Stephen Boardman was born 5 August 1698 in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony to parents Samuel Boardman and Mehitabel Cadwell.[1]
Stephen married Abigail Savage 21 March 1726/7 in Middletown, Hartford County. Their son, Stephen [profile not yet created], was born 31 December 1727/8.[2]
About 1743, he and his family moved to Bolton, Tolland County (as evidenced by wife Abigail's acceptance in the Bolton Church from Middletown.) Stephen died there 20 April 1776 of "numb palsy" (church records).[3] (His wife Abigail had died previously, 25 May 1753, "in the 54th year of her age."[4]
Sources
↑Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 [hereinafter The Barbour Collection.] (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.
Volume: Wethersfield, page 36.
↑ Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Article Records of the Church in Bolton, Conn. originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register]], Volume 56, page 164.) Subscription site.
↑Bolton and Vernon, CT: Vital Records, 1704-1852 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) Originally published as Vital records of Bolton to 1854 and Vernon to 1852 (Hartford, CT.; Connecticut Historical Society; 1909.) Bolton and Vernon, page 66.
See also:
Adams, Charles Collard. “Middletown Upper Houses, A History of the North Society of Middletown, Connecticut, From 1650 to 1800, With Genealogical and Biographical Chapters on Early Families and A Full Genealogy of the Ranney Family.” (New York; The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers, 1908). page 159.
Savage, James Francis; The Family of John Savage of Middletown, Conn. Available through Internet Archive: 1894,No. 4. i, Pages 11 and 33.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Stephen by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
Boardman-686 and Boardman-192 appear to represent the same person because: Same wife. Birth month and date the same. Birth year of -686 is 1689; birth year of -192 is 1698 (which is reported in The Barbour Collection. The 1689 in -686 is an obvious transposition. Duplicate profile to be merged.