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He was an apt scholar, and from early childhood was an intelligent reader of news- papers, magazines and books. "In his school life we found it necessary to hold him back rather than urge him ahead. Study was a continuous pleasure to him. He loved his teachers, and they in turn admired his sweet disposition, enthusiasm, honesty and manly conduct. During his school life, never, to my knowledge, did he have an enemy. The in- tensity of the disappointment that came to him when he was made to realize he must be sep- arated from everything dear to his boyhood, cut short indefinitely of all the happy dreams of future school associations, only to flee to the far West for his life, was truly pathetic.
* : * He was an energetic student all his life. His determination to educate himself was eagerly continued through his eight years of "cure chasing." His diaries tell the story of his never-let-up energy. They commenced on January first and ended not until Decem- ber thirty-first. Always supplied liber- ally with selected reading matter, and with a long list of correspondence, added to his news- paper and magazine articles, he found no idle moments. No trashy literature ever occupied his time or poisoned his brain. He made a special effort to become acquainted with and to associate with men and women from whom
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he could learn. Among the most enjoyable friends he made at Colorado Springs were clergymen and college professors. His won- derful store of knowledge of the events of the day, of men and things, and his untiring historic research, ancient and modern, made him such a conversationalist as caused these learned men to marvel. As his physical con- dition weakened, it seemed that his mental brilliancy quickened. Unlike most sick people, he never failed to greet his callers with a smile, and sent them away full of admiration. When asked how he felt his answer was never a complaining one. He was sympathet- ic to a fault. To be brought into contact, as he must necessarily be in a health resort, with many poor sick persons who had not the means to obtain medical attendance, nourish- ing food or the comforts of life, gave him great sadness. Little do his friends know of the good cheer he has caused by kind word and deed. His appreciation of a kind word or act toward himself, no matter how small, was unbounded. It came from the heart and it amounted to enthusiasm." In the published collection of his writings in this memorial vol- ume we have evidence of genius of a promis- ing order. In verse as well as in prose he wrote cleverly. From his first school compo- sition to his magazine articles his literary work had the vital and human element of entertain- ment. He had the gift of a born newspaper- man in gathering facts of interest, and in his letters or newspaper articles giving them an original dress that compel the reader to keep to the end of his story. Though the book was published primarily and solely for the family in memory of the young man, it has a place in the descriptive literature of this country, and loses nothing from the intensely personal note given to it by the loving father who compiled it. Every seeker of health, of whom there are hundreds of thousands, would read with interest the pages of this volume and its witty and vivid descriptions of men, scenery, and daily life. The hundreds of illus- trations from photographs taken by Ralph Bicknell or his companions, are in themselves enough to make the book of lasting value and interest.
BOARDMAN
This surname was also spelled Boreman and Bordman in the early
records. It is an ancient English surname. The coat-of-arms of the Boardman family, England : Per pale indented ermine and sable ii-3
on a chevron between three horses pass. two lozenges all countercharged.
(I) Giles Boardman, to whom this family has been traced in England, lived in Cam- bridge, county Cambridge, England. (See N. E. Reg. 1895, p. 497).
(II) Andrew Boardman, son of Giles Boardman (1), was born in Cambridge, Eng- land. He bought a house there of Thomas Reade. He married Rebecca who married second, Stephen Day, locksmith. Boardman's will was dated February 10, 1716, and proved April 19, 1617, in Cambridge. Children of Andrew and Rebecca Boardman : Richard, Andrew, Thomas; William, men- tioned below.
