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My Boreman Family

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My 4th great-grandfather

Virginia Land Grant
Boreman, John
May 12, 1801
Harrison County - 400a On Laurel Creek a branch of Elk River
adjoining on the South East of a Survey of George Stocktons,
and land surveyed for Israel Borwn.
Grants 49 Page 159.

John Boreman born in 1746, Manchester , England. Died July 9, 1814 in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania.
Married December 25, 1787 to Sarah Kenner Seaton.
NOTES:
John Boreman was born in London, England. He came to America while young carrying a letter of introduction to Robert Morris, for whom he worked until he joined the Revolutionary Army. He entered the army as a private and soon became a Deputy Paymaster and later assistant Paymaster of the Western District. (Fort Pitt)
His duty was to deliver money for the soldiers pay at Fort Pitt. He traveled in disguise by riding a mule. His saddle was made of torn leather and bark; his bridle was tied with toe rope and bark. His clothing was patched and ragged. His saddle bags were made of ragged leather, but they were filled with gold coins for the soldiers at Fort Pitt.
At the close of the Revolution, John Boreman was honored for superior work as paymaster by the Continental Congress.
By mid-year 1787 he owned 50 acres in Washington County, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Kenner Seaton on December 25, 1787. By 1790 John and Sarah lived in Landcaster County. They moved to Waynesburg where John was appointed by Governor Thomas Mifflin, as Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions, Oyer and Terminer.
Because Sarah was young when she married, her parents gave her a slave called "Pendy". After the death of Sarah, "Pendy" helped John raise the children. Greene County, Pennsylvania Wills: John Boreman, Esquire, November 3, 1827. Administrators: Wm. Seals, Kenner S. Boreman. Bond: John Inghram, Wm. Inghram. Estate #578, Page 319.

John Boreman served as an Officer of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution. April 1775 to 1782. Page 110: Boreman, John (PA) Deputy Paymaster General in Western District, 16th Sept. 1779 to _______.
Taken from "Tyler County Journal - Middlebourne, West Virginia. Issue of Thursday April 4th, 1929. OLD LEDGER FOUND DATED FROM MAY TO AUGUST 1780 Postmaster G.W. Smith, some weeks ago unearthed an old ledger of his great grandfather, John Boreman, of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, who was deputy paymaster general of the Western District, to the American Army in the Revolutionary War. William Palfrey Esq. of Philadelphia was paymaster. The names contained on these pages are familiar in this section today and would be valuable to any person wishing proof of their ancestry, for entrance into the Sons or Daughters of the Revolution. The amount of money for the Western District amounted to from 6 to 9 thousand dollars. Some of the names found were: Captain Beall, Captain Swearingen, Capt. Moore, Capt. John Finley, Capt. James Finley, Col. Bayard, Col. Broadhead, Searg. Will Darrah. Then we find private Edward Fitzgerald, Paul Martin, James Tracy, David McMahan, Jacob Kimble, Joseph McKinley, John Parker and pages of others some dead and some deserters. The penmanship and form of keeping these accounts, are very exact, easily read an very plain to day. John Boreman of Waynesburg, Pa. was the father of K. S. Boreman senior, who located in Moundsville on Jefferson Avenue, corner of either first or second street. Later he moved to Tyler County and then back to Moundsville and then to Parkersburg. His son William I. Boreman located in Middlebourne and was the leading lawyer of all this section of the state. His family resides here. Of the other members of the K.S. Boreman Sr. family a daughter married a Smith and was the grandmother of postmaster G. W. Smith of this place and of attorney G. D. Smith of St. Marys. Another daughter married Pipes and she was the grandmother of the late Ben Pipes and the different Pipes families of Tyler. I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy. H.R. Logan - Notary Public, Shawnee County, Kansas My Commission expires Dec. 30, 1936.
Children born to John Boreman and Sarah Kenner Seaton.

1. James Boreman went to Indiana. Married Barbara Frazier in Dekalb County, Indiana on March 12, 1843.
2. John Boreman remained single.
3. Sarah Boreman married Jacob Smith.
4. Kenner Seaton Boreman born 1787 in Greene County, Pennsylvania. Died in 1850 in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Married Sarah Inghram. They had seven sons and two daughters. Kenner moved his family in 1840 to Parkersburg, WV where he lived until his death.
5. Elizabeth Hunt Boreman born 1788. Died 1792. Age of 4.
6. Jane Hunt Boreman born in 1794 in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Died in 1860. Married Gilbert Smith.
7. ANN BROWN BOREMAN born on January 26, 1796 in Pennsylvania. Died on October 6, 1891 in West Virginia. Buried in Freeport, Wirt County, West Virginia. Married ABNER PIPES in 1821.
8. Betty Seaton Boreman born June 22, 1799 in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Died May 7, 1882 in Morgans Run, Doddridge County, West Virginia. Married John Smith.

Sources: History of Tyler County -1984
e-mails from Joyce Howard
Research from William Boreman
Virginia Land Grants

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