Hannah Conn Booth 1819-1884

I mentioned Hannah Conn Booth a few days ago (here) when talking about my correction of her parents from John Thomas to James A. Conn of Kentucky.

She was my great great great grandmother. Her husband William Lewis Booth, was an attorney and lived a long life in Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas. Their son Richard also became an attorney, but unfortunately died young, and little is known about him.

I've written before about Grannie Hannah. So I'll just clip a bit to share with you.

How she traveled around - posted originally on April 13, 2014

Since posting this 4 years ago, I have discovered that Hannah Conn's parents were not the ones I thought they were, so I've recently posted about her real father  and amended this post.

How she traveled... I figure she traveled on horseback or in wagons...though possibly she did walk much of her travels through the frontier of the early 19th century.  From Kentucky to Indiana, Illinois and finally Texas, this was a hardy pioneer woman.

Conestoga Wagon

13 APR 1819 , Hannah Conn Booth was born in Henry County, Kentucky. She was my 3x great grandmother.   

Notice the man on the lazy board, Conestoga Wagons didn't have seats in the front of the wagon as usually thought. The lazy board was where the driver would sit if he didn't want to ride one of the horses or walk.

Hannah somehow met William Lewis Booth, an attorney and a widower with 2 small children. They married in Jackson County, Indiana when she was 25, in 1843.  This is a hand written record which even includes the minister's name (available at Ancestry DOT com.)

Not the Booth wedding, but another one in 1850

So we can follow some of her travels with the Booth brothers from there on out.
  
William Booth and his brother Charles M. migrated first from western New York state (Farmington, Ontario County) to Indiana and (then in 1849) to Genesee Township, Whiteside, Illinois, then to Hempstead, Waller County, Texas, and Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas.  

Present day photos of farm now on Booth homestead, 
"2nd farmhouse north of SW corner of section 22
 on Coleta Rd," Genesee Twp, Whiteside, Illinois

By 1855 William Booth, an attorney, had purchased the land for his home and was living in Hillsboro,Texas. At one point or another he served as a county Judge, and has that title on some of the records.  His obituary actually gives him the title of Colonel, probably an honorific as he was too old to have active duty during the Civil War.

The Booth Family Home, 208 Waco Street, Hillsboro, TX in the 1970s

Hannah and William had 6 children, 4 of whom lived to adulthood.  William and his first wife had had 3 children, 2 of whom lived to adulthood.

Not the Booth family, but one in 1860

Hannah's son, Richard R. Booth was born 23 Sept 1846, in Jackson, Indiana. (He was my great x3 grandfather.  I talk about him HERE.)  

Her second child, Frank, was born in 1848 in Illinois, and died at 19 in Texas.  

The third child, Elizabeth was born in 1850 in Illinois, and died at 15 in Texas.  

Lucinda, "Cinnie" Booth was born in 1854 in Groesbeck, Limestone County, TX and lived to 1920.  

Connie Booth was born next, 1856 in Hillsboro TX, and died there at age 7.  

Annie Booth was born in in the home that still stands in Hillsboro TX, in 1859 and lived until 1948.

Many of the family members seemed to die in January, including Hannah herself, and Frank and Connie. This was before the days of penicillin.

I think William's family was living in Hempstead, Texas prior to 1880, though he had returned to Hillsboro when he died in 1893. 

Hannah Conn Booth lived until age 64 and died on January 26, 1884 in Hillsboro, TX.

Not Hannah Booth, but an old woman in the 1880s

Samuel Granger 1701-1739

Happy Birthday great times 6 grandfather!

BIRTH 12 APRIL 1701 • Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Colony 

DEATH 27 SEPT 1739 • Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Colony 

A modern warf with fishing boats

Samuel was the youngest of eight children of Captain John Granger and his wife, Martha Poor Granger.   The eldest sister had died before he was born, so he never knew her.  Several brothers never married, but most of his siblings married while he was a child.  His mother and a brother died when he was 22, and his father died when he was 23.

He didn't marry until he was 27, to Martha Marston Granger (1694-1753 or 1759). They had 6 children,  only one of whom (Martha II, the oldest) was a girl and who died at 16 years. The others all lived to be adults, but they didn't all marry.  My ancestor was Jacob Granger (1735-1895).

