MAGLJBoyle
JOHN BOYLE 1746-1819
- MM 1785, WM 1798-1801, 1803, 1804 (resigned 08/21/1804), The Massachusetts
- DDGM, Boston 1, 1802-1806
- Grand Steward 1795-1796
- Junior Grand Deacon 1797
- Senior Grand Deacon 1798
- Junior Grand Warden 1799
- Senior Grand Warden 1800-1802
BIOGRAPHY
From Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1904, Vol. 6, Page 321:
Col. John Boyle, bookseller and stationer, No. 18 Marlborough Street, Boston. See Suffolk Deeds, clxxxii. 168. Col. Boyle was twice married, and if the reference in the text was not to his mother it was, doubtless, to his first wife, Cecelia, daughter of Martin Gay the Loyalist (see ante, iii. 379400), to whom he was married 12 March, 1772 (Records of the West Church, Boston). She died at Hingham, Massachusetts, 11 April, 1776 (New England Chronicle of Thursday, 25 April, 1776, No. 401, p. 3/2). See History of Hingham (1893), ii. 265. Col. Boyle married (2) Elizabeth Casneau, 20 June, 1778 (Records of the New North Church) and had by her several children who were baptized at the Church in Brattle Square, among them Dorothy Hancock Boyle, baptized 18 May, 1788. Col. Boyle died of apoplexy in Boston, 18 November, 1819 (Boston Town Records). The Columbian Centinel of Saturday, 20 November, 1819, No. 3716, p. 2/4 thus announces his death: —
In this town, John Boyle, Esq. aged 73. During the revolution he commanded 3 regiments and was aid-de-camp to Gov. Hancock.
