FAMILY STORY - THE NEXT GENERATIONS OF SPRAGUE'S FAMILY (changed to Boardman's Family) IN ABOUT 1700-1900s

PART 1: INFORMATION OF SPRAGUE'S FAMILY

8th Generation 


Samuel Boardman 
Sex: Male
Birth: 1 October 1727 
Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage: 12 July 1749
Pembroke, Hillsboro, New Hampshire 
Death: 3 December 1815 
Pembroke, Merrimack, New Hampshire 

Spouse: Miriam Stevens
Birth: 1731
Pembroke, Hillsboro, New Hampshire 
Marriage: 12 July 1749
Pembroke, Hillsboro, New Hampshire
Death: 1807
Pembroke, Merrimack, New Hampshire 

9th Generation  


Ezra Boardman
Sex: Male
Birth: 15 August 1763 
Pembroke, Merrimack, New Hampshire
Marriage: 1794 
Pembroke, Merrimack, New Hampshire
Death: 16 November 1824 
Sanbornton, Sanborn, New Hampshire


Spouse: Mary Brown
Birth: 1767 
Pembroke, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
Marriage: 1794 
Pembroke, Merrimack, New Hampshire
Death: 1836 
Cabot, Vermont, USA


10th Generation


Marthe Boardman
Sex: Female
Birth: 21 February 1800 
Sanbornton, Sanborn, New Hampshire
Marriage: 1827 
Cabot, Vermont, USA
Death: 18 September 1845 
Sanbornton, Sanborn, New Hampshire 


Spouse: Johannes Sawyer
Birth: 1804 
Alexandria, , Vermont
Marriage: 1827 
Cabot, Vermont, USA 
Death: 1862 
Medford, Steele, Minnesota

11th Generation


Laura Anna Sawyer  
Sex: Female
Birth: 16 July 1836 
Sanbornton, Sanborn, New Hampshire
Death: 14 August 1836 
Sanbornton, Sanborn, New Hampshire

Anna Maria Sawyer  
Sex: Female
Birth: 18 February 1834 
Sanbornton, Sanborn, New Hampshire
Death: 1 June 1851 
Sanbornton, Sanborn, New Hampshire 

Martin Luther Sawyer
Sex: Male
Birth: 12 July 1832 
Sanbornton, Sanborn, New Hampshire 
Marriage: 1875
Sanbornton, Sanborn, New Hampshire  
Death: 1923
Alaska

Spouse: Ingeborg Nilsen
Birth: 1835 
Mokster, Austevoll, Hordaland, Norway
Marriage: 1875 
Sanbornton, Sanborn, New Hampshire  
Death: 1912 Mokster, Austevoll, Hordaland, Norway 


*Those generations here were not real, we used and changed some beautiful names and infomation from:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/M7VY-TGS 

PART 2: The BOARDMAN FAMILY Story

New Hampshire

Samuel Boardman was born in 1727 in Malden which is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.  During that time England had been ruled by William and Mary, Queen Anne, and George I, New Hampshire was administrated by no less than 8 lieutenant governors. Until under King George II, in 1741, Benning Wentworth was made the first own governor of New Hampshire alone. Therefore, Samuel Boardman moved from Massachusetts to New Hampshire in order to have an easy life. In here, he met Miriam Stevens and got marriage with her in 1749 due to the permission of their parent and a small wedding was held in this town. They had a lot of children included 5 sons and 6 daughters. The son named Ezra Boardman, who was born on 15 August 1763, was a smart, active boy and the luckiest one.

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American Revolution War

The American Revolution was a war of independence from 1775 to 1783 which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. New Hampshire was the first colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and to establish its own government (1776). In this war, three first sons of Samuel Boardman join this war and died on the battle of Bunker Hill. Others children were killed except Ezra Boardman. After the war, Ezra Boardman grew and he got marriage with Mary Brown in 1794. Gradually their life more stable and wealthy, then Ezra and Mary had 3 sons and 2 daughters. In 1807, his wife died and 7 years later, he died too. Both of them were buried together in Pembroke, Merrimack, New Hampshire. On 16 November 1824, Ezra Boardman died and he was buried near his parent. After his death 8 years, Mary Brow also died.

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Marthe Boardman is daughter of Ezra Boardman and Mary Brown. She was born in Sanbornton, Sanborn, New Hampshire in 1800. She grew up in affluence and wealth depend on cotton fields. After she visited her father friend in Cabot, Vermont, USA, she met Johannes Sawyer. In 1827, they got married and had three children: Laura Anna Sawyer was born in 1836, Anna Maria Sawyer was born in 1834, and Martin Luther Sawyer. But Laura Anna Sawyer was a premature baby, so she died in the next month after birth. Marthe Boardman was diagnosed with pneumonia, and she died in Sanbornton, Sanborn, New Hampshire 1845. After her dead, Johannes Sawyer married with another woman and moved to Medford, Steele, Minnesota and died in 1862.

Workers on cotton fields

The first son of Marthe Boardman is Martin Luther Sawyer was born in 1832. He joined in the U.S. Army in 1859 and served during the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. After the war he returned hometown and opened clothing stores. He fell in love with Ingeborg Nilsen who came from Norway and married in 1875. Then they decided to find a peaceful place to live, so they moved to Alaska which is purchased by American government from Russia Empire in 1867 . Martin died in 1923 and his wife died in 1912. Anna Maria Sawyer grew up in New Hampshire and she was died in a house fire in 1851 at the age of 17.

Civil War 1863

* All images for illustrative purposes only. We also have used some information from:

http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war