ‘Piney Ridge’³² Dorchester County (formed in 1669) from a part of Somerset County on the Maryland Eastern Shore and Chesapeake Bay.

In summary, all available records are consistent with and attributable to David Boylston of Virginia and his family without the need to posit the existence of a David Boylston/Boydstone (I) of Massachusetts.

David Boylston/Boydstone Antecedents

As mentioned above, there is a 1737 marriage record³³ for David Boydston that has him born 1716 in Virginia and Mahala Snow born 1718 in Maryland. FamilySearch Family Tree and Domonoske 3rd Ed.³⁴ was the dau of Nicholas and Elizabeth Freeman Hudson of Virginia and gdau of Sir Richard Hudson (1605-1659). This connection has now been confirmed by DNA studies; DNA from Marcia Case Field (MCF) and a nephew John Scott Case (JSC), both Boydston descendants; search: Hudson/Maryland, see Cluster 1, proving this link of the Boydstons to the Snows. Not all the matches are shown, and not all the family trees are cited;³⁶ the Hudsons immigrated from Staffordshire, England. Sir Richard’s son Henry Sr. immigrated to Accomack County, Virginia and then to the Eastern Shore in what became Somerset and Worcester Counties of Maryland.³⁷ Elizabeth had son David at age 47.

Domonoski 3rd Ed.³⁸ and others have David Boylston of Virginia b. 1716 the son of Mahulda Box (husband Thomas, 2 in GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY below), but this has been disproven by DNA vide infra. Thus, the incontrovertible truth proven by DNA, is that Elizabeth Hudson Snow’s son-in-law, David Boylston of Virginia b. 1716, was the son of William (I) Boylston³⁹ (7 in the GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY below) and grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth Vaulx Boydston.⁴⁰ There are several marriage records for William.

Five candidates for this William’s wife have emerged with appropriate marriage records⁴¹ and/or other incomplete data (1) Sabra Polk (1689-1784)⁴², m. 1705; (2) Mary Hopkins dau of George and Elizabeth Presley Hopkins; (3) Mary Presley (1697-1739), b. and m. in VA; (4) Mary Thornton⁴³ and (5) Margaret Triplett (1734-1828).⁴⁴ Margaret was born too late to be David’s mother; she likely married William (III) Boylston (1732-1807). It is not clear which of the other four possibilities was the mother of David Boylston of Virginia.

To divine David Boylston of Virginia’s mother turned out to be a formidable challenge. An MCF match search for Polk/Maryland gave 20 matches, but half of them had 3-5 high-risk confounding surnames and were therefore useless in our search for Polk DNA. A confounding surname is a surname that is part of MCF’s AND the match’s descendancy). There is no way to tell—short of examining the location of the shared DNA sequence with a chromosome browser—whether the shared DNA is Polk DNA or the other shared-surname-DNA. In order to use a chromosome browser, one would need access to both DNA’s to be studied. Examination of the shared surnames and MCF’s genealogy allowed the surnames to be separated into high risk or low risk (see Table 1 below). Several other matches were abandoned because of geographical problems or spelling errors. In summary, there were no useful matches among the 20 that could substantiate the presence of Polk DNA. One FamilySearch genealogist⁴⁵ for excellent reasons denies Sabra Polk exists as a wife of William Boylston (I). Domonoske suggests that Sabra Polk and Mary Thornton were wives (1) and (2) of William (II).⁴⁶

A search of matches for Presley/Maryland gave 9 matches, some but not all, with numerous confounding surnames. All but one match were descendants of Andreas Presler/Presley who was born 1701 at Rhineland-Pfalz and immigrated to Cecil County, Maryland sometime after 1700; see Cluster 2. Only matches with no confounding surnames or low risk confounding surnames are shown. Therefore, these CA’s are proof that the Presleys are on MCF/JSC’s direct line. The Presleys were known to have a close association with the Hopkins.⁴⁷

A similar search for Hopkins/Maryland gave 20 matches (MCF, similar difficulties with confounding surnames) and 19 matches (JSC). This is a proof that David’s mother was indeed Mary Hopkins the dau of George and Elizabeth Hopkins; see Cluster 3. The Hopkins family came from Lincolnshire. Not all the relevant matches are included in the clusters.

But—wait a minute! How can Hopkins and Presley BOTH be on the direct line—David surely had only one mother. The answer is provided by Domonoske⁴⁸ who suggests that George Hopkins’ wife Elizabeth was the dau of Peter Presley Jr. and his wife Elizabeth Smith. In summary, both Hopkins and Presley are on MCF/JSC’s direct line; Mary Hopkins was the dau of George and Elizabeth Presley Hopkins and gdau of Peter and Elizabeth Smith Presley.

There are other William Boylston records that we have not yet utilized in the essay. This is because there was a William in every generation of the Virginia-Maryland-Massachusetts Boydstons and most of the records are not dated. Thomas Boylston and Elizabeth Vaulx had sons Thomas (m. Mahulda Box) and William (I) m. Mary Hopkins. Thomas and Mahulda had a son William (II) m. Mary Thornton. William (I) and Mary had sons David Boydston of Virginia and another William (III) m. Margaret Triplett.

David Boydston’s Grandparents

All family historians seem to agree that David Boylston of Virginia b. 1716 is descended from Thomas and Elizabeth Vaulx Boylston. They had two sons: Thomas and William, but the historians are divided about which of these is the father of David. Domonoske, Bates, and Weaver all favor Thomas and his wife Mahulda Box (but volunteer no details about William and his family) while Pherigo⁴⁹ favors William (who married Mary Hopkins) and has some detail that seems more geographically sensible. Since we have already proven by DNA that Hopkins is on the direct line, it remains only to show that Mary Hopkins’ husband William (I) is the William, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Vaulx Boydston. Inspection of the dates indicates that Elizabeth Vaulx Boydston’s son William must be the William, husband of Mary Hopkins.⁵⁰ As a double check, a search of MCF DNA matches for Box/Maryland produced no useful matches, only cousins with incorrect lineages.

The Snows

We know that Mahala Snow’s mother was Elizabeth Hutson/Hudson from two paper sources⁵¹ and an unassailable DNA source vide infra. It remains to identify in time and place her husband John Snow, of which there are many. He should have been born 1665 to 1680 (wife Elizabeth b. 1671).⁵² We noticed that in the Hopkins/Maryland search a CA [Constance Hopkins Snow] was uncovered for the ‘Stephanie Evans’ match and that is an indication that John Snow is a probable descendant of Constance’s husband Nicholas Snow.

