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one of the original proprietors of the
town, and a leading figure in it- early
life. His descendants have ranked among
the foremost families in Connecticut for
two hundred and fifty years, and have
never relinquished the prestige of early
generations.
The pedigree of the English house of
which the American Booths are an off-
shoot, is herewith appended:
(I) William de Boothe, son of Adam
de Boothe, Of Lancaster county, in 1275,
married Sybil, daughter of Ralph de l'.rer-
eton, of the county palatine of Chester,
descendant of an ancient English family.
(II) Thomas de Booth, son of William
de Boothe, and his heir, married and had
Robert, mentioned below.
(III) Robert Booth, son of Thomas de
Booth, married into the Barton family of
Lancashire, but evidence is not clear
whether his wife was Agnes, daughter
and heir of Sir William de Barton, or her
daughter and heir Loretta.
(IV) Thomas (2) Booth, Knight
(styled Thomasin of the Booths), son of
Robert Booth, was living at the time of
Edward III., 1327-jj. His seal (as ap-
peared in an ancient document in posses-
sion of Lord Delamere in 1680) was, in
1372, "a chevron engrailed in a canton, a
mullet, and for crest a fox and a St. Cath-
erine wheel," with the motto "Sigillum
Tho»ur.'' He married Ellen, daughter of
Thomas De Workesley, near Booths, in
Lancashire.
(V) John Booth, son of Sir Thomas
(2) Booth, and his heir, was living in the
time of Richard II. and Henry IV. (1377-
141 3). He is styled John of Barton. He
married (first) Joan, daughter of Sir
Henry Trafford, of Trafford, in Lancashire,
Knight, member of an ancient Eng-
lish family seated in Lancashire before
the Conquest. After her death, he mar-
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ried Maude, daughter of Sir Clifton Sav-
age, of t Ufton, in Cheshire, Knight.
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Sir
Robert (2) Booth, -on of John
I '.."'th and hi- wife Joan, was the first of
the Booths who settled at Dunham Mas-
sey, in * Cheshire. I fe died September, 1450,
and i- buried in the parish church of Wil-
merton, in Cheshire. He married Dulcis,
daughter and heir of Sir William Ven-
ablcs, of Bollen, Knight. She died Sep-
tember, 1453. Sir Robert I'.oothand Wil-
liam, his -on, had a grant of the shrievalty
of Cheshire for both their live-.
(VII) Sir William (2) Booth, son and
heir of Sir Robert (2) Booth, of Dunham
Massey, Knight, married Maude, daugh-
ter of J. Dutton, Esq., of Dutton in
Che-hire, who survived him and married
again. Sir William Booth received of
Henry VI. an annuity for services to the
Crown.
(VIII) Sir George Booth, or Bothe,
son of Sir William (2) Booth, married
Catherine, daughter and heir of R. Mountfort,
of Bescote, in County Stafford. The
Mountforts were of noble connection,
bearing relationship to David. King of
Scotland, and to the great family of Clin-
ton. This marriage brought to Sir
George Booth an "ample estate of manors
and lands in the counties of Salop. Staf-
ford, Warwick, Leicester, Hereford,
Wilts, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall."
He died in 1483.
(IX) Sir William (3) Booth, son of Sir
George Booth, of Dunham Massey. mar-
ried (first) Margaret, daughter and co-
heir of Thomas Ashton, of Lancashire
"by whom a large inheritance in Lanca-
shire and Cheshire came to the family of
Bothe;" she died before 1504. He then
married Ellen, daughter and co-heir of
Sir John Montgomery, of Kewby, in
Staffordshire. Sir William Booth possessed
various manors in Cheshire, York