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Experience, b. April 1, 1679, d April 7, 1697; Mercy, b. July 18, 1680, m. John Ely Dec. 3, 1703 ; Ebenezer, b. July 29, 1683, d. Sept. 7, 1717 ; Margaret, b. Sept. 11, 1684, m. Samuel Colton of Longmeadow, Jan. 16, 1707, d. Jan. 19, 1736 ; Esther, b. 2d 1688, m. Henry Chapin of Chicopee, May 10, 1716.
BLISS, JOHN, (son of Tho's,) of Longmeadow, m. Patience Burt, daughter of Henry, Oct. 7, 1667, and had issue, John, Jr., b. Sept. 7, 1669; Nathaniel, b. Jan. 26, 1671; Thomas, b. Oct. 29, 1673, d. Aug. 12, 1758 ; Joseph, b. 1676, d. March 1, 1754, single ; Han- nah, b. Nov. 16, 1678, m. Henry Wright May 24, 1705 ; Henry, b. Aug. 15, 1681, d. Nov. 30, 1684; Ebenezer, b. 1683, d. Nov. 4, 1761.
BLISS, SAMUEL, of Norwich, Conn., son of Tho's, Jr. of Nor- wich, m. Anna Elderkin Dec. 8, 1681, (she d. 1748.) Issue, Thom- as, b. Sept. 1, 1682; Samuel, b. Nov. 13, 1684, d. Sept. 20, 1763, (the great-grandfather of Geo. Bliss, Esq. of Norwich, Sheriff of N. L. county ;) Eliz'th, b. Feb. 28, 1686, d. Aug., 1758 ; John, b. Oct. 23, 1690, lived at Hebron, d. Feb. 1, 1741; Peletiah, b. Nov. 17, 1697 ; Thankful, b. March 7, 1699.
BLISS, SAMUEL, of Longmeadow, Mass., son of Nath., m. Sarah Stebbins, daughter of Tho's and Hannah Jan. 2, 1672; she d. Nov. 6, 1721 ; their children were Samuel, b. Aug. 10, 1677, d. single Aug. 31, 1692; Nath. b. Sept. 8, 1679, d. March 12, 1751; Sarah, b. Oct., 1681, m. Nathaniel Mighil of Westfield, Jan. 15, 1702 ; Margaret, b. Nov. 23, 1683, m. Benj'n Cadey Jan. 31, 1701 ; Thomas, b. Aug., 1685, d. Sept. 4, 1767, had 6 daughters and no sons ; Hannah, b. Aug., 1687, m. Eleazer Warren Jan. 9, 1707, of Springfield, d. April 15, 1711 ; John, b. Nov. 4, 1690, the father of Hon. John Bliss of Wilbraham, who was Col'l of the Ist Reg't of the Hampshire militia, Judge of Common Pleas Court, member of the Provincial Congress of Mass., held during the Revolution, member of the House of Deputies and of the Executive Council in Mass. ; d. Oct. 8, 1784; Samuel, b. April 25, 1694, d. Dec. 21, 1724; Ebe- nezer, b. March 4, 1696, d. Aug. 19, 1784.
BLISS, SAMUEL, of Springfield, called on the records of the town, Samuel Bliss, 3d, son of Lawrence, m. Hannah Stiles Jan. 21, 1686, and had issue, Hannah, b. May 1, 1689, m. James Warriner Dec. 24, 1713; Sarah, b. 1692 ; Lydia, b. Nov. 24, 1695, m. Na- than Collins of Springfield, Nov. 1, 1732; Samuel, b. March 20, 1701. His wife Hannah d. Dec. 8, 1704, and Samuel 3d m. for his 2d wife, Elizabeth Brace of Hartford, Ct., Oct. 3, 1705.
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BLISS, WILLIAM, son of Lawrence of Springfield, m. Margaret Lombard, daughter of David and Margaret, Oct. 12, 1710; issue, William and Margaret, (twins,) b. July 1, 1711, the daughter d .; 2d Margaret, b. June 3, 1715, m. James Burt July 30, 1747 ; Abi- gail, b. July 10, 1717 ; Lydia, b. March 12, 1720; David, b. Dec. 19, 1722.
