Samuel Boreman
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Samuel Boreman (abt. 1615 - 1673)

Samuel Boreman aka Borman, Boardman
Born about in Banbury, Oxfordshire, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 1641 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticutmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 57 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticutmap
Profile last modified | Created 14 Sep 2010
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Biography

Samuel Borma (Boardman/Boreman), son of Christopher Borma & Julian his wife, was baptized August 20, 1615, at Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. The family moved about 1619 to nearby Claydon. [1]

Samuel had land recorded to him in Ipswich, Massachusetts 22 Aug. 1639. He was probably "Boreman" who was aboard the ship "New Supply" alias "Nicholas" of London in April 1638. "Boreman's" man was punished on board for theft, and mentioned in the Journal of Mr. John Josselyn, Gent.[1]

An old letter written Feb 1641 from Julian Borman to her son Samuel in Ipswich, besides providing the clue to the ancestry of Samuel, also mentions Samuel's wife. Julian mentions that Samuel's father died some two years ago. As Mary Betts would only have been 15 or 16 in say 1639, it is implied that Samuel had a first unknown wife, who died between the last time he wrote his mother and her 1641 reply.[2]

Samuel married Mary Betts, about 1641, in New England[3] She was daughter of John and Mary Betts. The Betts family resided in Claydon also and later immigrated to New England where "Widoe" Mary Betts received a grant of land in Hartford, Connecticut.[1]

He stayed in Ipswich about three years, and then went to Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he continued his career as a cooper. He registered his earmark 3 Feb 1642, and he purchased a house lot and three acres 9 April 1645.[1] He continued to purchase land including 400 acres which he and Thomas Edwards had from the Indian Tarramuggus and another 400 acres near Mr. Willard's also from Tarramuggus[4] and received grants from the town,[4][1] He also owned land in what is now Rocky Hill, Connecticut, this land was wooded with trees suitable for making barrel staves.ref name="Goldtwaite" />[4] When he died in 1673 he owned about 350 acres.[1][4][5]

He was active in town affairs: eight years elected Townsman, chosen to take the list of estates, rate maker, surveyor of highwars, appointed to lay out highways, town bounds and land grants. He served on various town and church committees. He was Town Sealer of weights and measures (1646) and Customs Master (1659).[1]

He was a Juror on the Particular Court or Court of Magistrates, fifteen of the years between 1646 and 1662 and was one of the Grand Jury in 1660 an 1662.[1]

During the witchcraft hysteria he sat on the juries that convicted Nathaniel Greensmith, Rebecca Greensmith and Mary Brockett Barnes, who were all convicted and executed.

He represented the town of Wethersfield as Deputy to the Colony of Connecticut first in 1657 and then 18 more terms.[1]

He died in 1673 between 26 March 1673, when, as townsman, he was one of a group chosen to procure a house for Rev. Mr. Bulkley and 2 May 1673 when his inventory was taken May 2 1673.[1] He left no will. His property was valued at £742 15s and divided between his wife Mary and 10 children, Isaac (who had already had a portion), Mary, Samuel Jr. Joseph, John, Sarah, Daniel, Jonathan, Nathaniel, and Martha.[1]

His widow, Mary, lived until August 1684, age about 61. Her inventory was £277 1s 2d, and was distributed to the eight surviving children: Isaac, Samuel, Mrs. Mary Robbins, Jonathan, Sarah, Daniel, Nathaniel, and Martha.[1] Aug 3?