Nicholas Snow⁵³ immigrated to Plymouth in 1623 and settled in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1625. The Snows are a predominantly Massachusetts family with most descendants remaining in Barnstable County. One of Nicholas’ sons, John Snow (I) (1638-1692) married Mary Smalley (1647-1703) and raised⁵⁴ a large family in Eastham, Barnstable County that included a John (II, b. 1670) and two sons Isaac and Elisha who both removed to Kent County, Delaware.⁵⁵ John (II) most likely moved to the Duck Creek Hundred with his brothers to marry Elizabeth Hudson there in 1686/7. It would be nice to have solid confirming DNA evidence.

Elisha was born 10 Jan 1687 and died Jan 1752 at Duck Creek Hundred, Kent, Delaware. He married 1711 at Barnstable, Massachusetts Elizabeth Redman. The Duck Creek Hundred (which includes Dover, Delaware) is directly east of Kent County, Maryland and Somerset County, Maryland, home of the Boydstons. Isaac Snow was born 10 Aug 1683 in Barnstable, Massachusetts and died 21 Mar 1745 at Duck Creek Hundred, Kent, Delaware. He married abt 1710 at Kent, Delaware Alice Hall.

Alden⁵⁶ (writing in 1897) has John (II) Snow moving from Eastham to raise his family in Truro, Barnstable where his father John (I) was the oldest proprietor in Truro. This contradicts the Cape Cod Library account⁵⁷ of Nicholas’ family which says John (I) raised his family in Eastham.

It is straightforward to confirm whether the John (II) Snow married to Elizabeth Hudson is the son of John (I) and Mary Smalley Snow. Search of MCF’s DNA for Smalley/Massachusetts gave 31 matches and 19 of them have an MCF CA [John and Ann Walden Smalley]; these are the parents of Mary Smalley who married John (I) Snow. Additionally, there are 3 matches with a different and earlier CA [Edward and Elizabeth Shurt Smalley]; the grandparents of Mary Smalley (See Cluster 4; not all matches are included in the cluster—those with high-risk confounding surnames were omitted). The CA’s are strong evidence of direct lineage, but ‘W. B.’ (8 cM, with no confounding surnames) has to be considered a proof.

The identity and origin of John Snow of Truro remains a mystery that will likely not be solved until the DNA of a descendant can be examined.

In summary, Smalley is on MCF’s direct line confirming the hypothesis that John Snow (II), husband of Elizabeth Hudson, is the son of John and Mary Smalley Snow and grandson of Nicholas Snow. John Snow (II) did indeed go south to the Duck Creek Hundred, Delaware.

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BOYDSTON GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY

Generation a

1. Thomas Boylston (I) was born abt 1636 at Renfrewshire, Scotland and died 1706 at Somerset County, Maryland. He married abt 1656 at Westmoreland, Virginia Elizabeth Vaulx, dau of Robert and Elizabeth Burwell Vaulx. She was born abt 1636 at Vaulxland, Westmoreland, Virginia and died 1706 at Somerset County, Maryland. Thomas paid for passage to the American colonies by working as a carpenter for the Vaulx family of Westmoreland County, Virginia. He bought land (over 1000 acres) in Talbot County, Manor of Baltimore (Maryland) on 26 Oct 1656; this land was called Piney Ridge. In 1665 he moved from the Piney Ridge Plantation to 950 acres he had bought in Dorchester County, Maryland on the west side of the Nanticoke River ten miles upstream from its mouth. That property was called Boylstone’s Neck—the neck formed by a sharp bend in the river just before it emptied into Fishing Bay.⁵⁸,⁵⁹

Thomas and Elizabeth Vaulx Boylston had six children.⁶⁰,⁶¹

+ 2 i. THOMAS BOYLSTON (II) was born 1657 at ‘Piney Ridge’, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1730 at Baltimore, Maryland. He married 1677 at Queen Ann County, Maryland Mahulda Box.

3 ii. ANN BOYLSTON was born 1658 Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland. She married 1674 at Somerset County, Maryland Robert Shockley.

4 iii. ELIZABETH BOYLSTON was born 1660 at Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland. She married 1677 at Maryland Henry Lewis.

5 iv. MARY BOYLSTON was born 1662 at Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland. She married 1679 at Maryland James Sangster.

6 v. REBECCA BOYLSTON was born 1670 at Boylstone’s Neck, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1719. She married 1674 at Somerset County, Maryland John Turpin.

+ 7 vi. WILLIAM BOYLSTON (I) was born 1676 at Boylstone’s Neck, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1719. He married 1706 at Cecil County, Maryland (1) Sarah Elizabeth Chism and (2) Mary Hopkins.

Generation 1

2. Thomas Boylston (II) was born 13 Dec 1665 at ‘Piney Ridge’, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1730 at Baltimore, Maryland. He married⁶² at MarylandMahulda Box, the dau of Thomas and Jane Jones (or Phoenix) Box.⁶³ She was born 1667 at Calvert County, Maryland and died 1749 at Scaggsville, Baltimore, Maryland.⁶⁴

Thomas and Mahulda Box Boylston had nine children.⁶⁵,⁶⁶,⁶⁷.

8 i. JOHN BOYDSTON was born 1678 at Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1719. He married 1698 ____ Harkney.

+ 9 ii. WILLIAM M. BOYDSTON (II) was born 1680 at Dorchester County, Maryland and died 1761 at Fairfax County, Virginia. He married (1) 1705 Sabra Polk(widow of ____ Fitchett and (2) Mary Thorntonthe dau of Wm Thornton and Jane Presley.

10 iii. ELIZABETH BOYDSTON was born 1682 at Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1710. She married⁶⁸ 1703 at Anne Arundel County, Maryland Thomas Crump.⁶⁹

11. iv. DINAH BOYDSTON was born 1684 at Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1732. She married 1704 at Anne Arundel County, Maryland John Brewer.⁷⁰

12 v. JILLIAN BOYDSTON was born 1686 at Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1710. She married⁷¹ 6 Nov 1703 at Saint Peters Parish, Talbot County, Maryland Amos Harrison.

13 vi. GRACE BOYDSTON was born 1688 at Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1736. She married⁷² 1704 at Talbot County, Maryland John Michall.⁷³

14 vii. MARY BOYDSTON was born 1690 at Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1715. She married⁷⁴ 1708 at Talbot County, Maryland Jonathan Miller.⁷⁵

15. viii JANE BOYDSTON was born 1692 at Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1722. She married⁷⁶ 1716 at Prince George’s County, Maryland William Brewster.⁷⁷

16 ix. THOMAS BOYDSTON (III) was born 1695 at Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1722.

