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Descendants of William de Boothes

Generation No. 14

25. HENRY¹⁵ BOOTH (GEORGE¹⁴, WILLIAM¹³, GEORGE¹², GEORGE¹¹, WILLIAM¹⁰, GEORGE⁹, WILLIAM⁸ BOOTHE, ROBERT⁷, JOHN⁶ DE BOOTHE, THOMAS⁵ DE BOOTHES, JOHN (ROBERT)⁴, THOMAS³, WILLIAM², ADAM¹).

Notes for HENRY BOOTH:
"...Henry, second Lord Delamere, succeeded to the peerage and became very famous in English history. He was knight of the shire, custos rotulorum, and member of several Parliaments. He favored the Bill of Exclusion, guarding the protestant succession, for which he was thanked by Lord Russell on the morning of that noblemen's execution. In the latter years of Charles II and after the accession of James II, he was twice committed to the Tower, and at length, tried under the last named tyrant for high treason, and unanimously acquitted by the court of twenty-seven peers. Afterward he retired to Dunham Massey until the Revolution, when he was one of a committee of three noblemen, appointed by the Prince of Orange, to demand of James that he remove from Whitehall. He was made Privy Counsellor, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and was created Earl of Warrington in 1687. George, his son, succeeded him as third Lord Delamere and second Earl of Warrington, but his only issue was Mary, who married Rt. Hon. Henry Grey, Earl of Stamford, and the line became extinct."

(Genealogy of the Booth Family in England and the United States, Walter S. Booth, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1892)

Child of HENRY BOOTH is:

28.

GEORGE¹⁶ BOOTH.

26. ROBERT¹⁵ BOOTH (RICHARD¹⁴, WILLIAM¹³, GEORGE¹², GEORGE¹¹, WILLIAM¹⁰, GEORGE⁹, WILLIAM⁸ BOOTHE, ROBERT⁷, JOHN⁶ DE BOOTHE, THOMAS⁵ DE BOOTHES, JOHN (ROBERT)⁴, THOMAS³, WILLIAM², ADAM¹) died 1672 in Saco, York, Maine. He married (1) ?? ??. He married (2) ??? ???.

Notes for ROBERT BOOTH:
Landed 1639 in New Haven, CT [from England]
Residence: Exeter, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire - 1645
Residence: Saco, York Co., Maine - July 1653 to death in 1672 at age 68

(Pedigree Sheet from Martha McShea, dated 20 June, 1976)

Children of ROBERT BOOTH and ?? ?? are:

	i.	MARY¹⁶ BOOTH, b. 30 September 1627; m. WALTER PENWELL, 1647.
	ii.	ELLEN BOOTH, b. February 1634; m. NICHOLAS BULLY, July 1652.
29.	iii.	SIMEON BOOTH, b. 10 May 1641; d. 1721, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut.
	iv.	MARTHA BOOTH, b. 12 April 1645; m. JOHN LAITON, 02 October 1663.
	v.	ROBERT BOOTH, b. 24 July 1655.

27. RICHARD¹⁵ BOOTH (RICHARD¹⁴, WILLIAM¹³, GEORGE¹², GEORGE¹¹, WILLIAM¹⁰, GEORGE⁹, WILLIAM⁸ BOOTHE, ROBERT⁷, JOHN⁶ DE BOOTHE, THOMAS⁵ DE BOOTHES, JOHN (ROBERT)⁴, THOMAS³, WILLIAM², ADAM¹). He married ELIZABETH HAWLEY.

Notes for RICHARD BOOTH:
"Richard [1] Booth, the progenitor of the Booth family of Fairfield County, Conn., emigrated from Cheshire, England, between the years 1630 and 1640, his father, as tradition has it, being Richard the fifth son of Sir William Booth, Knight, who died and was buried at Bowden, Cheshire, September, 1579. Tradition says his two younger brothers emigrated to America with Richard, one of them settling on Long Island and the other elsewhere. Richard being the only one who settled in Connecticut. He married Elizabeth, sister of Captain Joseph Hawley, who was the first town clerk of Stratford, and settled in Stratford in 1640.

