Excerpt from One Branch of the Booth Family: Showing the Lines of Connection With One Hundred Massachusetts Bay Colonists

This volume has grown out of what was at first simply an endeavor to discover, if possible, a satisfactory propositus in support of an intended ap plication for admission to the Society of Colonial Wars; prior to that time the writer had never taken the slightest interest in genealogical research, and in fact, knew nothing whatever of its literature.

Nearly fifty years ago the writer's father and grandfather collected some material relating to their own descent from Robert Booth of Saco, Me., which was published in a small pamphlet by a western cousin who was an amateur printer.

It must be that a taste for this work had been inherited unsuspected, and that it had Iain dormant, only needing a favorable Opportunity for development. But be that as it may, what was intended as a single visit to the Lenox library in September of 1902 was soon followed by another and another, and in the course of a few days an interest had been awakened in the early history of New England, the lives of its. Pioneer settlers, their manners and customs, and the religious, social, political and commercial changes that have taken place there that will be of lifelong influence.

In the course of time such a mass of manuscript accumulated that it became desirable to print it, and a small edition has been published in the hope that the information to be found therein will be of interest to others who are also descendants of some of the families mentioned.

Plan and Scope. In the half dozen large historical collections in New York City there are several thousand genealogies, nearly all of which begin with some one emigrant ancestor, and trace his descendants of that surname down to the present day as fully as the compiler was able to do.

Among these volumes are a few - only a small fraction of one per cent. Where the compiler has pursued a different plan, and beginning with his own father and mother has endeavored to trace back and ascertain, as far as may be, the different emigrants of whom he can say that their blood flows in his veins.

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