(III) Major William Boardman, born 1614, son of Andrew Boardman, was the im- migrant ancestor. He came over with his mother and stepfather in 1638. In 1659 Day paid him a legacy of fifty pounds left in the father's will mentioned above (each of the four sons was to have forty pounds) admit- ting that it should have been paid twenty-three years carlier. As a boy he was apprenticed to Richard Gridley until October 17, 1639, to William Townsend, then to Thomas Wither- ly, mariner, from January 30, 1639-40. In 1656 Boardman owned and occupied the estate at the east corner of Harvard Square and Dunster street, and at the death of his step- father came into possession of the estate on the opposite corner, to which his son Aaron added the adjoining land, extending the estate to Brighton street. Both estates remained in the family for one hundred and fifty years or more. He was steward and cook many years for Harvard College, resigning as steward in 1667, being succeeded by Thomas Danforth. He was admitted a freeman May 26, 1652. He died March 25. 1685, aged seventy-one. He was a tailor by trade. He married Frances -, who survived him. He deposed Aug- ust 26, 1672, that his age was fifty-seven. Children : 1. Moses, died March 16, 1661-62. 2. Rebecca, born November 1, 1643: married August 4, 1664, John Palfrey. 3. Andrew, born 1646. 4. Aaron, born 1649. 5. Frances, born 1650; died unmarried, September, 1618. 6. Martha, born about 1653; married, April 17, 1672, Daniel Epes. 7. Mary, born March 9. 1655-56. 8. William, born December 6, 1657; mentioned below. 9. Elizabeth, born August 17, 1660; married, April 28, 1686, John Cooper. The elder children were bap- tized together.
(IV) William Boardman, son of William
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Boardman (3), born in Cambridge, December 6, 1657, died at Malden, March 14, 1695-96, aged thirty-eight, according to his gravestone. He resided at Cambridge and Malden. He was a carpenter by trade. He was admitted a freeman March 22, 1689-90. He was a sold- ier in King Philip's war, in the company of Captain Wheeler, and was in the fight at Groton, February 29, 1675-76. He bought a tract of land on the Malden and Lynn line in Rumney, Marsh Boston (now Chelsea), February 27, 1686-87, bounded by lands of Daniel Hutchins, John White, Isaac Wadrow, Richard Irons and Nicholas Potter. He mar- ried Sarah Their children: 1. Wil- liam, born 1685 ; mentioned below. 2. Lydia, born at Maken, May 2, 1687. 3. Mary, mar- ried Thomas Cheever, February 11, 1701, son of Thomas Cheever (2), and grandson of the famous schoolmaster, Ezekiel Cheever (I).
(V) William Boardman, only son of Wil- liam Boardman (4), was born in 1685. He bought of his sisters, Mary Cheever and Lydia Boardman, both of Lynn, their share in the land at Rumey Marsh, March 16, 1708, three hundred acres. Ile also lived at Lynn, where he died October 10, 1753, in his sixty-eighth year. He married (intention dated April 10, 1708), May 17, 1708, Abiah Sprague, of Charlestown. The record of this family in Wyman's "Charlestown" is incorrect, as a comparison of the birth records of Charles- town and Lynn shows. Children, recorded at Lynn: 1. William, born July 29, 1710; men- tioned below. 2. John, born August 26, 1712; married Eunice Cheever, January 8, 1740-41 ; had sons Ivory and John, and four daughters. 3. Mary, born March 25, 1716. 4. Sarah, born March 18, 1719-20; died May 11, 1722. 5. Sarah, born May 11, 1722. 6. Aaron, born March 14, 1724-25; died November II, 1799; married September 26, 1754, Mary Cheever. 7. Amos, born March 12, 1727-28. 8. Samuel born July 27, 1731. William (5) (leeded to several sons his real estate in 1753; to Aaron of Chelsea he gave his homestead, partly in Lynn, partly Chelsea, near the Mal- den line ; part of the original purchase of Wil- liam (3) ; to John Boardman he gave another part of his homestead adjoining Aaron's share, January 8, 1753; to William, Jr., of Chelsea, he gave two acres where his house and barns stand, west of the Malden line, Jan- uary 8, 1753.
(VI) William Boardman, son of William Boardman (5), was born July 29, 1710. He
married (intentions dated September 7, 1735), Elizabeth Hill, of Malden. He died in 1760. His will was made May 20, 1758, proved May 26, 1760, in Suffolk. He bought land on Conduit street, Boston, near the head of the town dock, adjoining a brick tenement of the Simon Willard estate, November 22, 1748. He was a feltmaker by trade. At the time of his making the will his children were all minors. Children : I. William. 2. Benja- min. 3. Nathaniel. 4. Joseph, mentioned be- low. 5. Thomas.
