Bonython's of Cornwall & their Maine Connections

Richard Bonython, Proprietor of Saco, Maine:

Richard Bonython's parents were John Bonython & Eleanor Myllayton: of Cornwall: Her father Job Myllayton was Gov of St Michaels Mount in 1547 in place of Humphrey Arundell, who was executed.

John and Eleanor Bonython had the following children:

1. Reskymer, son and heir.

2. Richard, the emigrant to Maine

3. Edmond

4. William

5. John, Captain of Pendennis Castle

6. Elizabeth, m. Henry Pomeroy, Mayor of Tregone 15 Apr 1600

7. Anne m. Walter Roscarrock, 1606..

8. Eleanor, M. Richard Leigh, Gent 9 Nov 1601: (Registers of St. Clumb Major 1596-1601) Richard Leigh was son of William Leigh and Mary Pomeroy, dau. of Andrew Pomeroy of Newton Ferrers, Devon.

#2: Richard Bonython was baptized at St Columb Major, 3Apr 1580. (Richard Bonython Comptroller of the Stannaries of Cornwall and Devonshire 1603 and 1604. )

He and his family went to Saco Maine in 1631, with a patent dated 12 Feb 1629-30 for a large tract of land 4 miles by 8 miles on the East side of the Saco River.

He died about 1650. He preferred the Church of England way of preaching. He had 1 son, John, b c 1620, England. D c 1640, Saco: and two daughters. His son "lived a life of debauchery and outlawry during the 20 years of his existence." (“Sagamore of Saco”)

This Richard Bonython, early proprietor of Saco Maine, was brother in law of Henry Pomeroy, (Hugh, Sir Edward & Joan Sapcotes.) This Henry oversaw the sale of several Pomeroy properties in Tregony.

Henry Pomeroy's, Jr's cousin, Thomas Bonython, son and heir of 1. Reskymer, was a life time Captain in the Holland Regiment: The Bonython genealogy says being captain in "The Low Countires consumed his patrimony."

(His son John Bonython was born in 1618, London: Grandson Charles Bonython was Steward of the Court of Westminster, 1683; Sold the manor of Bonython in 1702. Lived in London.)