Person:Daniel Bordman (6)

His Life in Wethersfield

The following is a synopsis of information presented in The Boardman Genealogy, pp. 198-99.

For a few years after his marriage, Daniel Bordman occupied a portion of his father-in-law's home lot, situated on the west side of Rose Lane in Wethersfield, a short distance below the church. In 1685 he obtained from his brother-in-law Samuel Wright, Jr., 25 acres in the West Field, where he built a dwelling house and afterward lived. This lot fronted on the "Path to the Mill" or Mud Lane as it was called in 1895.

Daniel held several public offices in Wethersfield. He was elected Selectman, Collector, Surveyor, and member of the School Committee, and held the minor positions of Fence Viewer and Sheep Master.

Family tradition that he was a glazier by trade (as was his son Israel after him), is confirmed by the tools in the inventory of his estate.

1. ↑ Adams, Sherman W. (Sherman Wolcott), and Henry R. (Henry Reed) Stiles. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Early Families. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904)
   2:111.
2.   Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   2:469.

   Will of "Daniel Boardman Wethersfield", dated 13 Feb 1724/5 mentions "Hannah, my beloved wife", "my son Richard Boardman", "my son Daniel Boardman", "my son Israel Boardman", "my son Timothy Boardman", "my son Joshua Boardman", "my son Benjamin Boardman", "my son Charles Boardman", "my daughter Mabel Nickolss", "my daughter Hannah Abbey", and "my daughter Martha Churchill".

3. ↑ Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895)
   page 198.

   'Daniel Boreman ([son of] Samuel), born Aug. 4, 1658, ... married June 8, 1683, Hannah Wright, daughter of Samuel Wright of Wethersfield, and Mary, his wife, daughter of Deacon Richard Butler of Hartford.' A sample of his signature shows that he wrote his name as Daniel Bordman.

4. ↑ Wethersfield Vital Records:32 (typescript), in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records.

   'BOARDMAN,BORDMAN,BORMAN,BOREMAN,...
   Daniell,s.Samuell & Marie,b.[ ] 4,[ ]'

5. ↑ Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   2:469.

   'Boardman, Daniel, Wethersfield. Died 20 February, 1725. Inventory taken 26 March, 1725; in Litchfield, 8 April, 1725, ... Will dated 13 February, 1725.'

6. ↑ Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895)
   page 199.

   'He died Feb. 20, 1724-5, and his youngest son, Charles, then in his eighteenth year, died on the same day. Two months later, another son, Israel, who had just removed from Stamford to Wethersfield, died. That was the "year of [th]e greate sicknesse," when very many deaths occurred in Hartford and the adjoining towns, and these three in the family of Daniel Boreman may very probably have been due to the same prevailing epidemic.'