Boynton Lineage

Bartholomew de Boynton, who, it is stated, was lord of the manor of Boynton in 1007, was ancestor of

Matthew Boynton, Esq., who married Anne, daughter of Sir John Bulmer, of Wilton, and was succeeded by his son,

Sir Thomas Boynton, M.P. for Boroughbridge, and high-sheriff of Yorkshire, in the reign of Elizabeth. He was succeeded by his son.

Sir Francis Boynton, high-sheriff of Yorkshire in 1596. This gentleman married Dorothy, daughter and co-heiress of Christopher Place, Esq. of Halnaby, and dying 9 April, 1617, was succeeded by his only surviving son,

I. Sir Matthew Boynton, Knt. of Barmston and Boynton, who was created a Baronet 25 May, 1618. Sir Matthew sat in parliament in the reign of Charles I., and sided with the republicans during the civil war. He married 1st, Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Griffith, Knt. of Burton-Agnes, in Yorkshire, sole heiress of her brother, Sir Henry Griffith, Bart., and had several children of whom

Francis, was his successor.

Burke, Sir Bernard (1868) A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Thirtieth Edition, Pall Mall, p. 120.