Call Number: ARC.154
Extent: 1.26 Linear feet, in three manuscript boxes.
Charles Stuart Booth (1804-1862) was a night watchman who lived and raised his family in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg and worked in lower Manhattan. He and his wife, Lavinia Lyon Booth, had four children: Horace, Eliza (Lila, 1836-1900), Thomas (Tom), and Phoebe (1830-1912). The Charles Stuart Booth family papers and photographs span the period circa 1828 to 1906 and contain journals written by Charles Stuart Booth, in which he recorded events that transpired during his posts as a watchman, as well as family letters to and from Horace Booth while he served in the Union Army during the Civil War. The collection also contains two photograph albums and several loose photographs depicting members of the Booth family, as well as several members of families related to the Booths by marriage, including the Lockwood, Carrington, Seward, Shepard, Slauter, King, Mott, and Squires families.
Charles Stuart Booth (1804-1862) worked as a night watchman in lower Manhattan from 1828 to 1862. Booth was a resident of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburgh, which had been a separate city until it was annexed by the City of Brooklyn in 1855. Booth and his wife, Lavinia Lyon Booth, had four children: Horace, Thomas (Tom), Eliza (Lila, 1836-1900), and Phoebe (1830-1912). Horace Booth served in the Civil War from 1861 to 1863 as an engineer in the Union Army’s 8th Regiment, and was posted in Annapolis and Washington, D.C. throughout his service. Tom Booth worked in a store in Williamsburgh and was also a night watchman in the early 1860s, a position he found through the help of his father. Phoebe Booth married Hiram K. Lockwood (1820-1870) in 1851, and her sister Lila married Samuel S. Carrington in 1857.
Names:
- Booth family
- Booth, Charles Stuart, 1804-1862
- Booth, Horace
- Booth, Lavinia Lyon
- Booth, Thomas
- Carrington family
- Carrington, Eliza J. Booth, 1836-1900
- Carrington, Samuel S.
- King family
- Lockwood family
- Lockwood, Hiram K., 1820-1870
- Lockwood, Phoebe Booth, 1830-1912
- Mott family
- Seward family
- Shepard family
- Slauter family
- Squires family
- Squires, Harry B., d. 1963
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Families — New York (State) — Kings County
- Family life
- Genealogy
- Soldiers — Family relationships — New York (State) — Kings County
- Watchmen — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
- Cabinet photographs
- Correspondence
- Family papers
- Journals (accounts)
- Photographs
- Picture postcards
- Visiting cards