| 8. | John ***** BOUTON was born about 1610 in England (son of Count Nicolas BOUTON DE CHAMILLY and Marie DE CIREY); died on 29 Mar 1644 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Notes:
I. ORIGINS
Information on this family is very badly confused and many erroneous statements have been made and are still being made as to John, his antecedents, and his descendants.
The James Bouton: Bouton-Boughton Family genealogy of 1890 is filled with errors. William Marvin in NEHGR 1897 (51:330-4) critiques the above with full references. Many early writers confused the immigrant John Bouton with his son John who settled at Norwalk. A frequently mentioned ancestry for John Bouton is that he was the son of Count Nicholas Bouton, a French Huguenot. The Huguenots, along with the Puritans, fled the religious persecutionon the Continent. T. R. Marvin believed it was just as likely that he was a relative of John Bowghton of Colchester, Essex, who was summoned before the Vicar-General on 2 March 1527 (See Annals of Non-Conformity in Essex by Rev. T. W. Davids, London 1863 and Strype, Ecc. Mem., 1:119). John arrived in Boston late in the year 1635, single, according to the Hickok genealogy. He left Boston at once, residing at Watertown MA (Hicks, Torrey )and at Newtown (later called Hartford, on the Connecticut River. He was too young to be an important man in this migration to Hartford, and as he died relatively young, he took no prominent part in anything of a public nature. Hickok says John was serviced to another, doubtless associated with Nathaniel Kellogg, and may have arrived at Hartford in November 1635 with Matthew Marvin Senior, who arrived at Boston on the "Increase" in June 1636. ... The name of John Bouton (Bowton), age 20, appears 76th on the list of 174 male and 40 female passengers who embarked 24 July 1635 on the "Assurance" of London, Isaac Bromwell and George Pewsie, Master, A Jo. Bowton, aged 20, embarked to be transported to Virginia. They had been examined by the Minister of the Towne of Gravesend of their conformitie in religion, and the men had taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacie.
It is supposed that said person was the John Bouton, who embarked from Gravesend, England in the Barque ASSURANCE on July 1635 and landed at Boston, MA in December 1635.
A "Jo Bowton" sailed of the Assurance from the Thames River in England in 1635 to Boston Harbor in New England, according to Hotton's list for July 24, 1635. This may have been this John Bouton. He was a single man at the time, age 20 years.
II. LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND
He did not become of record in Boston.
Some sources err in saying he went to Norwalk CT in 1651, but it was his son John who was at Norwalk, because widow Alice had already remarried by that time and was residing at Norwalk.
It is highly probable that he was associated in Hartford with Nathaniel Kellogg, who was the uncle of Daniel Kellogg who married John Bouton'sdaughter Bridget. It is not known whether or not they came from Boston together or whether Nathaniel may have come from England shortly before orsoon after John. It is however fairly clear that John married Alice Kellogg about 1636 / 7.
TAG: 11:116: In the first volume of Families of Old Fairfield, compled by the present writer [DLJ] and published in 1930, a substantially correct account of the first four John Boutons appeared.
III. LEGACY
No record of his death or estate has been found.
IV. SOURCES:
1. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctfairfi/pages/norwalk/norwalkgr.htm (scroll down to /2/ The Genealogical Registry of Norwalk)
2. "Ancestry and Descendants of Henry Perkins Smith and Christiana (Long) Smith - with added data of Henry's brothers and their families and ofHenry's father's and mother's brothers and sisters and their families" compiled by Georgina (Hathaway) Randall - 1958 beginning of page 104
3. Jacobus: History and Genealogy of Families in Old Fairfield, part 1, page 94
4. American Genealogist, 11:118
5. Hoppin's The Washington Ancestry, vol 3, page 489 et seq.
6. Thom's Ancestry of Margaret and William J. Thom (many pages)
7. "The Washington Ancestry & 40 American Colonial Families" by McLain Johnson--page 489.
As for Count Nicholas' family, Huguenots, having to flee France because of persecution, here are a few historical facts :
1572 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre kills as many as 100,000 Huguenots
1585 Huguenots and other Protestants are ordered expelled from France (most stay)
1593 Huguenot Henry IV converts to Catholicism to gain the throne
1598 Edict of Nantes promises protection to Huguenots
1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes leaves Huguenots defenseless; 400,000 flee
So John couldn't be Nicolas' son, since Nicolas would be only 12 years old at his birth, nor could he be his brother who died in 1613.
John married Alice KELLOGG about 1635 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Alice was born on 26 Mar 1600 in England; died on 01 Dec 1680 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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