BOARDMAN FAMILY ANCESTRY 5 



to New England were unlettered men, could not write, 

 perhaps could not spell, they gave their names to the 

 town officers as they were accustomed to be called, hence 

 the various ways of spelling what is the same name, 

 which appear upon the early records. 



Thomas Boreman, eldest son of Thomas and Margaret, 

 was born in 1643 and married Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Sargent Jacob Perkins, January 1, 1667-68. She was 

 born April 1, 1650. This Thomas Boreman died Octo- 

 ber 3, 1719, in his seventy-sixth year and his wife died 

 December 4, 1718, aged sixty-eight years, eight months 

 and three da3's. 



Thomas and Elizabeth Boreman had a son Offin who 

 was born at Ipswdch, Mass., December 3, 1676 and 

 married Sarah Hurd, February 28, 1698. Their son Offin 

 was born December 16, 1698 and married Sarah Wood- 

 man, January 17, 1722. He was master of a vessel that, 

 according to the records, "w^as overset" September 8, 

 1735, on a passage from Casco Bay to Boston and himself 

 and twelve others were drowned. His wife died July 

 12, 1752. 



It should be stated here that Savage, in his Genea- 

 logical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England, says 

 that "after 1720 the early name of Boreman became 

 permanently changed to Bordman and Boardman." 



Jonathan, son of Offin and Sarah (Woodman) Board- 

 man, w^as born March 15, 1735 and married Rebecca 

 Moody, November 12, 1761. They had a son William 

 who married Mary Short, September 19, 1786. He was 

 master of a vessel and was lost at sea. Two letters written 

 by William Boardman to his father are in possession of a 

 member of the family. The first is dated St. lyUcia, 



