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Walnut Street Cemetery including the Old Burying Ground, est. 1717 |
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Dudley Boylston
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Richard Boylston
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HERE LYES INTERRED Ye BODY
OF Mrs. MARY BOYLSTON
WIFE, OF DOCTr. THOMAS
BOYLSTON DECD. DEPARTED
THIS LIFE JULY Ye 8th
1722 Ætatis Suæ 74
Footstone:
Mrs. MARY
BOYLSTON
1722
Thomas Boylston, Town Clerk, signed the first entry in the town clerk's records of this town. He was a physician, and father of the celebrated Dr. Zabdiel Boylston. Dr. Pierce, p. 12.
Thomas Boylston came to this country from England and settled in Watertown in 1635. His son Thomas, born in that town in 1644, became a surgeon. He took an active part in the Narragansett war. He married Mary Gardner of Muddy River in 1665, and settled there. From that time forward the Boylstons were identified with Brookline. There were twelve children of this marriage. His son Peter inherited the homestead. Dr. Zabdiel Boylston was the second child, b. in 1680. The daughter of Peter, Susanna, married John Adams, and was the mother of the second President of the United States. H. F. W., p. 297.
Text from Harriet Alma Cummings. Burials and Inscriptions in the Walnut Street Cemetery. Brookline: The Riverdale Press, 1920.
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Dudley Boylston
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