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Stephen BOOTHE, Jr

Male 1751 - 1815  (63 years)


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  • Name Stephen BOOTHE 
    Suffix Jr 
    Born 27 Oct 1751  Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 26 Aug 1815  Clinch Mountain, Russell County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Notes 

    • Not if any of this applies to him.

      Connecticut Revolutionary War Military Lists, 1775-83
      Name: Stephen Booth
      Rank: Seaman
      Page #: 246
      Regiment: Ship ""Oliver Cromwell""
      Company: Coit's
      Company Command: Coit, Wm. Capt.
      Remarks: Seamen on board Ship ""Oliver Cromwell"", Feb. 1777.

      U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
      Name: Stevens Booth
      Military Place: Connecticut, USA
      State or Army Served: Continental Troops
      Rank: PRIVATE

      American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
      Name: Stephen Booth
      Birth Date: 1750
      Birthplace: Connecticut
      Volume: 16
      Page Number: 96
      Reference: Heads of Fams at the first U.S. census. Ct. By U.S. Bureau of the Census. Washington, 1908. (227p.):32

      American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
      Name: Stephen Booth
      Birth Date: 1740
      Birthplace: Connecticut
      Volume: 16
      Page Number: 96
      Reference: Rolls and lists of Ct. Men in the Rev. 1775-1783. Ed. By Albert C. Bates. Hartford, Ct., 1901-1909. (Vols. 8 and 12 of the "Collections" of the Ct. Hist. Soc.) (2v.):8:246, 250
      (2v.):8:244


      U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
      Name: Stevens Booth
      Military Place: Connecticut, USA
      State or Army Served: Continental Troops
      Rank: PRIVATE

      Connecticut Revolutionary War Military Lists, 1775-83
      Name: Stephen Booth
      Rank: Seaman
      Page #: 250
      Regiment: Ship ""Oliver Cromwell""
      Company: Coit's
      Company Command: Coit, Wm. Capt.
      Remarks: Seamen on board Ship ""Oliver Cromwell"", Feb. 1777.

      Stephen Boothe
      Birth: Oct. 27, 1751
      Bridgeport
      Fairfield County
      Connecticut, USA
      Death: Aug. 26, 1815
      Russell County
      Virginia, USA
      Married Nancy Anne Cosby in 1771.
      Parents Stephen Boothe (1721-1769), Esther Osborne (1720-1815).
      Known siblings: George Boothe, Sr. (1737-1813), Elizabeth Boothe, (1753- )
      Known children: Joseph (1770-1860), William (1770-1870), Jerusha ((1771-1856), Nancy Ann (1772-1862), William David (1773-1814), Stephen (1775-1814) Elisha (1778- ), James (1780- ), Rachel (1781-1850), Joseph (1784-1868), William 1786-1870).
      Death at Clinch Mountain, Russell County, Virginia.
      Family links:
      Parents:
      Stephen Boothe (1721 - 1769)
      Sibling:
      George Boothe (1737 - 1813)*
      Stephen Boothe (1751 - 1815)
      *Calculated relationship
      Burial:
      Unknown
      Created by: HBB
      Record added: Sep 02, 2015
      Find A Grave Memorial# 151648981

      Stephen Boothe
      BIRTH 27 Oct 1751
      Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
      DEATH 26 Aug 1815 (aged 63)
      Russell County, Virginia, USA
      BURIAL Unknown
      MEMORIAL ID 151648981
      Married Nancy Anne Cosby in 1771.
      Parents Stephen Boothe (1721-1769), Esther Osborne (1720-1815).
      Known siblings: George Boothe, Sr. (1737-1813), Elizabeth Boothe, (1753- )
      Known children: Joseph (1770-1860), William (1770-1870), Jerusha ((1771-1856), Nancy Ann (1772-1862), William David (1773-1814), Stephen (1775-1814) Elisha (1778- ), James (1780- ), Rachel (1781-1850), Joseph (1784-1868), William 1786-1870).
      Death at Clinch Mountain, Russell County, Virginia.


      Stephen Boothe
      1751–1815
      BIRTH 27 OCTOBER 1751 • Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
      DEATH 26 AUG 1815 • Clinch Mountain, Russell, Virginia, United States
      U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900:
      Name: Stephen Boothe
      Gender: Male
      Birth Place: CT
      Birth Year: 1751
      Spouse Name: Nancy Anne Boothe
      Spouse
      Birth Place: NY
      Number Pages: 1
    Person ID I6282  WVPioneers
    Last Modified 3 Nov 2019 

    Father Stephen BOOTHE, Sr,   b. 7 Nov 1721, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Nov 1769, Farirfield County, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 47 years) 
    Mother Esther OSBORN,   b. 1721, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1763, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 43 years) 
    Married 1737  Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Notes 

    • U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
      Name: Stephen Boothe
      Gender: Male
      Birth Place: CT
      Birth Year: 1721
      Spouse Name: Esther Osborn
      Spouse
      Birth Place: CT
      Spouse Birth Year: 1721
      Number Pages: 1

      Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999
      Name: Stephen Booth
      Probate Date: 1769
      Probate Place: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
      Inferred Death Year: Abt 1769
      Inferred Death Place: Connecticut, USA
      Case Number: 895
      Item Description: Probate Packets, Booth, J-Bradley, Hez, 1648-1880

      Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999
      Name: Stephen Booth
      Probate Date: 19 Sep 1769
      Probate Place: Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
      Inferred Death Year: Abt 1769
      Inferred Death Place: Connecticut, USA
      Item Description: Probate Records, Vol 17-18, 1767-1776

      In the Name of God Amen
      I Stephen Booth of Stratford in Fairfield County and Colony of Connecticut in New England being in a weak declining state of body but of sound mind and memory for which I would pay my thankfull acknowledgements to Ye God of the Spirits of all Flesh, calling to mind my mortality and not knowing the day of my demise do make and ordain this to be in Last Will and Testament; first of all I give and bequeath my precious and immortal soul into ye hands of God that made it chearfully trusting in the mercy of God in Jesus Christ for the Salvation thereof and my body I reccommend to the Earth to be decently buried at the durction of my Exicutrix hereafter named hopeing for its glorious resurrection at the Last great Day through Christ that is the first begotten of the Dead and and as touching that world by estate with which it has pleased God to bless me I give and dispose of in manner following viz:
      Imprimis My will is that all my just debts and funeral charges shall be first paid and satisfyed.
      Item: all the rest and residue of m estate both real and personal whether in possession or in Roversion(?) or remainder I will give and bequeath to my well beloved wife Esther and to her heirs and assigns forever.
      Finally I do hereby ordain constitute and appointe her my said wife to be sole executrix of this my last will ratifying and confirming this and no other to my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 19th day of Septem'r AD 1769
      Stephen Booth (seal)
      Signed sealed published and declared by above named stephen Booth to be his will & Testament In presence of us:
      Sam Odell
      Seth Gregory
      Hezekiah Tredwell

      At a Court of Probate held in Fairfield ye 5th Dec 1769
      Personally appreared Sam'l Odell Seth gregory and Hezekiah Tredwell subscribing witnesses to ye [^within] Will and on oath declared they saw stephen Booth within named Testator sign and seal ye same and heard him publish and declar it to be his Last Will and Testament and [?] they set to their hands as witnesses in ye presence of ye testator and of each other & that they judged him to be of sound disposing mind and memory -- and will being proved in by and court approved and ordered to be recorded
      Test Hezekiah Silliman Clerk
      Att ye same time personally appeared Easter Booth named Exectrix to ye within will and accepted ye trust reposed in her by Testator
      Test Hezekiah Silliman Clerk
      A true copy of ye Orig'l Esem'd by Hez Sillliman, Rec''r
    Family ID F2158  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Nancy Ann COSBY,   b. 1751, Westchester County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1825  (Age > 75 years) 
    Married 1771  [1, 3] 
    Notes 

    • The Herron Family Tree on Ancestry has additional children:
      Ann 1775 - 1850
      Elisha (female - Eliza?) 1878 - ? (or is this a male Elisha?)

      U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
      Name: Stephen Boothe
      Gender: Male
      Birth Place: CT
      Birth Year: 1751
      Spouse Name: Nancy Anne Boothe
      Spouse
      Birth Place: NY
      Number Pages: 1

      1790 Berlin, Hartford, CT
      Stephen Boothe
      1 free white male 16+
      1 free white female

      1810 Russell Co, VA, PP Tax list
      Booth, Joseph
      Booth, Stephen - 2 tithables

      1820 Russell Co
      William Boothe
      1m 0-10
      1m 26-45
      4f 0-10
      1f 26-45
      1f 45+

      Stephen Boothe
      1m 10-16
      1m 16-26
      1m 26-45
      2f 16-26
      1f 26-45

      Joseph Boothe
      2m 0-10
      1m 10-16b
      1m 16-26
      1m 45+
      1f 0-10
      1f 26-45

      1830 Russell Co
      Boothe Joseph
      Boothe John

      RWB3:145
      RDB6:541

      Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940
      Name: Stephen Booth
      Gender: Male
      Spouse: Nancy Booth
      Child: Jerusha Booth

      Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940
      Name: Stephen Booth
      Gender: Male
      Spouse: Nancy Booth
      Child: Nancy Booth
    Children 
     1. Stephen Boothe, III,   b. 1768, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1814, Russell County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 46 years)
     2. William Boothe,   b. 1770, Westchester County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1867, Westchester County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 97 years)
     3. Jerusha Boothe,   b. 1771, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Aug 1856, Wise County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
     4. Nancy Ann BOOTHE,   b. 11 Oct 1772, Westchester County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Nov 1852, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
     5. David Boothe,   b. 1773, Westchester County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1814, Norfolk, Norfolk City, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 41 years)
     6. Rachel Boothe,   b. 1781, Westchester County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1850, Russell County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
     7. Joseph Boothe,   b. 1784,   d. 8 Mar 1868, Russell County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
     8. James Boothe,   b. 1791,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F2157  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S89] Fran Green Daniels.

    2. [S898] Gravestone or Memorial posted on Findagrave.com.

    3. [S1113] Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940.