BLISS, PELATIAH, of Springfield, son of Lawrence, m. Eliz'th Hitchcock (daughter of Luke and Sarah,) April 21, 1698 ; she was b. 1679, d. 1756 ; issue, Jonathan b. March 6, 1699, a physician, d. Oct. 29, 1761, left no issue ; Peletiah, Jr., b. March 3, 1701, (grand- father of Rev. Seth Bliss of Boston, secretary of Am. Tract Soc.,) d. Sept. 5, 1764; Eliz'th, b. Feb. 11, 1704, m. Josiah Day, son of Sam'l and Mary ; Thankful, b. Jan. 31, 1706, d. Feb. 24, 1706; William, b. July 19, 1707, d. single 1727; Luke, b. Feb. 2, 1711, d. Sept. 23, 1761 ; Sarah, b. Oct. 16, 1712, m. Wm. Pincheon, son of John, Dec. 14, 1738, d. 1796 ; Caleb, b. Feb. 16, 1717, d. May 22, 1758 ; Moses, b. Aug. 6, 1720, d. Oct. 23, 1761.
BLISS, THOMAS, of Springfield, son of Samuel, m. Hannah ; issue, Hannah, b. Aug. 12, 1699, m. Hubbard of Brimfield, Dec. 1, 1724 ; Samuel, b. March 5, 1701 ; Martha, b. Jan. 1703, m. Benja- min Parsons May 15, 1723; Tho's, Jr., b. April 20, 1704, removed to Brimfield, Mass. ; Ichabod, b. Dec. 19, 1705, removed to Brim- field, d. Aug. 16, 1766 ; Rachel, b. 1707, m. Nath'l Sikes Jan. 7, 1729; Abel, b. Feb. 18, 1709, settled at Wilbraham, d. April 30, 1762 ; Mary, b. 1710, m. Jonathan Sikes Jan. 16, 1731 ; Timothy, b. March 2, 1713, d. Aug. 18, 1769 ; Daniel, b. Jan. 21, 1715, grad- uated at Y. C. 1732, m. Phebe Walker of Stratford, Ct., in 1738, and settled at Concord, Mass., same year, (the father of Daniel judge at New Brunswick, who was father of John Murray Bliss, member of the Council and Chief Justice of a Court in that Province,) d. May 11, 1764 ; Edward, b. June 27, 1719 ; Eliz'th, b. Nov. 1722.
BLISS, EBENEZER, of Springfield, son of Samuel, m. Mary Gaylord of Windsor, Conn., Jan., 1707; issue, Jedediah, b. Feb. 7, 1709. (The father of Hon. Moses Bliss of Springfield, who gradu- ated at Y. C. in 1755, an eminent lawyer and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. His son Hon. Geo. Bliss, LL. D., of Springfield, graduated at Y. C., 1784, received his degree of LL: D. from Har- vard College in 1823, an eminent lawyer, and many years success- ively a member of the House of Representatives, Senate, and Exec- utive Council in Mass., d. 1830. The last was the father of Hon. Geo. Bliss of Springfield, who graduated at Y. Col., in 1812, and be-
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came as celebrated as his father.) Ebenezer, b. Aug. 17, 1710; Anne, b. July 27, 1712, m. Charles Brown ; Moses, b. Aug. 9, 1714, d. young ; Mary, b. March 14, 1716, m. Isaac Brewer April 22, 1736 ; Martha, b. Dec. 27, 1717, d. 1719.
BLISS, JOHN, of Enfield and Lebanon, son of John, m. Ann Terry in 1698; issue, Ann, Samuel, b. Dec. 4, 1699 ; Hannah, b. 1702 ; Ebenezer, and Azariah.
BLISS, NATHANIEL, of Enfield and Lebanon, Conn., son of John, m. Mary Wright, 1697 ; issue, Nath'l, b. Nov. 16, 1698, d. in infancy ; Henry, b. Oct. 25, 1701, and Joseph, b. 1704.
