Married: 1640 Wells, Maine
Died: November 11, 1704, Kittery, Maine
Joseph Bolles
Gentleman
Baptized: February 19, 1607/08 Workshop, Nottinghamshire, England
Married:
1640 Wells, Maine
Died: November 11, 1704, Kittery, Maine
Father: Thomas Bolles b.1576
Mother: Elizabeth Perkins b.c.1580
Wife: Mary Howell b.1623
Children:
Mary Bolles b. 1641
Thomas Bolles b.1644
Samuel Bolles b.1646
Hannah Bolles b.1649
Elizabeth Bolles b.1652
Joseph Bolles b.1654
Sarah Bolles b.1657
Mercy Bolles b.1661
Notes:
-Apprenticed at Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire. He immigrated to New England about 1640, where he settled at Winter Harbor, Maine, engaged in trading, and later resided in Wells, Maine. He was "clerk of the writs" from 1654 to 1664 and councilor. He had inherited the Osberton Estate near Workshop in 1666, including lands in the Bahamas, via the will of his brother John Bolles to his "brother Joseph Bolles in New England". Joseph returned to England to settle affaird; and sold the Osberton Estate. Joseph's house in New England was burned to the ground by Indians, and at his later death, his estate was inventoried worth 842 pounds.
-Joseph Bolles and wife Mary of Wells, to Charles Frost of Kittery granted "a certain peece of sault marsh lying and being in the Township of Cape Porpos contayneing tenn acers or less, wch. formerly Morgaan Howells and given to the said mary Bolles as by his will may and doth appeare" - April 3, 1672
Sources:
-Birth Source: Plantagenet Ancestry, Hearld's Visitation of Nottingham 1569&1614
-Marriage Source: Plantagenet Ancestry
-Death Souce: Plantagent Ancestry