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This website is dedicated in memory of Faye Boyett Bryant.
With humble & extremely grateful appreciation to numerous cousins who helped gather & document our family trees. It would take another book to name them all, but I especially want to send big hugs to Shirley Boyette Rudin, David Boyette of VA, David Boyett of FL, Eileen & Andy Boyt of Wales, Joseph Boyette, Garland Boyett, Cody Elliott, Elliot Harry, Gail Bullwinkle, Gary Boyett (now deceased), Sean Washburn, Ronald Boyett, & last but never least because she’s put up with me & my goal the most, my sister Lea Wade. I just wish I could have finished this before our mother & her siblings died; they all lived into their 90s, but “life” got in my way. This information is not to be copied, redistributed, or used for any commercial purposes.
Author’s Comments
This work provides an expanded supplement to From Boyt to Boyette: The Descendants of Thomas Boyet (FBTB). Over time various spellings derived from BOYT: BOIT/BOYT/BOYTE/BOYET/BOITE/ BOYETT/BOYETTE/BOYD/BOYATT et al. Throughout this Supplement, I mention historical conclusions, customs, actions, reactions, expectations, and circumstances that changed over time. A preponderance of evidence (documentation based on primary sources) and DNA findings are used to substantiate some of these conclusions. Please see the Will of Thomas Boyte Sr.
First & foremost let us realize that not all the US Boyts (whatever spelling) descend from Thomas BOYT of Nansemond Co VA (tax list 1704) or the early Boytes in NC. For instance: 2 Boyt brothers immigrated into Iowa in the late 1880s where they founded the Boyt Harness Co. Their family arrived from the Bere Regis /Affpuddle area in Dorset England. Another Boyt line from Poole went to Canada also during the late 1800s. There are Boyts living in the USA today who descend from Slovenian & Slovakian Bojts who immigrated into Pennsylvania & South Carolina. My focus is American records; Eileen Boyt’s publication for British Isles Boyt & Boyett families is forthcoming.
Y-DNA provides proof that our families originated in England, not France, as I and others thought. Y-DNA from descendants of Thomas BOYT of Wayne Co NC shows that our immigrant ancestor came from Prescott England about 1631 with additional suggestions to BOYTs in High Cross England in the 1300s. Surprising to most of us, is that the later Wayne Co NC BOYTs arrived in America before Thomas BOYT of the Oct 1697 land patent & 1704 tax list for Nansemond Co VA.
I realized some years ago, that the quick proliferation of the surname—especially in early NC records—seems improbable for descendants of 1 immigrant. Perhaps, so many surviving children & grandchildren, suggest that at least 2 or 3 BOYT men immigrated to America. The 3 timelines (chronological, by name, & by place) were created to delineate documented events for Boyts in VA & NC during the 17th & 18th centuries; its main purpose remains to list early BOYT men/families, dates, places, & the records they created as well as how their surname was spelled in a particular document.
I originally planned to provide documentary evidence for ALL individuals in the USA whose surname included these spellings: BOIT, BOIETT, BOITE, BOYT, BOYTE, BOYET, BOYETT, BOYETTE, BOYATT, including a few BOYDs & BUYATTs and various misspellings or misread surnames, such as BOZET, BOGET, ROZEL, and numerous others.
