Error in spelling of wife's surname of Samuel Griswold Goodrich, 1793-1860

[BradfordChild]

The wife of Samuel Griswold Goodrich was Mary Boott, not Booth, and therein lies some fascinating history (the marriage announcement is listed in Index of Marriages in Massachusetts Centinel and Columbian Centinel 1784 to 1840 Boott,Mary,m.S.Griswold Goodrich,of Hartford,Conn.,in Boston,Monday (CC.Jan.4,1826)).

Mary Boott was the daughter of Francis Boott. Francis was the brother of Kirk Boott, Jr. and the son of Kirk Boott.

Kirk, Jr. http://www.nps.gov/lowe/historyculture/upload/Boott%20Lowell%20Notes-2.pdf was an important power in New England manufacturing. His brother, Francis, was a physician and botanist. Harvard offered him a professorship.  The elder Kirk Boott was a merchant, but also an accomplished botanist http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/727.pdf (if that doesn't load, search for Alan Emmet, Kirk Boott and the Greening of Boston 1783-1845).

The Boott's were an extraordinary family, and I hope that the entry in the genealogy page will be corrected to include them. 

[deloresgfa55]

Hello Bradford,

Thank you for bringing the spelling of Mary's surname to our attention.  Checking a few other records besides the Case book, I find most of them have different spellings than the one you offer. I am now searching for an original record of the marriage, to verify the surname information so that we can have the correct spelling in our new Goodrich Genealogy, which we are in process of compiling. 

The files you currently see on our Goodrich Family Association site are the Goodrich Family in America book by Lafayette Wallace Case.  Our plan is to leave the book as is on the web site, but we are correcting errors in the new genealogy and adding in the Women's information and sourcing.  I hope we are able to obtain a source record of the marriage to verify the correct spelling of Mary's surname.

I am intrigued by your statements that Mary's father Francis was a doctor and a botanist and his brother Kirk Boott was invloved in the Greening of Boston 1783-1845.  Please send me an email and tell me more about this? 

Thank you,
Delores
gfagenealogy@yahoo.com