Elizabeth Moss Booth

In the fourth generation born in America (in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut)...she became my great times 5 grandmother. And she moved with her husband Isaac Booth to the wilds of New York state, settling in Genoa, Cayuga, New York, in her 40s. 

She had already given birth to three sons who lived to adulthood, and who moved further west than imaginable.  

Here's what I published last year about her (having deleted a few "asides" which I'm prone to doing.)  I can't think of any new discoveries. I wish there were more records discovered that told about the daughter possibility (though she died young if there was one.)

The next generation of Booths after Zachariah Jr. and Elizabeth Beers Booth- edited from posting August 9, 2018

My 5th great grandparents were Isaac and Elizabeth Moss Booth...who I posted about a few months ago...HERE. (It's included below)

Isaac Booth Sr. married Elizabeth Moss in 1776, and in 1777 he was receiving pay for being in the Connecticut Militia, Robinson's Regiment as a soldier in the American Revolution.

Isaac's parents Zachariah Jr. and Elizabeth Beers Booth were introduced in a post HERE.  Isaac Booth was the 6th of their 8 children (according to Ancestry tree information.)

Corporal Isaac Booth's signature on 1777 Revolutionary War document of Robinson's Company of Connecticut Regiment...arrow points to his signature.

I've added the Sr. and Jr. designations to keep track of them. Corporal is the designated rank given to Isaac Sr when he fought in the American Revolution so I'll try to remember to use it when referring to him.

Elizabeth Moss Booth gave birth to Corp. Isaac Sr.'s first son, Legrand in 1782 at age 26.  Her next son, my 4 times great grandfather, Isaac Jr. wasn't born until 1795 when she was 39 years old.  And then she had her last son, William Lewis Booth sometime in 1797 when she was 40.

They may have been farming people,  so it is possible the Revolutionary War used up all the crops for soldiers, and the women and children were not well fed, and possibly sickly, which might be the reason Isaac Jr. and Elizabeth Moss Booth only had 3 children between 1782 and 1797.  Or did they?  I'm beginning to wonder about a girl that came up on their census records twice (but there were still the 3 sons, so to have that girl counted, they left off one of the boys maybe.)

The census of 1800 in Stratford, Fairfield County, CT shows the Isaac Jr. family having one son and one daughter under 16 years, and one male between 16 and 25 (which would be Legrand at 18 years old), and one female between 26 and 44 (Elizabeth was 44 that year).  The 2 children under 10 would have been Isaac Jr. and William though why one was counted as female is strange.  I wonder where Corp. Isaac Sr. was.  It's possible he already was scouting out places to move in western New York state.

Before the 1810 census Corp. Isaac Sr.'s family moved to Cayuga County in western New York state. Their oldest son, Legrand was an adult living on his own by that time, and had married in CT (maybe.) Legran's first son (of 12 children with 2 successive wives) was born in Cayuga County, NY in 1806.

 But again the 1810 Corp. Isaac Booth Sr. census gives a female household member (now between 16-25) as well as a male between 10-15. Both Isaac (55) and Elizabeth (54) are listed simply as "over 45."  If Isaac Jr. and his younger brother William Lewis were being counted, Isaac was 15, and William would have been 13 (give or take a year depending on when the census was taken, before or after their birthdays that year.)

Entrance to Stratford CT cemetery, in honor of early settlers, and Revolutionary soldiers.  The early Booth and the Moss families are among those buried here.

Elizabeth Moss Booth 1756-1841, Repost from  January 5, 2018

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 Moss 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).  His son, Isaac Jr. who no longer lived in New York,  died in 1836 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.