Isaac Booth 1755-1841, Elizabeth Moss Booth 1756-1841,

ISAAC BOOTH 1755-1841 and 

ELIZABETH Moss BOOTH

Birth 1 APR 1756 • Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Death ABT 1841 • Ontario County, New York

Mrs. Booth was my 5th great grandmother (on the Booth Family Tree).  I thought I had her family pretty well defined, but yesterday all kinds of problems developed, so I am no longer sure who her mother was.  And I think she was John Moss' daughter.  That's a big "think."

She was born in Stratford, Fairfield County, CT, just as many other of my ancestors were.  That's where the Booths had been located since Richard Booth (1607-1687) arrived in the colonies from Cheshire England in 1640 when he married Elizabeth Hawley (1607-1689) from Derbyshire England.

Elizabeth married Isaac Booth in 1776 in Stratford, CT.  They are on the census in that town for the years 1790 and 1800, but the latter census doesn't include a male of Isaac's age, though it is listed under his name.  Then by the next census they had moved west to western NY.

Genoa NY homestead (not my family)

We don't know the occupation of Elizabeth's husband, Isaac Booth (1755-1841), but he did fight for the Colonists in 1777 in the Revolutionary War.  He was part of the Connecticut Militia, and reached rank of Corporal.  He received pensions until his death...starting in his 70's in 1831 for the last 10 years of his life.

In 1810 the Booths had moved to Genoa, Cayuga County, NY, being a family of just 4; one male 45 and older, Isaac, one teenage male, one young woman, and Elizabeth, the female 45 and older.  His oldest son Legrand had moved on, being 27 in 1810.  And he turns up having a household of his own near his father's in another census.  Isaac Booth Jr, to become my 4th great grandfather, was the teen.  There was a young woman several times in census records of the Booths, but since they had no daughters that I know of, she may have been a servant.

Mill, Genoa, NY

Genoa NY Historic Society

West Genoa Cemetery, King's Ferry, NY (I don't know of anyone buried there from my family)

The next census (1820) the husband and wife Booth are living alone in Canandaigua, Ontario County, NY, while Legrand Booth (their oldest son) lives in the area and is counted on the same page of the census. Legrand had a family of 8 at that time.

The town was first settled around 1789. Canandaigua officially became a town in April of 1791. 

After the [Revolutionary] war, pioneer settlers came from eastern New York and New England. They founded the city's public high school, Canandaigua Academy, in 1791. On November 11, 1794, the Treaty of Canandaigua was signed in the town by representatives of the United States of America and the Six Nations of the Iroquois; the British had ceded Iroquois lands without consulting them, and the US forced most of the Iroquois Native Americans out of the state. It established two small reservations for the Seneca and Oneida, who had been allies of the American rebels, but they suffered considerable enmity and discrimination after the war.  Wikipedia.

The 1820 census also has Isaac Jr. married with 3 children and a wife...but that's another story!

In 1833 Isaac started receiving his war pensions, beginning on the date of March 3, 1831, paid to Isaac (then 78 years old).  He outlived his son, Isaac Jr. who no longer lived in New York, and died in 1736 in OH. The list of veterans in Canandaigua, Ontario County NY in the 1840 census contained just 12 names.

The shared knowledge (without primary sources) of Ancestry family trees states Isaac Booth Sr, Corporal in the Revolution, died 28 June 1841, in Ontario County, NY.  There is no definite date of death of Elizabeth, so she is given the date of "about 1841" for her death.

Here's a home built in the 1820s in Canandaigua NY

Stepped gable Thadeus Chapin House Canandaigua NY

Thadeus Chapin House, Canandaigua, NY
It is a two-story, six-bay-wide, brick dwelling on a slightly raised basement in the Federal style. The sides of the house have a steeped gabled roof and there is front porch in the center of the house around the main entrance. It was built in the 1820s. Also on the property is a late 19th-century frame barn. ^(Wikipedia)

Thadeus Chapin House Canandaigua NY

Isaac and Elizabeth Booth were my 5th great grandparents, on the Booth Family Tree.

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