He married⁷⁸ 1715 at Talbot County, Maryland Sarah King.

7. William Boylston (I) was born (son of Elizabeth Vaulx Boylston) 1676 at Boylstone’s Neck, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1719. He married (1) 1706 at Cecil County, Maryland Sarah Elizabeth Chism. She was born 1690 and died during childbirth in 1709 at Cecil County, Maryland. He married⁷⁹ (2) abt 1710 Mary Hopkins dau of George and Elizabeth Presley Hopkins. Mary was born 1689. They initially settled in Prince William County, Virginia on Four Mile Run, but soon moved to Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

William and Mary Hopkins Boylston had at least eight children.⁸⁰,⁸¹,⁸²,⁸³

17 i. JAMES BOYLSTON was born 1714. He married Sarah Pruitt/Prewett of Frederick County, Maryland. They relocated in 1732 to Hampshire County, Virginia with their sons William and James. All three appear in the 1777 Militia Records.

+ 18 ii. DAVID BOYLSTON was born 1716 at Prince William, Virginia and died 1811. He married Mahala Snow.

19 iii. THOMAS BOYLSTON (IV) was born 1718 and died 1804 at Jefferson, Fairfax, Virginia. He married (1)⁸⁴ Elizabeth Wallace and (2)⁸⁵ Patience Triplett. Patience was born 1725.⁸⁶ Between 1764 and 1766, he acquired a large tract of land called Terrapin Neck with his brothers Benjamin and Presley Boylston.⁸⁷,⁸⁸

20 iv. JOHN BOYLSTON was born 1720.

21 v. GEORGE BOYLSTON was born 1722. In the 1810 U. S. Census he was also in Greene County, Pennsylvania with his brother David.

22 vi. PRESLEY BOYLSTON was born 1730 at Prince William County, Virginia. He married⁸⁹ Elizabeth Robertson, dau of James Robertson.

23 vii. WILLIAM BOYLSTON (III) was born 1732. He married⁹⁰ abt 1752 Margaret Triplett; she was born 1734; they had one child Frances.⁹¹ They eventually moved to South Carolina.

24 viii. BENJAMIN BOYLSTON was born 1734. He married Mary Moss and Mary Davis.⁹²

Generation 2

9. William Boylston (II) was born 1680 (son of Mahulda Box Boylston) at Hampshire County, Virginia (then Frederick County, VA) and died 1761 at Fairfax. Fairfax, Virginia. He married (1)⁹³ 1705 Sabra Polk (widow of ____ Fitchett) and (2)⁹⁴ Mary Thornton the dau of Wm Thornton and Jane Presley. She was born 1700. He signed a lease in 1732 with Mary (Thornton), his wife in Hamilton Parish, Prince William County.⁹⁵ Before 1770 the family moved to Montgomery County, Virginia, at the headwaters of the Bluestone and Clinch Rivers.

Figure 1. Location of the William Boylstone property in Fairfax County, Virginia, 1760. [produced by the Government of Fairfax County, Virginia]

18. David Boydston Sr.⁹⁶ was born 1716 at Prince William County, Virginia,⁹⁷ the son of William and Mary Hopkins⁹⁸ ‘Boylstone’. He died 3 Aug 1811 at Paisley, Greene, Pennsylvania.⁹⁹ He married¹⁰⁰ (1) 1737 at Maryland Mahala Snow dau of John and Elizabeth Hudson Snow of Somerset County, Maryland.¹⁰¹ She was born 1718 at Maryland and died 1751,¹⁰² probably in Maryland. He married¹⁰³ abt 1752 (2) Sarah Denton Pruitt, dau of Samuel Pruitt of Frederick County, Maryland.¹⁰⁴ The family lived first in Talbot County and then moved to Dorchester County close to the border of Somerset County. After 1750 the family moved to Frederick County, Maryland and finally in 1779 to Washington County, Pennsylvania.

David and Mahala Snow Boydston had at least seven children.¹⁰⁵,¹⁰⁶,¹⁰⁷,¹⁰⁸

25 i. JAMES BOYDSTON was born 23 Sep 1738 at Eastern Shore of Maryland and died 6 Feb 1814 at Russellville, Logan, Kentucky; buried¹⁰⁹ at Perry Cemetery, Russellville, Logan, Kentucky. He married (1) 1767 Mary Prewitt of Frederick, Maryland and (2) Tabitha Smith; Mary was born 21 Jan 1747 and died 22 May 1809 at Russellville, Logan, Kentucky; buried¹¹⁰ at Perry Cemetery. Eleven children¹¹¹ including Priscilla b. 1759 and Benjamin b. 1776. He and four sons (James Jr., Samuel, William, and John) fought in the Revolutionary War from Montgomery County, Virginia.¹¹² After the War they moved to eastern Tennessee on the Nolichucky River, then Rutherford, North Carolina,¹¹³ and then to Kentucky. He had a son Thomas (1770-1835).¹¹⁴,¹¹⁵

26 ii. THOMAS BOYDSTON (V) was born abt 1738 at Frederick County, Maryland. He married Mary Patience Prewitt/Pruitt; she was born 21 Jan 1741 and died 22 May 1809 at Kentucky. He fought in the Revolutionary War from Montgomery County, Virginia. He bought land in Augusta County, Virginia in 1761.

+ 27 iii. DAVID BOYDSTUN Jr. was born 1740. He married Esther Ann Burris.

28 iv. GEORGE BOYDSTON was born 1746 at Eastern Shore of Maryland and died 18 Nov 1825 at Sugar Creek Township, Wayne, Ohio; buried¹¹⁶ at Bodine Cemetery, East Union, Wayne, Ohio. He married¹¹⁷ 19 Jan 1773 at Hampshire, Virginia Eunice Burris; she was born 1753 and died 1816. In 1800 they lived in Greene County, Pennsylvania near a son George Jr.¹¹⁸ George Sr. fought in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania.¹¹⁹ Children: George N. (1777-1845), Thomas (1786-1863), Belinda Boydston Wade (1792-1861), John (1794-1875).¹²⁰

29 v. NANCY BOYDSTON was born 30 Jun 1745 at Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1824. She married¹²¹ abt 1762 Joshua Yeates. Eleven children.¹²²

30 vi. JESSE BOYDSTON was born 1748 at Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1780. He fought in the Revolutionary War in the 1st Virginia State Regiment from Montgomery County, Virginia.¹²³ He received a land grant of 640 acres in Davidson County, Tennessee (central TN) in 1783.¹²⁴

31 vii. CYNTHIA BOYDSTON was born 1749 at Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland and died 1843.

