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