Appleton Coat-of-Arms

Appleton

The name of Appleton has been spelled in Essex County Records Apelton, Apleton and Appelton. The first of the name in America and the ancestor of the American family is Samuel Appleton.

Samuel Appleton was born at Little Waldingfield, Parva, England in 1586, the son of Thomas Appulton and Mary Isaack, and emigrated to Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts in 1635. He was made a freeman May 25, 1636 and chosen as a representative in 1637.

He married first Judith Everard in Preston England on Jan. 24, 1616, and his second wife, Martha, about 1633.

A son of the first marriage, Hon. Samuel Appleton, was born in Little Waldingfield, England, in 1625 and emigrated to Ipswich, Mass., with his father.

John Appleton, Samuel's oldest brother, was born in 1622 in Waldingfield, Suffolk County, England and came to this country with his father and remaining siblings in 1635.

Samuel had a saw mill in Ipswich and achieved distinction with his regiment in King Philip's War in 1676. He was a member of the first provincial council; and assistant for six years and a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas from 1692 until his death in 1696.

In addition to the saw mill in Ipswich, he also had an interest in the iron works in Lynn, Mass.(Saugus), having 600 acres of land there occupied in 1688 by his son, Samuel.

Col. Samuel Appleton, the second Samuel Appleton's son, was born in Ipswich Nov. 3, 1654, moving to Lynn where he was interested in the iron works. He is believed to have been the last ironmaster of the iron works at Saugus, returning to Ipswich in 1689 where he became a shop keeper and esquire.

A brother, Lt. Oliver Appleton, born in Ipswich in 1677, was a yeoman who married Sarah Perkins of nearby Topsfield on Dec. 17, 1701.

A son, John Appleton, was born in Ipswich in 1707. A joiner and yeoman, living his entire life in Ipswich, he married Lucy Boardman on Aug. 4, 1731.

Their daughter, Lucy, married Abraham Howe Jr. about Dec. 14, 1752. Daughter, Lucy Howe, married Moses Boynton of Rowley, Mass., a decendant of another early New England family.

Moses was the great, great grandson of John Boynton, who, along with his brother, William, were among the first settlers of Rowley, Mass.

Also decended from Thomas Appulton, Samuel Appleton and Judith Everard Appleton is (John) Calvin Coolidge (Jr.), 30th President of the United States, and Mrs. Franklin Pierce (Jane Means Appleton), wife of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States.

We are all decendents of Henry I, King of England, d. 1135.

Our decendency from Thomas Appulton can be found here.

More information about Rowley, Ipswich and Lynn can be found in the Essex County, MA GenWeb site, the Town of Ipswich, MA GenWeb site, the Town of Rowley, MA GenWeb site and by subscribing to the Essex-Roots email list discussion.

 

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