May, 31, 1803, aet. 34 ; 4, Daniel d. Sept. 6, 1804, set. 33, mar. Pheebe Howell, left one son, James, who d. young ; 5th, James d. Oct. 24, 1810 aet. 27 years, mar. Anne Brotherson, and left James, M. D., of Peekskill, and Sarah Ann, who mar. Coffin S. Brown, of Peekskill ; 6, Phoebe d. July 7 1816, ffit. 38, mar. Daniel W. Birdsall ; 7, Samuel d. March, 1, 1815, ajt. 35

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mar. Elizabeth, da. of John Titus of Flushing, L. I., and left two da., Mary and Elizabeth, who mar. Thurston Huntington.

Bolton. The surnanne of Bolton is one of considerable antiquity, and is derived from the place of that name in Yorkshire, England.

" Bodelton or Bothelton, the ancient orthography of all the towns which bear this name, (says Whitaker) is evidently from Boel, mansio, implying probably, that it was the principal residence of some Saxon thane. The spelling, with a slight variation, was continued a century or more after the conquest ; for, in the time of Stephen, Abbot of Sallay, (probably in Henry the second's reign,) Elias de Bothilton held lands in this place,* de Feodo de la Leya."b

In the reign of Henry the third, Richard de Bonhilton is named of the village of Bonhilton, in Yorkshire. The Testa Villarum of the time of Henry the third, and Edward the first, contain the name of Robert de Bolrun, as holding six acres of land at Bolrun, in Yorkshire. John de Bolton, bow hearer of Bolton forest, in 1312, was the lineal representative according to Dugdale, of the Saxon earls of Mercia. From VVhilaker's History of Craven It appears that Edwin, Earl of Mercia, was seized of the Manor of Bodeltone"= before the conquest, and held it five years after.