Daughter of Richard & Elizabeth Basselle Swain(e). Most likely born in England. Considering most records have been compiled for NH birth.
*** See link below:
Wife of Nathaniel Boulter, they married in 1647 in Hampton, Rockingham, NH.
Marriage records for her, state her birth as being in NH, but "Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Study Project" I believe is most likely correct, that she immigrated from England. As it is likely that her father and family came over in 1635.
I am staying with the basic date for birth as records vary, but it MAY be Feb 23rd. The baptism date for her is Feb 25, 1627/8.
Her year of passing in some family records is March 14, 1692, but as of now, have found no record or evidence.
Contributor Kenwg (47774038) shared the following:
Her younger brother John Swain was baptized 6 October 1633 in East Hampstead, Berkshire County, England - about 2 miles from Bindield where their parents Richard Swayne and his wife Basill lived. See "The English Origin Of Richard Swaine of Hampton, New Hampshire, and Nantucket" in the October 1999 issue of the "The American Genealogist" for details.
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/39669120/person/382258398802/media/ebd52f20-2f95-410e-826c-0aa1d7b284fa?_phsrc=KXJ24328&usePUBJs=true
Grace came into a considerable estate from her father and was accused of witchcraft.
"Aside from these many women who lived or had lived in families without male heirs, there were at least a dozen other witches who, despite the presence of brothers and songs, came into much larger shares of estates than their neighbors would have expected. In some cases, these women gained full control over the disposition of property. We know about these women because their fathers, husbands, or other relatives left wills, because the women themselves wrote wills, or becase male relatives who felt cheated out of their customary shares fought in the courts for more favorable arrangements.
Grace Boulter of Hampton, one of several children of Richard Swain, is one of these women. Grace was accused of witchcraft in 1680, along with her thirty-two-year-old daughter Mary Prescott. Twenty years earlier, in 1660, just prior to his removal to Nantucket, Grace's father had deeded a substantial portion of his Hampton property to her and her husband Nathaniel, some of which he gave directly to her".
-- The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England by Carol F. Karlsen, 3:113-14. Cited: Norfolk Deeds, 1:116, 154; Dow, History or Hampton 1:85; 2:612-13, 928, 985-86, New Hampshire Province Records, 417.
- Thank you to http://boulter.com/boulter/genealogy/NH/
for sharing this.
She and Nathaniel had 10 children:
Mary Swain(e) B: May 15, 1648, married James Prescott, and was later accused, along with her mother, of witchcraft. #104838512
Temperance B: Jan 8, 1651
Nathaniel B: Mar 4, 1654, married Mary Drake, D: Jun 1689.
Joshua B: May 1, 1655 - Passed in infancy.
Joshua B: Jan 23, 1657 - Nov 15, 1661
Rebecca B: Oct 12, 1659 - Nov 8, 1661
Grace B: Dec 27, 1662 - Jan 26, 1663
Hannah B: Jun 27, 1665
Elizabeth B: Feb 23, 1669, married Joseph Fanning, May 6, 1697.
John B: Dec 2, 1672, married Martha Jackson.
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/39669120/person/382258398802/media/ebd52f20-2f95-410e-826c-0aa1d7b284fa?_phsrc=KXJ24328&usePUBJs=true
*** Contributor "Cranky Today" mentioned the time frame and geography of New Hampshire being formed from Massachusetts. Please see link for on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_County,_Massachusetts_Colony
Contributors "Michael & Julie Swain" (#48091725) & "Velcro" (#47336803) shared link to " English Origin of Richard Swaine of N.H. & Nantucket": http://hampton.lib.nh.us/genealog/swain.pdf
which has some really good information on this family.
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She was previously linked to: 9118498
which still may have been correct... I have contacted Linda Mac. who I have linked to temporarily till this gets straighted out.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
*** See link below:
Wife of Nathaniel Boulter, they married in 1647 in Hampton, Rockingham, NH.
Marriage records for her, state her birth as being in NH, but "Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Study Project" I believe is most likely correct, that she immigrated from England. As it is likely that her father and family came over in 1635.
I am staying with the basic date for birth as records vary, but it MAY be Feb 23rd. The baptism date for her is Feb 25, 1627/8.
Her year of passing in some family records is March 14, 1692, but as of now, have found no record or evidence.
Contributor Kenwg (47774038) shared the following:
Her younger brother John Swain was baptized 6 October 1633 in East Hampstead, Berkshire County, England - about 2 miles from Bindield where their parents Richard Swayne and his wife Basill lived. See "The English Origin Of Richard Swaine of Hampton, New Hampshire, and Nantucket" in the October 1999 issue of the "The American Genealogist" for details.
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/39669120/person/382258398802/media/ebd52f20-2f95-410e-826c-0aa1d7b284fa?_phsrc=KXJ24328&usePUBJs=true
Grace came into a considerable estate from her father and was accused of witchcraft.
