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BUSHNELL, NEHEMIAH, b. 1701, of Saybrook, son of Wm. and Catherine, m. Susan Ingham, Nov. 28, 1739. Issue, Daniel, b. 1740 ; Sarah, b. Oct. 18, 1743 ; Ezra, b. June 29, 1746 ; Lydia, b. Aug. 26, 1750.
BUSHNELL, THO'S, son of Eph'm, b. 1722, m. Dorothy Doug- lass, June 24, 1756, and had issue, Anne, b. April 4, 1758 ; Eph'm, b. Aug. 24, 1760 ; James, b. Nov. 21, 1762; Hannah, b. April 24, 1765.
BUSHNELL, SAMUEL, a farmer, and his wife Hannah, of Say- brook, sold land in Simsbury to Elias Slater, of Simsbury, deed dated Oct. 2, 1716 ; deed acknowledged at Killingworth before Ab'm Pier- son, justice of peace.
BUSHNELL, SAMUEL, of Saybrook, m. Hannah Hill, March 3, 1710, and had issue, Jeremiah, b. Sept. 27, 1710; Jemima, b. Feb. 19, 1713; Hannah, b. Dec. 8, 1719. Jeremiah m. Abigail Cu-, of Hebron, June 30, 1747, and had a daughter Abigail, b. at Saybrook, Dec. 31, 1748.
BUSHNELL, ESTHER, widow of Nathan, d. Sept. 20, 1840. She was the last survivor at Saybrook of the old half-way covenant members admitted under Rev. Mr. Hart.
BUSHNELL, FRANCIS, Stephen Post and Thomas Tracy, of Saybrook, in May, 1653, were agreed upon by Wm. Waller and John Clark, Jun., of Saybrook, as appraisers of property for them. In March, 1660, the Gen. Court ordered the Secretary to send an order to Robert Chapman, to authorize the new constable of Say- brook, to levy £9, 6s. ld. upon Wm. Bushnell, and order said Bushnell to levy the £9, 6s. 1d. upon such estates at " Norridge," as were defective in rates, &c. Wm. Bushnell was made sergeant of the band at Saybrook, Oct. 3, 1661. Richard Bushnell was a school- master, and Esq., and military man at Norwich. Richard and his sons m. into some of the best families of that day.
Coats of Arms. Bushell, (borne by Joseph Bushell, of Myers- cough Cottage, Co. Lancaster, Esq.) Busshell, or Busshill, (Chesh- ire,) same arms. Bushell, ( Warwickshire.)
Bushnell coat of arms. Ar. five fusils in fesse gu. in chief three mullets sa. Crest-on a ducal coronet a wivern, sans feet.
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Jo. Bushnill, glazier, 21, embarked in the Hopewell, for N. Eng- land, Wm. Burdock, master, 1635.
BUSHROD, HANNAH, d. at Suffield, Sept. 8, 1731.
BUSBRAW, PETER, had a home-lot at N. London, about 1650, but did not long remain there.
BUTCHER, JOHN, was a surveyor, and acted as such for the New Roxbury Company. He was one of the thirty-eight original company to settle Woodstock, and though he was not an inhabitant of Roxbury, Mass., he was admitted into the company, and approved of by the selectmen of Roxbury, Mass. He drew a home-lot, No. 15, of sixteen acres, with sixteen acre rights. His first division of meadow was four acres, and his second division one and a half acres, and an addition afterward, and was allowed sixteen acres for survey- ing and aiding in the division of the meadows. His lot, No. 15, was located the west side of the eastward vale in Woodstock. He drew No. 8, in the division of the good meadow, about 1690. His home- lot was increased to twenty acres, May 26, 1690. At a meeting of the inhabitants of Woodstock, Nov. 27, 1690, at the house of Wm. Bartholomew, to divide the meadows of South Woodstock, &c., John Butcher was selected to survey it, and aid in the division, and have five shillings per day for his pains, &c. April 11, 1694, he was again appointed to survey and make another distribution.
John Butcher was one who signed the contract with others from Roxbury, Mass., Nov. 7, 1683, to settle the town of Woodstock.
Butcher has one coat of arms, and Butchers has two; Bucher, two.
* These are the 13 men who first went " to spy out Woodstock," from Roxbury, Ms., 1683 or 4.
Benjamin Sabin.
Jonathan Smethers.
Henry Bowen.
John Frizele. Matthew Davis.
Nathaniel Gary.
Thomas Bacon.
John Marcy.
Peter Aspinwall.
Benjamin and George Griggs. John Lord.
Ebenezer Morris.
