The newly married son to whom Julian Borman, the Puritan widow, with seven children, wrote from England in 1641, obviously partook of these common characteristics. He was soon recognized as a young man to be relied upon. "Few of the first settlers of Connecticut," says Hinman, author of the genealogy of the Puritans, "came here with a better reputation, or sustained it more uniformly through life." In 1646-7-8. He was a juror. 1649. Appointed by the Gen. Court, sealer of weights and measures. 1657-8-9-60-61-62-63, and many years afterward, representative of Wethersfield in the Legislature of Connecticut, styled "Deputy to the General Court." Hinman says, few men, if any, in the colony, represented their own town for so many sessions. 1660. On the grand jury of the colony. 1670. Nominated assistant. 1662. Distributor of William's estate. 1662. Appointed by Gen. Court on committee to pay certain taxes. 1665. Chairman of a committee appointed by the Legislature, to settle with the Indians the difficulty about the bounds of land near Middletown, "in an equitable way." 1660. On a similar committee to purchase of the Indians Thirty Mile Island. 1665. Chairman of a committee of the Legislature to report on land, petitioned for by G. Higby. 1663. Appointed chairman of committee to lay out the bounds of Middletown. He died just two hundred and twelve years ago in April, 1673. His estate was appraised by the selectmen of Wethersfield, May 2, 1673 at L742, 15_s_, about $4,000. His son Isaac then 31 years old is not named in the settlement of the estate, and had perhaps received his patrimony. He had ten children, seven sons and three daughters, of whom the youngest was six years old; he had three grandchildren, the children of his oldest son, Isaac. All his children received scriptural names, as was common in Puritan families. His descendants are now doubtless several thousands in number. Only a very small part, after two hundred and fifty years, of a man's descendants bear his name. His daughters and their descendants, his sons' daughters and their descendants, one-half, three-quarters, seven-eights, diverge from the ancestral name, etc., till but a thousandth part, after a few centuries retain the ancestral name, and those who retain it owe to a hundred others as much of their lineage as to him. Such is God's plan; the race are endlessly interwoven together; no man liveth unto himself. But a few comparatively, of the descendants of Samuel Borman can now be traced. His own name, however, has been carried by them into the United States Senate; into the lower house of Congress; into many State Legislatures; to the bar and to the bench; into many pulpits, and into several chairs of collegiate and professional instruction. Yet these can represent but a few of his descendants who have been equally useful. Probably a larger number of them are still to be found in Connecticut than in any other state. Among them is the family of Rev.