BLISS, THOMAS, of Longmeadow, Mass., son of John, m. Mary Macrany ? May 27, 1714; issue, Mary, b. Dec. 4, 1715, m. Nicho- las Holbrook 1736 ; Thomas, b. May 30, 1719, m. Rachel Parsons 1747; Henry, b. Dec. 5, 1722, d. young. Rev. John Bliss settled at Hebron in Oct., 1717, and was dismissed in 1734.
BLISS, EBENEZER, of E. Windsor, m. Ann Gaylord, both of Windsor, 1744 ; he d. 1776. John and Ann Bliss Executors ; relict Ann. He gave his negro girl Patience, and one-third of all his per- sonal estate forever to his wife Ann, also one-third of his real estate to her for life. To his daughter Ann Watson he gave all his lands in Colebrook, viz., to the heirs of her body begotten, and to their heirs forever. The remainder of all his estate he gave to his son John, by John's paying to his sister Ann Watson, £20; will dated March 28, 1768. Estate, £2139, 3s. 2d.
BLISE, THOMAS, (Rehoboth ;) will dated 4 8º, 1649 ; exhibited in Court June 8, 1649. Issue, Jonathan, the wife of Tho's Williams ; Mary, wife of Nat'l Harman, son-in-law, Nicholas Ide ; son Nath'l. Inventory taken by Stephen Paine and Rich'd Bowin, 1647 ; amount £117, 16s. 4d. (His. Gen. Reg. No. 15, 1282.) Bliss, Geo., re- moved from Lynn to Sandwich, 1637; John, Northampton, 1658 ; Moses and Jonathan lawyers in Springfield, 1774. Bliss has three coats of arms in England, (Burk.) This family have produced sev- eral eminent men.
BLISS, HESTER. In the old account book of Col. John Pynch- on of Springfield, it is noted that Mr. Pynchon made a contract with Hester Bliss at Boston, to serve him a year for £4, and began her service with him Nov. 1, 1658. He paid for her at Boston, 2s. to the " Pinnace Master," probably she had then arrived and owed the Pinnace master a balance of 2s. for her passage. She was not of the Hartford family. She m. Edw'd Foster a servant in the family of Mr. Pynchon, Dec. 26, 1661.
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BLISS, THOMAS, fined 2s. for neglecting to train March 4, 1646. Plaintiff in Court May, 1647, and Juror 1649.
BLISS, THOMAS, Wm. Baccas, and John Birchard of Norwich, were accepted to be made free Gen'l Court Oct., 1663.
BLISS, Goodman, is noticed on the Hartford town record Dec. 6, 1642, to have three acres of land of John Sables in Hart'd. Tho's, Sen., was ordered two acres of land near Hoccanum pound, as the committee should appoint, and Tho's, Jr., two acres near said pound by the town. Eight of this name have graduated at Harvard Col- lege, twenty-one at Yale College, two at Brown University and three at Williams College.
BLODGET, BLOGGET, BLOGHEAD, BLOGGOT, BLODG- IT. This name in the person of Thomas, of Cambridge, freeman 1636. Daniel Blodgett of Chelmsford, freeman 1652. Farmer no- tices that the name was anciently written Bloghead. This was not an early name in Conn. Thomas Blogget or Bloghead, was in Cam- bridge, Mass., 1641, where he made his will. His children were Daniel, Samuel and Susanna. Tho's and Susan his wife had a daugh- ter Susan, b. at Boston 1637 ; Tho's d. 1639, probably son of Tho's, Sen. Samuel Bloget of Woburn free in 1690. Thomas Blogget, (glover,) aged 30, wife Susan aged 37, and sons Daniel aged 4, and Samuel one and a half years old, embarked in the Increase from London for New England, April 18, about 1635.