David and Mary Ann Pruitt Boydston had two children.¹²⁵

32 i. WILLIAM BOYDSTON was born 24 Mar 1753 at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland and died in Clay County, Missouri in 1838. He married Elizabeth Jane Christian. They went to Hampshire County, Virginia.¹²⁶ He fought in the Revolutionary War from Montgomery County, Virginia. After the War they moved to eastern Tennessee for five decades on the Nolichucky River in Washington County.¹²⁷

33 ii. TABITHA BOYDSTON was born 1772 at Montgomery County, Virginia.

Generation 3

27. David Boydston Jr.¹²⁸ was born 1740 at Somerset County, Maryland (Eastern Shore of Maryland) and died 2 Feb 1826 at Greene County, Pennsylvania,¹²⁹ buried¹³⁰ at Mount Morris Cemetery (Perry Twp), Greene County, Pennsylvania. He was a practicing physician. He married (1) unknown at Frederick County, Maryland (no known issue) and (2) 1775 at Monongalia County, West Virginia Hester ’Esther’ Ann Burris/Burroughs dau of John and Elizabeth Boaz Burroughs.¹³¹ She was born 4 Feb 1750 (calc’d: age 77y 11m 9d at death) and died¹³² 13 Jan 1838 at Perry Twp, Greene, Pennsylvania; buried¹³³ at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Mount Morris, Greene County. David and family moved with Esther’s parents to Washington County, Pennsylvania¹³⁴ where David fought in the Revolutionary War.¹³⁵ Thereafter they settled in Mt. Morris in Greene County, Pennsylvania. He and his brother George Boydstone Sr. (and George Jr.) are found in Greene County, Pennsylvania with adjoining properties¹³⁶ in the 1800 Septennial Census of Pennsylvania.¹³⁷

David and Esther Ann Burris Boydston had at least seven children.¹³⁸,¹³⁹

33 i. MARY BOYDSTON was born 1791 (calc’d) and died 2 Apr 1864.¹⁴⁰

34 ii. NELLIE BOYDSTON. She married ____ Glass and went west.

35 iii. THOMAS BOYDSTON; died young.

36 iv. BENJAMIN BOYDSTON; died young.

37 v. AMELIA BOYDSTON was born 1778 at Pennsylvania and died 1857 in Ohio. She married abt 1799 at Pennsylvania Jeremiah/John Glasgo; he was born 1772 at Pennsylvania.¹⁴¹ Seven children: Otho, Hiram, Vincent, Airy Minty (Cunningham), Eli, Marmaduke, Lucinda (Kinney).¹⁴²

38 vi. DAVID BOYDSTON was born 1789 at Greene County, Pennsylvania and died 8 Jan 1852 at Salisbury, Chariton, Missouri.¹⁴³ He married 1810 at Mount Morris, Greene, Pennsylvania Rebecca ‘Massage’ Gerard. Two children.

+ 39 vii. BOAZ BOYDSTON was born 12 May 1791 and died 2 Apr 1864 at Greene County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Willey.

Generation 4

39. Boaz Boydston¹⁴⁴ was born 12 May 1791 at Virginia and died¹⁴⁵ 2 Apr 1864 at Greene County, Pennsylvania;¹⁴⁶ buried¹⁴⁷ at Mount Morris Cemetery. He married 17 Jan 1813 at Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio Mary ‘Polly’ Willey; she was born 21 Feb 1793 at Delaware and died 1864. She was the dau of John Alexander Willey (30 July 1757 to 3 Apr 1814) and Mary (Polly) Griffith (10 Oct 1758, Sussex, DE to 12 Dec 1842, Zanesville, Muskingum, OH).¹⁴⁸

Boaz and Mary Willey Boydston had fourteen children.¹⁴⁹

40 i. EUGENOS LOCK BOYDSTON was born 1 Dec 1813 and died 19 Jun 1859; buried¹⁵⁰ at Woodlawn Cemetery, Fairmont, Marion, West Virginia. He married¹⁵¹ 29 Nov 1838 Middletown, Monongalia, Virginia (now Fairmont, Marion, West Virginia) Ruhama Jackson dau of Samuel Jackson (1 Apr 1793 to 17 Jul 1861) and Nancy Miller Jackson (5 Feb 1800 to 1877). Ruhama was born 27 Oct 1820 and died 11 Mar 1911; buried at Woodlawn Cemetery. He was a sadler of Fairmont, West Virginia.

41 ii. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BODSTON was born 1815. He married¹⁵² (1) 10 Nov 1860 at Franklin County, Arkansas Mary Jane Spencer and (2) 21 Jul 1867 at Jackson County, Missouri Martha Ann Borden.

42 iii. CURTIS WILLEY BOYDSTON was born 17 Oct 1817 and died 9 Oct 1898 at Monmouth, Warren, Illinois. He married (1)¹⁵³ Orpha Ambler and (2)¹⁵⁴ 3 Oct 1858 at Warren County, Illinois Loretta Underwood.

43 iv. DAVID JOHN BOYDSTON was born 24 Aug 1819 at Greene County, Pennsylvania and died 5 Feb 1884 at Iowa; buried¹⁵⁵ at Graceland Cemetery, Knoxville, Marion, Iowa. He married (1) Rebecca A. Garrard and (2) 4 Dec 1861 at Marion County, Iowa Martha C. McMeeken.

44 v. GEORGE NELSON BOYDSTON was born 1821 and died 27 Mar 1872. He married¹⁵⁶ 24 Oct 1847 at Harrison County, Ohio Rebecca C. Calahan.

45 vi. AMELIA ANN ‘EMILY’ BOYDSTON was born 1823 and died 16 May 1904 at Los Angeles County, California; buried¹⁵⁷ at Graceland Cemetery, Knoxville, Marion, Iowa. She married¹⁵⁸ 1867 at Marion County, Iowa Erastus K. Woodruff; he was born 1838.

46 vii. WILLIAM LANDON BOYDSTON was born 1825 and died 2 Jun 1875. He married (1)¹⁵⁹ Cornelia Gates and (2)¹⁶⁰ 18 Aug 1873 at Lancaster County, Nebraska Julia C. Cromwell.

