Dr. Hugh Bolton 
Hugh was born in 1687 in Lismoyle Or Dullaghy. Hugh's father was Thomas Bolton and his mother is Agnes. His paternal grandfather was Thomas Bolton. He had four brothers and a sister, named John, Samuel, William, Thomas and Agnas. He was the second youngest of the six children. He died at the age of 85 on June 8th, 1772 in Colrain, Massachusetts..General Notes
HUGH BOLTON was born in 1687, probably in Lismoyle or Dullaghy, County Derry, the son of Thomas Bolton. He enjoyed, it is said, a good practice as a physician, but was a dissenter and refused to pay tithes. He assaulted the tax gatherer, and when he saw two constables approaching to arrest him he fled hatless and came to America, landing at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He is found at Wells, Maine, in 1728, where he was a witness for Samuel Emery. He purchased land from Hugh Morrison in Londonderry, New Hampshire, in 1733, and occupied a house there in the winter of 1733-34. As late as 1737/38 he was chosen a sealer of leather, but was soon at Peterboro, New Hampshire, and in 1741 at Colrain, Massachusetts, the first physician there. Dr. Bolton died in Colrain 8 June, 1772, aged 85 years, while crossing the Deerfield River on the ice
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