Boardman, Benjamin

Boardman, Benjamin a Congregational minister, was born at Middletown, Conn. He graduated from Yale College in 1758; was a tutor in the college in 1760 and 1761; was ordained at Middle Haddam, Conn., Jan. 5, 1762; was dismissed in September, 1783; was installed pastor of the South Church in Hartford, May 5, 1784; was dismissed about 1789; and died Feb. 12, 1802, aged seventy years. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1, 513.