"Aside from these many women who lived or had lived in families without male heirs, there were at least a dozen other witches who, despite the presence of brothers and songs, came into much larger shares of estates than their neighbors would have expected. In some cases, these women gained full control over the disposition of property. We know about these women because their fathers, husbands, or other relatives left wills, because the women themselves wrote wills, or becase male relatives who felt cheated out of their customary shares fought in the courts for more favorable arrangements.
Grace Boulter of Hampton, one of several children of Richard Swain, is one of these women. Grace was accused of witchcraft in 1680, along with her thirty-two-year-old daughter Mary Prescott. Twenty years earlier, in 1660, just prior to his removal to Nantucket, Grace's father had deeded a substantial portion of his Hampton property to her and her husband Nathaniel, some of which he gave directly to her".
-- The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England by Carol F. Karlsen, 3:113-14. Cited: Norfolk Deeds, 1:116, 154; Dow, History or Hampton 1:85; 2:612-13, 928, 985-86, New Hampshire Province Records, 417.
- Thank you to http://boulter.com/boulter/genealogy/NH/
for sharing this.
She and Nathaniel had 10 children:
Mary Swain(e) B: May 15, 1648, married James Prescott, and was later accused, along with her mother, of witchcraft. #104838512
Temperance B: Jan 8, 1651
Nathaniel B: Mar 4, 1654, married Mary Drake, D: Jun 1689.
Joshua B: May 1, 1655 - Passed in infancy.
Joshua B: Jan 23, 1657 - Nov 15, 1661
Rebecca B: Oct 12, 1659 - Nov 8, 1661
Grace B: Dec 27, 1662 - Jan 26, 1663
Hannah B: Jun 27, 1665
Elizabeth B: Feb 23, 1669, married Joseph Fanning, May 6, 1697.
John B: Dec 2, 1672, married Martha Jackson.
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/39669120/person/382258398802/media/ebd52f20-2f95-410e-826c-0aa1d7b284fa?_phsrc=KXJ24328&usePUBJs=true
*** Contributor "Cranky Today" mentioned the time frame and geography of New Hampshire being formed from Massachusetts. Please see link for on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_County,_Massachusetts_Colony
Contributors "Michael & Julie Swain" (#48091725) & "Velcro" (#47336803) shared link to " English Origin of Richard Swaine of N.H. & Nantucket": http://hampton.lib.nh.us/genealog/swain.pdf
which has some really good information on this family.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
She was previously linked to: 9118498
which still may have been correct... I have contacted Linda Mac. who I have linked to temporarily till this gets straighted out.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Daughter of Richard & Elizabeth Basselle Swain(e). Most likely born in England. Considering most records have been compiled for NH birth.
*** See link below:
Wife of Nathaniel Boulter, they married in 1647 in Hampton, Rockingham, NH.
Marriage records for her, state her birth as being in NH, but "Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Study Project" I believe is most likely correct, that she immigrated from England. As it is likely that her father and family came over in 1635.
I am staying with the basic date for birth as records vary, but it MAY be Feb 23rd. The baptism date for her is Feb 25, 1627/8.
Her year of passing in some family records is March 14, 1692, but as of now, have found no record or evidence.
Contributor Kenwg (47774038) shared the following:
Her younger brother John Swain was baptized 6 October 1633 in East Hampstead, Berkshire County, England - about 2 miles from Bindield where their parents Richard Swayne and his wife Basill lived. See "The English Origin Of Richard Swaine of Hampton, New Hampshire, and Nantucket" in the October 1999 issue of the "The American Genealogist" for details.
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/39669120/person/382258398802/media/ebd52f20-2f95-410e-826c-0aa1d7b284fa?_phsrc=KXJ24328&usePUBJs=true
Grace came into a considerable estate from her father and was accused of witchcraft.
"Aside from these many women who lived or had lived in families without male heirs, there were at least a dozen other witches who, despite the presence of brothers and songs, came into much larger shares of estates than their neighbors would have expected. In some cases, these women gained full control over the disposition of property. We know about these women because their fathers, husbands, or other relatives left wills, because the women themselves wrote wills, or becase male relatives who felt cheated out of their customary shares fought in the courts for more favorable arrangements.
Grace Boulter of Hampton, one of several children of Richard Swain, is one of these women. Grace was accused of witchcraft in 1680, along with her thirty-two-year-old daughter Mary Prescott. Twenty years earlier, in 1660, just prior to his removal to Nantucket, Grace's father had deeded a substantial portion of his Hampton property to her and her husband Nathaniel, some of which he gave directly to her".
-- The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England by Carol F. Karlsen, 3:113-14. Cited: Norfolk Deeds, 1:116, 154; Dow, History or Hampton 1:85; 2:612-13, 928, 985-86, New Hampshire Province Records, 417.
- Thank you to http://boulter.com/boulter/genealogy/NH/
for sharing this.
She and Nathaniel had 10 children:
Mary Swain(e) B: May 15, 1648, married James Prescott, and was later accused, along with her mother, of witchcraft. #104838512
Temperance B: Jan 8, 1651
Nathaniel B: Mar 4, 1654, married Mary Drake, D: Jun 1689.
