• General Notes

  THOMAS BOLTON was born about 1695, probably at Lismoyle in the Parish of  Tamlaght O'Crilly, County Derry, where in 1921 eight Bolton families were  living. His father appears to have been Thomas Bolton (No. 2). McLellan's  History of Gorham states that he came to Boston about 1727 . On the same  ship a family named Craige were Passengers. The husband died on the  voyage out, leaving a widow Mary, daughter of Hugh McLellan of County Antrim, and children John, Hugh (born about 1723), and Jenny. Mr. Bolton  married the widow  in Wells, Maine, 27 Aug. 1727, and in 1731 was living  at Falmouth, now Portland, Maine. Ten years later they moved a short  distance westward to the town of Windham, then known as New Marblehead.  Here Mr. Bolton died at the age of 90, not long before his wife's death  in 1788. Often wrote his name Boolton.  In 1740 he was appointed "to settle the Falmouth schoolmaster and  have the whole benefit of him." The next year he owned at Windham a  garrison house on lot no. 52; in 1742 he had a lot no. 54 with a house.  He and Mary were Probably original members of the First Church in 1743,  both holding their membership in 1762. In 1746 he served in Capt. George  Berry's Company and saw later service. His bill of charges for the care  of a sick soldier, James Melvin, is preserved in the Massachusetts Archives, vol. 89, Page 390, and is dated at Falmouth 28 March, 1749.

Details of Thomas' family with Mary McLellan