Sarah (Morecock) Boylston (1696-1774)

Mrs Sarah (Morecock) Boylston

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She was married in 1715 to the wealthy merchant Thomas Boylston, of Boston. They had eight children of which seven (above) reached adulthood. Her husband died in 1739 and Mrs Boylston helped her sons, Nicholas and Thomas, "build the business into a sizeable fortune". In the early 1760s, she purchased a mansion on School Street, Boston, and commissioned the leading portraitist in the colonies, John Singleton Copley, to paint pictures of herself and her surviving children to be displayed in her new house. 

Spouse (1)

Thomas Boylston

Thomas B. Boylston, Merchant, of Boston, Massachusetts

1691-1739

Children (7)

Nicholas Boylston

Nicholas Boylston, Merchant, of Boston & London; Benefactor of Harvard

1716-1781

Sarah (Boylston) Robinson

Mrs Sarah (Boylston) Robinson

1717-1787

Thomas Boylston

Merchant of Boston & London; died unmarried

1721-1798

Mary (Boylston) Hallowell

Mrs Mary (Boylston) Hallowell

1722-1816

Nathaniel Boylston

Merchant at St. Kitts in the British West Indies, 1771

b.1724

Lucy (Boylston) Rogers

Mrs Lucy (Boylston) Rogers

1725-1759

Rebecca (Boylston) Gill

Mrs Rebecca (Boylston) Gill

1727-1798

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Boston Brahmin
American Paintings at Harvard, Volume 1. By Harvard Art Museums, Theodore E. Stebbins, Melissa Renn, Ross Barrett