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murder of his brother, which he confessed. He was then charged with the murder of Mrs. Bolles and her children, which he also con- fessed, for which he was tried and executed at Hartford. The afflic- tion was so severe, that Mr. Bolles never m. a 2d time. He was a gentleman of respectability, and a Justice of Peace, he d. May 26, 1727, reputed to be aged 84 years. His son John was put with his aunt Bennet to nurse, afterwards of Norwich. July 3, 1699, John Bolles, the only living son of Tho's, m. Sarah Edgcomb, and had eight sons and two daughters, viz., Joseph, John, Tho's, Samuel, Ebenezer, Patience, Ziphorah, Isaiah, Enoch and Joshua. Sarah his wife, d., and he m. for his 2d wife Eliz'th Wood, and had issue, Mary, Christiana, Eliz'th and Samuel. John Bolles the father, d. Jan. 7, 1767, aged about 90 years ; his wife d. March 1, 1777.
ENOCH, son of John and Sarah Bolles, m. Hannah Moore, in 1738, and had issue, Enoch, Jr., Jonathan, d. young ; David, 2d Jon- athan, Asa, Jesse, Deacon John, Isaiah, settled at Newark, N. J .; Nathan and Richard. Their mother d. March 17, 1765, aged 47, and Enoch m. for his 2d wife, Lucy Wheeler, and by her had Han- nah, Lucy, Naomi and Susannah. Enoch the father, d. Dec. 3, 1800, aged 85 years, and Lucy his 2d wife, d. March 21, 1812, aged 73.
BOLLES, ISAIAH, son of Enoch, b. May 26, 1754, m. Eliz'th Tillotson, July 1, 1776, and had issue, Ralph, b. March 7, 1777 ; Ephraim, b. Jan. 14, 1780 ; Dan, b. April 1, 1782, d. aged 2 years. He removed to Hebron. Betsey, b. there, or at N. L., Oct. 22, 1784 ; Nathan, b. Feb. 17, 1786 ; Aaron, b. May 25, 1788, d. in 1808, on the Island of Martinique ; Fanny, b. Feb. 26, 1790; Nancy, b. June 30, 1793 ; John, b. June 30, 1795, d. an infant ; Wm., b. March 17, 1797. Isaiah, d. April 4, 1847, aged 92 years, 10 m. and 9 days. Eliz'th, wife of Isaiah, d. May 11, 1843, aged 88 years.
BOLLES, EPHRAIM, m., and had Mary Francis, b. Aug. 25, 1811, d. 1849 ; Isaiah and his wife moved to Newark, N. J., April or Sept., 1830.
BOLLES, JOSHUA, son of John and Sarah, of N. L., m. Joanna Williams, and had ten sons and five daughters, viz., Samuel, Sarah, (d. young,) Ezra, Joshua, Jr., William, Alpheus, Elijah, Elisha, 2d Sarah, Mercy, Hezekiah and Jeremiah, Patience, Zippora, Ebenezer.
BOLLES, EBENEZER, son of Joshua, b. at Bolles Hill, N. L., July 13, 1764 ; he m. Abigail Penfield, of N. Haven, Dec. 20, 1789. He removed to Litchfield, in 1788, and d. there Aug. 28, 1826. He had seven sons and one daughter, viz., Samuel Penfield d. young ;
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Eben W., 2d Samuel P., Joshua, d. young ; George, Henry, Mar- garet C. and William, five of whom emigrated to the state of Indiana. Samuel P., remains at Litchfield and was Town Clerk there from 1836 to 1840.
BOLLES, JOIIN, NATHAN and RICHARD, sons of Enoch, and grandsons of John and Sarah Bolles, of N. L., removed to Hart- ford ; their brother Isaiah settled at Newark, N. Jersey ; Jesse set- tled at Woodstock ; David settled at Ashford ; 2d Jonathan settled in Stonington, and was the father of Benj'n, and two sisters, who now reside in Hartford ; another son of Jonathan, Job S. Bolles, settled and d. in Georgia.
