Zabdiel boylston biography of william hill
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COLLECTION GUIDES
Collection Summary
Abstract
This collection consists of the business and family papers of the Boylston family of Boston and Princeton, Massachusetts, and Bath, Bristol, and London, England, including letters, letterbooks, diaries, ledgers, and journals of merchants John (1709-1795), Thomas (1721-1798), Nicholas (1716-1771), and Ward Nicholas Boylston (1749-1828).
Biographical Sketches
Thomas Boylston (1645-1696), son of Thomas Boylston (1615-1653), who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1645 and settled in Watertown, married in 1665 Mary Gardner (1648-1722).
Zabdiel Boylston (1679-1766), son of Thomas (1645-1696) and Mary (Gardner) Boylston (1648-1722), married Jerusha Minot (1679-1764) in 1706. A Brookline physician, he introduced inoculation for smallpox in 1721.
John Boylston (1709-1795), son of Zabdiel (1679-1766) and Jerusha (Minot) Boylston (1679-1764).
Thomas Boylston (d. 1739), son of Thomas (1645-1696) and Mary (Gardner) Boylston (1648-1722). A Boston saddler and shopkeeper, he married Sarah Moorcock (d. 1774) in 1715.
Nicholas Boylston (1716-1771), son of Thomas (d. 1739) and benefactor to nephew Ward Hallowell (1749-1828) upon the condition that he change his name to Ward Nicholas Boylston.
Thomas Boylston (1721-1798), a Bos
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Zabdiel Boylston Adams (1739 - 1801)
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Son of Ebenezer Adams and Anne (Boylston) Adams
Brother of Peter Adams, Anne (Adams) Thayer, Boylston Adams, Ebenezer Adams and Micajah Adams
Father of Elizabeth (Adams) Snow, Mary (Adams) Bellows, Frances (Adams) Houghton and Zabdiel Boylston Adams Jr, MD
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zabdiel Adams (November 5, 1739 – March 1, 1801), minister of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, was born in Braintree, now Quincy. His father was the uncle of John Adams, second President of the United States. He graduated from Harvard University in 1759, having made, while in that seminary, great proficiency in learning, and much improved the vigorous powers of mind, with which he was endowed. He was ordained September 5, 1764, and died in the 62nd year of his age, and 37th of his ministry.
Adams was eminent as a preacher of the gospel, often explaining the most important doctrines in
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Fisher Hill moisten Linda Olson Pehlke
Holland Rd., today
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