47 viii. ELIZA BOYDSTON. She was born 1826 and died young.

48 ix. MARY BOYDSTON. She was born 1827 and died young.

49 x. BOAZ BURRIS BOYDSTON was born 1828. He married Rachel Burge.

50 xi. MARTHA ‘MARY’ L. BOYDSTON was born 1830 and died 20 Nov 1928 at Franklin County, Ohio.¹⁶¹ She married¹⁶² 29 Oct 1850 at Woodford County, Ohio James Dunham.¹⁶³

51 xii. CYRUS BASCOM BOYDSTON was born 31 Oct 1831 at Whiteley, Greene, Pennsylvania and died 11 Sep 1898 at Knoxville, Marion, Iowa; buried¹⁶⁴ at Graceland Cemetery. He married¹⁶⁵ abt 1861 at Marion County, Iowa Sarah ‘Sally’ Agnes Wallace.¹⁶⁶ He was a commissioned officer (Major) in the Civil War.

52 xiii. THORNTON ELSWORTH BOYDSTON was born 12 Oct 1833 at Greene County, Pennsylvania and died 29 May 1913 at Mount Morris, Greene, Pennsylvania; buried¹⁶⁷ at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Greene County. He married 1858 Susanna Donley.¹⁶⁸

53 xiv. ELIZABETH MARGARET BOYDSTON was born 26 Oct 1836 Whiteley. Greene, Pennsylvania and died 11 Apr 1919 at Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia; buried¹⁶⁹ at Oak Grove Cemetery. She married 1861 at Monongalia County, West Virginia Henry Lazier Cox.

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SNOW GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY

Generation 1¹⁷⁰

1. Nicholas Snow was born 1599 at England son of Nicholas Snow, baptized 25 Jan 1599/1600 St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch, London and died 15 Nov 1676 at Eastham, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. He married 22 May 1627 at Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America Constance Hopkins dau of Stephen and Mary Kent Hopkins. She was born 1606 at Hursley, Hampshire, England, accompanied her father to America on the Mayflower, and died Oct 1677 at Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; both buried at Cove Burying Ground at Eastham, Barnstable.

Nicholas and Constance Hopkins Snow had nine children all of Eastham.¹⁷¹

2 i. MARK SNOW was born 9 May 1628 at Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. He married (1) 18 Jan 1654 at Eastham Anna Cooke dau of Josiah Cook and (2) 9 Jan 1660 at Eastham Jane Prence dau of Thomas Prence.

3 ii. MARY SNOW was born abt 1630 at Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. She probably married in 1651.

4 iii. SARAH SNOW was born abt 1632 at Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. She married 25 Feb 1654 at Eastham William Walker.

5 iv. JOSEPH SNOW was born abt 1634 at Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. He married abt 1670 at Eastham Mary ____.

6 v. STEPHEN SNOW was abt 1636 at Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. He married (1) 28 Oct 1663 at Eastham Susanna Rogers widow of Thomas Rogers and dau of Stephen Deane and (2) 9 Apr 1701 at Eastham Mary Bigford.

+ 7 vi. JOHN SNOW was born abt 1638 at Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. He married 19 Sep 1667 at Eastham Mary Smalley dau of John Smalley.

8 vii. ELIZABETH SNOW was born abt 1640 at Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. She married 13 Dec 1665 at Eastham Thomas Rogers son of Joseph Rogers and grandson of Thomas Rogers.

9 viii. JABEZ SNOW was born abt 1643 at Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. He married abt 1670 at Eastham Elizabeth Smith¹⁷² as her first husband.

10 ix. RUTH SNOW was born abt 1644 at Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. She married 10 Dec 1666 at Eastham John Cole.

Bradford, describing the family of Constanta Snow stated she was the mother of 12 children all of them living; the missing children were possibly Hannah and Rebecca both of whom married Richards.

Generation 2

7. John Snow (I) was born 1638 at Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America the son of Nicholas and Constance Hopkins Snow and died 14 Apr 1692 at Eastham, Barnstable County;¹⁷³ buried¹⁷⁴ at Cove Burying Ground, Barnstable County. He married 19 Sep 1667 at Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Mary Smalley¹⁷⁵ dau of John and Ann Walden Smalley. She was born 11 Dec 1647 at Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts and died 22 Nov 1703 at Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; buried¹⁷⁶ at Cove Burying Ground at Eastham, Barnstable County. Mary married 20 Apr 1692¹⁷⁷ (2) Ephraim Doane.¹⁷⁸

John and Mary Smalley Snow had nine children all in Eastham.¹⁷⁹

+ 11 i. JOHN SNOW (II) was born abt 1669 at Eastham, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America and died at Duck Creek Hundred, Kent, Delaware. He married at Kent County, Delaware Elizabeth Hudson.

12 ii. HANNAH SNOW was born 26 Aug 1670 at Eastham, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America and died 1717 at Eastham, Barnstable County.¹⁸⁰ She married 1691 at Eastham, Barnstable County Hezekiah Doane.

13 iii. MARY SNOW was born 10 Mar 1672 and died 1752. She may never have married.

14 iv. ABIGAIL SNOW was born 1673 and died 1716. She married 1693-1694 at Barnstable County, British Colonial America Daniel Small.

15 v. REBECCA SNOW was born 23 Jul 1676 at Eastham, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America and died 31 Aug 1753 at Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut. She married 1684 at Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine Deacon Benjamin Small son of Francis and Elizabeth Small of Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine.¹⁸¹

16 vi. ISAAC SNOW was born 10 Aug 1683 and died Aug 1745.¹⁸² He married abt 1710 at Kent County, Delaware Alice Hall.

17 vii. LYDIA SNOW was born 29 Sep 1685. She married abt 1703 at Eastham, Barnstable County Ebenezer Doane.

18 viii. ELISHA SNOW was born 1687 and died Jan 1752 at Duck Creek Hundred, Delaware. He married 1711 at Barnstable County, British Colonial America Elizabeth Redman.

19 ix. PHEBE SNOW was born 1689 and died 1715. She married 1 Mar 1714 at Truro, Barnstable Jonathan Dyer.

Generation 3

11. John Snow (II) was born abt 1669 at Eastham, Barnstable, British Colonial America and died 9 Oct 1738 at Duck Creek Hundred, Kent, Delaware.¹⁸³ He married¹⁸⁴ Feb 1686/7 Elizabeth Hudson/Hutson¹⁸⁵ dau of Nicholas and Elizabeth Freeman Hudson. She was born¹⁸⁶ 3 Apr 1671 at Somerset County, Maryland and died 1728 at Somerset County, Maryland.