BOLLES, DEACON JOHN, son of Enoch, m. Lydia Taber, of N. L., and settled and d. in Hartford. His children were John, d. young ; Jeremiah, d. single ; Edward, (a man of large estate, now of Hartford ;) Lydia, m. Rev. Lucius Bolles, of Ashford, a cousin ; Lucy, m. Lemuel Swift, of Hartford, both died ; Doctor Geo. Bolles graduated at Yale College, and settled in Vermont, where he now lives unmarried.
BOLLES, NATHAN, settled in Hartford as a merchant, and m. at Hartford, and remained about fifteen years ; he then removed to Agawam, W. Springfield, where he d .; he had issue, Peter, Na- than and two daughters.
RICHARD, son of Enoch, settled a few years at Hartford, and m. Miss Spencer, at Hartford, and soon after removed to Hudson, New York, where he had a shoe store for many years, and where he had a son and two daughters, perhaps others, and died there.
DAVID, son of Enoch, settled in Ashford, m. Miss More, of New London, and had issue, David, Jr., Matthew, Augustus, Lucius and Matilda ; David, Jr., was a Judge of the C. Court ; Matthew resided in Ashford ; Matthew was the father of James G. Bolles, Esq., of Hart'd ; John Augustus, late Secretary of State in Mass., and others.
JOHN AUGUSTUS, EsQ., son of Matthew, graduated at Brown University, in 1829, settled as a lawyer at Boston, and was after- wards appointed Secretary of State, in Mass.
BOLLES, SAMUEL, of N. L., purchased of Sam'l Jennings, Sen., of Fairfield, for the sum of £50, land situated in New Fair- field, 1728-9 ; said Bolles also purchased of David Chittenton, of N. Fairfield, for the sum of £40, lands situated in New Fairfield, a part of the J. Hough farm, dated May 7, 1731 ; said Bolles also pur- chased of Benj'n Hough, of New Fairfield, another tract of land sit-
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uated in said N. F., a part of the original purchase of his father Jon- athan Hough, dated 1732.
BOLLES, EBENEZER, a trader at N. L., d. 1762, he left one child (a daughter,) about 17 years old, and an estate of £5000, L. M. He by accident was poisoned, but being a Rogerene, and the rules of that sect forbidding the use of medicine in sickness, he re- fused to take medicine or have a physician, until a short time before he expired, when those of the sect forbid it, lest he should deny the faith. (Ct. Gazette.)
BOULES, JOSEPH, of Welles, 1653.
BOWELIS, JOHN, freeman Mass., 1640.
BOWLES, RICHARD, was taxed at Cochecho, N. H., (Dover,) in 1666 and '7.
BOULES, JOSEPH, came from England, in the Speedwell of London, Robert Lock, master, bound for N. England, 1656, regis- tered at Gravesend.
Bowles has twelve coats of arms in England.
Bolle alias Bolles, (originally of Bolle Hall, and subsequently of Hough, Co. Lincoln : from this family derived the Bolles of Scamp- ton, extinct Baronets, and the Bolles of Thorpe Hall, whose co-heirs were Elizabeth Bolle, wife of Rev. Thomas Bosvile, Rector of Uf- ford, and Saralı, m. to Henry Eyre, of Bramly Hall.) "Az. out of three cups or. as many boars' heads couped ar. Crest-A demi boar wounded in the breast with a broken spear." There is also a differ- ent coat of arms. (Worthin co. Suffolk ; granted in 1528.) (John Burk's Heraldry.)
Bowles or Boles, one coat of arms. There is also one for Booles, Bolles or Bowles. (Suffolk and Staffordshire.)
John and Nathan Bolles, of Hartford, purchased of Thomas San- ford, land in Hartford for £123, lawful money, both of Hartford, Sept. 11, 1782.
The Bolles's of Hartford, Ashford and N. Fairfield, were from New London, descendants of Tho's Bolles, of N. London. No per- son of the name died at Hartford previous to 1700. Farmer says "John Bowles, Roxbury, (Mass.,) freeman 1640 ; member of the ar. co., 1645. The name appears to be Bowelis in the Col. Records (of Mass.) John, perhaps son of John, graduated at H. C., 1671- Representative, 1689 __ Speaker of the H. Rep., 1690, and d. 1691."
Mary Bolles, daughter of Joseph, of Welles, m. Maj. Charles Frost of Kittery, and was the mother of Hon. John Frost, of New Castle, N. Hampshire, who d. 1732-3, aged 51.