BLODGET, DANIEL and JOSIAH, from Woburn, Mass., were first settlers at Stafford, Conn., about 1718, as were Samuel, Paul, Joshua and Benzin Blodget first settlers at Stafford, and most of them original proprietors of the Town. Two of the name have gradua- ted at Yale, and one at Cambridge College. Henry, of Suffield, m. Dorcas, and had Lois, b. April 6, 1731; Archippus, b. Aug. 16, 1733; Elijah, b. Nov. 1, 1736 ; Dorcas, his wife, d. Feb. 25, 175 -; Roswell Bloget of E. Windsor, d. before 1782; Ebenezer Blodget d. and his widow Jerusha had dower set out to her before 1778, of East Windsor. Jerusha, widow of Ebenezer of Ellington, d. June 11, 1822, aged 81 years. Josiah Blogot of Stafford, d. 1656 ; Mar- garet his relict-Inventory about £160. Job Blodget of (East) Windsor, d. 1758. Estate about £56. Elijah Blodget administra- tor gave bond with Josiah Blodget of Windsor, April 1759. Elijah Blodget of (East) Windsor, d. 1762; widow Hannah administratrix, April 1, 1762 ; Inventory exhibited in 1764, £113, 7s. 7d. Josiah of (East) Windsor, d. 1768 ; Abigail his widow administratrix ; in- ventory, £152, 12s. 1d.
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BLOGGET, DR. WILLIAM, of Plainfield, Conn., was probably at Plainfield as early as 1715, as he had practiced in his profession some years before 1721. He was highly approved of, as a Physi- cian in Plainfield and Canterbury, and in 1721 he applied to the Gen'l Court for license to practice medicine, with full proof of his good moral character, and the satisfaction of the people of the town aforesaid of his skill and success, but his petition was negatived on the ground that he was illiterate and should not be reckoned with the members of any learned profession. (See Dr. Sumner's address before the Conn. Medical Society, 1851, p. 36.
BLOOMER, and J. Scott of Long Island in 1663 had a contro- versy, and the Gen'l Court of Ct. appointed Mr. Wyllys and Matthew Allyn, to go to Long Island and settle the government on the west end of the Island as agreed at Hempsted in Feb., 1663, and settle the issue between J. Scott and Bloomer, and take in the Commis- sioners of those towns to regulate any disturbances there. Robert Bloomer in Conn., in 1664. Blomer two coats of arms. Blomer, or Bloomer, one.
BLOER, BLOWER, MR. PYAM, admitted freeman in Mass., March, 1689-90. Mr. Gilbert was permitted by the Gen'l Court, May, 1676, to transport thirty bushels of Wheat for Mr. Bloer to Boston, and 100 bushels for himself. The Council of Conn., Nov. 4, 1675, granted Mr. Stevens of Salem and his company liberty to transport 100 bushels of corn for their families' supply ; and twenty bushels for Mr. Pyam Blores. Mr. Bloers was probably in Conn., but was a citizen of Boston or Salem. Has one coat of arms.
BLOSS, JAMES, was voted not to be an inhabitant of Hartford, but he was allowed by the town to continue there until the spring of 1660.
BLOIS or BLOSS, EDMOND, had three lots at Watertown, Mass., in 1639; at Cambridge in 1641. The name is spelled on the Cambridge and Conn. records, Bloss, as it now stands recorded. Edmond removed to Conn., not as early as many other settlers. This name is now found in Litch'd County, Conn. Farmer notices EDMOND at Watertown, admitted freeman in 1639, and Francis freeman Camb'ge, 1641. Spelled at Watertown, Bloise, and Blois.
BLOICE, RICHARD, Anthany Beers, Sam'l Benjamin, Sam'l Barnard, John Barnard, Jno. Bush, John Bigolough, took the oath of fidelity in Mass., in 1652. Samuel Bloss graduated at Brown Uni- versity, R. I. 1807. This name is now spelled Bloss in Conn.
BLOIS, has one coat of arms. Bloss (Ipswich,) one, (Co. Suf- folk ; ) and BLOSS (Ireland,) two. BLOYS, has three.
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BOYSE, MATHEW, made free in Mass., May 22, 1639.
BLOYS, RICHARD, aged 18 years, son of Richard Bloys, de- ceased of Killingly, on the 1st of Aug., 1746, at New Hartford elec- ted Joseph Mackentire of New Hartford for his guardian.
BLOYCE, FRANCES, free 1641; also Joseph Boyse in 1642.
BLUET, JOHN, of Enfield, d. in 1763; Nathaniel Prior adm'r. Three coats of arms.
