TITLE: Obituary of Dr. Royal Bullard Boynton, Mason Village, (now
         Greenville) New Hampshire.

SOURCE:  Groton Historical Series, Vol III 1893 by Dr. S. A. Green, 
         p.164-165

TRANSCRIBER:  Janice Farnsworth

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Dr. Royal Bullard Boynton was the youngest child of Isaac and Sibyl
(Lawrence) Boynton and was born at Pepperell (Mass.), on February 7, 
1826.  He was descended from John Boynton an early settler of Rowley
(Mass.), and on his mother's side from John Lawrence an original pro-
prietor of Groton (Mass.). 

He was brought up on his father's farm, doing the work which under such
circumstances usually falls to the lot of a country lad; but the chief
ambition of his boyhood was to become a physician.

During the years 1848 and 1849 he attended school at the Lawrence
Academy (Groton, Mass.), where he was preparing to enter an advanced
class in college.        After studying dentistry for a short time
in the office of Dr. Calvin C. Knowles of Lowell, Mass., he began the 
study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. Nehemiah Cutter of Pepp-
erell, Mass., and in 1852 took his degree from the Vermont Medical 
College at Woodstock.

Immediately after his graduation he settled in Pepperell where he re-
mained for three years and then removed to Townsend, Mass.  In 1862 he
established himself at Mason Village (now Greenville), New Hampshire,
where he remained for the three years and then removed to West Town-
send of which place he remained.  He acquired a large practice and was
consulted by patients over a wide range of territory.

On November 12, 1863, Dr. Boynton was married to Hannah Josephine Taft
dau of George and Abby Hannah (Flagg) Taft of Mason Village, New Hamp-
shire.



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