Matthew BOOMER

Born

abt. 1620 , England

Died

abt. 1692 , Freetown, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Matthew married Eleanor PECKHAM? abt. 1636 in Freetown, Massachusetts Bay Colony . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Eleanor PECKHAM? was born abt. 1640 in Providence Plantations. Eleanor died abt. 1671 in Freetown, Massachusetts Bay Colony .

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Matthew was an immigrant to the United States, arriving by 1636.

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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Matthew BOOMER

Matthew BOOMER married

Eleanor PECKHAM?
Marriage date: abt. 1636
Marriage place: Freetown, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Source: Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
(Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.

Marriage notes:

BOOMER Matthew Matthew (-1679+) & Eleanor _____ (-1671+) by 1660?, by 1662 Newport {Austin's Dict. 23 French Anc. 33 Hazard 14 Peckham 213 McIntire Anc. 68 McCormick-Hamilton 248}

Children of Matthew BOOMER and Eleanor PECKHAM?

Mary BOOMER

Born: abt. 1637, , Massachusetts Bay Colony
Died: abt. 1715, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Married: John LAWTON 1670 Place: Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Married: Gideon FREEBORN 3 June 1678 Place: Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Elizabeth BOOMER

Born: abt. 1659, , Massachusetts Bay Colony
Died: abt. 1720,

Matthew BOOMER

Born: 26 September 1668, Newport, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Died: 20 March 1742 , Freetown, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Married: Hannah CHURCH 27 June 1688 Place: Freetown, Massachusetts, Dominion of New England

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Matthew BOOMER - Title Descendants of Edward Thurston, the first of the name in the colony of Rhode Island Publisher Trow & Smith Book Manufacturing Co., 1865 Origin

Title Descendants of Edward Thurston, the first of the name in the colony of Rhode Island
Publisher Trow & Smith Book Manufacturing Co., 1865
Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Digitized Jan 18, 2008
Length 70 pages
Page 54

1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1668 Birth of Child
Matthew BOOMER was born 26 September 1668, Newport, Rhode Island, USA

'The first settler, Matthew Boomer, built a house near the corner of North Main and Brownell Sts. in 1676, and in 1683, the township was established under the name of Freetown.'

Title A Handbook of New England
Sargent's handbook series
Publisher P.E. Sargent, 1917
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Jan 4, 2008
Page 605

1678 Marriage of Child
Mary BOOMER married 3 June 1678, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to Gideon FREEBORN

'As late as 1686, Matthew Boomer of Freetown, Massachusetts, was fined twenty shillings by the court for 'breaking the Sabbath by suffering his Indian servants to hunt on the Sabbath day.''

Title Colonial intimacies: Indian marriage in early New England
G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
Author Ann Marie Plane
Edition illustrated
Publisher Cornell University Press, 2000
ISBN 0801483638, 9780801483639
Length 252 pages
Page 217

1688 Marriage of Child
Matthew BOOMER married 27 June 1688, Freetown, Massachusetts, Dominion of New England to Hannah CHURCH

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