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Matthew BOOMER was born abt. 1620 in England
Matthew BOOMER was the child of ? and ?Matthew was an immigrant to the United States, arriving by 1636.
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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 Rhode Island, USA. Eleanor died abt. 1671 in Freetown, Massachusetts, USA (Assonet) (East Freetown).
Matthew BOOMER died abt. 1692 in Freetown, Province of Massachusetts Bay .
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Eleanor PECKHAM?-- Date: abt. 1636 Place: Freetown, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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.
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 (b.abt. 1637, , Massachusetts Bay Colony d. abt. 1715, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations)
m. John LAWTON 1670 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA
m. Gideon FREEBORN 3 June 1678 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA
Elizabeth BOOMER (b.abt. 1659, , Massachusetts Bay Colony d. abt. 1720, )
Matthew BOOMER (b.26 September 1668, Newport, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. 20 March 1742 , Freetown, Province of Massachusetts Bay )
m. Hannah CHURCH 27 June 1688 in Freetown, Massachusetts, USA (Assonet) (East Freetown)
Eleanor PECKHAM?-- Date: abt. 1636 Place: Freetown, Massachusetts Bay Colony 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.
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 (b.abt. 1637, , Massachusetts Bay Colony d. abt. 1715, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations)m. John LAWTON 1670 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA
m. Gideon FREEBORN 3 June 1678 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA
Elizabeth BOOMER (b.abt. 1659, , Massachusetts Bay Colony d. abt. 1720, ) Matthew BOOMER (b.26 September 1668, Newport, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. 20 March 1742 , Freetown, Province of Massachusetts Bay )m. Hannah CHURCH 27 June 1688 in Freetown, Massachusetts, USA (Assonet) (East Freetown)
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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
1668 Birth of ChildMatthew 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 ChildMary BOOMER married 3 June 1678, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA 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 ChildMatthew BOOMER married 27 June 1688, Freetown, Massachusetts, USA (Assonet) (East Freetown) to Hannah CHURCH
Added: 3/28/2010 7:06:10 PM
- Updated: 1/10/2020 7:25:48 AM
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