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Tho's Bowles, (so spelt) of N. London, was complained of to the C. Court in Hartford, March 12, 1671-2, by Matthew Griswold, and Lieut. Wm. Waller, for attempts by violence to drive them off their lands, resistance of authority, &c. Tho's Stafford, Geo. Chappell, Sam'l Tubbs, and many others of N. L., were in the same com- plaint. The descendants of John of Roxbury, spell the name Bowles, and the descendants of Thomas, of N. L., uniformly spell the name Bolles.
BOLES, RICHARD, was taxed at Cochecho, in 1658.
BOULES, JOSEPH, freeman of Wells, July 4, 1653.
Mary Bolles, daughter of Joseph, of Wells, m. Maj. Charles Frost, when he was 44 years old. (N. E. G. Reg.)
BOLMAN, MOSES, of Middletown, d. about 1744, his relict Si- lence Bolman, appointed guardian for her son Moses Bolman, Oct. 2, 1744.
BOLTWOOD, SERGT. ROBERT, was early in Conn., as early as Sept. 1648; he was a plaintiff in Court at Hartford. He was also plaintiff in Court in Oct., 1648-was made freeman at Hartford, May 20, 1658. He removed from Conn. to Hadley, Mass., and was one of the engagers to settle Hadley, April 18, 1659-Took the free- man's oath in Mass., March 26, 1661, and the oath of allegiance 1678. His wife's name was Mary, (maiden name not found:) He d. at Hadley, April 6, 1684. His relict Mary, quaintly styled on Hadley record "ye beloved wife of Robert Boltwood," d. at Had- ley, May 14, 1687. Their children were Sergt. Samuel, b. m. Sarah Lewis, of Farmington, daughter of W'm; d. Feb. 29, 1704, being slain by the Indians at Deerfield ; Sarah, b. -m. Isaac Warner, of Hadley, May 31, 1666-also m. Deacon John Loomis, of Windsor, Dec. 30, 1696; Lydia, b. - m. John Warner, of Springfield, April 2, 1674; d. Jan. 26, 1683 ; Martha, b. -- m. Daniel Warner, of Hatfield, son of Andrew, April 1, 1674 ; d. Sept. 22, 1710 ; Mary, b. -- m. James Beebe, of Had- ley, Mass., Oct. 24, 1667 ; d. Aug. 19, 1676.
BOLTWOOD, SERGT. SAMUEL, only son of Sergt. Robert, m. Sarah Lewis of Farmington, daughter of Capt. W'm Lewis, and Mary his wife ; daughter Sarah, b. at Hadley, Oct. 1, 1672. Sergt. Samuel was slain by the Indians at Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704. His wife Sarah survived him, and d. at Hadley, Aug. 10, 1722, aged 70 years, as her monument shews in the old burial ground in that place ; they had ten children b. at Hadley between 1672 and 1696.
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Sergt. Robert was the. ancestor of Mr. L. M. Boltwood, of Am- herst, Mass. Lydia Boltwood m. John Warner, April 2, 1674.
Dec. 7, 1648, the Court at Hartford adjudged Jarvis Mudge to pay to James Northam and Robert Boltwood, for his part of the damage they paid to Tantom Heage, if he had eight head of cattle trespas- sers, 37s. 6d., in good, dry, well conditioned Indian corn. (Col. Rec. p. 183.)
BOUGHTWHORD, ROBERT, ( probably intended for Bolt- wood,) was made a freeman at Hartford, in May, 1658. In 1659, he signed the contract to remove to Hadley, Mass., to form a settle- ment there, which he performed.
BOLTWOOD, ROBERT, was one of the list of freemen " at the New Towne at 'Norwotuck,' March 26, 1661," and qualified as a freeman.
In 1668, the Gen'l Court granted Mr. Willys, 100 acres of land adjoining the pond he purchased of Robert Boltwood, about six miles from Tho's Edward's in the way to New London, (probably in Glastenbury.)
BOLT, FRANCIS, and his son Philip were of Milford, Dec. 28, 1646, when the home lots there were equally laid out. He was a free planter there in 1639. He d. in 1649.