(VII) Joseph Boardman, son of William Boardman (6), born in Boston, August 12, 1753, died in Isleborough, Maine, October 29, 1831, or November 28, 1831, aged eighty-one according to another. He removed to Isle- borough and took up a hundred acres. He married, October 2, 1774, Mary Pendleton, who died July 26, 1827, daughter of Captain Thomas Pendleton, who gave a farm near Boardman's Cove to Joseph and Mary. Theirs was the first wedding on the island, and it is related that everybody was present. (See Pendleton family ). He served on the com- mittee on a new meeting house in 1798. Chil- dren, born at Isleborough : I. Thomas, born June 24, 1775 ; died October 25, 1849 ; married Lydia - 2. Joseph, Jr., born March 10, 1777, owned the brig "Folly ;" lost at sea. 3. William, born July 28, 1779; died August 9, 1855. 4. Stephen, born May 21, 1782; died June 30, 1855, at Hope ; married, 1811, Eliza- beth Farrow, who died January 21, 1817. 5. Mary, born February, 1785; died in Belfast, October 31, 1862; married Josiah Farrow. 8. Isaac Case, born August 28, 1792 ; mention- ed below. 9. Henry, born May 14, 1794; died April 17, 1872, on the old homestead. 10. Lydia, born August 28, 1797; married Martin Stone. IT. Margaret, born February 12, 1800: married William Stone.
(VIII) Isaac Case Boardman, son of Joseph Boardman (7), born August 28, 1792, at Isleborough ; died at Belfast, September 22, 1862; married (intention dated January II, 1817), Esther Farrow. Children: I. Esther F., born March 9, 1819; died 1827. 2. Isaac M., born May 24, 1821; resided at Belfast. 3. Ruth, born August 27, 1823; married George Dyer. (See Dyer family). 4. Mary P., born January 18, 1826; died young. 5. Joseph, born November 15, 1827, died young. 6. Pamelia, married Henry P. Cann. 7. Georgianna, born at Belfast; married Frank B. Frederick.
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Bryan Pendleton, born PENDLETON 1599, was an early settler of Watertown, Massa- chusetts. He was admitted a freeman Sep- tember 3, 1634; was selectman 1635-36-37; deputy to the general court 1636-37-38-47-48. He helped settle Sudbury, and resided there two years. With his wife, Eleanor, he sold land and housing at Watertown March 20, 1648, to Robert Daniel, of Cambridge, which he had purchased of Robert Lockwood and Nicholas Knapp. He removed to Ipswich, perhaps, and certainly to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he was representative to the legislature in 1654-58-60-61-63. He then removed to Saco, Winter Harbor, Maine, but after a dozen years or so was driven out by the Indians during King Philip's war, and fled to Portsmouth, in August, 1676. He was a captain, member of the artillery company in 1646, and in Portsmouth was major ; May 13. 1640, he was appointed by the court to train the company. He was a member of Governor Danforth's council, 1680. His will dated August 9. 1677. proved April 5. 1681, bequeathed to wife Eleanor and his children, and to grandchild, Pendleton Fletcher. Chil- dren: I. James, mentioned below. 2. Mary, married - Fletcher.
