Eleanor (Plover) Boyce (abt. 1610 - 1694)

Born about 1610 in England

Wife of Joseph Boyce — married 4 Oct 1634 in Burford, Oxfordshire, England

Descendants

Died 1694 at about age 84 in Salem, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Eleanor Plover married on October 4, 1634 in Burford, Oxfordshire, England, Joseph Boyce, son of Joseph Boyce and Margery, who was born in 1611 in Burford, Oxfordshire, England. ^{[1] [2]}

She and Joseph were found in the records of Salem as early as 1640. He early associated himself with the Quakers. He was frequently fined for absence from attendance from public worship on the Lord's Day at the Salem Quarterly Court. On one occasion his daughters Esther and Elizabeth are named as well, although Elenor is not. ^[3]

Joseph's will was dated September 4, 1684 and was proven February 18, 1695, indicating approximately the time of his death. Elenor died about 1694. ^{[4] [5]}

In his will ;

• he devised all his estate to his wife Eleanor for life
• then my now dwelling house to my son Joseph, for his life remainder
• daughter Elizabeth Hanson
• daughter Mary Southwick
• grandsons (Boyce children): eldest Joseph, second son Benjamin, third son John...(torn) ^[6]

Their children born in Salem were: Mary, Esther, Elizabeth, Joseph, and Benjamin. ^[4]

Children

1. Joseph baptized at Burford on November 7, 1635; buried November 10, 1635. ^[2]
2. Mary Boyce, baptized at Burford on March 12, 1636/7; married at Salem in 1653, Josiah Southwick ^{[2] [7] [8] [5]}, son of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, who was born in 1632 and died in 1693. ^[9]
3. Esther Boyce, baptized at Salem on February 12, 1640/1^[8], married February 23, 1663, Daniel Southwick ^[7], son of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, born 1637, baptized in First Church, Salem, Massachusetts on February 21, 1640/1. ^{[10] [5]}
4. Eliza or Elizabeth, baptized at Salem, March 6, 1642^[7]; married Tobias Hanson. ^{[11] [8]}
5. Joseph baptized at Salem on March 31, 1644/5; married Sarah Meacham on February 4, 1667/8. ^{[7] [8]}
6. Benjamin baptized at Salem May 16, 1646 ^[7]; died before 1684. ^[8] (not mentioned in his father's November, 1684 will)

Source notes

Salem Baptisms Children: BOYCE (p. 107)

Benjamin, s. Joseph, bp. 16: 3m: 1647. CR1

Elizabeth, d. Joseph, bp. 6: 1m: 1642. CR1

Hester, d. Joseph, bp. 21: 12m: 1640. CR1

Joseph, s. Joseph, bp. 31: 1m: 1644. CR1

Salem Marriages

Boyce, Joseph, and Sara Meachum, 4: 12m: 1667. CTR (p. 127)

Boyce, Mary, and Josiah Southwick, sr., 13: 10m: 1653. CR7 (p. 127)

Boyes, Hester, and Daniell Sothwick, 23: 12m: 1663. CTR (p. 128) ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Whitaker, Wilford Woodruff. The Boyce Family of England and America, 1986
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Brandon, John C. & Janet I. Delorey. Terms of Endearment: The Puzzling Will of Rebecca Bacon of Salem, Massachusetts... in: The American Genealogist, Volumes 72-73, Donald L. Jacobus, New Haven, Connecticut, 1997 p. 23-32
3. ↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts: 1662-1667, Massachusetts, Essex Institute, 1913
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Sterns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2, Lewis Publishing Company, 1908, p. 863
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Crane, Ellery Bicknell, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 1, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907, p. 467
6. ↑ Case 2929: p. 1-4: Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5} Vital Records of Salem Massachusetts to the Year end of the Year 1849, Vol I Births, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1916
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4} Perley, Sidney. History of Salem Massachusetts, Volume II 1638-1670, 1926
9. ↑ Austin, John Osborne. One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1893, p. 214
10. ↑ Caller, James More, Maria A. Ober . Genealogy of the Descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick of Salem, Mass: The Original Emigrants, and the Ancestors of the Families Who Have Since Borne His Name, J. Choate Printers, Salem, Massachusetts, 1881, p. 76
11. ↑ Hanson Relatives: Ancestors and Descendants of Love, Susan, Nahum, and Chares Hanson, and Ancestors of Some of the Spouses of Hanson Descendants, Gateway Press, 1977

See also:

• Great Migration Newsletter, Volumes 1-7 Great Migration Study Project, 1990.