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BigY YDNA is Hap H:
Sources: Thomas Boyle (Boyte) Indentured Servant: Stokes, Braswell
https://pbase.com/daveb/image/77350254
https://pbase.com/daveb/image/173700216
https://pbase.com/daveb/image/171625389
https://pbase.com/daveb/image/173849769
Thomas Boyle, across the river from IOW in Nansemond: https://pbase.com/daveb/image/171845720
120 page pdf https://dn790001.ca.archive.org/0/items/treesofwilsonnew12wils/treesofwilsonnew12wils.pdf
Thomas Boyet land grant 1754 Johnston Co NC (Plantation)
See Also: Stancil/Godwin YDNA Project: https://pbase.com/daveb/stancil
Please give us some information on our local Boyette Family.
JEF, Wilson
There was a Boyette family in Johnston County by 1754 according to
Crown land grants in the NC Archives. This was for a Thomas Boyet
who acquired the land where the present plantation house (see photo) is
located. Thomas is thought to have been born in Nansemond County,
Virginia, in 1711, son of a Thomas and Rebecca Boyett. 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. Henry VIII built a
castle in Thornbury to help defend the Severn Estuary and protect the
county against Welsh invaders from just across the river. The castle is
now operated as an elegant hotel and, according to travel guides, is
well worth the very expensive visit.
Thomas Boyet of Nansemond County had two brothers, William (b.
1713) and Edward (b. 1715). Edward remained in Nansemond County
according to available records, but William is a mystery. Our research
into the history of the family in Johnston and Wilson Counties has
turned up a further mystery. Thomas Boyet seems to have had a son (or
grandson), George, who built the plantation house which still remains.
It appears that all of George's descendants remained in Johnston or
Wake Counties (or moved away). There are neither wills nor estate records available to verify any of this.
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