Thomas Bolles
1644 - 1727 (82 years)-
Name Thomas Bolles Birth 1 Dec 1644 Wells, York, ME 
Gender Male Death 26 May 1727 New London, New London, CT Person ID I3088 Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart Last Modified 24 Feb 2006
Father Joseph Bolles, b. Feb 1608, England d. 1678, Wells, ME (Age 69 years) Mother Mary Howell, b. Mar 1624 Histories 
History of Montville including Thomas Turner Family ID F907 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 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]
Children 1. Mary Bolles, b. Abt 1673, New London, New London, CT d. 6 Jun 1678, New London, New London, CT (Age 5 years)2. Joseph Bolles, b. Abt 1675, New London, New London, CT d. 6 Jun 1678, New London, New London, CT (Age 3 years)+ 3. John Bolles, b. Aug 1677, New London, New London, CT d. 7 Jan 1767, New London, New London, CT (Age 89 years)Histories History of Montville including Thomas Turner Family ID F905 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- 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.
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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).