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epitaph describes him as "deacon elect,<br />
pious, grave, modest and true." He died<br />
February 28, 1713-14.<br />
Their son, Daniel Warner, was born in<br />
Wethersfield, <strong>Connecticut</strong>, January 1,<br />
1680, and married, October 3, 1706, Mary,<br />
a daughter <strong>of</strong> Samuel Borman. She was<br />
born November 3, 1685, and died in 1770.<br />
Samuel Borman was born in Wethersfield,<br />
October 28, 1648. In the Wethers-<br />
field records he is called "clerke" also<br />
"sergeant." He married, February 8,<br />
1682, Sarah, a daughter <strong>of</strong> Lieutenant<br />
Samuel and Mary (Boosey) Steele, <strong>of</strong><br />
Farmington. Samuel Borman was a<br />
cooper by trade ; surveyor <strong>of</strong> highways,<br />
1679; collector, 1683; on the commission<br />
to lay out road in Fearful Swamp, 1687;<br />
lister, 1693. His estate inventoried<br />
£1085, 18s., iod., showing him to be suc-<br />
vessful beyond the average and thrifty.<br />
He died December 23, 1720. His widow<br />
died January 23, 1732-33. His father,<br />
Samuel Borman, was baptized at Ban-<br />
bury, Oxfordshire, England, August 20,<br />
1615. His name first appears in this coun-<br />
try on the Ipswich, Massachusetts, records<br />
in 1639. He removed to Wethersfield<br />
in 1641, and married Mary, a daugh-<br />
ter <strong>of</strong> John and Mary Betts, <strong>of</strong> Claydon,<br />
Oxfordshire. She died in August, 1684,<br />
aged probably sixty-one. Samuel Borman<br />
received large grants <strong>of</strong> land at<br />
Wethersfield, both from the town and<br />
from the Indians, by each <strong>of</strong> which he<br />
seems to have been greatly trusted and respected.<br />
He was a cooper by trade. He<br />
represented Wethersfield as deputy to the<br />
General Court, commencing October,<br />
1657, for eighteen terms, being present at<br />
thirty-four sessions. In 1649 he was ap-<br />
pointed by the General Court as sealer <strong>of</strong><br />
weights and measures. He was first customs<br />
collector for Wethersfield, being<br />
appointed in 1659, was juror for fifteen<br />
years, between 1646 and 1662; grand<br />
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juror in 1660 and 1662, served on many<br />
committees to settle church disputes,<br />
estates, disputes with the Indians and<br />
other matters. The Boardman Genealogy<br />
says that the American family<br />
descends from the Boremans and that<br />
the name Bordsman or Boardman was,<br />
"from the first entirely distinct from<br />
Boreman, and has an altogether different<br />
derivation. Curiously and unaccountably,<br />
the descendants both <strong>of</strong> Thomas<br />
Boreman, <strong>of</strong> Ipswich, Massachusetts, and<br />
<strong>of</strong> Samuel Boreman, <strong>of</strong> Wethersfield, hav-<br />
ing at first generally employed the spell-<br />
ing Borman, by inserting after a few gen-<br />
erations the 'd,' and sometime later the<br />
'a,' gradually changed their name to its<br />
present form, and so not only made it<br />
different from the one by which their<br />
ancestors were called, but identical with<br />
that <strong>of</strong> an entirely distinct family." This<br />
change from Boreman or Borman to<br />
Boardman, first appears in the Wethers-<br />
field line in the record <strong>of</strong> Richard <strong>of</strong><br />
Newington, 1707. The new form was<br />
adopted by most <strong>of</strong> the family in Weth-<br />
ersfield until 1780 when the "a" is first<br />
added. In England the ancestry <strong>of</strong> the<br />
family has been traced back to William<br />
Boreman, <strong>of</strong> Banbury, Oxfordshire, 1525.<br />
Daniel Warner, who married Mary Borman,<br />
inherited his father's homestead on<br />
the lower end <strong>of</strong> Broad street in Wethersfield.<br />
He was lister in 1709. His<br />
estate was inventoried at £20,000 and<br />
included five negroes. His will is dated<br />
March 24, 1750.<br />
His son, William Warner, was born<br />
October 1, 1715, and died May 1, 1790.<br />
He married, March 25, 1752, for his second<br />
wife, Prudence May, who died Octo-<br />
ber 14, 1807, aged eighty-one years.<br />
His son, John Warner, was born Octo-<br />
ber 6, 1762, and died November 10, 1838.<br />
He married, December 22, 1784, Abigail<br />
Hale, born in 1759, and died November