Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Thomas BOUDE
Boude's name is often misspelled Bonde, both in manuscripts & in print. He was born in Perth Amboy or Philadelphia about the year 1700, the son of English immigrant Grimstone Boude. He first appears in the Pennsylvania Gazette for Feb. 1, 1732. The Boudes married into very prominent families here (notably Hillegas & Clarkson), but Thomas doesn't figure in many transactions of record. Among his possessions was a house near Poole's Bridge below the British Barracks operating at the Sign of the Highlander. Boude was a ranking Mason, briefly Philadelphia Coroner, and he died at the home of Matthew Clarkson in 1781. His historical distinction is mainly for laying the brick (probably as master bricklayer with John Palmer & Thomas Redman) at the State House.
[John F. Watson, Annals of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Vol. I (1927), p. 396. Granville Leach, History of the Bringhurst Family with Noyes on the Clarkson, de Peyster and Boude Families, Philadelphia, 1901.]
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