BOLT, JOHN, (probably from Milford,) to Norwalk, m. Eliz'th Clemmons, daughter of Wm., of Stamford, Nov. 20, 1694; issue, Richard, b. April 30, 1696; Charles, Sarah, Abigail, John, Jr. ; William and Benjamin, b. Sept. 26, 1718.
Bolt or Boult has one coat of arms. Bolter has two coats of arms.
One of the Bolt family settled at Southbury, Conn., probably from Milford.
BOND, MR. ROBERT, of Southampton, Long Island, was a Magistrate in the Gen'l Court of Conn., with Mr. Thomas Baker, Ogden, Capt. Tappin, &c., from Long Island, May 19, 1659. Mr. Bond, Capt. Tapping, Mr. Ogden and Thomas Baker, were magis- trates, (senators,) in the upper House of the Gen'l Court of Conn .. May, 1660. Robert Bond, Baker and Mr. Rainer, were magistrates from L. Island, May 1661, &c.
Mr. Bond was appointed a Commissioner on Long Island, by the Gen'l Court of Conn., May, 1663, with " magistratical power on the Island." Mr. Bond and Mr. Mulford, of E. Hampton, L. I., were put " To ye election, May 12, 1664," but Topping and Mr. John Howell were elected magistrates, and Capt. John Younge. Mr. Mulford and Bond were appointed magistrates for E. Hampton, L.
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I., and Mr. John Howell authorized to administer the oath to them, by the Gen'l Court of Conn., May session, 1664. These facts ful- ly prove the exalted standing held by Mr. Robert Bond in the early settlement of Long Island, while under the government of Conn. The same name is afterwards found with Ogden, in New Jersey. Mr. Robert Bond and Mr. Moore of Southampton, L. I., were ap- pointed, Oct. 25, 1644, by the Gen'l Court of Conn., to demand of each family of Southampton, the amount they would give for the maintenance of scholars at Cambridge College. He was several years a magistrate under Conn. on L. Island, and as such attended the Gen'l Court at Hartford, particularly in May 1659, '60, '6.1, &c. Mr. Bond of Southampton, and Mr. Wm. Mulford, of E. Hampton, L. I., were appointed Magistrates by Conn., in May, 1664. He was also made a freeman by Connecticut.
BOND, JOHN, and his wife Rachel, from Hebron, Conn., were admitted into the church at Hampton, Feb. 15, 1736 ; and Nathan- iel Bond was admitted into the same church, Sept. 5, 1742. Rachel, wife of John Bond, d. at Windham, Nov. 27, 1758, aged 68. John Bond removed to Canterbury from Hampton.
BOND, BAILEY, of Wethersfield, d. 1757. Elizabeth his wid- ow administratrix. Inventory, £140, 1s.
BOND, STEPHEN, from Conn. settled at Newark, N. J. He signed at Branford the regulations got up and entered into for the government of Newark, in 1666 or '7, by a company from Branford. Mr. Bond, Ward and Tho's Johnson in 1675, were appointed to hold a monthly court for the trial of small matters at Newark, N. J., and were " chosen by papers," (votes.) Robert Bond was of a Commit- tee to settle the line between Newark and Elizabethtown, N. J., in 1668. John Brown, Jr., was sealer of weights and measures at Newark, in 1686-7, and the half bushel of Benjamin Baldwin, or Seth Davis, was ordered to be the standard for measures. He was appointed to make the rate for Newark, in 1675-6. (Cong.) NA- THANIEL BOND of Watertown, Mass., 1690, made free __ also " GRIMSTONE BOND, free 1690. BOND, LIEUT. WILLIAM, made free in Mass., March, 1689-90. BOND, NICHOLAS, free in Mass., 1652. BOND, WILLIAM, of Mass., free 1682. Eight of the name of Bond have graduated at Cambridge, and one at Yale College ; one at Trinity.
BOND, NATHANIEL, late of Watertown, 1707, purchased 200 acres of land in Canterbury, of Ob Johnson, and Samuel Adams. He m. Elizabeth Backus, in 1714, and had issue, b. in Canterbury, viz., Nath'l, b. 1716; Elizabeth, b. 1717; Stephen, b. 1719; Jo-
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nas, b. 1720 ; Rebecka, b. 1726; Bethuel, 1728; Jonas, Bethuel, and perhaps some of the others had families, They were formerly numerous in Canterbury-Few of them are left in the town. Jonas was Deacon in Westminster. ( Learned.)
