John Abbott of Boothbay, Land Grant Application
Land grant application submitted between 1835-1838 to the Maine Land Office on behalf of John Abbot of Boothbay, for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Rachel.
Lincoln County
Biography of Henry S. Boynton
Henry S. Boynton, one of the prosperous merchants of Lamoine, Hancock County, was born September 21, 1820, in Wiscasset, Maine. His father, William Boynton, a native of Gilmanton, New Hampshire, removed to Wiscasset when a young man, and was there Deputy Sheriff for a long time and afterward acting High Sheriff for a number of years. William subsequently lived for a time in Lamoine and then successively in Bangor and Chicago, remaining in the latter place until his death, at the age of seventy-nine years. He married Mary Huckins, who bore him the following children: William A., Elizabeth, and Thomas,