Mary Bolles
Abt 1673 - 1678 (5 years)-
Name Mary Bolles Birth Abt 1673 New London, New London, CT 
Gender Female Death 6 Jun 1678 New London, New London, CT Person ID I3094 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]
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- 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).