The following is a portion of a 1945 letter written by an unknown lawyer to Maggie G. 
Booth (Pigg), informing her of his research concerning her possible inheritance of a 
portion of the forgotten Boothe estate in London, England.

	"In about the year 1744, when the municipality of Shefield, in York, England, had 
reached the limits of its boundry, the Burgesses appealed to the Crown for an extension 
of land, on which to build additional manufacturing plants and homes. The desired pro­
perty was along the Ron River, and embraced the holdings of a family named Boothe, who 
refused to sell their vast agricultural holdings to the Municipality of Sheffield. The 
Kings’ Bench decided that this property was necessary to the proper development of the 
rapidly growing Steel and CuttelryCenter, an condemned the property as eminent domain 
and appointed appraisers to fix a fair value upon it. This was done and the value was 
several, millions of pounds sterling. This purchase price was paid, partly in Gold, but 
the greater part was paid in Bonds of the Municipality, guaranteed by the Crown, or
Bank of England. Sheffield is about 150 miles from London., After being compelled to 
give up t heir manorial estate, the Boothe family moved to Sandwick, Kent, near London, 
and established themselves in royal splendor. The elder Boothe, William, had but one 
child, a son George, who inherited his entire fortune. George Boothe married and had 
three children, George, Robert and Mary.

	George Boothe, Jr., became a fugitive from justice and emigrated to the States;
this was about 1793. He was followed in 1804 by his brother Robert, who lived but a 
few years. Mary the daughter, stayed with her father at Sandwick, until he died, when 
she became his sole heir, she remained a spinster, and at her death, the estate, under 
the law of inheritance in England, became the property of her next of kin, who was her
brother, George Boothe, Jr., the brother Robert having died. A search was made for 
George, Jr., but as he failed to register at the port of entry, in the States, and was 
fearful of arrest and deportation to England, he never made himself known. In the year 
1819 he left New York and finally settled near Patrck C. H. and later moved to what is 
now known as the Grill farm, near Christainsburg, which he purchased from Francis Sim-
mon in 1824. He lived there until 1828, sold this farm to one of his sons, Asa A. 
Boothe, and lived for a short time near Lester’s Gate, near Blacksburg,. He then pur-
chased the farm which now belongs to Daniel Simmons, who was a daughter (?) Of Daniel
Boothe, son of George, Jr., where George died in 1839. He had three sons, Daniel, Iaaac 
A., and George. Isaac Abner had two sons, William abner and James, and may have had 
some daughters. Daiel hade one daughter, Thamer, who married Thomas and several other 
children. William Abner, the father of A. Homer, Lawson, and Calvin, and several others 
who are now dead. I have quite a large list of collateral heirs under the family names 
of Simmon, Graham, Howell, Conner, Summer, Sowers, Miles, Hylton, Lester, Epperley, 
Bishop, Eller, Kingrey, Maxwell, Naff, Lester, Ritter Pagan, Range, Hungate, Jones, Kahl 
and some others.

	I have taken the matter up with Sir. Esme Howard, Britian Ambassador, at Washington 
and through him, by Cable, have ascertained that there is still, in the Bank of England, 
which is the Crown trustee, a large sum of money, due the accredited heirs of George 
Boothe, Jr., son of George Boothe, of Sandwick, Kent, England. This estate comes to 
these heirs for the reason that lady Mary Boothe, the sister, died, in 1819, a spinster, 
with no heirs for except her brother, and the Bank of England were unable to locate him. 
The estate has not reverted to the Government, the fact that the property left with the 
trustee was worth, in 1805, the date of the first advertisement, by order of lady Mary 
Boothe, was 30,000,000 (see notation below for part omitted)

	It is important that all of the various families originating from George Boothe, Jr. 
sevure the names of their kin, so that they may be notified to meet at some early date, 
and be able to prove their relationship, by affidavit, or otherwise, then I will take 
it up with our State department, at Washington, through Senator Swanson, who has offered 
to aid me in every way, and the British Ambassador, who is anxious to see the estate go
to the rightful heirs.

pounds sterling (about 140,000,000 dollars) the entire estate, with the 
maximum interest of 25 years, would now be close to 3000,000,000 dollars."