Hannah (Booth) Silliman (abt. 1698 - bef. 1767)

Born about 1698 in Stratford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Nathaniel Silliman — married 2 May 1723 in Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died before 14 Jul 1767 before about age 69 in Fairfield, Connecticut

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Biography

Hannah Booth was born to Joseph and Hannah (Wilcoxson) Booth about 1700 based on her marriage to Nathaniel Silliman May 23, 1723 at Fairfield, Connecticut.^[1]

Hannah died before July 14, 1767.^[2]

Her inventory was taken on the same day as her daughter Rhoda's, 10 September 1767.^[3]

Her children signed a distribution agreement that distributed her estate and her daughter, Rhoda's estate among themselves on 3 December 1767.^[4]

Hannah b: ca 1698 d. at Fairfield (before 14 July) 1767; md 2 May 1723 Nathaniel Silliman b. at Fairfield 10 Aug 1696 d. there in 1763; will 21 July 1763, proved 2 Aug 1763, son of Robert and Sarah (Hull-Knapp) Silliman.^[5] Orcutt's History of New Milford,1882 list children by 2nd wife: Note dates differ widely from Jacobus. Hannah b. 1686^[6] list children by 2nd wife: Note dates differ widely from Jacobus.

Sources

1. ↑ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. Compiled and edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. 2 vols. New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932. Reference Volume 1, page 91
2. ↑ Jacobus, Donald LInes The genealogy of the Booth family: Booth families of Connecticut for six or more generations., published 1952. Reference page 6
3. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 15-16, 1764-1775”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-Y93C-Y  : 18 June 2022), FHL microfilm 007627304, image 292-293, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 16, 1767-1775, Page 67-68.
4. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 15-16, 1764-1775”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-Y93H-K  : 18 June 2022), FHL microfilm 007627304, image 307-308, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 16, 1767-1775, Page 97-98.
5. ↑ Jacobus
6. ↑ Orcutt's, History of New Milford,1882

• Source: S24 Vital Records of (CT Towns of) Stratford, Newtown, Fairfield, Woodbury, weston, Berlin, Farmington, Roxbury, etc. Church Records (Congregational & Episcopalian) of Stratford, Hungtington, and Trumbull, Redding, Roxbury, South Britain, Easton, New Britain, Southington. Probate Recrods of Fairfield Stratford, Danbury, Woodbury, Farmington. Land Records Stratford, Newtown, Scattering Cemetery inscriptions, Hale Collection, State Library hartford, many towns Family Records, State Library Hartford, CT In many cases his dates differ from Orcutt's History of New Milford p. 657-58. MSS: Booth Collection, Kate S. Fogarty, Fairfield Historical society\Pattersosn Genealogy, D. Williams Patterson, CT Historical society and numerous printed sources and family histories. see p 115-116 Names, dates and information of this line down to Mead Booth are taken from this book.
• Family records of Laura Silliman Decker Shears, Colonial Dames records
• Goggle Books: History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1 by Donald Lines Jacobus, page 253 ff

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