Credit for the following information goes to Michael Cole, M.D.
Rebecca was born c.1710 and died c.1780. She married Thomas Branson Jr. in 1731.
Here begin the 'BEGATS' :
Rebecca's father was Benjamin Borden II. He was born April 6,1678 in Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ and married Zuriah Winter (his cousin) in about 1710 and they moved to VA by January 21, 1734 when he was appointed a justice of Orange County. King George II granted him 92,100 acres ('Borden's Great Tract') more recently known as Rockbridge County, VA. Rumor has it that he killed a young buffalo, presented it to Governor Gooch, and was awarded 500,000 acres. Another rumor is that he captured a buffalo calf, sent it to the Queen, and was given 100,000 acres in the Virginia Valley. All he had to do was hand over 1800 pounds as a bond and populate the tract with X number of families in X amount of time in order to get 1,000 acres for every cabin built there. On November 8, 1739 he received his patent (92 cabins worth). When he died in 1743 it was estimated that he owned something like 120,000 acres and it took 154 years for his descendants to quit fighting about their inheritances. Rebecca was one of ten children.
Benjamin Borden Sr. was born May 16, 1649 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island and married Abigail Grover on September 22, 1670. They lived in NJ where he became a large landowner, was a justice of the peace, elected to the General Assembly, and was road commissioner. When he died in Burlington County, NJ in about 1728 he left a large estate. His son Joseph was an innkeeper and founded the town of Bordentown, NJ. HIS son Joseph's daughters Mary and Ann married Thomas McKean and Francis Hopkinson, both of whom signed the Declaration of Independence.
Benjamin's father was Richard Borden, born in Headcorn, County Kent which is southeast of London by 40 miles and christened on March 4, 1596. He married Joane Fowle on September 28, 1625 and in the 1630's they settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Richard signed the compact that created the government of Aquidneck (to become Rhode Island) and was elected to a committee in 1653 to deal with the Dutch. Then he was elected Assistant at Portsmouth, Treasurer of the United Colonies, and Deputy to the General Assembly from Portsmouth. Plus he was a surveyer. He died May 25, 1671 and was buried in the Quaker burial ground. His son John's great X 4 grandson Gail III, invented condensed milk in the 1850's and founded the Borden Milk Company. This guy was also the original surveyer of Galveston TX and Borden County and the town of Gail in west Texas are named for him. This same son of Richard (John) was great X 5 grandfather to Lizzie Borden who is famous for being accused of killing her father and stepmother in 1892 in Fall River, Mass. with an ax, and the resulting rhyme, which everyone knows all too well.
Richard's father was Matthew Borden, christened at Frittenden, county Kent, on September 30 c.1563 and was a yeoman and church warden in Headcorn, County Kent. Richard was one of his sons by his second wife, Joan. His first wife, Eleanor Taylor, apparently died after the birth of their first child, Thomas. Matthew owned land in Headcorn, Smarden, and Bletchenden, all in County Kent and was buried at Headcorn on October 4, 1620.
Matthew's father was Thomas Borden, born about 1533, a yeoman of Headcorn. His first wife's name is unknown; she was the mother of his children. Thomas was buried at the parish church of Headcorn on April 21, 1592.
Thomas' father was William Borden, born about 1510, presumably at Headcorn, married a gal named Joan, paid taxes to Henry the Eighth, and died before June 8, 1557.
William's father was Edmund Borden, born about 1580, again presumably at Headcorn, married Margaret somebody or other in about 1503. He died in the spring of 1539 and was buried in the Headcorn churchyard, leaving eight kids and a pregnant wife.
Edmund's father was William Borden of Headcorn, born after 1450, paid taxes to Henry the Eighth, had three wives (Joan, Thamasine, and Rose) and six kids, and died at Headcorn in 1531, requesting in his will burial within the Church of Our Lady between his first two wives (Rose was living).
William's father, John Borden of Headcorn, wrote a will on April 26, 1469 but there's no date of probate. He requested burial in the churchyard of St. Peter and St. Paul. He also asked than 'an honest priest' be paid to sing in Headcorn church for two years for his parents' and grandparents' souls. His wife's name was Benedicta (nee possibly Turnor).
John's father, Thomas Borden, a yeoman of the parish of Headcorn, married Isabel, and participated in Jack Cade's Rebellion in 1450 which lasted a little over two months and included a battle with Henry IV's troops on London Bridge. They were demanding government reforms, which were considered but not fully implemented for a long time. Thomas and Isabel died before 1469.
Thomas' father was Henry Borden, born in the 1370's and presumably a descendant of the Borden's of the village Borden which is about 12 miles from Headcorn. He's the first Borden to hail from Headcorn. His wife's name was Roberga.
At Henry's father there's a little gap.
Next comes Richard DeBourdon, born 1201 or thereabouts, named after King Richard the Lion Hearted (reigned 1189-1199).
Richard's mother was Robergia DeBourdon, born March 13, 1182 and died about 1220. She married a cousin named Francis DeBourdon from Bayeux, Normandy on Christmas of 1200. They were buried in the churchyard of St. Peter and St. Paul in the village of Borden, County Kent, England and had two sons, Richard and Simon (called 'weak and sickly'). Their family is pictured in the church of St. Peter and St. Paul with the inscription of the Borden Moral Code:
Be Just - for the Lord only loaned us that which we have whether of goods or of talents, and in their use we must consider the rights of all men.
Be Merciful - for we shall have no greater claim to the mercy we all shall finally need than that we forgive our brother's faults. Be True - to friendship and to God, for truth is all of this life worth the having, and perfect truth is what the life to come shall reveal to us. It is the prince of darkness that is the Prince of Lies.
Opposite is the Borden Coat of Arms.
Here's a fascinating story:
A centuries-old Borden family tradition claimed that within the wall of that church was hidden important records. In 1869, on their honeymoon, Richard Y. and Lavinia Borden Cook visited the church and in a secret night mission they removed the Coat of Arms stone from the wall of the church. The stone was hollow and contained a cylindrical box of lead which also bore the Borden Coat of Arms. Inside the box was another cylinder, of well-oiled yellow linen cloth which was waxed on the inside.
- - This contained a parchment manuscript prepared in 1220 A.D. by Robergia DeBOURDON. She wrote that her son Richard "will be strong, a man of iron, wise and peaceful. From him the BORDEN line will succeed. It is now 154 years since Count William of Normandy defeated and killed the Great Harold, King of England, at Hastings. There fell also Ethelwolf my Saxon mother's grandfather and Lord of all the lands which William the Conqueror gave to his vassal, Francis DeBOURDON. My mother was Elfrida of Kent; my father was Simon DeBOURDON." - -
Robergia's father, Simon DeBourdon of Bourdon, England, grandson of Francis DeBourdon of Bayeux Normandy (who fought under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066), married Elfreada on Christmas of 1180. She died in 1193, he about 1195, and both are buried in a vault in the family chapel of their castle.
Elfreada's mother's name was Helenore; her father's name isn't known, but her grandfather's name was Ethelwolf, born in 1030 and died in battle in 1066 at Hastings.
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Borden Ancestry of Sir Robert L. Borden, Eighth Prime Minister of Canada:
Richard
John
Richard
Samuel
Perry
Perry
Andrew
Robert Laird Borden : 1854, Nova Scotia - 1937, Ottawa
Also Sir Winston Churchill
Also Marilyn Monroe
Ain't it an amazingly small world after all.
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