Margaret Boreman
Wife of Thomas Boreman of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and mother of Martha (Boreman) Low; her maiden name is unknown. Her will of 8 Aug 1679 left "my daughter Loe" all her pewter, fine sheets, napkins, two cows, a black gown and a red petticoat. She probably died at Ipswich on 25 Nov 1679.
Life
- 1679Died25 Nov 1679, Ipswich, Massachusetts
Goldthwaite p. 114. Mollie's "Margaret D. Ipswich 1673" is apparently her husband's death year misplaced.
compiledprobable
Family
- Parents
- Spouse
2 children
Pedigree
Notes
Wife of Thomas Boreman of Ipswich; maiden name unknown. Her will, dated 8 Aug 1679, leaves “To my daughter Loe all my peuter and a pare of fine shetese and half a duson of napkines two cowes that are in thare handes and a black goune and a Red petticot only one pint pot Resarued” (Probate Records of Essex County 3:350).
Her husband’s will arranged that “my Brother Daniell shall abide with my wiue while she lives,” so his brother Daniel lived in her household during her widowhood.
Open questions
- Her maiden name.
Mollie's typescript
She was known as "Mistress" Boreman, a mark of distinction.
He was always spoken of as Mr. Boreman and his wife as Mistress, terms of distinction.
p. 89 →Mollie quotes her will, leaving her daughter Martha Low her pewter, fine sheets, napkins, two cows, a black gown and a red petticoat.
In the will of the widow Margaret Boreman, is this item: ... To my daughter Loe (Low) all my pewter and a pair of fine sheets ... a black goune & a red petticoat
p. 90 →
Checked against the records
- DisprovenThomas Boreman died about 1663, and his widow Margaret in 1673
His baptism is right, but he died in May 1673, aged 72 years 7 months (codicil 3 May, inventory 26 May 1673). Margaret made her will on 8 Aug 1679 and died on 25 Nov 1679 (Goldthwaite, Boardman Genealogy, 1895).
Read it in the book, p. 87 →