Samuel may have also been on ships, like his father and probably his brothers.  He didn't live a very long life, and his wife who was actually 7 years his senior, lived 14 years as a widow after he died. All his children were still alive when he died in 1739...the youngest just 2 years old.  My ancestor, Jacob, was just 4 years old.  Mother Martha's parents were gone by 1739 as well as her siblings except one brother who died the year after Mother Martha...1754.  I am just trying to guess who helped these children with their widowed mother.  Her oldest daughter Martha II, was still a young girl of  9, so she could only do so much to help with the other 5 chidren.

I probably will never know who helped with raising these children.  Perhaps there were a lot of people in the community who didn't live very long lives.  And we must remember these communities were founded around a church.

So I just googled (actually using Duck Duck Go) churches in Andover MA, and found another blogger from that area, so someone else to follow who knows genealogy! Not to mention the 1645 parish church is now The North Parish Unitarian Universalist Church!  I love these things (being a UU personally).  So here's some pics from Barbara Poole.

 Founded 1645 in Andover, MA

And somewhere in my ancestry, there's mention of how some people living in south Andover wanted a church closer to their homes, and thus formed the South Parish Church in 1711.

South Parish Church, Andover, MA

A grandfather who wasn't

I have my relatives' and my ancestors' birthdays on my calendar giving me hints each year.  And one that came up for April 9, 1790 was John Thomas Conn...supposedly the father of Hannah Conn Booth, my ancestor.

Ah, that's unfortunately not true.  I have made few trips to cemeteries out of town, but I did go visit the Norman graves in Kentucky a few years ago on my way home from Indiana to North Carolina.  Isaac Norman was the father of Mary "Polly" Norman Conn, who was John Thomas' wife....and not the mother of Hannah Conn Booth.

My great times 4 grandfather was apparently James A. Conn (1794-1828) and his wife was Nancy Erwin Conn (1795-1840).

My cousin (descendant of Richard Booth (Hannah's son's first wife, thus only a half-cousin?) Cheryl Richardson has done more research than I have, and followed the line from the Booth Family Bible to get the James and Nancy Conn parents of Hannah.

So in non-celebration of a grandfather who isn't, I'll celebrate the birth (unknown exact date) of my real great times 4 grandfather, James A. Conn, born between 1780-1794, either in Virginia or North Carolina.  

My post in Feb. 2018 said:

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Those Kentucky and Indiana (and NC) years for the Conns

James A. Conn @1780-1826, was one of the 9 children born to Elisabeth Alexander Conn 1760-1845, and her husband, William Henry Conn 1760-1836, who had been a "Private, Calvary and Infantry" in the Revolutionary War.

A re-enactor,  not William Conn, my great times 5 grandfather!

Father William had been born in New Jersey, and Elisabeth in North Carolina, which is where they marred in 1778.  This is recorded in North Carolina Marriage Records 1741-2004, Tryon and Lincoln Counties, Dec. 6, 1778, page 33.
James A. Conn was born approximately in 1780, having a pretty short life till 1826 or 1828 (or at latest 1830.)  His birth was in North Carolina, (Lincoln County probably,) while some of his siblings were born in Russell County, Virginia. ..or maybe they didn't know and just said that on census reports.

Lincoln County NC is known for a Revolutionary war incident...

The Battle of Ramsour's Mill took place on June 20, 1780 in present-day Lincolnton, North Carolina, during the British campaign to gain control of the southern colonies in the American Revolutionary War. The number of fighters on each side of the battle is still an issue of contention, but Loyalist militiamen (many of them German Palatine emigrants and settlers in the local area) outnumbered Patriot militia and had captured a group of Patriots who they were planning to hang on the morning of June 20.

The one to two-hour battle during the foggy morning of June 20 did not involve any regular army forces from either side and was literally fought between family, friends, and neighbors with muskets sometimes being used as clubs because of a lack of ammunition. Numerous cases of fratricide occurred during the battle. William Simpson, a patriot scout, rushed to the battle to kill his brother Reuben, and Peter Costner, a loyalist, was killed by his brother Thomas who buried his sibling's corpse after the fight.^[2] Despite being outnumbered, the Patriot militia defeated the Loyalists.^[3]

The battle was significant in that it lowered the morale of Loyalists in the south, weakening their support of the British.

James Conn married April 6 1810, to Nancy Erwin  (Ancestry.com. Kentucky, Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850 [database on-line].)  This wedding was in Henry County, Kentucky, the first record of his move there.  His father (William Conn) has a child born between 1790 and 1794 in Kentucky, James' sister Rachael.  However the next 2 sisters were born back in North Carolina, though their dates are approximate also.  So I think it's also possible that their birth places are somewhat flexible as well, though they were probably given on a census at some future time.