John and Elizabeth Hudson Snow had at least one child.

20 i. MAHALA SNOW was born 1718 at Maryland and died 1751 probably at Washington County, Pennsylvania. She married¹⁸⁷ 1737 at Maryland David Boydston.

NOTES

1. See for example: Gustine Courson Weaver The Boydstun Family (Cincinnati, Ohio: Powell & White, 1927), no sources; hereafter Weaver.

2. Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research, DAR Patriot Index, online at www.services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search; ‘david boydston’; lists wife as Mehitabel Snow and b’place as Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (stating both probably in error); hereafter as DAR Patriot Index.

3. U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, online at Ancestry.

4. Online at FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ6L-12B.

5. Harwich, Mass. Vital Records, Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, Vol. 159, p. 162.

6. Hopkins/Snow marriage: The Register, Vol. 102, p. 201 (New England Historical & Genealogical Register).

7. Hopkins/Ryderr marriage: Massachusetts, U. S., Compiled Marriages 1633-1850; online at Ancestry.

8. Harwich, Mass. Vital Records, Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, Vol. 159, p. 163.

9. ‘Nicholas Snow of Eastham and some of his Descendants’, Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy, Vol 1, pp. 6-14; online at Ancestry, image 516-526/915; hereafter Cape Cod Library.

10. This author found no records substantiating the existence of the 1726 David Boydston/Boylston. Weaver stated that David Boydston b.1726 existed and other authors have cited Weaver as proof. Weaver cites the DAR Patriot Index (that acknowledges that there is no source and therefore that it may be incorrect).

11. Margaret R. Bates ‘Genealogy Report: Descendants of Thomas Boylston, Jr.’, online at www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/a/t/Margaret-R-Bates/GENE15-0003.html; 10 pages, accessed 10 Apr 2025; hereafter Bates.

12. Gladys Boydstun Domonoske The Boydstun-Boydston Family (Davis, California: self-published, 1979, 3rd Edition); hereafter Domonoske 3rd Ed. (1979) and the Domonoske 1st Ed. (1971).

13. William Thorndale and William Dollarhide, Map Guide to the U. S. Federal Censuses 1790-1920 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987).

14. Findagrave #216376860 with good, lengthy and well-documented biography.

15. Zabdiel, Sarah, and ‘Dudly’ ‘Boyleston’ were born in Roxbury, Mass, 1677, 1680 and 1687, respectively. Massachusetts, U.S. Compiled Births, Marriages and Death Records, Roxbury births, image 36/1080; online at Ancestry.

16. FamilySearch Family Tree.

17. Domonoske 1st Ed.

p class=”Normal”>18. Cf. Weaver: Thomas Boylston (m. Mathilda Box) of Boston had a son David BOYLSTON, b. 1726, not to be confused with David BOYDSTUN/BOYDSTON b. 1710 of a Prince William County Virginia family, son of William and Mary Boydston.

19. Charles M Ward, Jr. ‘James Boydston (d. 1814): A Critical Examination of his Alleged “Mayflower” Connection’, linked to ‘Mahala Snow’ online at Ancestry.

20. Geneanet Community Trees Index: This collection contains an index of more than 2 million family trees created by members of Geneanet, the #1 genealogy site in France and the biggest community of genealogists in Europe. Each record in the index includes a link to the originating family tree on Geneanet, online at Ancestry; hereafter Geneanet Index.

21. DAR Patriot Index.

22. Boydston/Snow marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, discloses birthyear and birthplace of groom and bride; online at Ancestry.

23. Bates.

24. Domonoske.

25. 1790 U. S. Census of Washington County, Pennsylvania, ‘David Boylstone’, household of 7: 2males under 16, 1male over 16, 4females; online at Ancestry.

26. 1810 U. S. Census of Whiteley, Greene, Pennsylvania, ‘David Boydstone’, household of 5: 1 male 10-15, 1 male 16-25, 1 male over 45, 1 female 16-25, 1 female over 45; online at Ancestry.

27. DAR Patriot Index, ‘david boydston, jr’.

28. United States, Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors 1775-1966 ‘Boilston’; online at FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-YY49.

29. Domonoske 3rd Ed.

30. Online at FamilySearch, United States records, Muster rolls, Museum of the American Revolution ‘Virginians in the Revolution’, image 98/886; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3Q-HF26-H?view=index.

31. Online at www.backto60s.tripod.com/famhist/index.html A wide variety of very interesting Boystun genealogical pages; owner C. B. (Chuck) Boydstun; hereafter backto60s.

32. ‘Piney Ridge’ is not found on any of the several maps of Maryland the author has examined. Some say it was in Calvert County (which is not on the DelMarVa peninsula), but most say it was in Dorchester County (on the western side of the DelMarVa peninsula) close to the border of Somerset County.

33. Boydston/Snow marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, online at Ancestry.

34. Domonoske 3rd Ed., p. 55.

35. Maryland, Births and Christenings 1650-1995, ‘Elizabeth Huttson’, online at FamilySearch, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HYLZ-QF2M.

36. ‘Grosardt Family Tree’, owner tgrosardt, www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/17630229; ‘Steele-Elmore Family Tree’, owner farmluvr, www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/51183929; ‘Mulliere Family Tree’ owner servicedognm, www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/854734560; ‘James Long Family Tree’, owner James Long, www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/156863067; respectively (accessed 30 Mar 2025).

37. Clayton Torrance Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1935),446; confirms John Snow’s marriage to Elizabeth Hudson and names her parents and sibs as well as their spouses; hereafter Eastern Shore of Maryland.

38. Domonoske 3rd Ed., p. 28.

39. William is a popular name in the Boylston family; there is a William in every generation of the family and they are here named William I to IV.

40. ‘Pherigo Family Tree’, owner RPherigo777, www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/17515110; and the very useful Gallery, online at Ancestry; hereafter Pherigo.

41. Four William Boydston marriages: U. S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, online at Ancestry.

42. ‘Patricia Christy Family Tree’, owner Patricia Christy, www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/167978885, (accessed 23 Mar 2025); hereafter Christy Tree.

43. Pherigo, see the Gallery.

44. Indexed by Carol Lee Ford, ‘Genealogy of the Triplett Family’ in Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly Magazine, Vol. V. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982), p. 211; according to her father’s will (of 1757), Margaret had only one child, Frances Boydston, therefore she was not the mother of David (I).