Richard Booth's name appears often in the town records of his day as "townsman," or selectman, and in other commissions of office and trust. The prefix Mr., before his name, in the colonial records, indicates, under the rigid adjustment of social rank then observed, a position decidedly influential and respectable. His large landed property he divided in his life-time among his children. He left no will. The latest mention of him extant is in March, 1688-9, in his 82nd year. As the Congregational Burial Ground, west of Main Street was opened in 1678, he was doubtless buried there, and as his son Joseph, who outlived him not more than 12 to 15 years, would probably be interred at his side, the spot cannot be distant from the monument lately erected by William A. Booth, Esq., and other descendants of Joseph, over the grave of the latter.

Mr. Booth seems to have been twice married, for in 1689 (p. 16, vol. ii., Land Rec.) he speaks of "my now wife," a phrase commonly indicative, as then used, of a second marriage. His first wife, the mother of his children, was Elizabeth, sister of Joseph Hawley, the founder of that name, and the first recorder or town clerk of Stratford. This is another incidental proof of his being among the original proprietors of the town. Their daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1641. A collateral evidence also of the marriage is the fact that his son Ephraim, in his will, styles Samuel Hawley, son of Joseph, "cousin."

Mr. Booth's home lot was in Main Street, on the west side, the fifth in order below the Bridgeport road, and is No. 29, on the map of Stratford. Like the other proprietors, also, he had lands of considerable area in the aggregate, scattered through various parts of the town, where, in the divisions by lot, they chanced to fall. This disconnected state of one's farm lands is characteristic of such property in Stratford, even now.

(Genealogy of the Booth Family in England and the United States, Walter S. Booth, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1892)

Notes for ELIZABETH HAWLEY:
"Elizabeth, sister of Captain Joseph Hawley, who was the first town clerk of Stratford... "

"Mr. Booth seems to have been twice married, for in 1689 (p. 16, vol. ii., Land Rec.) he speaks of "my now wife," a phrase commonly indicative, as then used, of a second marriage. His first wife, the mother of his children, was Elizabeth, sister of Joseph Hawley, the founder of that name, and the first recorder or town clerk of Stratford. This is another incidental proof of his being among the original proprietors of the town. Their daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1641. A collateral evidence also of the marriage is the fact that his son Ephraim, in his will, styles Samuel Hawley, son of Joseph, "cousin."

"Mr. Booth's home lot was in Main Street, on the west side, the fifth in order below the Bridgeport road, and is No. 29, on the map of Stratford. Like the other proprietors, also, he had lands of considerable area in the aggregate, scattered through various parts of the town, where, in the divisions by lot, they chanced to fall. This disconnected state of one's farm lands is characteristic of such property in Stratford, even now."

(Genealogy of the Booth Family in England and the United States, Walter S. Booth, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1892)

Children of RICHARD BOOTH and ELIZABETH HAWLEY are:

30.	i.		ELIZABETH¹⁶ BOOTH, b. 10 September 1641.
	ii.		ANNE BOOTH, b. 14 February 1644.

Notes for ANNE BOOTH:
"Anne, born Feb. 14, 1643/4, not known to have been married."

(Genealogy of the Booth Family in England and the United States, Walter S. Booth, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1892)

31.	iii.	EPHRAIM BOOTH, b. 01 August 1648.
32.	iv.	EBENEZER BOOTH, b. 19 November 1651; d. 1732.
33.	v.	JOHN BOOTH, b. 06 November 1653.
	vi.	JOSEPH BOOTH, b. 08 January 1656; d. 01 September 1703.

Notes for JOSEPH BOOTH:
"Joseph, born Jan. 8, 1656, married three times and is ancestor of all the Booths now remaining in the present town of Stratford [CT]. He died Sept. 1, 1703, and had seven children, all by his second wife."

(Genealogy of the Booth Family in England and the United States, Walter S. Booth, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1892)

vii.

BETHIAH BOOTH, b. 18 August 1658.

Notes for BETHIAH BOOTH:
"Bethiah, born Aug. 18, 1658"

(Genealogy of the Booth Family in England and the United States, Walter S. Booth, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1892)

viii.

JOHANNAH BOOTH, b. 21 March 1661.

Notes for JOHANNAH BOOTH:
"Johannah, born March 21, 1661"

(Genealogy of the Booth Family in England and the United States, Walter S. Booth, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1892)

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