Family and Education
bap. 6 June 1584, s. of John Boate of Strood. m. (1) 12 Nov. 1604, Mary Goffe, at least 2s. (d.v.p.);Strood par. reg. (2) c.1634, Rebecca Holt (d. aft. Feb. 1666), wid. of Portsmouth; 3da.Hants RO, 3M52/4; PROB11/212/632. d. betw. 29 Mar.-17 Apr. 1650.PROB11/212/632; CSP Dom. 1650, p. 536.
Offices Held

jt. master shipwright, Chatham bef. 4 June 1628; master shipwright, Portsmouth (?reversion/?dep.) 14 Jan. 1631, 30 Jan. 1638–d.CSP Dom. 1628–9, pp. 149; Coventry Docquets, 180; R. Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail (2009), 300. Commr. for timber for navy, 22 Apr. 1644.CJ iii. 468a.

burgess, Portsmouth 15 Sept. 1646.Portsmouth Recs. ed. East, 353.

commr. assessment, Hants 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

member, cttee. of navy and customs by 24 Aug. 1647.SP16/512, f. 79.

Kent and Portsmouth, Hants.
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Commons 1640-1660
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BOATE, Edward (1584-1650), of Strood, Kent, and Portsmouth, Hants

Will
29 Mar. 1650, pr. 10 June 1650.PROB11/212/632.
Estates
purchased land in Suss. from Edmund Shallett (1647) and Sir William Ford (1648), which he bequeathed to da. Anne or Hannah, who later married Josiah Child*; land in Gillingham, Kent, from ‘Mr Duleing’, bequeathed to da. Rebecca; a house bought in 1647 from ‘Captain Pepperell’s heirs’, bequeathed to da. Abigail, with ‘victualling houses’ called The Dolphin and The George, Portsmouth.PROB11/212/632. In 1649, Boate owned a house in Portsmouth which had previously been rented by the state, but in that year he vacated it in return for £14 p.a. as well as a close in the town called Chapel Field.CSP Dom. 1649-50, p. 248.
Oxford 1644
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