Bond or Bonde. Sa. a fesse or. There are nine coats of arms for Bond, and three for Bonde.
BONNY or BORNEY, PERES, was from Pembroke, Mass. He was the son of John Bonny and Elizabeth his wife; born in Pem- broke, March 10, 1709. Peres m. Ruth Snow, April 20, 1739, and resided at Goshen, Conn., and had children ; Joel, b. Aug. 14, 1740 ; Perez, b. July 13, 1742 ; Titus, b. June 1, 1744; Celia, b. April 16, 1746 ; James and Jarvis, twins, b. Feb. 14, 1747 ; Asa, b. Sept. 6, 1751.
BOOGE, JOHN, a Welchman, was the first and only one of the name in the Colony. He settled at E. Haddam, at an early period, before 1700. He had sons John, William, Richard, Daniel, Ste- phen, and Rev. Ebenezer.
BOOGE, JOHN, JR., had sons Amos, Samuel. WILLIAM, son of John had sons, W'm, Jr., Jonathan, Timothy, Ephraim and Rich- ard. DANIEL, son of John, Sen., had sons, Eliezer, Eliashib, Daniel, Jeremiah, John, Richard, Joshua and Ichabod, ( Field. ) WILLIAM BOOGE, of Willington, had his son Timothy bap'd at Colchester, May 19, 1734. Jeremiah Booge, of Colchester, had a daughter Tabetha baptized May 19, 1765.
BOOGE, REV. EBENEZER, of Farmington, son of John of E. Haddam, graduated at Yale College, 1748, and settled as Pastor of the church at Northington, (Avon,) Nov. 27, 1751 ; he m. Damaris, and had children, Aaron Judson, b. May 6, 1752; Rebecca Wake- ly, b. Dec. 29, 1753 ; Samuel Cook, b. Aug. 7, 1755; m. Triphena Thompson ; Oliver C., b. April 13, 1757; Jeffrey Amherst, b. Aug. 21, 1759 ; Damaris Corintha, b. Aug. 26, 1761; m. Samuel Bish- op ; Publius Virgilius, b. March 30, 1764: Rev. Ebenezer d. Feb. 2, 1767 ; his widow m. John Northaway. His daughter Damaris left no issue.
BOOGE, REV. AARON J., son of Rev. Ebenezer, graduated at Y. College, in 1774, and settled as a minister at Granby, Nov. 27, 1776, where he preached until Dec., 1785; he was then dismissed, but continued to supply the pulpit at Granby, nearly four years after his dismissal. He afterwards was installed at Winchester, where he preached but a few years. He died at New Lebanon, N. Y., in Ju- ly, 1826, aged 74 years. Rebecca W., daughter of Rev. Ebenezer,
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m. Rev. Daniel Foster, of Windsor, and d. Nov. 16, 1775, aged 22. Damaris C. m. Samuel Bishop, who d. July 16, aged 57, and left her his relict. She afterwards m. Preserved Marshall, of Avon. She died in 1831, aged 70. Rev. Publius Virgil Booge, son of Rev. Ebenezer, graduated at Y. College in 1787; he died in 1836, in the State of New York, aged 73 years. (Nothing is known of his family.)
Bogue has one coat of arms. Bouge has one.
BEON or BOON, G., on oath testified that " hee heard it expressed, by those that heard it expressed, by those that spake in behalf of Fairfield at a Gen'l Court, that they did not desire the land above the Necke," May 1657.