The first discovery of Woodstock for a settlement. "Oct., Anno Dom. 1684. The town of Roxbury, (Mass.,) in prosecution of the grant, improved Lt. Samuel Ruggles, John Ruggles, Sen., John Curtice, and Isaac Morris, to view the wilderness and finde a convenient place where they might take up the above said grant, who after due time spent in searching, found a convenient place in the Wapaquassen Country, westward of Myanekesse River."
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BUTLER, WILLIAM, a brother of Richard Butler, both proba- bly came to Hartford in company, and with Mr. Thomas Hooker and his company from Newtown, in Mass., (Cambridge,) to Newtown in Conn., (Hartford,) in June, 1636. Wm. Butler was a proprietor and in the first division of land in Hartford in 1639, and had 28 acres ; his house-lot was bounded east by the road to Wethersfield, and west by John Talcott, north of Little River in H., (Map.) He possessed an estate larger than the majority of the settlers at Hart- ford. He lived so few years after he came to Hartford, that less is known of him than of his brother Richard ; both were highly re- spectable settlers. Wm. Butler died at Hartford in 1647 or 8, and left no children, and divided his estate by will. He left three-score pounds to the church in Hartford ; to the children of his sister West, then in England, &£5 each ; to his sister Winter's children, also in England, £5 each ; Rev. Samuel Stone and Rev. Thomas Hooker, of Hartford, and John Steel and Mr. Wm. Goodwin, each £10; to Wm. Gibbons and Mr. John Cullick, £3 each, and the remainder of his property to his brother Richard Butler, being in all about £429.
BUTLER, DEACON RICHARD, was one of the company of first settlers at Cambridge, as early as 1632, and one of the church. He probably came from Braintree, in Essex County, in England, where others at Cambridge were from, and he and his brother Wm. Butler, must have come in company to Hartford. with Mr. Hooker, as they are soon after found at Hartford, with many others from Cambridge. He m. Eliz'th Bigelow, before he came to Hartford.
He had sixteen acres in the first land division at Hartford, in 1639.
At a Gen. Court held at Boston on the 7th of Nov. 1683. In answer to the petition of Wm. Parke, John Boulds, Joseph Grigs, John Ruggles and Edw'd Morris, Selectmen of Roxbury and in their behalf, dated Oct. 10 and 17, 1683, for a tract of land for a village to be layed out about Quialtesen, to the quantity of seaven miles square. The court granted the petition, pro- vided the grant to Major Thompson, Mr. Stoughton, Mr. Dudley and Company, should have the first choice, and make their choice before the 10th next June. And provided 30 families should settle on the plantation within three years from that time and maintain "among" ym an able and Orthodox Godly Minister.
These facts are collected from the record of the Proprietor's records of the south half of Woodstock, the earliest settlement in the town. The north half was settled a few years later, and had a separate proprietor's book, which is lost. The Childs' were among the first set- tlers in N. Woodstock, from Roxbury.
There were a May and a Lyon family who were early settled in the north part of the town, and with the eight brothers by the name of Childs, were the principal men in the town, and the original farms of these families have few of them changed names since the first settlement or of which a deed has been given. Caleb Childs now lives on the same ground the oldest of the eight brothers settled, and honors his name; and the same is true as to the descendants of the other brothers. Capt. Wm. Lyon is similarly situated. To Caleb Childs, no other than the first Indian title has been given him since, except by descent.
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He soon held a respectable standing in the town as a Christian, and a man of strict integrity. He was a Juror in 1643, 4, 7 and 8, and Townsman in 1644; a Grand-juror in 1660 and 62; one of the Deacons of the church, and repeatedly a Representative to the Gen. Court of the Colony, and held many other places of trust bestowed upon him by the church, town and colony, during his life. His chil- dren were some or all of them born before he came to Hartford, as his son Thomas was made free at Hartford in 1656, and John in 1657. He was appointed with Wm. Wadsworth to judge of "that y' Varleet doth pay to redeeme ye still," &c., in 1661. He dec'd in 1684 ; wife Eliz'th ; made his will in 1677. Children named,
1. Thomas, had the upper lot in long meadow, &c.
2. Samuel, had all his land of meadow, in Wethersfield meadows.
3. Nathaniel, his meadow lot, near long meadow gate.
4. Joseph, his lands in south meadow.
5. Daniel, he gave his house, buildings, and land about it.
6. Mary Wright, he gave twenty shillings.
7. Elizabeth Olmsted, twenty shillings.
8. Hannah Green, twenty shillings.
Estate, £564, 15s.
BUTLER, SAMUEL, was accepted a freeman by the Gen. Court and took the oath Oct. 12, 1665, and was Deputy to the Gen. Court in May, 1668.
