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Mabel (Booth) Barnum (abt. 1755 - 1832)

Mabel Barnum formerly Booth
Born about in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticutmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 5 Dec 1772 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , , , , , , , and
Died at about age 77 in Barnumtown, Addison, Vermont, United Statesmap
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Profile last modified | Created 2 Aug 2014
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Biography

On December 3, 1772, Mabel Booth married Ebenezer Barnum in Kents Corner, Calais, Vermont.[1] Together, they had eleven children:

  1. Fannie, born October 18, 1773 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut.[2] (see Research Notes)
  2. Tamer, born October 18, 1773 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut.[3]
  3. Lucy, born October 24, 1776 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut.[4] She died three years later, on December 3.[5]
  4. Betsy, born in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut on January 25, 1779.[6]
  5. John, born in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut on May 31, 1781.[7]

Research Notes

Birthplace

This profile originally listed a birthplace in Newtown, Connecticut, however there is no source to back this up except for FindAGrave, and the location on FindAGrave itself is unsourced, so it has been removed until further evidence can be provided.

Disputed Children

On this profile, both Fannie and Tamer Barnum are attached as and supposed twins, born October 18, 1773 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut. However, records indicate that Fannie was actually born in Vermont, which makes this impossible. Given the evidence that the remaining children of Mabel and Ebenezer were also born in Connecticut, and that Tamer married her second cousin (which would make her almost certainly correctly attached), there does not seem to be an explanation for this.

Sources

  1. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFFT-6XK : 14 April 2020), Ebenezor Barnum and Mable Booth, 1772.
  2. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFFT-XWY : 14 April 2020), Fannie Barnum, 1773.
  3. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7W6-59W : 7 January 2020), Mabel in entry for Tamar Barnum, 1773.
  4. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7W6-594 : 7 January 2020), Lucy Barnum, 1776.
  5. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFNQ-D9B : 14 April 2020), Lucy Barnum, 1779.
  6. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7W6-5M4 : 7 January 2020), Betsey Barnum, 1779.
  7. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74V-L9K : 7 January 2020), John Barnum, 1781.




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McHone-34 Gregory McHone
Booth-5041 and Booth-2406 appear to represent the same person because: Mabel Booth abt. 1755-1832. Born in Newtown, Connecticut, parents and siblings unknown, married Ebenezer Barnum in 1722 in Kent, Connecticut, died in 1832 in Barnumtown, a village in Monkton, Vermont.

Mabel Booth 1750-1832, born in Newtown, Connecticut, parents, siblings, and spouse unknown, died in 1832 in Monkton, Vermont.

In addition, she appears to be the daughter of Gideon Booth, who was born in Stratford, Connecticut but lived most of his life in Newtown, where he had most of his children by Anna Hawley. Their son [Booth-2345|Elisha Booth]] has a death record in Hinesburg, a town adjacent to Monkton, Vermont, and so was also an early settler of that area. Moreover, Gideon Sr. went to Monkton as an elderly widower, where he died in 1820. Most likely he went to live with a child's family. Mabel Booth, who settled Monkton as the wife of Ebenezer Barnum and who died there in 1832, would be their middle child, although she is not listed in the Wikitree profile for Gideon Booth.

These two Mabel Booth need to be combined as a daughter of Gideon and Anna (Hawley), and who married Ebenezer Barnum and was part of a migration of several local families to western Vermont after the Revolutionary War.

posted by Gregory McHone
Utting-102 Amelia Utting
Hi Greg,

Thank you so much for your considerable research on Mabel Booth. I agree that the two profiles need to be merged, however I am concerned about attaching the parents without sufficient evidence - I am not disagreeing with any of your conclusions at all, but WikiTree relies on sources, and the 'sources' proving Mabel to be the same daughter of Gideon Booth is largely conjecture. I am happy for the profiles to merge and for Gideon to be attached, however I do think that the relationship between parents and daughter should be marked as "uncertain" until evidence can be provided.

Hopefully this is a happy compromise :)

Regards, Amy Utting

posted by Amelia Utting
McHone-34 Gregory McHone
Yes, the identity of her parents is still uncertain. Sometimes we have to use circumstantial evidence for assigning the roles of people this long ago, and in places not yet developed well enough for town records (such as early Monkton, Vermont). I will propose a merger, thanks for your response.

Also please not that Kents Corner, Calais, Vermont did not exist in 1772. The marriage record must have been made long after then and is in error...the marriage would most likely be in Kent, Connecticut.

posted by Gregory McHone
edited by Gregory McHone
McHone-34 Gregory McHone
Ebenezer and Mabel (Booth) Barnum apparently brought their family from Kent, Connecticut to Monkton, Vermont (good farmland in the Champlain Valley) some time after the British were defeated at Saratoga in 1777. Barnums gathered in a section of Monkton that soon was called Barnumtown. Most of their chldren were born there.

Gideon Booth raised his large family in Newtown, which is in western Connecticut south of Kent. Find-a-Grave gives his death in 1820 in Monkton, Vermont. I think it is highly likely that he was living with his daughter's Barnum family as a widower in his old age. It is most reasonable for Gideon Booth and his first wife Anna Hawley (1724-1763) to be the parents of Mabel Booth (1743-1832).

Concerning ref. 1: It is highly unlikely that anyone was married or born in the 1770s before the Revolution in Kent's Corner, which is in Calais, Vermont, because Calais was not settled before the 1780s. The Barnum family was in Kent, Connecticut, which is the more likely location.

posted by Gregory McHone

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