And in 1810 James and Nancy Conn first appear in a census, in Henry County, Kentucky, having a household of just 2, to show the newlyweds have set up housekeeping on their own.  Henry County Kentucky was formed out of Shelby County in 1798. Shelby County was the location of many of the other Conn ancestors located on my former family tree for Hannah Conn Booth.  But I don't find evidence (yet) of any cousin connections.

James and Nancy's child Hannah Conn (to marry William Booth later) was born in Henry County KY on April 13, 1819.  Her daughter, Annie Booth Attaway lived until 1948, and the link about her (Hannah Conn's) grave  (Find a Grave HERE) states she was born in Henry County KY, and died in Hillsboro County, Texas  in 1885.  This entry at Find a Grave, was entered by my third half (?) cousin Cheryl Richardson, who states James and Nancy Conn were her (Hannah's) parents (posted 2009). Until this week I had not read anything that substantiated this to me, so I've been mistaken all this time apparently.

Nancy Conn, widow of James, is listed as head of household in the Census of 1830 on Henry County KY and 1840 in Jackson County, IN, the last document of Nancy's life that we have at this time. There are no names listed, but a family listing of 9 people in 1830 and 11 people in 1840.
Jackson County IN is also the county where Hannah married William Lewis Booth in 1843 (a copy of the marriage registry is on my Ancestry site.) In my old Conn family tree, I've never figured out how she could have been there when the rest of the "John Thomas Conn" (not my ancestor after all!) family was moving to Texas from Missouri, so this helps immensely in the location problems.
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Now to add...

Here's a bit of the post from last year about (not my grandfather) John Thomas Conn...and his family.  I'm pretty sure someone in that family is still a link to the Conns that I AM descended from!

John T. Conn fought in the War of 1812. Which side he fought on is a matter of dispute. According to some Conn family records, he fought on the side of the British and went to Canada with Proctor & Elliott. He was in the Battle of Thames where the Indian Chief Tecumseh was killed. He has descendants who believe he fought with the Kentuckians on the side of the United States. More than one John Conn fought with the Kentuckians, one of whom is listed as a surgeon. This researcher does not have any documentation of his service in the War of 1812 for either of the adversaries.

John T. Conn's father Thomas Conn and his [John's] brothers Francis Conn [1793-1849] and Hugh Lee Conn IV [1797- 1814 or 1833], fought in the War of 1812 with the Kentuckians. According to the Ralls County, Mo. History, Hugh Lee Conn IV was wounded and died of his wounds in 1814. Some Conn descendants record him as dying in 1833. He was born 14 July 1797. He was only 15 when he fought in the War of 1812. Young lads fought in the wars of that era so his age is not unusual. There is a pension application filed by the widow of Thomas Conn, documenting his participation in the War of 1812.

Thomas Conn was born 15 Nov. 1762 in Loudon Co., Va.  He was the seventh child of eight children born to Hugh Lee II and Mary Trammell Conn. He married Mildred Ann Conley 10 March 1787 in Taylorsville, Jefferson Co., Ky (same locale as Bullitt and Shelby Counties, Ky.) According to my grandmother Mary Drucilla Conn Fogle , Thomas Conn fought in the American Revolution and was at Valley Forge. This has not been documented. 

 SOURCE: Biography of John Thomas Conn by Velma Fogle, Great great-grand-daughter of John T. Conn,Great-grand daughter of Hugh Lee Conn V, Grand daughter of Mary Drucilla Conn Fogle

Ann Sylvester Bowers and Jonathan Bowers - their children

a continuation from yesterday's post on Ann Sylvester Bowers birthday, my great times 6 grandmother

The Family Bowers (repost from 2018):

Jonathan Bowers (Capt.) (1673-1750) and his wife, Ann Sylvester Bowers, (1669-1745) had their first child, Anne Bowers in 1695, who died in 1696.

Second, Benanuel Bowers was born in 1699 and lived till 1752, having 3 children of his own.

Third child of the Jonathan and Ann Bowers family was Jonathan Bowers Jr (1) born 1701, died 1702.

Fourth born was Benjamin Bowers (Rev.) who had 10 children before dying in 1775.

