He was born around the year 1705 and it is most likely that he learned his trade and served his apprenticeship near the naval shipyards of Deptford, for by the 1720s he had a yard and workshop in Greenwich.
He was at the same time one of the craftsmen employed to work on the Fifty New Churches designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
He did not neglect the secular and domestic market and he is recorded as a worker at East India House, Leadenhall Street in 1730;[1] this time with a partner named John How.
The 1730s were the years of Boson's greatest success and it was during this time that he regularly carried out work for Frederick, Prince of Wales at his houses at Leicester Fields, Kew Palace, and Cliveden, Buckinghamshire.
At Chiswick House Boson carved two magnificent tables for Lady Burlington and their two accompanying mirror frames.