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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?
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edited by Scott McClain
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,
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,
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