JAMES B. BOUGHTON (son of Timothy and Martha Scott Boughton), was born in town of Ridgefield, Fairfield Co., Ct., Feb. 24, 1780. During his father's absence in the service of his country, in the trying period of the Revolutionary war, his family, embracing his wife and four oldest children--Martha, John, Sally and Thaddeus--were taken from their home in Poundridge, N. Y., to her father's, Capt. James Scott, of Ridgefield, where they remained until her husband, Timothy Boughton, returned from the war, which, when he did, he found himself pecuniarily embarrassed and settled on farming lands three miles east of Ridgefield village, where he lived until his death, September, 1806. He, James, continued to live in Ridgefield and vicinity until married, which he did January 1, 1800, to Sarah DeForest, daughter of Capt. John DeForest, of Ridgefield, where she was born March 20, 1778. They settled in Ridgefield, where they farmed for a time, then moved to Redding, where he burned lime at the lime kilns in Redding, moving about 1815 to Delaware county, N. Y., where he engaged in clearing land for a farm. The second season after settling there, 1816, the year of the great frost, the crops were cut off, and starvation seemed imminent; his father-in-law, Capt. DeForest, who was a well-to-do farmer of Ridgefield, learning of their suffering condition, took his teams and wagon and moved the entire family back to Ridgefield, from which, the following year, they removed to the banks of the Hudson river near Rhinebeck, N. Y., from which, not long after, they removed to Victory, Cayuga county, N. Y., where he bought a small farm and built a house and cooper shop, in which he made a large number of barrels for the flouring mills at Port Byron, on the canal, eleven miles distant. They continued living at Victory with several of their children married and settled in the vicinity, until some of the families of their children having moved to Illinois and Michigan, they sold their farm in Victory in 1846, and moved to Jackson, Mich., and lived with their daughter, Esther Van Alstine, where she, Sarah, died, Dec. 21, 1861. After her death he went to reside with his son, John D. Boughton, at Milledgeville, Ill., and from thence they moved to Hazel Green, where he died July 3, 1862, aged eighty-two years.
source: Pages 493-494, "Bouton--Boughton Family. Descendants of John Bouton, a native of France, who embarked from Gravesend, and landed at Boston in December 1635, and settled at Norwalk, CT." by James Boughton, Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers, 1890.

• Married: 1 JAN 1800 ¹ in Ridgefield, Fairfield Co., CT
• Note: They settled first in Ridgefield, CT, then moved to Redding where he worked in the lime kilns. In 1815, the family moved to Delaware County, NY, but in 1816 their crops were destroyed by the freezes which occurred through-out New England that summer. With the help of her father, they moved back to Ridgefield. In 1817, they moved to Rhinebeck, NY and then, sometime between Mar 1819 and 1821, to Victory, Cayuga Co, NY . There he farmed and operated a cooperage. By the time of the 1840 census, they were living in Huron, Wayne Co, NY. In 1846, James and Sarah moved to Jackson, Jackson Co, MI where they lived until her death in 1861. James then moved to Milledgeville, Whiteside Co, IL and then to Hazel Green, Cook Co, IL where he died.

1. Patty BOUTON b: 25 NOV 1801 in Ridgefield, Fairfield Co., CT
2. Abby BOUTON b: 12 OCT 1802 in Ridgefield, Fairfield Co., CT
3. Roxena BOUTON b: 20 JUN 1804 in Ridgefield, Fairfield Co., CT
4. Elizabeth BOUTON b: 27 SEP 1806 in Ridgefield, Fairfield Co., CT
5. John DeForest BOUTON b: 8 SEP 1808 in Ridgefield, Fairfield Co., CT
6. Phebe J. BOUTON b: 13 MAY 1810 in Ridgefield, Fairfield Co., CT
7. Esther BOUTON b: 14 APR 1811 in Redding, Fairfield Co., CT
8. Sally BOUTON b: 25 OCT 1813 in Ridgefield, Fairfield Co., CT
9. Drucilla BOUTON b: 12 JUL 1814 in Ridgefield, Fairfield Co., CT
10. Betsy BOUTON b: 9 AUG 1816 in Delaware Co., NY
11. Mary BOUTON b: 1 MAR 1819 in Redding, Fairfield Co., CT
12. James B. BOUTON , Jr. b: 9 APR 1826 in Victory, Cayuga Co., NY
13. Alanson BOUGHTON b: 29 FEB 1828 in Victory, Cayuga Co., NY

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