Their fifth and the second Jonathan Bowers Jr. was born in 1708 and lived till 1775, having 2 daughters.

Sixth born was George Bowers, in 1710-1752, with one child noted.

Seventh, Elizabeth Bowers married but had no children, and she lived from 1711-1771.

Eighth Henry Bowers (Esq.) married and had 8 children with his first wife. He lived from 1716-1790 and married a second time at age 44.

Ninth, Mary Bowers was born in 1719 and married Joseph Swasey in 1744...to become my ancestors.  She died sometime after 1823, when she was in a census of Boston living in a boarding house, age 104, listed as widow of Joseph Swasey.  They had 6 children. (She became my 5 times great grandmother.)

Tenth and the last child of Jonathan and Ann was Jerathmel Bowers, born in 1720, lived until 1799 and had 4 children.

This week I've enjoyed getting to know the Bowers of Somerset.  By the time Jonathan and Ann Bowers might have counted their grandchildren (had they lived to see them all) they had at least 34.

I'm sorry to have left out the names and dates of the wives and husbands of most of these Bowers...not to mention those of the grandchildren.  But I want to check out a few more in my direct line which I don't know enough about, before going astray again to learn about cousins!

Somerset MA with Jonathan Bowers Jr. home on l, and Henry Bowers Esq. home between the masts of the Sullivan.  Of note is that Ann Sullivan Bowers was the mother of Jonathan and Henry. Perhaps the ship was named for (or owned by) her father.

Ah the Somerset Bowers (edited repost from 2014)

Alexander G. Swasey Sr.'s father was Jerathmel Bowers Swasey. That Bowers is the direction we go today...

His mother of course was a Bowers of Somerset, MA, married to Joseph Swasey (1714-1801)
She was daughter of Jonathan Bowers; he had been born in Cambridge, Charlestown, MA, but lived in Somerset, and he was one of the well to do founders of the town. 

His wife was Ann Sylvester Bowers.

Jonathan and Ann Bowers house, 616 Main St, Somerset, built 1723

And there was a quilt done of the various historic homes which includes this view of the house.

It's third down from the top, second column from right, if you can try to focus upon it.\

Part of the original Bowers property is the grave yard, established in 1708.

Mary is bottom of right hand column.


There are some wonderful original census reports of Somerset, which will give me a glimpse at how the Bowers and Swaseys were living close to each other...and perhaps I can guess at birth date for Mary.  I only know she appears in 1823 in the Boston directory as a resident of a boarding house, as widow of Joseph Swasey.

Ann Sylvester Bowers 1669-1745 Great times 6 grandmother

(Note, my grandchildren are generation 1) in the numbering system in this post, so higher numbers are further back in history. Thanks to the comment below, I need to clarify that the Great times 6 is not using my children or grandchildren's generations at all. It is starting with me and not having any "great" until we go up to the 4th generation before mine.)

Ann Sylvester Bowers was a link between two well-to-do families, the Sylvesters of Shelter Island (at the tip of Long Island NY), and her husband, Jonathan Bowers, whose father became a Quaker in Cambridge MA.

Jonathan and Ann Bowers settled in Swansea, Bristol County, MA.  They also lived in Somerset, MA - probably the same area which changed names as they lived there.

I've honored her life before on blogs. I"ll patch some of them here for a summary. First, going back as far as I can, to a pinnacle person who I know no more about.  (Sometimes known as a brick wall, but sometimes more information can come along, and bing bang, there's someone from further back in history.)

While these women were pinnacles on my tree, they also appear as brick walls, and so I'm adding them to my 52 Ancestors, 52 weeks post for this week, sharing them at Generations Cafe on FaceBook, with this week's topic "The Brick Wall".  (This is a closed group, so check with Amy Johnson Crow.)

Two more matriarchs from 16th Century (edited repost from March 16, 2015) 

10) Ann Sylvester Bowers is daughter of 11) Grissell Brinley Sylvester and 11) Nathaniel Gascoigne Sylvester Capt.

11) Grissell Brinley Sylvester's parents were 12) Thomas Reeves Brinley, (born 1591 in Exeter, Devon, England died 15 Oct 1661 in Datchett, Buckinghamshire, England) and 12) Anna Wase Brinley (b. 1606 in Petworth, Sussex, England, d. 13 Jun 1687 in Datchet, Buckinghamshire, England).  