BLUMFIELD, WILLIAM, was freeman in Mass., 1635, and was an early settler in Conn. He was in the battle against the Pe- quot Indians in 1637 __ was in the land division at Hartford in 1639. He resided in Hartford south of Little river, east of Ralph Keeler's in 1640. He had land at south meadow in Hartford 1642. He had a son John baptized at Hartford, Aug. 23, 1645, and Samuel b. July 12, 1647, at Hartford, and other children. He was freed from train- ing by the Gen'l Court in 1657-8. In June 1663 he took an appeal in Court held at Hartford to the Gen'l Assembly. He sold a house lot in Hartford to John Hale before 1640.
BLUMFIELD, RICHARD, had a son John baptized at Hartford Dec. 30, 1649. This is probably the name now known in Conn. and N. Jersey, as Bloomfield. Tho's Blumfield is noticed by Cof- fin and Farmer as of Newbury, Mass., in 1638, who removed to Woodbridge, N. Jersey, before 1668. His children were Mary, Sarah, b. 1643; John, b. March 15, 1646 ; Tho's, b. Dec. 12, 1648, Nath'l, b. 1651; Ezekiel, b. 1653; Ruth, b. 1659, and Timothy, b. 1664. These children were probably all born before Thomas removed to N. J. (Perhaps a brother of Wm. Blumfield who set- tled in Conn. )
. BLOOMFIELD, DANIEL, was of Newtown, L. I., in 1655-6.
BLOMEFIELD has two coats of arms. BLOOMFIELD or BLOMFIELD, 2. BLOOMFIELD, 2. BLOUMFIELD, (Essex, 1.
Wm. Blumfield had four acres of ground where "the pound standeth East of the River," March 24, 1640. (This must intend west of the river, as there was probably no pound east of the river as early as 1640.)
BLUNT, HANNAH, a member of the church at Hampton, Ct., May, 31, 1730. One of this name graduated at Harvard College in 1727. Rev. John Blunt of New Castle, was a relative of the Frosts, Pepperells, Wentworths, &c. Joseph and Nath'l Blunt, and Edward and George, of N. Y., are his descendants. Rev. John Blunt m. Sarah Frost as early as 1713. Mary Blunt of Andover, m. Henry Gray, May 3, 1699. Wm. Blunt was a freeman in An- dover, Mass., in 1691. Has one coat of arms.
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BLUSH, BENJAMIN, of Colchester, m. Mary, and had a son Jeremiah b. March, 1746. JOHN BLUSH, of Colchester, m. Ab- igail, and had Susannah, b. March 2, 1755. Abraham Blush, was one of the grantees of " Brattle's Close," in Boston, in 1698, where Brattle Church was located, in Brattle Square. Abraham Blush, in the list of those able to bear arms in Barnstable, New Plymouth, 1643.
BOARDMAN, CAPT. ISRAEL, of the Brig Derby, went from England to Pensacola, Florida, where he owned a plantation. His 1st wife died there. He then moved to Stamford, Conn., where it is supposed his son William was born. His second wife, Miss Isabella Warriner, he married in Wethersfield, and returned to Pensacola, where he died ; his widow returned to Wethersfield. His children were :
1. Betsey, died young at Pensacola.
2. Charles, was in New Orleans about the year 1800.
3. Sally, married Thomas Hall.
4. William, married Jennett Catlin, daughter of Mr. Ebenezer Catlin of Hartford.
5. Polly, married Cummings, and writes from Chelsea, England.
The following was copied from a New Haven paper, at the His- torical rooms. "Just imported from Dublin, in the Brig Darby, a parcel of Irish servants, both men and women, to be sold cheap by * Israel Boardman at Stamford, 5th January, 1764."
