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The Boal Families
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In a small town of Boal  in the province of Asturias, Spain,
in the days of Elizabeth's reign over England, a scion of
local gentry found himself in difficulties over a more than
ordinary infraction of the peace.

With sword and horse he took a hasty departure for the
seacoast, where he settled and raised a family, one of whom
in the 1580's obtained a post in the Spanish fleet- the Armada.

The galleon that bore the man of Boal was wrecked
on the shores of Scotland.

Like many many other Spaniards, the adventurer found
shelter ashore and remained to start a family, which continued to
be called Boal after the town in Spain.

The family moved to Northern Ireland.

In the latter part of the 18th
century one David Boal emigrated from Northern
Ireland to the North American (English) colonies,

served in the Revolutionary War against
the English, and eventually settled on a tract of land

in Pennsylvania, in what is now Centre County.

There in about 1789, he had a small
stone dwelling constructed for him.