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Title: History of the town of Princeton, in the county of Worcester and commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1759-1915
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Blake, Francis E. (Francis Everett), 1839-1916 Princeton (Mass.)
Subjects: Princeton (Mass.) -- History Princeton (Mass.) -- Genealogy
Publisher: Princeton, Pub. by the Town
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lston) Gill, the second wife of theHon. Moses Gill. Mrs. Hallowell received £3000 from herbrother Nicholas Boylstons estate. See Suffolk Probate,1.70, f445. Ward Nicholas received his early education in the freepublic schools of Boston. In March, 1770, at the requestof his uncle Nicholas Boylston, Esq. (who died the follow-ing year), he dropped the name of Hallowell, through aroyal license bearing the signature of King George HI, andadded to his christian name that of his uncle, who hadpromised to leave him at his death certain large estates. Mr. Boylston was twice married, the full name of his first wife, Mary is not obtainable. His second marriage was to Alicia Darrow of Yarmouth, England,later known as Madam Boylston. On Oct. 12th, 1773, Mr. Boylston commenced an ex-tended journey through Europe and Asia, sailing on boardthe King of Naples from Boston bound for Newfound-land; continuing, he sailed to Italy, and proceeding toTurkey, Syria, the Archipeligo, Palestine, Egypt, and the
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WARD NICHOLAS I.OVr.STOX1740- i,S2S Biography 279 Barbary Coast. He also passed through Geneva, Savoy,France and Flanders. He arrived in London in 1775, where he remained fortwenty-five years, engaged in various lines of trade. In1800 he sailed for America, arriving in Boston on the 15thof May. In September, 1804, he succeeded to the estateof Hon. Moses Gill, and from that time until his death in1828, he made Princeton his place of residence during thegreater part of the time, but spending the winter monthsat his winter residence at Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Mass. Soon after his arrival in Boston, Mr. Boylston confirmedto Harvard University a bequest of his uncle, NicholasBoylston, Esq., amounting to $23,200 as a foundation ofthe professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, with the con-dition that John Quincy Adams should be appointedprofessor. Several smaller sums were subsequently do-nated to Harvard and large bequests were made to thesame institution in his will.* Without attempting to re

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