(II) James Pendleton, son of Bryan Pen- dleton (1), was admitted a freeman May 10. 1648. He settled in Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, where he was one of the founders of the First Church in 1671. In 1674 he removed to Stonington, Connecticut, and in about four years to Westerly, Rhode Island, where he took the oath of allegiance September 17, 1679. He was justice of the peace in 1686, and justice of the inferior court of common pleas in 1687-88. The children of James Pen- (lleton made an agreement January 26, 1703: "having a gift of land given us by our grand- father Brian Pendleton, to be divided amongst ns after our father's decease, as by deed bear- ing date 1674, Aug. 31; and our brother Caleb, having built upon said land, we mutual- ly agree for ourselves, with full consent of our father James Pendleton, that our brother Caleb shall have his part of land where he now is." The will of James Pendleton was dated February 9, 1703, and proved December 21, 1700, his wife Hannah and son Caleb being the executors. He married first, October 22, 1647, Mary Palmer, died November 7, 1655. He married second, April 29, 1656, at Sud- bury, Hannah, daughter of Edmund and Ann Goodnow. Children of first wife: I. James,
born November 1, 1650; died young. 2. Mary. 3. Hannah. Children of second wife: 4. Bryan, born September 27, 1659; died young. 5. Joseph, born December 29, 1661 ; (lied September, 1706; married first, July 8, 1696, Deborah Miner ; second, December II, 1700, Patience Potts. 6. Edmond, born June 24. 1664; died 1750; married Mary
7. An, born November 12, 1667; married, October 18. 1693, Eleazer Brown. 8. Caleb, born August 8, 1669: mentioned below. 9. Sarah, baptized April 18, 1675: died young. 10. Eleanor, baptized July 20, 1679; married William Walker. 11. Dorothy, baptized Oc- tober 3. 1686; married Nicholas Cottrell ; died about 1747.
( 111) Caleb Pendleton, son of James Pen- (lleton (2), born August 8, 1669, died 1746. Hle resided at Westerly, Rhode Island, and during his last sickness made his home with his daughter Anna, wife of Samuel Babcock. His will was dated March 10, 1745-46 and proved March 31, 1746. Children: 1. James, born about 1690: mentioned below. 2. Sarah, baptized July 23, 1693 ; married Lan- phere. 3. Hannah, baptized July 7, 1695. 4.
Caleb, baptized June 6, 1607. 5. Elizabeth, baptized June 25. 1699; married Brown. 6. Brian, baptized June 15, 1701. 7. Ann, baptized August 22, 1703; married Sam- nel Babcock. 8. Read, married - Saun- ders. 9. Susanna, married Stephen Wilcox. 10. Ruth, married Benoni Smith.
(IV) James Pendleton, son of Caleb Pen- dleton (3), born about 1690, baptized July 23, 1693; married, January 12, 1709-10, Eliza- beth, daughter of George Lanphere; second, January 8, 1717-18, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Brown of Stonington, Connecticut. Children : 1. James, born November 21, 1710. 2. Obadiah, born November 1, 1712. 3. Christopher, (twin), born April 12, 1715. 4. Elizabeth (twin), born April 12, 1715. Children of second wife: 5. Thomas, born January 3. 1718-19: mentioned below. 6. Samuel, born September 21, 1720. 7. Thank- ful, born July 14, 1725. 8. Read, born Feb- ruary 24. 1728-29. 9. Hannah, born July 3, 1731. 10. Ruth, born December 19, 1734.
(V) Captain Thomas Pendleton, son of James Pendleton (4), born at Westerly, Rhode Island, January 3, 1719 ; married, 1741, Dorcas, daughter of Tristram Dodge, of Block Island. Pendleton was a master mariner, and went to Greenland in whale fishing, and once put in at Castine, Maine, and decided that he would settle there. In 1753 he sold his pro-
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perty at Westerly for 1,130 pounds, and in 1766 removed to Long Island, Isleborough, Maine, and took up nine hundred acres of land. The whole family soon followed and settled on this land. His house was a few rods northeast of Dark Harbor. He was an active citizen, and his name appears often on the town records. He was tall, with red hair and blue eyes. He died in 1809; his wife in 1796. Children: I. Mark, died aged nine- teen. 2. Stephen, died young. 3. Samuel, born 1745; married Bathsheba Dodge. 4. Margaret, born 1747. 5. Thomas, Jr., born 1749, town officer in 1790. 6. Gideon, born 1751 ; married Matilda Gilkey. 7. Joshua, born 1755; married first, Sally Nutter; sec- ond, Sally Ames. 8. Nathaniel, born 1757; married Cynthia West. 9. Mary, born 1758; married Joseph Boardman. £ IO. Stephen, born February 9. 1763, at Westerly ; married, September 25, 1786, Prudence Dodge, born at Block Island, November 23, 1763.
