It's great to see the different Boynton lines popping up from everywhere - thanks to Chuck Seyfert, and great to have some lines from Maine at last - though we all evidently originated in Rowley - ancestors that is. Sarah, I don't think there is an error in the beginning of your line - it looks as though you are in William's direct line, John's older brother. John Boynton who married Ellen Pell had a son named Caleb in Rowley in 1649 who married Hannah Harriman. Your Caleb who married Mary Moore(s) was born in Rowley in 1650. Here's a URL for a website that has a lot of information (a lot from John Farnham & Caroline Boynton's 1897 book): http://members.aol.com/drquine/boynton.html There's some interesting history there as well as a link to Kathryn Cochrane who is from John Boynton's line who has some more interesting history of Rowley at her site. It looks as though John Stafney's line is also from William as his Caleb Boynton was born in 1650 but only he can confirm that. I don't have the Boynton book but there is a website that gives a lot of info from it, Mike Pluvoy's American Boynton Association website. I sent a list of these above websites and more to the Boynton List Digest on November 6th which was published on the Digest if you have access to it. I've heard more than once that all Boyntons (and all variant spellings) in the U.S. came from William and John Boynton of Rowley. If that's true we are more fortunate than most, even though we still can come up against brick walls (especially with regard to female ancestors). Will send in my line soon as I can firm up some more wives' names but briefly it's: John and Ellen (Pell) Boynton; Capt.Joseph and Sarah (Swan) Boynton; Sgt. Richard and Sarah (Dresser) Boynton; Nathaniel and Mary (Stewart) Boynton; (all the foregoing from Rowley); Richard and Susannah (Williams) Boynton (from MA and N.H.); Nathaniel and Hannah (Humphries) Boynton of Lynn, MA primarily; William Pickering Boynton who married Harriet K. Brown - Lynn and Marblehead, MA; William Frank Boynton who married Emma Potter - Marblehead (my grandfather and grandmother): (these last three generations - in Lynn and Marblehead were in the shoe manufacturing business; my father George Potter Boynton of Marblehead who married my mother Agnes (Porter) Boynton of Cutler (Washington Co.), ME; and myself Mildred (Boynton) Laurine who married Anthony J.Laurine, Sr. of Manhattan,N.Y.( Anthony, Sr. now deceased). I find it easier to keep the generations straight if I add descriptive data - sorry it's not as brief as I intended. Have only just started my genealogy website so it's not ready for a link yet. If anyone in any Boynton line could shed more light on where Hannah Humphries came from I would really appreciate the info - think she was from Marblehead but have not yet been able to confirm her parentage. Thanks. Mildred Laurine cascobaylife@worldnet.att.net