Boylston, Jabdiel
physician, was born in 1684 in Brookfield, Mass. He was the first one to introduce the practice of inoculation for the smallpox, in 1720. He published several pamphlets on the subject of inoculation. He died March 1, 1766, in Brookline, Mass.
BOYLSTON, NICHOLAS, merchant, was born in 1716 in Boston, Mass. At his decease he bequeathed £1,500 to found a professorship of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard, John Quincy Adams being installed as the first professor in 1806. He died Aug. 18, 1771, in Boston, Mass.