12) Thomas Reeves Brinley is well documented as the "Auditor General of the Revenues of King Charles I and II."  He left England during the English Civil War by Cromwell, and returned to his post for King Charles II but died a year later.

12) Anna Wase Brinley had 8 children, and also went with her husband when the revolution of Cromwell made Royalists unpopular, and lived into her 80s probably back in her home of Datchet.

Her parents were 13) William Wase (b. May 1580 in Petworth, Sussex, England, d. 19 September 1642 in Datchet, Buckinghamshire, England) and 13) Ann Cole Wase (b. 1582 as recorded in St. Leonard, Heston, London, Middlesex, England, death unknown.)  Apparently she married 13) William Wase when she was 16 in Petworth, Sussex, England.  There is no other information on her at Ancestry at this time.  But she is one of  the earliest matriarchs that I'll be mentioning today (a pinnacle ancestor.)

12) Thomas Reeves Brinley's mother was 13) Joanne Reeves (his middle name from her) (b. 1567 in Exeter, Devon, England, Death in (?) Exeter, Devon, England.) She's my other pinnacle ancestor.

An illustration of Exeter in 1563, entitled Civitas Exoniae (vulgo Excester) urbs primaria in comitatu Devoniae

Exeter has a wonderful history, dating from Roman times and before...and I can't begin to explore all that is in this town.  The map above would have been how it looked during Joanne Reeves lifetime.   

Exeter Cathedral, completed 1400

Looking back to the Sylvesters of Shelter Island, I just want to show their connection to my family.  Their daughter 10) Ann Sylvester married 10) Capt. Jonathan Bowers in 1695.

Their daughter, 9) Mary Bowers married 9) Joseph Swasey, my grandmother's great great something grandparent. (Grandmother was Ada Swasey Rogers.)

And...

The Family Bowers (repost from 2018):

to be posted tomorrow...

Elizabeth Ufford Beers - 7 times great grandmother

Born April 3,1698, died before Sept 19, 1783

We looked at my great times 7 grandmother last January 2018 HERE.

But today I just found a link to the microfilm of her will.  Let's see what that tells us about her life.

First she made sure her daughter Ruth, (who could not care for herself,) would have guardians as well as support by land and household.  She wanted her sons Samuel and Abner to provide for Ruth the rest of her life.  She also appointed Samuel and Abner to be executors of her estate.

The will of Sept 20, 1779 was written as a final will, thus there may have been earlier ones.  The probate occurred as of Sept 24, 1783, 4 years after the date of the will.  The inventory was carried out in 1783 and completed by Oct. 10 by James Booth and James Wells, sworn (unsure of their title, perhaps appraisers)

Of the sons who were asked to be executors, both were still living in 1783 and in Stratford, Fairfield County. I haven't found any relative of the Booths named James, though her daughter Elizabeth Beers Booth did marry Zachariah Booth. So the appraiser, James Booth, could have been a more distant relative of the family.  Stratford CT had a lot of Booths living there in the late eighteenth century.

But back to the Beers family in Stratford.  I talked about the town of Stratford and Elizabeth Ufford Beers' husband Josiah  HERE.

Grandmother Beers had only sons Samuel and Abner still living in Stratford at the time of her death. Where had her other sons gone?

According to the Gazetteer and Business Directors of Thompkins County, NY for 1868, the founders of Danby, Thompkins, NY included several Beers.  How many were children of Elizabeth Ufford Beers?  Steven for one (a son of Elizabeth U. Beers, or maybe a son of Abner's.) Who was Dr. Lewis Beers who came in 1797? Not a son of Elizabeth apparently, but who was his "eldest brother"?  Abner who had the first store in Danby might have been a son of Elizabeth, but was more likely as a grandson. Who was Jabez Beers?  See the article below.

Going backward (which ancestry often does) Jabez (1763-1834) was the oldest son of Abner Beers. Though his father remained in Stratford, Jabez went with other Beers men to NY and started the settlement of Danby.

Lewis Beers (1768-1849) was also a son of Abner. But he could hardly have led settlers to Danby in 1779,  when he was only 11.  He might have become a Dr. later in life.  But I'll be looking for an uncle of his.

However, this is carrying me off in another tangent. Whoa, Barb.  Let's see if Grandmother Beers had any more information...

Though she lived to be 85 years old, she had 5 adult children who outlived her. Unfortunately my grandmother, her daughter Elizabeth Beers Booth predeceased her by dying in 1780. 

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.