THE LINEAGE OF WINSTON BOYNTON, Compiled by Odessa Ray Platt, 1713 Scenic Drive, Ada, Oklahoma 74820, 1976, Found in the LDS Library, Salt Lake City, UT. Pages 1.
In a sequestered, rural neighborhood, bordering on the town of Bridlington, and not far from the shore of the North Sea, in the eastern part of YHorkshire, stands the ancient village of Boynton, which derives importance from its having given name to the family of Boynton, and their principal seat for many centuries. The church was built in the fourteenth cnetruy. Its is of stone, with an embattled tower picturesquely hung with ivy, and formally contained monuments to the memory of the Boyntons.
The manor house was from a very early period the residence of the Boyntons, but the present structure was built by the Strickland family, in to whose possession the estate passed upwards of a century ago; the Boyntons having previously removed, first to Barnston, then to Burton Agnes, in the same neighborhood, which places they acquired by the marriage of Sir Matthew Boynton, in 1618, with Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Griffith, and where the present representative of the family, Sir Francis Boynton, Baronet, continues to reside.
The family sent forth branches into the neighboring villages at an early period. East Heslerton and Wintringham being the abode for several generations of that branch whose descendants William and John came to New England in 1637 and settled at Rowley, Mass. Sir Matthew made preparations for accompanying them, but the prospects of the Puritans becoming brighter in England, he remained at home, and was of great service to the cause espoused by Oliver Cromwell.
The first mention we have of the name as a surname is, Bartholomew de Boynton, who was seized of the manor of Boynton in 1067.
Here I will deviate from the book to say the de Boynton was dropped in the name to become just Boynton near the 1400's. I will not list all the generations in Yorkshire except to say there were many who were knighted and many who were Barons. The parish records of the churches were carefully kept and many interesting entries partaining to the Boyntons may be found in several of them.
I will proceed with Roger-c Boyton, of Wintringham, and resided at Knapton, in that parish. He died in 1558. By his wife, Jenet, daughter of ____ Watson, he had sons James, Richard, William, Edmund, and a daughter Alice.
THE BOYNTON FAMILY, by John Farnham Boynton, pub. by Goodspeed's Book Shop Inc., Boston, Mass. 1897, pps IX-XII.