Thomas Boylston (January 26, 1644-1695) was a prominent early-American
doctor
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and patriarch of the influential Boylston family of
Massachusetts
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Thomas Boylston was born in 1644 in
Watertown, Massachusetts
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to Thomas Boylston Sr. He became a surgeon in 1665 and married Mary Gardner and they had twelve children. One of his sons,
Zabdiel, taught medicine by the father, followed his professional steps and grew up to be a prominent physician.
He was surveyor of the
Muddy River in 1674 and lived at the western end of the
Brookline Reservoir which was then a marshy meadow. He lived in
Brookline, Massachusetts
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(Muddy River) near what is now
Boylston Street
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on land from his wife's family.
[John William Denehy, ''A History of Brookline, Massachusetts, from the First ...'' (1906) p. 88] He was the great-grandfather of
U.S. President John Adams
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, through his granddaughter,
Susanna.
References
People of colonial Massachusetts
1644 births
1695 deaths
Adams political family
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