  1. Isaac Boardman b. 3 Feb 1642/3;[6][1] m. Abiah Kimberley; d. 12 May 1719.#[1]
  2. Mary Boreman b. 14 Feb 1644/5;[6][1] m 24 Apr 1675 John Robbins; m. 2d ____ Denison; d. 19 May 1721.[1]
  3. Samuel Boreman b. 28 Oct 1648;[1] Town record says born about 20 Oct 1648[6] m. 8 Feb 1682 Sarah Steele; d. 23 Dec 1720[1]
  4. Joseph Boreman b. 12 March 1650;[6][1] d. 1676; unmarried.[1] Joseph may have died in King Philip's War[7]
  5. John Boreman b. 12 June 1653;[1] 12 Jan 1653[6] d. 1676; unmarried[1] John may have died in King Philip's War[7]
  6. Sarah Boreman b. 4 March 1655;[6][1] m. Thomas Fitch[1] He died 1704.[7]
  7. Daniel Boreman b. 4 Aug 1658; m 8 June 1683, Hannah Wright; d. 20 Feb, 1724/5[1]
  8. Jonathan Boreman b. 4 Feb 1660;[6][1] m 22 Oct 1685, Mercy Hubbard;[6][1] d. 21 Sept 1712.[6][1]
  9. Nathaniel Boreman b. 12 Apr 1663;[6][1] m. 30 Apr 1707 Elizabeth Strong, dtr of Lt. Return of Windsor;[6][1] d. 29 Nov 1712[6][1]
  10. Martha Boreman b. 12 Aug 1666;[6][1] m. Benjamin Crane; m 2nd 4 Jan 1697/8 Samuel Terry; d. 29 May 1743.[1]

Research Notes

Samuel Boreman Notes

Sources

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895 : The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn, Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. With Some Account of Their Descendants [Now Called Boardman] in America Vol I. p 158. Hartford: William FJ Boardman, 1895. The Boardman Genealogy 1525-1895 can be searched at Ancestry, or downloaded from Archive.org or Family Search via ExLibrisRosetta.
  2. This letter has been published and transcribed in the Goldthwaite genealogy on page 1. Another imaging of the letter is in the The Ancestry of William FJ Boardman between pages 128 and 129.
  3. Boardman, William Francis Joseph. Ancestry of WFJ Boardman The ancestry of William Francis Joseph Boardman, Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford, 1906. The text regarding Samuel, is almost identical to that of the previous genealogy by Goldtwaite.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Stiles, Henry Reed. and Sherman W. Adams. The History of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut... Vol I – History, Part 1. New York: The Grafton Press., 1903. Indian land p48, 103town grants p93, 94, 103; boundaries 118
  5. See p.251 History of Wethersfield for a summary.
  6. 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 - Wethersfield - pp 32-36 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Stiles, Henry Reed. Families of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut; Consisting of the History of Ancient Wethersfield, Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to Its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time, with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Families. Vol II. 1904. (p. 110)

See also/other:

  • New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 110, p. 68. NEHGR 110:68 "Memoirs" section about Cornelius Boardman Tyler gives his pedigree. "The Boardman descent follows: (1) Samuel, of Wethersfield, Conn., born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, in 1615, died in April 1673, married in Harford[sic] Mary Betts, daughter of John and Mary, who came from Claydon, England." It goes on with son Daniel, grandson Daniel, gr-grandson Sherman and gr-gr-grandson Elijah.
  • Hall, Charles Samuel. Hall Ancestry. New York: G.P. Putnam's sons, 1896. Mr. Hall had access to the Boardman Genealogy by Goldthwaite, and quotes from it. His information is a duplicate of this previous information.
  • Jack Boardman, "Samuel Boreman, Part II," blog of 25 November 2009; web content, The Port of Danger Bay Minnesota Blog.
  • Sandra Whitney, "Mary Barnes: Last Witch Hanged In Connecticut" in "Crime and the Law," blog, by 2 September 2017; web content, Digital Farmington.
  • Find A Grave: Memorial #20495823 NOTE: Memorial headstone, no sources




