John Bolles

1677 - 1767  (89 years)

• Name	John Bolles
  Birth	Aug 1677	New London, New London, CT
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Jan 1767	New London, New London, CT
  Person ID	I3032	Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2006

  
  

  Father	Thomas Bolles,   b. 1 Dec 1644, Wells, York, ME d. 26 May 1727, New London, New London, CT (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Zipporah Wheeler,   b. 19 Nov 1648, Salem, Essex, MA d. 6 Jun 1678, New London, New London, CT (Age 29 years)
  Marriage	1 Jul 1669	New London, New London, CT
  Notes	Montville: Zipporah Wheeler of Groton, married 1 July 1669. "On the evening of June 6, 1678, while Thomas Bolles was absent from home, Mary and Joseph, with their mother, Zipporah, were murdered by a boy named John Stoddard. The wife and two eldest childdren were found dead, weltering in their own blood, with the infant, not a year old, wailing, but unhurt, by the side of its mother The perpetrator of this bloody deed was a vagrant youth, of uncontrolled passion, who had demanded of the wife shelter and lodging in the house, but was refused. Some angry words ensued, and the diabolical boy, seizing the axe that lay at the wood pile, rushed in and took awful vengeance on his victims. He soon afterwards confessed..." and was tried, convicted and executed at Hartford 9 Oct. 1678. From "History of Montville, Connecticut, formerly the North Parish of New London," by Henry A. Baker. [1]
  Histories		History of Montville including Thomas Turner
  Family ID	F905	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Edgecombe,   b. 29 Jul 1678, New London, New London, CT d. 8 Mar 1785, New London, New London, CT (Age 106 years)  [2, 3]
  Marriage	3 Jul 1699	New London, New London, CT
  Children	1. Joseph Bolles,   b. 1 Mar 1701, New London, New London, CT   2. John Bolles,   b. 22 Oct 1702, New London, New London, CT   3. Thomas Bolles,   b. 12 Jul 1704, New London, New London, CT   4. Samuel Bolles,   b. 22 Apr 1707, New London, New London, CT   5. Ebenezer Bolles,   b. 12 Jul 1708, New London, New London, CT + 6. Patience Bolles,   b. 26 Nov 1709, New London, New London, CT d. Abt 1760, New London, New London, CT (Age 50 years)   7. Zipporah Bolles,   b. 6 Oct 1711, New London, New London, CT   8. Isaiah Bolles,   b. 11 Oct 1713, New London, New London, CT   9. Enoch Bolles,   b. 20 Oct 1715, New London, New London, CT   10. Joshua Bolles,   b. 5 Aug 1717, New London, New London, CT
  Histories		History of Montville including Thomas Turner
  		John Turner Bio in "The History of King's County"
  Family ID	F896	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He was a Rogerine Baptist, and like his son, Joseph, "suffered persecution and rejoiced in them as suffering for conscience's sake." Joseph was"whipped at Norwich in 1725...for violating the Sabbath by going to a Baptist religious meeting."

  
  

• Sources

  [S95] Baker, Henry A., History of Montville, Connecticut : formerly the north parish of New London from 1640 to 1896, (Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn, 1896). [S95] Baker, Henry A., History of Montville, Connecticut : formerly the north parish of New London from 1640 to 1896, (Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn, 1896), 111-113. [S116] Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The History of King's County, (Salem, Mass: The Salem Press Company, 1910), pg 849-850.