BOOSY, BOOSEY, MR. JAMES, was an early and a leading settler at Wethersfield, as early as 1639, when he was clerk of the train band. He was a gentleman of large estate ; the inventory of his estate presented in Court, Aug. 4, 1649, was £983, 8s. He was a Deputy to the Gen'l Court of Conn., in April and Sept., 1639- April, 1640_June, 1640-vijth, 1640-April, 1641-April, 1642- 1643 -- Feb., 1643_April, 1644 ; also two sessions in '44 ; four ses- sions in '45; three sessions in '46 ; one in '47; two in 48; and in May in 1649. He was also a juror in Court at Hartford, Dec., 1641, and afterwards. Mr. Boosey with Hon. Edward Hopkins, Hon. John Haynes, Gen. John Mason and John Steel, were appointed a committee on the part of Conn., in the articles of agreement with Hon. Geo. Fenwick " of Sea Brooke Forte," Dec. 5, 1644-for the purchase of the Fort and appurtenances enumerated in said article ; also all the land upon Conn. River, (of his,) and of such lands as were then undisposed of, should be given out by a committee of five persons, of which Mr. Fenwick was to be uniformly one. ( See printed Col. Rec. Vol. 1. p. 26, '7, '8, &c.) In Sept. 1645, he was appointed by the Gen'l Court, to bring into Court a just account of all particulars of the charges of the (then late wars, and for the support of Uncas. The office of juror was a high and responsible one, which he often filled in Court. He, with the Governor, Dept. Governor, Capt. Mason, &c., were appointed by the Gen'l Court in Oct., 1644, a Committee to consult with Mr. Fenwick, concerning the fortifications at the River's mouth, &c. These facts fully show the respectable standing of Mr. Boosy in the Colony. His wife's name was Alice; at his decease he had a family of daughters. One supposed m. Foot, 1649, Mary, b. Sept. 10, 1635, m. Sam'} Steel of Farmington ; Hannah, b. 1641, m. John Pratt ; Sarah, b.
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Nov. 12, 1643, m. Nath'l Stanly ; his only son, James, b., 1645, d. young. Mr. Boosy therefore left no sons to perpetuate his name in this country, tho' his blood yet flows in the veins of the Pratts, Steels, and Stanleys. Mr. Boosy probably d. in 1649, and his wid- ow Alice Boosy, m. James Wakely for her 2d husband. The Col- ony record, Feb. 23, 1652, says, " This Courte Judges the Deputyes actyon in marring James Wakely and the Widdo Boosy, to be le- gall." This proved a most unfortunate union for them both, and Mr. Wakely made ample provision for her future support, left her, and removed himself to Rhode Island, where he probably died. Mr. Boosy at an early period, 1641, had six lots of land recorded at Wethersfield. (B. 1. p. 142.)
BORDAIN, JOHN, of Lyme, received a deed of land in Lyme, of Christopher Huntington of Norwich, in 1675. He was in Conn. in 1664.
Ambrose Boden, freeman, sworn at Spurwink, 1658.
Joan Bowden embarked in the Paul, of London, for Virginia, Leonard Betts, Master, &c., July 6, 1635.
John Borden, aged 28, and wife Joan, aged 23, Matthew, aged 5, Elizabeth Borden, 5 years old, embarked for New England in the Elizabeth and Ann, May 12th.
BORDWELL, REV. JOEL, graduated at Y. College, in 1756. Ordained at Kent, Oct. 8, 1758, where he died in 1812, and left a family.
BOOTH, SIMON, of Enfield, was born in Wales, he m. Rebec- ca- -from Scotland_he came to Enfield, in 1680-one of the first settlers-d. there ; his wife Rebecca also d. at Enfield, Dec. 25, 1688, aged about 48. His son Zachariah, b. about 1660, m. Mary Warriner, July 15, 1691 ; she d. April 12, 1692, aged about 22 ; and he m. for his 2d wife Mary Harmon, May 26, 1696 ; he d. at Enfield, May 28, 1741 ; had two sons. Wm., son of Simon Booth, was b. about 1662; he m. Hannah Barrows, daughter of John Bur- roughs, Aug. 30, 1693, and d. 1753, aged 89. Eliz'th, daughter of Simon, Sen., b. about 1668, m. Jonathan Pease, Oct. 11, 1693 ; she d. Jan., 1722, at Enfield. Mary, another daughter of Simon, b. about 1670, m. Israel Meacham Dec. 10, 1700 ; his wife d., and he m. 2d widow Eliz'th Elmore, of Northampton, Sept. 8, 1693, and had issue by her viz., Sarah, m. Dan'l Ferry ; Phebe, lived in Hart- ford, Dec. 12, 1721. Caleb, son of Wm. Booth, b. 1695, m. Mary Gleason, 1728, and settled in East Windsor, and had a numerous family. One of his sons, Levi, d. in Enfield, in 1815, aged 76 years,
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without issue. Joshua, 2d son, b. 1697, settled first in Enfield, and had two sons, Oliver, b. 1725, and Wm., b. 1731. Zachariah, m. Mary Warriner July 15, 1691. John, son of Zachariah, was b. 1697 ; m. Lydia Chandler, daughter of Henry, 1727; d. 1778, and left two sons, John, b. 1728, m. Hannah Phelps, 1751, d. in Enfield, and left issue ; Daniel, b. 1744, removed to Ohio, in 1811, where he d. and left children. Joseph, 2d, son of Z. Booth, b. 1710, m. Sarah Chandler, daughter of Henry, 1736, d. in Enfield ; he had six sons, viz., Joseph, b. 1736, m. Mary Hale, 1762, d. in Enfield, and left children ; Isaac, b. 1739, m. Deborah Hurlburt, 1764; Samuel, b. 1740 ; Zachariah, b. 1742, settled and d. in Enfield, and left issue ; Henry, b. 1745, and David, b. 1747. No evidence is found that Simon, of Enfield, and Richard Booth, of Stratford, were relatives.