(VI) Mary Pendleton, daughter of Captain Thomas Pendleton (5), was born in Westerly in 1758; married Joseph Boardman. (See Boardman).
This surname is taken from the
DYER trade-name. Teinturer, its French equivalent, is also used as a sur- name. The famous Italian, Tintoretta, was so called from the fact that his father was a tintore, or dyer. The coat-of-arms of the Dyer family of Tottenham, county Middle- sex, England, is: Or a chief indented gules. Crest : Out of a coronet a goat's head sable armed gold. The family was prominent also in county Hertford.
(I) William Dyer, the immigrant ancestor, was a milliner living in England, and came to Boston as early as 1635. He and his wife Mary joined the church in Boston in Decem- ber, 1635, of which Mr. Wilson was pastor. On March 15. 1637, he and others signed a remonstrance affirming the innocence of Mr. Wheelwright, and on November 15 following was disenfranchised for signing the statement. Five days later they were warned to deliver up all guns, pistols, swords, powder, sliot, etc., because "the opinions and revelations of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson have seduced and led into dangerous errors many of the people here in New England." In 1638 Mr. Winthrop thus alludes to him and his wife: "The wife of one William Dyer, a mil- liner in the New Exchange, a very proper and fair woman, and both of them notoriously
infected with Mrs. Hutchinson's errors, and very censorious and troublesome." He re- moved about 1638 to Portsmouth, Rhode Isl- and, and was a charter member of the church formed there March 7, 1638, and was elected clerk the same day. April 28, 1639, he and eight others signed a compact preparatory to the settlement of Newport, Rhode Island, and the June following he was one of a com- mittee to apportion land. He had a grant of eighty-seven acres recorded at Newport March 10, 1640. From 1640 to 1647 inclusive he was secretary for the towns of Portsmouth and Newport, and was general recorder in 1648. In 1650-51-52-53 he was attorney-gen- eral. Early in 1653 he returned from a trip to England, having gone there with John Clarke and Roger Williams to obtain a revo- cation of Governor Coddington's power, and he left his wife in England. On May 18 of that year he received a commission from the assembly as "Commander in Chief upon sea," to act against the Dutch. He was admitted a freeman in 1655.
His wife Mary returned from England in 1657, after a five years' stay, during which time she had become a Quaker, and was a minister of that denomination. On disem- barking at Boston, she was put in prison, but was released at the intercession of her hus- band and leave granted him to take her to his home in Rhode Island "bound in a great pen- alty not to lodge her in any town of the colony, nor to permit any to have speech with her in the journey." In 1659 she returned to Boston, and was tried and condemned to death with Marmaduke Stephenson and William Robin- son, but was reprieved on the very scaffold with the rope around her neck. The day after her reprieve, October 31, 1659, she wrote: "Once more to the General Court assembled in Boston, speaks Mary Dyer, even as before ; My life is not accepted, neither availeth me in comparison of the lives and liberty of the truth, etc." She again returned to Rhode Island, but in a few months went back to Boston. Ten days after her return, May 31, 1660, she was brought before Governor Endi- cott. He said "Are you the same Mary that was here before?" She replied, "I am the same Mary Dyer." He then said, "You will own yourself a Quaker, will you not?" She answered, "I own myself to be reproachfully so called." He sentenced her to be hung the day following. On the gallows she was abjured by her early pastor, Mr. Wilson, to repent, and not to be "So deluded and carried
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away by the deceit of the devil." She was accused of having said she had been in Para- dise, to which she replied, "Yea, I have been in Paradise these several days. No ear can hear, no tongue can utter, no heart can under- stand the sweet incomes and refreshings of the spirit of the Lord which I now feel." She was accompanied from the prison to the gal- lows by a band of soldiers, and drums were beaten before and behind her that none might hear her speak. She is described as "a person of no mean extract or parentage, of an estate pretty plentiful, of a comely stature and coun- tenance, of a piercing knowledge in many things, of a wonderful sweet and pleasant discourse." The Friends' records at Ports- mouth thus note her death: "Mary Dyer the wife of William Dyer of Newport in Rhode Island; She was put to death at the town of Boston with the like cruel hand as the Martyrs were in Queen Mary's time upon the 31 day of the 3d mo. 1660."
