Bogle, Alexander

Published: 03 December 2014
Updated: 08 Apr 2020
Researchers: Dr. Andrew Millard, Teresa Rust
Editor: Teresa Rust

Alexander Bogle, #6 on George S. Stewart’s Captured at Dunbar list ¹
Name Variations: Bogell, Bogle, Boyle
Appears in: Boston, Roxbury and Weymouth, Massachusetts

First Generation in the New World

1. ALEXANDER¹ BOGLE, was born presumably in Scotland and died at Roxbury, Massachusetts on 27 Mar 1706. ² He married, first, at Boston, by 1659, MARGARET (_____). ³ Margaret died at Boston, Massachusetts on 22 Apr 1661 (20 days after childbirth). ⁴ He married, second, at Weymouth on 16 Jul 1662, SARAH KING. ⁵, ⁶ “Goodwife Bogle” Sarah died at Roxbury on 02 Sep 1712.⁷

Biographical Notes:
1. Contributed by Dr. Andrew Millard in July 2018:
According to, Christopher Gerrard, Pam Graves, Andrew Millard, Richard Annis, and Anwen Caffell, in, Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650, (England: Oxbow Books, 2018), on page 248, Alexander is categorized as: Probable [that he is a Dunbar prisoner transported on the Unity] Bogle/Boyle, Alexander. Residences: Boston MA. Appears: 1657. D.?1675. A founder of SCS. [Exiles; DR; SPOWS; Ch.8] For explanations of the category, abbreviations and references see List of Dunbar prisoners from Lost Lives, New Voices.
2. Founding member of the Scots’ Charitable Society in 1657. Alexander Bogle was a founding member of the Scots Charitable Society on 6 May 1657.⁸ Wounded at the Great Swamp Fight on 19 Dec 1675. ⁹ Took the Oath of Allegiance in Boston, MA on 11 Nov 1678.¹⁰ Selected Hog Reeve for the city of Boston, MA on 14 Mar 1680/1. ¹¹ Possibly Alexander Dugle in the Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings.¹²

Children of Alexander and Margaret (_____) Bogle:
2. i. MARY² BOGLE, born at Boston on 17 Oct 1659. ¹³
2. ii. ELIZABETH² BOGLE, born at Boston on 2 Apr 1661. ¹⁴

No known children of Alexander and Sarah (King) Bogle

Second Generation

2. i. MARY² BOGLE, born at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts on 17 Oct 1659. ^{13 15}

2. ii. ELIZABETH² BOGLE, born at Boston on 2 Apr 1661. ¹⁴

1. The Bartlett Collection, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston, Massachusetts) /george-sawin-stewart-documents/ [↩]
2. Essex Institute. (19251926). Vital records of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89064881170?urlappend=%3Bseq=480 [↩]
3. New England Marriages to 1700. Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21174/168/426877566 [↩]
4. Jay and Delene Holbrook, Transcript of Norfolk County Records, 1643-1660; Vol. 1 Births, Marriages Deaths from 1630-1666, (Provo: Holbrook Research Institute), 461. [↩]
5. New England Marriages to 1700. Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21174/168/426877566 [↩]
6. Holbrook, Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts, 21. [↩]
7. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89064881170?urlappend=%3Bseq=480 [↩]
8. Scots Charitable Society, ed., The Constitution and By-laws, of the Scots Charitable Society of Boston, (Boston: Farrington Printing Co., 1896), 10. [↩]
9. Bodge, George Madison, Soldiers in King Philip’s war: being a critical account of that war, with a concise history of the Indian wars of New England from 1620-1677, official lists of the soldiers of Massachusetts colony serving in Philip’s war, and sketches of the principal officers, (Rockwell and Churchill Press: Boston, 1896) 178. [↩]
10. Records of the Suffolk County Court: 1671-1680, Vol. XXX, (Boston: The Society, 1933), 966. [↩]
11. Seybolt, Robert Francis, The town officials of colonial Boston, 1634-1775, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939), 60. [↩]
12. Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings: Lists of Scots Removed to New England as Prisoners by Oliver Cromwell in 1651 [↩]
13. Jay and Delene Holbrook, Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts: Massachusetts Vital and Town Records, (Provo: Holbrook Research Institute), 39. [↩] [↩]
14. Ibid. [↩] [↩]
15. Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.)
    https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/i/21079/134/426688165 [↩]