Pages Tagged With: "James Booth Jr"
The Journey: Jail at New Castle Court House, Delaware
The Hawkins family, the Middletown constable and the slave owner’s agent arrived at the New Castle jail at 2:00am, December 6, 1845. The New Castle sheriff, Jacob Caulk, examined the […]
The People: Chief Justice James Booth, Jr.
James Booth, Jr. was born in 1789 in New Castle, De. A graduate of Princeton, he was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1812. He had a long and successful […]