BOOTH, RICHARD, was b. in 1607, as he testified in Court, in 1687, that he was then 80 years old, and he was 81 years old when he d. He came to Stratford where he settled about 1640 ._ Supposed m. Hawley, and had children, Eliz'th, b. Sept. 10, 1641, m. John Miner, of Stratford, by Mr. Welles; Anna, b. Feb. 14, 1643 ; Ephr'm, b. Aug. 1, 1648 ; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 19, 1651; John, b. Nov. 5, 1653 ; Joseph, b. Feb. or March 8, 1656 ; Bethia, b. Aug., 1658 ; Joanna, b. March 20, 1661.
BOOTH, JOSEPH, son of Richard Booth, d. 1703, and left issue, Hannah, James, Joseph, Robert, Daniel, David, Nathan.
BOOTH, JAMES, son of Joseph Booth, d. 1765, and left issue, James, John, Josiah, Abel, Elizabeth, Abigail, Martha and Sarah.
BOOTH, JAMES, JR., son of James Booth, d. 1809, and left is- sue, Hezekiah, Silas, James, Abel, Sarah, Abigail, Ann, Elíz'th, Charity and Amy.
BOOTH, SILAS, son of James Booth, Jr., d. 1818, and left issue, Isaac P., Eliza, Mariah, Nancy, Susan and Silas C. Booth ; the last is now a merchant at Bridgeport, Conn.
BOOTH, DAVID, son of Joseph, Sen., settled at Unity. His wife Ann, was of the Communion at Unity, in 1731, and David her husband was at the Communion there March 19, 1732. Sarah the widow of Mr. Eph'm Booth, deceased, was admitted to the church in Unity, in 1740. Those of the name in Trumbull, are generally descendants of David Booth. Isaac P., son of Silas Booth, now re- sides in Stratford, where his father had lived.
BOOTH, DAVID, and Ann his wife, of Unity, (N. Stratford,) descendants of Richard, of Stratford, had issue b. at Unity, viz., Ann, b. March, 1731; David, Jr., b. Oct. 10, 1733 ; Peter, b. May 25, 1736 ; Reuben, b. June 22, 1739.
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Ephraim Booth, and Sarah his wife, were at Unity in 1731. Zach- ariah Booth, and wife Eliz'th, had a son b. at Unity, in June, 1749. The Booths formerly of Farmington, Roxbury, Southbury, Trum- bull, Bridgeport, &c., are descendants of Richard, of Stratford. Da- vid, Jr., (son of David, and Ann his wife,) m. Prudence, and had a daughter Joanna, b. May 6, 1754, and others at Unity. Eph'm Booth, Sen., m. Mary Osborn, at New Haven June 9, 1675.
BOOTH, EPHRAIM, and Sarah his wife, had a daughter Char- ity, b. at Unity, June 21, 1731 ; Rachel, b. May 19, 1741 ; Ann, b. March 17, 1750; (Sarah, b. March 24, 1754, by his wife Phebe,) perhaps others. Sarah the widow of Mr. Ephraim Booth deceased, was admitted to the church in Unity, in 1740 ; she was probably the mother of the above Eph'm, and he a grandson of Richard.
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