William Dyer was commissioner in 1661-62; deputy to the general court 1664 to 1666; general solicitor, 1665-66-68; secretary to the council, in 1669. In 1669 he with others pur- chased Dyer's Island, and afterwards became the sole owner, in 1670 deeding it to his son William. He died before December 24, 1677, and in 1681 his widow Catherine had her dower set off by order of the town council, and she was living six years later. He mar- ried first, Mary who died June I,
1660; second, Catherine who died after 1680. Children: I. Samuel, born 1635; married Ann Hutchinson. 2. Mary. 3. Wil- liam ; mentioned below. 4. Mahershallalhash- baz, married Martha Pearse. 5. Henry, born 1647, died February, 1690; married Elizabeth Sanford. 6. Charles, born 1650, died May 15. 1709; married first, Mary ; second, Martha Wait. 7. Elizabeth.
(II) William Dyer, son of William Dyer (I), was collector of customs for America at the port of New York, receiving his appoint- ment from the Duke of York. He was a mem- ber of the governor's council 1675-76. In 1681 he was indicted for high treason on the charge of collecting unlawful duties, and was sent to England for trial. Arriving there, no one appeared to prosecute him, and he returned in 1682 to New York with more ample powers. From here he is said to have gone to Dela- ware.
(III) Dr. William Dyer, son of William (2) Dyer, settled in Barnstable, Massachu-
setts. The fact that his son William was called Junissimus, indicating that there were more than two of the name, corroborates the history of Truro, Massachusetts, which points to William Dyer, of Rhode Island, as the father of William of Barnstable. Nothing else is known of the father's family, however. Other children may have remained in New York or Delaware. There was no other Wil- liam Dyer in Barnstable or vicinity when Wil- liam Junissimus was born in 1690. He mar- ried, December, 1686, Mary, daughter of Wil- liam Taylor, of Barnstable. He lived at Truro before the original proprietors came, though the births of his children are recorded in Barnstable. His house at Truro was that owned by the late Captain Ebenezer Atkins, and taken down within a generation. He died July 27. 1738, aged eighty-five; his wife Mary died October 8, 1738, aged eighty, according to their gravestones. Their descend- ants are numerous in Truro and vicinity. Children: I. Lydia, born March 30, 1688. 2. William (Junissimus), born October 30, 1690: mentioned below. 3. Jonathan, born February, 1692. 4. Henry, born April II, 1693. 5. Isabel, born July, 1695; married, 1713, Samuel Small. 6. Ebenezer, born April 3. 1697 ; married, 1720, Sarah Doane, of East- ham. 7. Samuel, born October 30, 1698. 8. Judah, born April, 1701; married Phebe Young.
(IV) William Dyer, Junissimus, son of Dr. William Dyer (3), was born in Truro, Octo- ber 30, 1690. He resided at Truro, and per- haps at Marshfield. Children: 1. Ambrose. 2. John. 3. William, born 1739, went to North Haven, Maine. 4. Joseph. 5. Anthony, mentioned below. 6. Christopher. 7. Sam- uel, married Mary Paine ; settled in Longnook. 8. Levi. 9. Benjamin, removed with Anthony and William to Vinal Haven, Maine. 10. Han- nah. 11. Isabel.
(V) Anthony Dyer, son of William Dyer (4), was born on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, about 1740. He was a soldier in the revolu- tion, in Captain John Blunt's company, Major William Lithgow's detachment, 1779, in the service on the frontiers of Lincoln county, Maine, at Penobscot. He came to Vinal Haven, and bought the lot known as the Crockett and Cabot farm. He was prominent in town affairs, especially on North Island, and was selectman in 1799 and 1801. Chil- dren: I. Isaac, married, 1815, Susan East- man ; resided at South Thomaston. 2. Cap-
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