BOARDMAN, WILLIAM, 4th child of Capt. Israel of Stamford, b. March 2, 1763, m. Jennett Catlin, b. Aug. 25, 1765, m. March 27, 1785. They had issue, Lewis Catlin, b. Feb. 17, 1786, m. So- phia Woodruff Dec. 1, 1814, d. Dec. 11, 1831, aged 53; Laura, b. July 23, 1788, m. Eli Wadsworth Sept. 24, 1809, d. 1844 ; Fanny, b. March 23, 1791, m. Wm. Webster, d. May 29, 1826 ; Catherine, b. Aug. 27, 1794, m. Leonard Winship, d, Jan. 22, 1816 ; Jane, b. March 20, 1801, m. Flavel Goldthwait Aug. 2, 1831, d. Nov. 9, 1845; Wm. L., b. May 29, 1806; Flavel, d. March 3, 1836; Charles H. Boardman, b. Aug. 26, 1810, m. Nancy Maria Holmes Nov. 2, 1835 ; Mr. Wm., the' father d. May 29, 1821 ; Mrs. Jennett his widow d. Dec. 14, 1849. The Boardmans of Fairfield County are descendants of this Capt. Israel Boardman. This family are not known as relatives either of William Boreman of Guilford, in 1650, or of Samuel Boreman of Wethersfield, in 1640.
Boardman or Bordman has but one coat of arms, viz., Ar. a chev.
* See Israel Boardman son of Daniel; perhaps son of Israel, Jr.
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vert, bordured gu. Crest, A lion sejant, collared and lined or. Bor- man has three. Bourdman has one. Bowman has six.
BORDMAN, ANDREW, EsQ., deceased of Cambridge. Eliz'th Boardman daughter of W. H. Boardman of Boston, m. H. G. Otis. Ruth Bordman of Mass., m. John Higginson Dec., 1719. Thomas Boreman of Ipswich, 1648, about 1643, of Barnstable. Tho's Bore- man and John Bowman were taxed in the Plymouth Colony as early as 1633. Tho's Boreman freeman at Boston as early as 1634. Tho's Boreman freeman at Ipswich, 1682. Thomas Boreman of Salem, free 1682. Jacob Boreman of Ipswich, m. the widow of John Rogers in 1699. The name of Boorham is found in New Jersy, and the name of Boorman in the city of New York.
BOREMAN, WILLIAM, was a plaintiff in Court in Hartford, Dec. 4, 1645, against John Stadder of Wethersfield. He appears to have been in the Conn. Colony for a time, though there is no evi- dence that he was a relative of Mr. Samuel Boreman of Wethers- field. William's name was not entered in the list of planters of Guil- ford, until 1650, and not on any list of freemen there ; he was un. married, or had no wife in Conn. Colony, or in Guilford. He died about 1659. " At a Particular Court held at Guilford, the 6th of Febuary Anno 1661," (1662, present style.) " An inventory of the estate of Wm. Boreman was presented by Henry Dowde and Wm. Seward, with whom the said Boreman sojourned, and left the chief part of his estate in custody, when he went away and perished in his journey." "The foresaid was proved in Court," and the just value thereof. "Mr. [Brayan] Rossiter requested on behalf of Thomas Dunk of Saybrook, and Daniel Butcher of Hawkhurst in Kent, Old England, brother-in-law to the said Boreman deceased, and so next of kin for aught that appears, that no alienation may be made of the estate ^so far as may occasion imparity of payment unto them or any that have just debts to claim from the estate after due trial." Daniel Butcher appears by the record to have been a brother-in-law of said Boreman ; he was then in England ; also by a letter found in his chest after his decease, this fact was confirmed. No evidence is found that he was in any way a relative to the Boreman family of Wethersfield. Wm. Boreman is noted in June, 1654, on the record at Stratford, " that he and Samuel Barrett had been ordered to wear a halter." (Under rates of Stratford.)
