More Booth siblings of Joseph Booth

Author's Introduction: I'm spending a lot of time looking at the Booth Family of early Connecticut colony. Sometimes I may interrupt this series to look at other ancestors, but I am very interested in getting some more information about my mother's family roots.

Back to Joseph Booth's (1656-1703) remaining siblings.  He was the sixth child born to Richard and Elizabeth Hawley Booth.

7) Bethia Booth Curtiss BIRTH 18 AUG 1658 • Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut,

DEATH 2 AUG 1699 • Stratford, Fairfield, CT.

I found a nice description of her husband "Ensign" Joseph Curtiss.

The son of SGT. JOHN & ELIZABETH (WELLES) CURTISS, he married BETHIA BOOTHE on November 9, 1676 in Stratford, Colony of Conn. They were the parents of eleven children, the last three being triplets.

He was one of the most prominent citizens of Stratford. holding the office of town clerk for fifty successive years, 1678-1728, being only 28 years of age when he was elected. In all of the records, he always spelled the name "Curtiss".

Joseph was a deputy for Stratford to the General Court in Hartford in 1686, 1689, 1690-1694; Assistant to the Conn. Colony 16980-1721; member of the Governor's Council 1711-1715, 1717-1721; member of the Committee of War for the county of Fairfield in October , 1709; and he was appointed Ensign of the Stratford Company raised for war on March 6, 1692/3

One of her descendants wrote this on "Find a Grave"

BETHIA BOOTHE married ENSIGN JOSEPH CURTISS on Nov. 9, 1676 in Stratford, Conn. She was the daughter of RICHARD & ELIZABETH (HAWLEY) BOOTHE.

The children of Ensign Joseph & Bethia Curtiss:
ELIZABETH (CURTISS) UFFORD, my ancestor
Anna Curtiss
Mary (Curtiss) Nichols
Ephraim Curtiss
Joseph Curtiss, Jr.
Nathan Curtiss
Josiah Curtiss
Bethia (Curtiss) Burton
Eleazer, Ebenezer, & Eliphalet Curtiss (triplets)

I am also a descendant of Elizabeth Curtiss Ufford, my 8 times great grandmother.  

Did you notice that there was a set of triplets, for Bethia's last birth? Somehow the dates were listed as either July 30 or Aug. 1, 1699.  I'm somewhat surprised by that, and one of them is flexible, but it's awful to think of mom being in labor for 3 days.  And 2 of the triplets only lived a few months, as well as Mom Bethia, who died the following day, Aug. 2, 1699. But one little triplet made it to adulthood, and actually lived until he was 72 years old.  

And now to disclose that not only was Joseph Booth an eight times great grandparent, but his sister, Bethia Booth Curtiss, and her husband Ens. Joseph Curtiss were nine times great grandparents of mine.  That's the way some generations are shorter than others.

I am also glad to have just now found out that Bethia gave birth to tripets, because when I was having my children I didn't know that there had ever been triplets in my family! I had big enough babies as it was!

Joseph Booth Sr, (1656 - abt.1703)

Author's Introduction: I'm spending a lot of time looking at the Booth Family of early Connecticut colony. Sometimes I may interrupt this series to look at other ancestors, but I am very interested in getting some more information about my mother's family roots.

6) Joseph Booth Sr (Deacon) my eight times great grandfather.    

BIRTH 08 MAR 1656 • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, DEATH ABT 1703 • Stratford, Fairfield, CT.  

I've already posted about his wife Hannah Willcoxson Booth HERE.

I just read his will in his own handwriting.  And so I found out he had another wife by August of 1703, which is when it was written, and probated. So he must have died pretty close to the time he wrote it.

But the other wife had not been mentioned in any of the other documents.  But there he says he's leaving property and money to his loving wife Elizabeth.  

He was married to Hannah Wilcoxson Booth, who died in 1701 and she is mentioned as his wife on the huge marker of the Booth family in the Old Congregational Cemetery.  Joseph Booth's parents, his wife, then his 7 children.  And the marker actually doesn't have the all the children's birth and death dates added. So we can guess the marker was made after 1766, since that's the latest death date on it, but the 4 without dates of death were still living at that time.  

Well, except David is listed as living until 1773 in my ancestry records...and if he had still been alive when this date of death at 1753 was carved into stone, he probably would have had it changed while he was still alive. (I'll be looking at his information and hints soon, but for now this is a question to consider.)

The marker reads:
James born 1688 Died 1766; 
Joseph Born 1687 Died 1763; 
Robert; 
Nathan; 
Zechariah;
David born 1679 Died 1753; 
Hannah

If it had been erected by daughter Hannah (as the youngest child) it would have included her birth date. So my guess is a family member of one who had recently died erected it, but didn't get the information from the siblings as to their birth dates.

After I finish looking at the siblings of Grandpa Joseph, I can spend a bit of time looking at his children, right? (Don't hold your breath!)

I'm adding this to the Sepia Saturday meme for this week, though I kind of missed the topic in my posting.  But I'll go over and see what others have been up to! My photo is of course just a hand written will from 1703...not exactly an old photo, but a photo of an old document!