45. ‘Boylston71’ on FamilySearch Family Tree: ‘William Boylston’, collaborations: Sabra Polk didn’t exist, and she wasn’t the dau of Robert Bruce Polk and Margaret Tasker—from conversations with Polk researchers and the John Polk book Beyond Damned Quarter for details of the Polk family.

46. Domonoske 3rd Ed., p. 28-31.

47. Domonoske 1st Ed. p. 31.

48. Domonoske 1st Ed. (1971), p. 31 and 41. For some reason there is no mention of ‘Hopkins’ in the 3rd Edition, although there is an International Marriage Record for Wm Boylston and Mary Hopkins on Ancestry.

49. Pherigo..

50. Pherigo has William (I) married to Mary Thornton of Northumberland Co. Virginia, b. 1700, but this is unlikely if David is born 1710 as indicated in his manuscript.

51. Eastern Shore of Maryland, p. 446 and Domonoske, p. 88.

52. Eastern Shore of Maryland, p. 446.

53. Cape Cod Library, pp. 6-14.

54. Ibid., p. 6.

55. FamilySearch Family Tree and sources cited therein.

56. Mrs. Charles L. Alden, ‘Snow Genealogy’ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 51, 205 (1897).

57. Cape Cod Library, p. 6-7; ‘Nicholas Snow of Eastham’, provides details about son John and wife Mary Smalley and their children born in Eastham, but doesn’t mention a move to Truro.

58. U. S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s; Thomas Boylston, arrived Boston, Massachusetts; online at Ancestry.

59. RPherigo777, William Boylstone gallery and Pherigo Family Tree, online at Ancestry.

60. Domonoske 3rd Ed.; p.13-23, a nice discussion with good sources.

61. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, Patron: Margo Butner, Butner Welty Family History, online at https://m.friendsofallencounty.org/butnerwelty/familygroup.php?familyID=F923&tree=Butnerwelty; hereafter Butner Welty.

62. Pherigo.

63. Boylston/Box marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records, 1590-1900; online at Ancestry; cited on FamilySearch Family Tree ‘Mahulda Box’.

p class=”Normal”>64. FamilySearch Family Tree.

65. Christy Tree.

66. ‘Casterline/St. Clair’, owner Leslie Casterline, www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/322428835897, (accessed 23 Mar 2025); hereafter Casterline Tree.

67. Geneanet Index.

68. Weaver and Bates.

69. Crump/Boylston marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, online at Ancestry.

70. Butner Welty.

71. Butner Welty.

72. Harrison/Bolton (Boylston) marriage: Maryland Church Records 1660-1996; online at FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGVM-QJYJ and U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, online at Ancestry.

73. Michall/Boylston marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, online at Ancestry.

74. Butner Welty.

75. Miller/Boylston marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, online at Ancestry.

76. Butner Welty.

77. Brewster/Boylston marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, online at Ancestry.

78. Butner Welty.

79. Boylston/King marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, grooms birth ;online at Ancestry.

80. Boylston/Hopkins marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, online at Ancestry.

81. Weaver, p. 39.

82. ‘Cynthia Marie Galloway Family Tree’, owner Lynn Pearson, www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/179831895, (accessed 23 Mar 2025); hereafter Galloway Tree.

83. Christy Tree.

84. Casterline Tree.

85. Boylston/Wallace marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, grooms birth; online at Ancestry

86. Boylston/Triplett marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, grooms birth; online at Ancestry.

87. Boydstone/Pruitt marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900; online at Ancestry.

88. Boydstone vs. Sheppard, Augusta, VA; Court Records of Augusta County, VA; Benjamin and Presley Boydston identified as brothers of Thomas, owner of the land ‘Terrapin Neck’ on the Potomac River; online at Ancestry.

89. Domonoske 3rd Ed.; p. 23-42, the family relationships of these sons and their wives is supported by the lengthy deed books reproduced in these pages.

90. Boylston/Robertson marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, birth of groom; online at Ancestry.

91. Boylston/Triplett marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, online at Ancestry.

92. Indexed by Carol Lee Ford, ‘Genealogy of the Triplett Family’ in Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly Magazine, Vol. V. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982), p. 211; according to her father Francis’s will; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9PC-QJQD?lang=en&i=449, Margaret had only one child, Frances Boydston, therefore she was not the mother of David (I).

93. Boylston/Davis marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, groom b. 1734 VA, no other information; online at Ancestry.

94. Boylston/Polk marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, grooms birth; online at Ancestry.

95. Domonoske 3rd Ed., p. 24 and U. S. and International Marriage Records 1590-1900, online at Ancestry.

96. Lease, 1732, James Robertson to William Boilstone, Mary, his wife & James Boilstone, his son. General index to deeds, 1732-1887; deeds, 1731-1869; election poll, 1840; online at FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL6-Y95G-L?lang=en&i=28.

97. Domonoske 1st Ed., p. 50.

98. Weaver has him born in Boston.

99. Domonoske 1st Ed., p. 86.

100. Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research, DAR Patriot Index, online at www.services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search; ‘david boydston’; lists wife as Mehitabel Snow and b’place as Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (both probably in error).

101. Boylston/Snow marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, online at Ancestry.

102. Family Data Collection-Births, birthyear and parents named, online at Ancestry.

103. Domonoske and others claim Mahala died 1751 in Barren County, Kentucky (no source). This county was formed in 1796 (45 yrs after her death) and was erroneously claimed to be formed from western Virginia. It is in central Kentucky, formed from two other Kentucky counties, and a long way from Virginia.

104. Boylston/Pruitt marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, groom b. 1716, bride b. 1730, no marriage year; online at Ancestry.

105. Domonoske 1st Ed., p. 88.

106. Weaver, p. 39.

107. Christy Tree.

108. ‘Cynthia Marie Galloway Family Tree’, owner Lynn Pearson, www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/179831895, (accessed 23 Mar 2025); hereafter Galloway Tree.

109. The foregoing tertiary sources have other children for this couple (Sabra, Malinda, Mahulda), but as there is no other evidence for their presence in this family, they are not included.

110. Findagrave #202694666.

111. Findagrave #202694740.

112. Galloway Tree, p. 34-5.

113. Domonoske 1st Ed., p. 128-138.

114. 1790 U. S. Census of Rutherford, North Carolina, Household of 4, 3males over 16 and 1female over 16; M637, Roll 7, Page 147, FHL Film 0568147;online at Ancestry.