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I was going to complete the pending merge, but before doing that we need a consensus on what his proper LNAB of the merged profile should be. The narrative bio identifies his LNAB as "Borma" which is the spelling on the excerpted baptism record reproduced in Boardman Genealogy at p. 158. However it appears from the other baptism records cited on his father's profile that the predominate family spelling was probably Boreman. The last names are spelled various ways in the baptism records for the children in that family but it doesn't look like any other children's records or the father used "Borma" and the father's baptism record is "Boreman." Based on this, I would leave the LNAB as "Boreman" despite the baptism record and complete the merge. However, if anyone disagrees with that approach and believes the proper LNAB should be "Borma" based on the baptism record, please weigh in.
posted by Scott McClain
edited by Scott McClain
Personally, I think using Borma would be a mistake, as it would just perpetuate a clerical error. If that unique spelling was used elsewhere, it would be different, but Boreman is the common spelling that probably should be used. My 2 cents.
posted by Bobbie (Madison) Hall
Hi Scott and Bobbie,

I am all in for LNAB as Boreman. I may be a step behind you, but just in case ...

From a review of his father's profile, it seems Ancestry has the Banbury parish registers. I don't have access to those, but did review the corresponding published abstracts in Goldthwaite (1896), 79-80. I find those abstracts filled with breviographs/brevigraphs. In the particular entry for Samuel, that surname ending ("a") has a line above. I assume this denotes a wavy line which is a breviograph. Ditto, breviographs appear in the digital image reproduced at 158.

See Jo Fitz-Henry's discussion of "Obsolete characters" at Transcribing and Interpreting English Wills for "A wavy line over the top of a word meant that it had one or letters omitted …" See also A briefing on brevigraphs …

Ala, the register/abstract no more reports the surname "Borma" than it calls the father "Xpofer." (Admitted I struggled to make out all the breviographs in the father's given name.) Consider adding a separate reference note (not a ref note-style citation) for the baptism as,

Samuel Borm[an] 1615 baptism, Charlotte Goldthwaite, Boardman genealogy, 1525-1895 ... ([S.l.] : W.F.J. Boardman, 1896), 79-80 (abstracts "From the Parish Register of Banbury") at 80, 158 (I-Samuel Boreman); digital images, InternetArchive, for "Samuell Borm[an] son to [Christ]ofer Borm[an] & Julian his wife was bapt ye 20 day [August 1615]."

In the alternative, someone could pull the Ancestry record and add an updated transcription.

On the basis of the published account, I don't see that "Borma" has a place here at all, and wouldn't refer to it; I am in favor of leaving "Borman" as an other last name. .

If folks agree, then I would re-write the narrative opening so that it reads,

Samuel Boreman was baptized at St Mary Church, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, 20 August 1615, "Samuell Borm[an] son to [Christ]ofer Borm[an] & Julian his wife was bapt ye 20 day [August 1615]."[here I would cite the above] The family moved about 1619 to nearby …
posted by GeneJ X
edited by GeneJ X
Thanks Gene - I agree, and thanks for sharing that article about brevigraphs. Very interesting! It seems like that is very likely what explains the shortened spelling in the parish register.
posted by Scott McClain
The familysearch link to the baptism is "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5LX-MLB : 5 February 2023), Samuell Borman, 1615. (it does not link through to the image)
posted by Joan (Gardner) Moore
Boardman-17 and Boreman-3 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicate ancestor of Rebecca Boardman. See research note on her page.
posted by Joan (Gardner) Moore
I agree with the comment by F Smithers and have made it so.
posted by Anne B
Shouldn't Samuel's 'current last name' be "Boreman", as that is what he was typically known as? I don't think I've seen any primary document refer to him as "Boardman".
posted by Thomas B
I'm working on shortening this profile. I'll be making lots of changes. I'll try to remember to document as I go, and I'll let you know when it's finished.
posted by Anne B
I've done some cleanup of the narrative, but much more is needed. There is far too much cut-and-paste remaining from originally uploaded GEDCOMs that needs to be summarized and appropriately incorporated into a single, whole narrative. Your help is appreciated.
posted by Jillaine Smith

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