William BOREMAN

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William Boreman of Claydon, grandfather of Thomas Boreman of Ipswich, Mass., baptism not recorded, married Annis ?, who died about five years before her husband, and was buried May 12, 1608. Their children had then all been some time married, and William, as appears from his will, afterwards made his home with his oldest son, Thomas, another son, John, perhaps living in part of the same house. The thee remaining sons, Nicholas, William, and Christopher, do not appear in the Claydon Register, and probably settled in some other place. The will of William was made Dec. 12, 1610, he being then sick, but he lived about two years longer, and it was not proved until April 13, 1613. He was buried Jan. 10, 1612/, aged probably not far from sixty years. His inventory taken on the day of his burial, indicates that he was in comfortable circumstances in life, with an estate somewhat larger than his father's. His occupation seems to have been exclusively husbandry.

Family/Spouse: Annis ?. Annis was buried on 12 May 1608. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas BOREMAN was born about 1570 in Claydon, England; was buried on 9 Mar 1627/8.

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Thomas Boreman "the elder" of Claydon, near Banbury, the first of the name found in that town, was the great grandfather of Thomas and Samuel Boreman, the emigrants to New England. He appears first in 1546 in a Lay Subsidy list for Banbury Hundred, where Thomas Boreman, Cleidon, is taxed L3-00s-3d on goods. The Parish register of Claydon begins in 1569, then years only before the death of Thomas; the baptisms of his children are therefore not to be found in it, and their names can only be gathered from his will. As nearly as can be computed, he was at the time of his death, in 1579, somewhere between 50 and 60 years of age. "The Elder", affixed to his name does not signify that he was an old man, but is added to distinguish him from a younger brother Thomas, probably of Cropredy. His will is dated Apr. 3, 1576, and was proved May 2, 1580. His burial record in the Parish Register is, "Thomas Boreman, the elder, Dec. 9, 1580," but the year is evidently a mistake, as shown by the Probate records. This entry in the Register follows others of later date, showing that it was not made till several years after his death, when there might naturally be confusion between the last part of 1579 and the year following. The inventory of his property, taken jan. 4, 1579/80, together with his will, show him to have been the cultivator of a farm with considerable live stock, including a horse, two cows, three heifers, and sixty pig. He had good store of hay and grain in his barn, and a good supply of farming implements, household furniture, bedding, etc., the whole not greatly differing from the average inventory of the first New England settlers some four generations later, and making mention of the same rooms in the dwelling house, viz.: the Hall, or living room, Kitchen, and Chambers. His various tools - augrs, saws, adze- and "the bedstede I made myself," imply that he may have also resembled the Puritan emigrants of a later day, in having, in addition to his occupation as a farmer, skill in a trade, evidently in his case that of some worker in wood, possibly, like a number of his descendants, that of a cooper, whose distinguishing implement, as shown by the coat of arms of their corporation in the city of London, was the adze. Thomas Boreman's wife, who survived him, was named Isabel; no record of her death has been found, and it does not appear whether she as the mother of all his children.

Thomas married Isabel ?. Isabel died after 1579. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]