History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . e,leaving her portrait in pawn for its repayment whenher husband, Charles I., should secure i)eace. Sir Matthew Boyntons two sons, William andJohn, came to Essex County, Mass., with the Rowleygentry, in ItiSti. Sir Matthew at this time ownedBurton .\gnes and niauy other valuable estates in theNorth of England ; commanded Scarboro Castle andthe troops of the Scottish border ; was the sheriff ofYorkshire and member of Parliament. In 1()3S John Boynton, his son, purchased fromGovernor Dn
History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . e,leaving her portrait in pawn for its repayment whenher husband, Charles I., should secure i)eace. Sir Matthew Boyntons two sons, William andJohn, came to Essex County, Mass., with the Rowleygentry, in ItiSti. Sir Matthew at this time ownedBurton .\gnes and niauy other valuable estates in theNorth of England ; commanded Scarboro Castle andthe troops of the Scottish border ; was the sheriff ofYorkshire and member of Parliament. In 1()3S John Boynton, his son, purchased fromGovernor Dnninier two hundred acres on the ParkerRiver, Newbury, wliieli continued in the family twohundred years. From John and William, sons of Sir MatthewBoynton, all of that name in America are believed tohave descended. Some of them are distinguished in military andcivil life, hut in general they have been more notedas inventors and for intellectual and moral qualities. The annealing of cast-iron, known as malleableiron, the invention of hot-air furnaces, and manyother valuable inventions are of Boynton
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