Meet your newest distant relative -- Leslie Anne Hogue - GOLDMAN

The miracle of Family Search! We discovered a possible link on Sunday at dinner and confirmed tonight that we are related to Leslie Goldman's family, 10 generations removed through Thomas Mudd (b.1647) and Sarah Boarman (b. 1657, the daughter of Maj. Col William Boarman) of Bryantown, Saint Marys, Maryland. Our connection is through their son...Thomas Boarman Mudd III and then down through the Smith/Hobbs line.

About William Boarman
William Boarman was born in England in 1630. The first record of him in Maryland was of him being sent to the colony to live with Jesuit priests when he was 15 years old. From that time on the activities of the Boarman family are well documented. William Boarman was very active among the people who were running the government at the time. He acquired 300 acres of land in 1651 and in 1658 he received 300 acres East of "Nangemy Creek" near Port Tobacco. Finally, the Historic Marker, dedicated in 1969 by the National Society Descendants of Lords of the Maryland Manors, for Boarman's Manor reads: "Boarman's Manor, 3,333 acres. Granted 1674 to William Boarman, Esq. with royal courts, perquisites, profits of courts and other privileges and immunities belonging to manors in England. By proprietary patent Lord Baltimore granted the prerogatives of Court Baron and all things belonging thereunto."

By the mid-1700s, Boarman's property in Charles and St. Mary's Counties is mentioned in wills of the Boarman, Slye, and Mudd families. The wills direct the distribution of tobacco, slaves, and land in Bushwood, in St. Mary's County, and at Boarman's Rest. The 1810 Census for Charles County lists many Boarmans.