518–519. Robert Boltwood was born county Essex, England, in—say—1620, and died in Hadley, Connecticut Colony, on April 6, 1684. His will was dated January 19, 1682, and was proved on September 30, 1684. Mary Gernor was born in Northfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, about 1626, and died on May 14, 1687. He is the son of Thomas Boltwood. They had five children:
| i. | Samuel Boltwood was born probably in Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, about 1648, and died on February 29, 1704. He married Sarah Lewis in 1671, daughter of Capt. William Lewis of Farmington, Connecticut Colony. They had five sons and five daughters. (More information available in the NEHGR.) | |
| ii. | Sarah Boltwood [#259]: She was born in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, about 1650, and died on July 14, 1726. | |
| iii. | Lydia Boltwood was born probably in Wethersfield and died on January 26, 1683. She married John Warner on April 2, 1674, son of Andrew and Mary (Humphrey) Warner. Lydia and Sarah married brothers. | |
| iv. | Martha Boltwood was born probably in Wethersfield and died on September 22, 1710. She married Daniel Warner of Hatfield on April 1, 1674. | |
| v. | Mary Boltwood was born probably in Wethersfield and died on August 19, 1676. She married James Beebe on October 24, 1667. |
Robert Boltwood, a native of Essex County, England, came to America before 1648, when his name first appears in the Connecticut records. He settled in the east part of Wethersfield, in the part now included in Glastonbury, and received a grant of a pond with a quantity of land adjacent thereto, which he purchased from the Indian chief, Peckharen. He was made freeman May 20, 1658.
Per the NEHGR: "When the church at Wethersfield was rent in twain by one of these puerile quarrels over some particular interpretation of certain scripture texts, he was one of those under the lead of the redoubtable John Russell who shook the Connecticut dust off their feet, went up the River, and founded the town of Hadley, in 1659. Little is known about the career of Robert Boltwood in Hadley, but that little is to his credit; he earned the title of sergeant in the militia, ... The Hadley corn mill, three miles north of the village, was burnt by the Indians. The owners declined to replace it, but bold Robert Boltwood rebuilt it in 1677, and ran it until his death in 1684."
His home lot of eight acres was located on the west side of Main Street of Hadley, the fourth in order from the north limits of the settlement. In Hadley held many civil offices.
Mary has also been found called Mary Gernon Rice.