Brief Life History of David
When David Booth Jr was born on 10 October 1733, in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, David Booth, was 35 and his mother, Ann Mills, was 29. He married Prudence Edwards on 12 November 1752, in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 14 September 1824, in Trumbull, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Unity Cemetery, Trumbull, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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- David Booth, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- David Booth, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- David Booth in entry for Isaac Booth, "Connecticut, Church Records, 1660-1955"
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1744
"The village of Unity merged with the village to its west called Long Hill (organized in 1740), to form the town of ""North Stratford"" in 1744."
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""
Name Meaning
English (northern): topographic or occupational name from Middle English bothe (Old Danish bōth) ‘temporary shelter, such as a covered market stall or a cattle-herdsman's hut’. The latter sense was predominant in the Pennines of Lancashire and Yorkshire, where there were many cattle farms or vaccaries, and whose subdivisions were known as ‘booths’. The principal meaning of the surname there was therefore probably ‘cattle herdsman’, ‘man in charge of a vaccary’, and thus identical with Boothman . Elsewhere it may have denoted a shopkeeper who owned a temporary market stall, but no evidence has been found to confirm this use of the surname. In the British Isles the surname is still more common in northern England, where Scandinavian influence was more marked, and in Scotland, where the word was borrowed into Gaelic as both(an).
History: Robert Booth (1604–72) is mentioned in the colonial records of Exeter, NH, in 1645. He subsequently moved to ME.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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