115. backto60s, cf. ‘The Boydstuns of Lauderdale County, TN 1887’.

116. Pterigo.

117. Findagrave #36734246.

118. Boylston/Burris marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, online at Ancestry.

119. 1800 Septennial Census of Greene County, Pennsylvania, image 7/22, online at Ancestry.

120. Domonoske 1st Ed., p. 87.

121. Findagrave #36734246; George Boydston son of David Sr. and Mahala Snow.

122. Yates/Boylston marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, online at Ancestry.

123. Galloway Tree; Bible record of the Yeates family; shared by Lynn Pearson online at Ancestry.

124. Domonoske 1st Ed., p. 87.

125. backto60s.

126. Galloway Tree.

127. Domonoske 1st Ed., p. 87.

128. backto60s.

129. Domonoske 1st Ed., p. 90.

130. 1825 Will of David Boydston (Jr.), online at FamilySearch; Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, images, FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8991-Z73P?cc=1999196&wc=9PMX-T38%3A268494001%2C268539201; mentions wife Ester Ann and son Boaz, dau Amelia Glasgo.

131. Findagrave #62731815; David Boydstun son of David Sr. and Mahala Snow.

132. 1793 Will of John Burroughs of Monongalia County, West Virginia names wife Elizabeth and sons Elijah, Boaz and William, daus Unisay Boydstone and Hester Ann Boydstone; online at FamilySearch, Film 7616715, page 40 (cited at Hester Ann Burroughs).

133. Historical Society of the Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Cemetery, compiled by John Corly Chapter, DAR and the Greene County Historical Society; Records of Perry Twp, Greene County, Pennsylvania, hereafter Perry Twp cemetery records.

134. Findagrave #126444374.

135. 1790 U. S. Census of Washington County, Pennsylvania, online at FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHK5-1N9; David Boylstone household of 7.

136. Weaver, p. 35.

137. Pennsylvania, U. S., Direct Tax Lists 1798, Greene, Washington, and Allegheny Abstracts; online at Ancestry.

138. 1800 Septennial Census of Greene County, Pennsylvania, image 7/22, online at Ancestry.

139. Findagrave #62731815; biographical note at David Jr.’s grave.

140. Domonoske 3rd Ed.

141. Perry Twp cemetery records.

142. 1850 U. S. Census of Wadsworth, Medina, Ohio; Amelia age 72, John age 78; online at FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXQG-782.

143. 1848 Will of John Glasgo; online at FamilySearch.

144. 1840 U. S. Census of Chariton Missouri, Roll 221, Page 320. FHL Film 0014855, Household of 6, 1male 15-19, 1male 50-59, 1female 15-19, 2females 20-29, 1female 50-59; online at Ancestry.

145. Domonoske 3rd Ed., p. 91.

146. Perry Twp cemetery records.

147. 1863 Will of Boaz Boydston, Pennsylvania, U. S. Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1874; Greene County, Wills, Vol. 4; online at Ancestry; names wife Mary and children.

148. Findagrave #122118180; Ruhama #88673702.

149. DAR Application for Membership by Louise Elizabeth Smith Knibbs (descendant of Peter Miller 1759-1838), research by Eugene Smith; papers in possession of the author (MCF).

150. Geneanet Community Trees Index; https://gw.geneanet.org.

151. Findagrave #88673682.

152. Boydston/Jackson marriage: West Virginia, Marriage Index 1785-1971, online at Ancestry.

153. Boydston/Spencer and Borden marriages: Arkansas County Marriage Records, 1837-1957, online at FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N974-Z8X; and Missouri County marriages 1800-1991 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2Z3-613S, respectively.

154. Domonoske 3rd Ed.

155. Boydston/Underwood marriage: Illinois County Marriage Records, Warren County, online at Ancestry.

156. Findagrave #1199944999.

157. Boydston/Calahan marriage: Ohio Select County Marriage Records, Harrison County, 1874-1893, online at Ancestry

158. Findagrave #117939168, nice bio.

159. Woodruff/Boydston marriage: Iowa County Marriage Records, Marion County, he was age 29 yrs., therefore marriage was in 1867; online at Ancestry.

160. Domonoske 3rd Ed.

161. Boydston/Cromwell marriage: Nebraska Select County Marriage Records, Lancaster County, 1871-1880, online at Ancestry.

162. Ohio, Death Index, 1908-1932; online at FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VKRC-B8Z.

163. Dunham/Boydston marriage: Illinois County Marriage Records, Woodford County, FHL Film 1401898; online at FamilySearch.

164. 1860 U S. Census of Mackinaw, Tazewell, Illinois, P. 209, she is age 31; online at Ancestry.

165. Findagrave #121860674.

166. Boydston/Wallace marriage: Iowa County Marriage Records, Marion County,; online at Ancestry.

167. 1870 U S. Census of Knoxville, Marion, Iowa, Roll M593_409, P. 111A, Cyrus and Sallie and 4 children; online at Ancestry.

168. Findagrave #198879428.

169. Samuel P. Bates, A Biographical History of Greene County, Pennsylvania (Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield, 1888) Perry Township, p. 812.

170. Findagrave #8404915.

171. Robert Charles Anderson The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol III (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) p. 1701-1704; the Nicholas Snow/Constance Hopkins family group and references therein.

172. FamilySearch Family Tree and sources therein.

173. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, A family history—recording the ancestors of Russel Snow Hitchcock; online at Ancestry; also Torrey image 705/1022.

174. Barnstable County was created in 1685 from the New Plymouth Colony.

175. Findagrave #8632751.

176. Robert Charles Anderson The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol III (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) p. 1689; the John Smalley/Ann Walden family group; dau Mary marriage.

177. Findagrave #16250307; nice bio.

178. Clarence Almon Torrey New England Marriages: Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985).

179. Cape Cod Library, p. 6.

180. FamilySearch Family Tree and sources therein.

181. Findagrave #73440150.

182. Maine, Vital Records, online at FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q21S-94MD.

183. Findagrave #16247560.

184. Findagrave #194030218.

185. Eastern Shore of Maryland, p. 446; entry under George Hasfurt m. (2) widow Elizabeth Hudson (Freeman) and names stepchildren: Elizabeth, 1671 m. Feb 1686/7 to John Snow.

186. Domonoske 3rd Ed., p. 88.

187. Maryland, Births and Christenings, online at FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HYLH-YH2M.

188. Boydston/Snow marriage: U. S. and International Marriage Records, 1590-1900, online at Ancestry.

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