Joshua B: May 1, 1655 - Passed in infancy.
Joshua B: Jan 23, 1657 - Nov 15, 1661
Rebecca B: Oct 12, 1659 - Nov 8, 1661
Grace B: Dec 27, 1662 - Jan 26, 1663
Hannah B: Jun 27, 1665
Elizabeth B: Feb 23, 1669, married Joseph Fanning, May 6, 1697.
John B: Dec 2, 1672, married Martha Jackson.
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/39669120/person/382258398802/media/ebd52f20-2f95-410e-826c-0aa1d7b284fa?_phsrc=KXJ24328&usePUBJs=true
*** Contributor "Cranky Today" mentioned the time frame and geography of New Hampshire being formed from Massachusetts. Please see link for on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_County,_Massachusetts_Colony
Contributors "Michael & Julie Swain" (#48091725) & "Velcro" (#47336803) shared link to " English Origin of Richard Swaine of N.H. & Nantucket": http://hampton.lib.nh.us/genealog/swain.pdf
which has some really good information on this family.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
She was previously linked to: 9118498
which still may have been correct... I have contacted Linda Mac. who I have linked to temporarily till this gets straighted out.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
*** See link below:
Wife of Nathaniel Boulter, they married in 1647 in Hampton, Rockingham, NH.
Marriage records for her, state her birth as being in NH, but "Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Study Project" I believe is most likely correct, that she immigrated from England. As it is likely that her father and family came over in 1635.
I am staying with the basic date for birth as records vary, but it MAY be Feb 23rd. The baptism date for her is Feb 25, 1627/8.
Her year of passing in some family records is March 14, 1692, but as of now, have found no record or evidence.
Contributor Kenwg (47774038) shared the following:
Her younger brother John Swain was baptized 6 October 1633 in East Hampstead, Berkshire County, England - about 2 miles from Bindield where their parents Richard Swayne and his wife Basill lived. See "The English Origin Of Richard Swaine of Hampton, New Hampshire, and Nantucket" in the October 1999 issue of the "The American Genealogist" for details.
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/39669120/person/382258398802/media/ebd52f20-2f95-410e-826c-0aa1d7b284fa?_phsrc=KXJ24328&usePUBJs=true
Grace came into a considerable estate from her father and was accused of witchcraft.
"Aside from these many women who lived or had lived in families without male heirs, there were at least a dozen other witches who, despite the presence of brothers and songs, came into much larger shares of estates than their neighbors would have expected. In some cases, these women gained full control over the disposition of property. We know about these women because their fathers, husbands, or other relatives left wills, because the women themselves wrote wills, or becase male relatives who felt cheated out of their customary shares fought in the courts for more favorable arrangements.
Grace Boulter of Hampton, one of several children of Richard Swain, is one of these women. Grace was accused of witchcraft in 1680, along with her thirty-two-year-old daughter Mary Prescott. Twenty years earlier, in 1660, just prior to his removal to Nantucket, Grace's father had deeded a substantial portion of his Hampton property to her and her husband Nathaniel, some of which he gave directly to her".
-- The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England by Carol F. Karlsen, 3:113-14. Cited: Norfolk Deeds, 1:116, 154; Dow, History or Hampton 1:85; 2:612-13, 928, 985-86, New Hampshire Province Records, 417.
- Thank you to http://boulter.com/boulter/genealogy/NH/
for sharing this.
She and Nathaniel had 10 children:
Mary Swain(e) B: May 15, 1648, married James Prescott, and was later accused, along with her mother, of witchcraft. #104838512
Temperance B: Jan 8, 1651
Nathaniel B: Mar 4, 1654, married Mary Drake, D: Jun 1689.
Joshua B: May 1, 1655 - Passed in infancy.
Joshua B: Jan 23, 1657 - Nov 15, 1661
Rebecca B: Oct 12, 1659 - Nov 8, 1661
Grace B: Dec 27, 1662 - Jan 26, 1663
Hannah B: Jun 27, 1665
Elizabeth B: Feb 23, 1669, married Joseph Fanning, May 6, 1697.
John B: Dec 2, 1672, married Martha Jackson.
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/39669120/person/382258398802/media/ebd52f20-2f95-410e-826c-0aa1d7b284fa?_phsrc=KXJ24328&usePUBJs=true
*** Contributor "Cranky Today" mentioned the time frame and geography of New Hampshire being formed from Massachusetts. Please see link for on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_County,_Massachusetts_Colony
Contributors "Michael & Julie Swain" (#48091725) & "Velcro" (#47336803) shared link to " English Origin of Richard Swaine of N.H. & Nantucket": http://hampton.lib.nh.us/genealog/swain.pdf
which has some really good information on this family.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
She was previously linked to: 9118498
which still may have been correct... I have contacted Linda Mac. who I have linked to temporarily till this gets straighted out.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
