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Esther OSBORN

Female 1721 - Aft 1763  (> 43 years)


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  • Name Esther OSBORN 
    Born 1721  Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Died Aft 1763  Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 

    • If she is Mrs Esther Booth, and was Esther Osborn, why is she listed as "alias Wells"? Did she remarry?

      Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
      March 14, 1815 (date at tip of page)
      Name: Mrs Esther Booth (alias Wells)
      Birth Date: abt 1725
      Death Date: 1815
      Death Place: Bridgeport, Connecticut
      Age at Death: 90y 11m

      Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934
      Name: Esther Booth
      Birth Date: abt 1716
      Age at Death: 99
      Death Date: 21 Mar 1815
      Death Place: Connecticut
      Gender: Female
      FHL Film Number: 3092

      Esther Osborne Boothe
      Birth: 1721
      New Haven
      New Haven County
      Connecticut, USA
      Death: Mar. 21, 1815
      Fairfield County
      Connecticut, USA
      Esther (sometimes spelled Ester) Osborne is the daughter of Captain Joesph Osborne, Jr. (1692-1724) and Experience Tolles (1695-1737).
      She married Stephen Boothe (1721-1769) in 1737 in Connecticut.
      Known children are: Captain George Boothe, Sr. (1737-1813), Stephen (1751-1815) and Elizabeth (1753-1811).
      Family links:
      Parents:
      Joseph Osborne (1692 - 1724)
      Spouse:
      Stephen Boothe (1721 - 1769)*
      Sibling:
      Esther Osborne Boothe (1721 - 1815)
      Amos Osborn (1722 - 1790)*
      *Calculated relationship
      Burial:
      Unknown
      Created by: HBB
      Record added: Aug 15, 2016
      Find A Grave Memorial# 168434682

      Is this truly her father?
      Joseph Osborne
      Birth: 1692
      New Haven
      New Haven County
      Connecticut, USA
      Death: Dec., 1724
      New Haven
      New Haven County
      Connecticut, USA
      The son of Joseph and Mary Joy (Bennett) Osborne, Joseph was baptized Feb 18 1693 at the First Congregation Society Church in New Haven Conn. He married Experience Tolles in 1713 New Haven Conn. They had 4 children: Daniel (1715) Thomas (1717) Joseph (1718) and Amos (1722).
      Wife # (2) . was Hannah (Hubbell) Osborn. They were married in 1715. (From Brenda J. Masters Charles)
      Family links:
      Parents:
      Joseph Osborne (1667 - 1735)
      Spouse:
      Hannah Hubbell Osborn-Burr (1695 - 1743)
      Children:
      Esther Osborne Boothe (1721 - 1815)*
      Amos Osborn (1722 - 1790)*
      Siblings:
      Thomas Osborne (1692 - 1694)*
      Joseph Osborne (1692 - 1724)
      Mary Osborne (1696 - 1758)*
      Jeremiah Osborne (1699 - 1789)*
      *Calculated relationship
      Inscription:
      Here Lies Ye Body of Joseph Osborne Junior who died Dec'r 1724 aged 32 years.
      Burial:
      Grove Street Cemetery
      New Haven
      New Haven County
      Connecticut, USA
      Plot: Buried in the Green --tombstone along the Wall of the Grove St. Cemetery.
      Created by: Nareen, et al
      Record added: Apr 30, 2004
      Find A Grave Memorial# 8703064
    Person ID I6285  WVPioneers
    Last Modified 12 Jan 2017 

    Family 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) 
    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
    Children 
     1. George Boothe,   b. 11 Apr 1737, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Sep 1813, Floyd County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
     2. Stephen BOOTHE, Jr,   b. 27 Oct 1751, Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Aug 1815, Clinch Mountain, Russell County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years)
     3. Elizabeth Boothe,   b. 1753, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1811  (Age 58 years)
    Family ID F2158  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S89] Fran Green Daniels.

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