The Minor Family of Somerset

A lineal Genealogy of the Wilson Cross Family and Allied Familie
s, Lillian E.Good. Town House Press, Spring Valley, NY pg 24-2
6. Richard Booth was baptised in 1578/9 and died in 1628 and th
us the grandson of the Earl of warrington (Sir Wm & Elizabeth Wa
rBurton Booth). Ref: Booth, Henry S. Booth Genealogypg 6. Ther
e is a tradition the three Booth brothers, Richard of Stratfor
dConnecticut, John of southold, Long Island, and Robert of NH came to t
his country together and landed in New Haven, Ct in 1639. Ref
: Henry S Booth Genealogy. Another brother, William was in Barb
ados. Records show that before coming toSouthold in 1651 Joh
n Booth was also in Barbados. Ensign John appears to have bee
n engaged in transporting in small trading vessels, supplies fo
r the settlements along the coast. He probably made trading tri
ps to England and isbelieved to have lost merchandise on the sh
ip "Swallow" owned by Captain Jeremy Horton of Barnstable Englan
d when he was shipwrecked and several lives were lost sometime a
fter 1638. The master and crew arrived in Boston but the vesse
l and cargo were lost. Ref: Moore "Shipwrights, Fisherman and P
assengers, from England" Tepperi ImmaGrants to the Middle Colon
ies 1919. In volume"The Family of Richard Boothe" is recorde
d the following. "From him the Boothes of Barrow in Cheshire an
d tradition says, of New England, U.S. are descendants" while so
meyears ago there was also formed an association of Bellows Fall
s, VT which had for its purpose the proving of this tradition, b
ut nothing was found to add to the above statement.