BORMAN, BOREMAN, BORDMAN, BOARDMAN, SAMU- EL, EsQ., was an Englishman ; he probably came to Ipswich, Mass., as early as 1637, and either married his wife Julian in England or
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Ipswich ; a letter now found in possession of one of his descendants of Wethersfield, dated 1641, (see letter,) from Samuel's mother to her son Samuel, was directed to him at Ipswich ; the exact time Mr. Borman removed from Ipswich to Wethersfield is not certain, his first child Isaac, was born at Wethersfield, Conn., Feb. 3, 1642 ; he probably was at Wethersfield, as early as 1641, with his wife Julian. It appears by the letter referred to above, that when Samuel left England, his father was living, as his mother writes her son "your Father hath been dead almost this two years"-that Mr. Samuel was married before he came to Wethersfield, his mother says at the close of her letter, " praying to God to bless you and your wife, un- to whom we all kindly remember our loves, your ever loving mother Julian Borman." It also appears by the letter that when Mr. Sam- uel left England, his father's family consisted of his father, his moth- er Julian, his brother Christopher, and five sisters. Few of the nu- merous descendants of the first settlers of New England, have pre- served as much evidence of their family in England, as is contained in this letter of the Borman family, in this well written (old red) let- ter of Julian Borman, the mother of the Bormans in Conn. Few of the first settlers of Conn. came here with a better reputation, or sus- tained it more uniformly through life, than Mr. Borman. As early as Oct., 1646, he was a Juror, also in 1647, and in March, 1648, &c. In 1649, he was appointed by the Gen'l Court, to the office of Sealer of all measures and weights in the town of Wethersfield ; Mr. Borman was Deputy from Wethersfield to the Gen'l Court of the Colony, Oct., 1657, May and Oct., 1658, May, '59, May, '60, May, Aug. and Oct., 1661, May, '62, March, 1662-3, and many years af- terwards; few if any gentleman in the Colony, represented his town at the Gen'l Assembly as many sessions as Mr. Borman. He was a member of the grand jury of the Colony in May, 1660, and was nominated for an assistant in May, 1670. Distributor of the estate of Mr. Williams in 1662. In 1662, the Gen'l Court appointed Mr. Samuel Borman and Serg't Nott to notify those in Wethersfield, in- debted to the country in behalf of Mr. Cullick, to prepare payment, to enable the country to discharge such sums as should be charged by Gov. Winthrop, for procuring the charter for the Colony. Mr. Borman and James Steel, were appointed Oct., 1663, by the Gen'l Court, to lay out the bounds of Middletown, at the expense of the town. Mr. Borman, Mr. Chester, and Samuel Welles of Wethers- field were appointed Oct., 1664, to dispose of the estate of Nath ?! Williams' wife, and pay the debts. Mr. Borman, Mr. Samuel
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Wyllys, Mr. James Richards, and Lieut. Samuel Welles, were de- sired by the Gen'l Court May, 1665, to settle the difficulty between the Indians, who dwelled about Middletown, and fix the bounds of the lands the Indians should have, in an equitable way. (See Col. Rec.) In Oct., 1660, a petition was pending before the Gen'l Court to settle a plantation at Thirty Mile Island, upon which the Court appointed a committee to view the place and dispose of it, as should be most suitable to attain the objeet ; Mr. Wyllys and Wm. Wads- worth, were of the committee for Hartford, Mr. Allyn and Edward Griswold, Mr. Treat and Samuel Borman for Wethersfield, and John Hart for Farmington, with power to purchase such rights as the Indians owned there. (See Col. Rec. p. 354.) Borman of Weth- ersfield, and Nathaniel White of Middletown, (son of John White,) were desired by the Gen'l Court in 1665, to view the land Goodman Higby petitioned for, and report to the Court in Oct., 1665. The before stated fully proves the standing which Mr. Borman held and sustained in the Colony until his death. Mr. Borman's name was uniformly spelt upon the Wethersfield records " Borman" and Bore- man until 1712, when the letter D was added to the name (Bordman ; ) many years after, the letter A was added to the name, as now spelt by the family, (Boardman,) and by so doing have lost the coat of arms of their original name and family. That the name was Bor- man, is proved by the record, by the pronunciation of the name down to this day in Wethersfield. But the signatare of Julian. Borman, in her letter to her son Samuel, in 1641, is strong, if not conclusive evidence that the original English name of the father and mother of Mr. Samuel, was Borman. (See her letter in note.) Coat of arms, - Borman, (Devonshire and Somersetshire) has one, and two other coats of arms for the same name in England. Bordman has but one coat of arms, viz. Ar. a chev. vert, bordered, gu. Crest, A lion sejant collared and lined, ar. Samuel Borman d. about April or May, 1673. The inventory of his estate was appraised by the selectmen of Wethersfield, May 2, 1673, at &742, 15s. His son Isaac is not named in the settlement of his estate, perhaps he had previously re- ceived his patrimony.
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