 1721 - 1782 (60 years)
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| Name |
Linton John |
| Title |
Rev. |
| Suffix |
Jnr. |
| Birth |
12 Dec 1721 |
Freiston, Lincolnshire  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
12 Mar 1782 |
| Person ID |
I127 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
11 Mar 2024 |
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| Notes |
- SUMMARY
John Linton was born on 12th December 1721 in Freiston, Lincolnshire, the son of Rev John Linton a Vicar and Elizabeth Wood. He was one of three children and they would have grown up in 'Whiteloaf Hall' which John snr. bought in 1711 (the first loaf of white bread in England was thought to have been baked there). As well as being the Vicar of Freiston for 62 years, their father was a Justice of the Peace and so the family would have been seen as pillars of the village community.
John went to school in Coxwold, Yorkshire which is far away from Freiston - it's where his father also went to school, so must have rated it to send his son back up there (The paternal Linton grandfather, John Linton was a wooden draper from Yorkshire). After school John also followed in his fathers footsteps in going to Cambridge University. He was admitted as a 'pensioner' (meaning he paid for his own fees and lodgings), whereas his father had been a 'sizar' meaning he had to have financial assistance and work his way through. This shows how the family was richer already from one generation to the next. John was aged 17 when he started at Sidney College on 17th Oct 1739. He gained his BA in 1744 and his MA in 1747.
He must have studied theology, which is unsurprising with a Vicar for a Dad, and was ordained a Deacon at Lincoln on 10th March 1744, and became a priest on 22nd December 1745 (the same year as the Jacobite Rising in Scotland).
John married Elizabeth Boulton on 31st Jan 1750. She was the daughter of Henry Boulton of Stixwold and Alice Bolton of Moulton, both from minor land-owning families in Linconshire. John and Elizbeth had 9 children, of whom their son John is the significant one to continue this family tree.
John became a Lecturer in Boston, Lincolnshire 1753-73, which in the language of the time meant a junior member of the clergy who delivered sermons and helped the Vicar or Rector. The town corporation of Boston had appointed a Lecturer as one of the church ministers from 1645 onwards. Boston was where almost all John and Elizabeth's children were born.
1773 was the year John's father - John Linton snr. - died, and so it's not surprising that John jnr then became Canon of Frieston and then Vicar of Frieston-cum-Butterwick 1773-82 (Freiston and Butterwick parishes seem to have been amalgamated in the mid 1700s). He also was a Justice of the Peace, like his father.
John died on 12th March 1782. His wife Elizabeth died twelve years later in 1794.
We can see from John's Will, written two years before his death, that he valued books which he left to his family, and also that he left over 200 acres of land in different parcels + some cottages and houses which he must have either bought or inherited. This process of buying land and thereby moving into the land-owning class continued with his son John who became the local lord of the manor of Freiston.
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Cambridge University record:
John LINTON
Admitted pensioner [this is the same as commoner, and means he paid for his own fees and lodging] aged 17 at Sidney Sussex College 17 Oct., 1739.
Son of John, Vicar of Freiston, Lincolnshire . Born there.
School, Coxwold [ North Riding of Yorkshire ].
Matriculated 1740-1 ;
B.A. 1743/4 ;
M.A. 1747 .
Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 10 Mar., 1744/5; priest, 22 Dec., 1745.
Source: https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=linton&suro=w&fir=john&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50
Family records say he was a lecturer in Boston, Lincolnshire 1753-73, and latterly Canon of Freiston, Vicar of Freiston-cum-Butterwick 1773-82, Justice of the Peace.
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mention of John Linton jnr as lecturer of Boston 1753-73
source: p.173, 'The History and Antiquities of Boston', Pishey Thompson, 1856
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_History_and_Antiquities_of_Boston/C_81AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=rev+john+Linton+lecturer+Boston&pg=PA173&printsec=frontcover
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Birth record:
Name John Linton
Baptism Date 12 Dec 1721
Baptism Place Freiston,Lincoln,England
Father John Linton
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/80787799:9841?tid=&pid=&queryId=5ee53bd0-e837-496e-a81b-74ab4e095f22&_phsrc=Byr3&_phstart=successSource
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Marriage record:
Name John Linton
Marriage Date 31 Jan 1750
Marriage Place Freiston,Lincoln,England
Spouse Elizabeth Boulton
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/5864910:9852?tid=&pid=&queryId=6c0944e9-d44c-4465-a4cf-ee9b29a66aad&_phsrc=Byr1&_phstart=successSource
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There is a record of Rev John Linton's Will held in the National Archives, written two years before his death, on 30th May 1780:
To Eliz.wf.moiety or ½ part of all household goods, plate, linen, china, sum of £20, 40 volumes of books of her choice (except those given to d.)
To James, son, £100.
To Eliz.d. messuage & 62a in Leake, Lincs. with lands, also in Leake, in tenure of Wm. Howard.
To Alice, d. messuage & 64½a. in Freiston with cottage & 1a. To Mary, d.messuage & 14a in Leake, also lands in occup. of John Wiley also 2 cottages & 33a in Freiston.
To each d.£10 & all books "in closet in Keeping Parlour".
To Eliz. wf. messuage & 7a in Freiston with 2a in Butterwick & 1a Intake at Sea Bank for life & then to son John.
To Eliz. wf. messuage & 30a in Freiston for life & then to son, Henry. To John, son, all other lands subject to annuities of £12.10 to Eliz.wf. for life & extra £9.4 p.a. for each d. as long as they reside with mother. To John, son, leasehold estate received of John Dryden of Canons Ashby. To John & Henry, sons, remainder of books and pamphlets. To John remainder of chattels (Exec.)
Field names given in property descriptions.
source: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=011-1832&cid=-1#-1
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