Smith A. Boughton
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Smith A. Boughton was an American physician and political activist. Nicknamed "Big Thunder", he was best known as one of the leaders of upstate New York's Anti-Rent War in the 1830s and 1840s.
From 1890's Bouton--Boughton Family: Descendants of John Boution, a Native of France
John Young (governor)
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John Young was an American politician. He served in the New York State Assembly, the United States House of Representatives and as the fifteenth Governor of New York.
Smith A. Boughton
…life sentence. Governor Silas Wright, a Democrat, had taken the side of the patroons during the Anti-Rent War. During the 1846 campaign, Whig nominee John Young promised that if he was elected he would pardon Boughton and other anti-renters, and enact land reform. Young was elected, and in 1847 he pardoned…
New York Governor John Young