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For genealogists tracing the Boyt / Boyte / Boyett family lines in America, this 1667 record is highly significant. While family histories frequently note a Thomas Boyte receiving a major land grant along the Somerton River in Nansemond County, Virginia, by 1697, the 1667 Bristol registry entry stands as the earliest documented evidence of a man by this name leaving England to cross over to the Virginia colony.

The Bristol Registers of Servants
Author: Coldham, Peter Wilson Date of Publication: 1988

Same spelling as the land patent in Nansemond of Thomas Boyle was was later confirmed to be Thomas Boyt based on other land patents in the area.

***********Boyette Plantation, Johnston Co NC
Source: TREES OF WILSON — Wilson County’s Heritage Family Chronicles of the Wilson County Genealogical Society January 2003
Free PDF Download, family information by Sue & Henry Powell With help from Frances Boyette & Clement Lucas
https://dn790001.ca.archive.org/0/items/treesofwilsonnew12wils/treesofwilsonnew12wils.pdf
The first record of a Boyette in America was the arrival of a Thomas Boyte in 1682 as an indentured servant in Isle of Wight County, just to the north of Nansemond County. This surname is not common in England even today and probably comes from a single individual who settled in the west of England at the time of the Norman Conquest. The family never prospered and spread but remains today right where they have always been, in the little town of Thombury, Gloucestershire, which is about 15 miles north of the city of Bristol near the River Severn. This quiet market town (population 15,000) has been around for thousands of years as a settlement and was taken over by the Normans after the conquest which may explain the presence of the Boyette family there.