SAMUEL, DEACON, was in the list of freemen at Wethersfield in Oct. 1669, where he had settled. His wife Eliz'th d. before him, Oct. 12, 1681.
BUTLER, SAMUEL, son of Richard, Sen., of Hartford ; will offered in Court March, 1692-3. He d. at Wethersfield, Dec. 30, 1792 ; will dated the same day and year. Inventory, £629, 7s. His son Samuel, executor. His children noticed in his will were,
1. Samuel, had his house, home-lot, &c.
2. James, had land in the little west field, &c.
3. Jonathan, had the fifty acre lot, &c.
4. George, had ten acre lot in little west field, &c.
5. Mary Hopkins, £5, to be paid by his son Samuel, &c.
6. Dorothy, £10, to be paid by his son Samuel, &c.
7. Elizabeth Emons, had the Indian purchase, east of Great River.
8. Sarah Bucke, a pewter platter, &c.
His son GEORGE d. unmarried, and Benjamin Churchill exhib- ited his inventory in Court in 1698, and his property divided by his brothers and sisters, and approved by the Court.
BUTLER, SAMUEL, son of Samuel, m. Mary Gilman, March 2, 1703-4.
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BUTLER, NATH'L, son of Deacon Richard, of Hartford, b. 1641, d. at Wethersfield, Feb. 9, 1697, aged about 56. Inventory offered in Court May 11, 1698. His children were, Samuel, Wm., Hannah Case, Ann Riley, Abigail Walker, and Ruth Butler. His son Samuel, of Southampton, L. I., was adm'r on his estate, and d. before he closed the settlement of his father's estate ; and Sarah, widow of said Samuel, dec'd, of Southampton, petitioned the Court at Hartford for letters of administration on said Nathl's estate, which the Court granted June 7, 1708.
BUTLER, THO'S, of Hartford, son of Richard Butler. Distri- bution to his children in 1697, viz., to Thomas, Samuel, Joseph, John ; d'rs, wife of Edw'd Cadwell, wife of John Day, wife of Tho's Cadwell, wife of John Porter, Margaret Butler, Hope Butler, Susan- na, and wife of Cornelius Holybut. He left a widow. Son Tho's, administrator.
BUTLER, THO'S, JUN., son of Tho's and grandson of Deacon Richard, m. Abigail Shepard, Aug. 6, 1691. Children,
1. Abigail, b. 1691.
2. Isaac, b. 1693; graduated at College, 1722, m. Sarah Marshfield, 1722.
3. Deborah, b. 1695.
4. Anny, b. 1698.
5. Daniel, b. 1700.
6. Elisha and Elizabeth.
7. Thomas.
BUTLER, DANIEL, son of Deacon Richard, of Hartford, m. Mabel, who survived him. Daniel d. March 28, 1692. Inventory, £391, 1s. Daniel m. Mabel, and had children, Sarah, b. Sept. 28, 1680 ; Mabel, b. Aug. 12, 1684 ; Eliz'th, b. Nov. 22, 1686 ; Mary, b. Nov. 7, 1689 ; Hannah, b. Nov. 17, 1691 ; no sons found.
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The family of Butlers m. into the families of Hills, Kilbourn, Ed- wards, Williams, Goodrich, Churchill, Standish, Riley, and other old and reputable families of Connecticut.
BUTLER, JOSEPH, son of Richard, d. March 20, 1712. He had a son Charles who m. Susanna Williams, d'r of Amos, May 17, 1704, and had children, Mary, b. Feb. 25, 1706 ; Bathsheba, b. Sept. 21, 1709 ; Charles, b. March 11, 1712, d. 1713. He d. Sept. 25, 1711, in the Queen's service, at Milford, on his return home.
BUTLER, JO., aged 21, Jo. Billings, 26, &c., embarked in the Safety, for Virginia, in August, 1635.
BUTLER, HENRY, 14, passenger for Virginia, in the Assurance de Lo., J. Bromwell, master, in 1635.
BUTLER, NICHOLAS, of Eastwell, yeoman, his wife Joice,
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with three children, and five servants, took passage from Sandwich to New England, certified under the seal of office of Mayoralty, June 9, 1637. ( Savage.)
BUTLER, GYLES, of Marlborough, England, also came to N. England.
BUTLER, RICHARD, of Stratford, was one of the first settlers there in 1639 or 40, (Plant,) and a leading man in the town and colony ; was several sessions a member of the General Assembly from Stratford. He was appointed Collector of Customs at Strat- ford by the Gen. Court, in 1658-9, and received many other marks of distinction from the town and colony. He was probably married before he went to Stratford, and had a family of daughters, but left no sons to perpetuate his name. His d'r Mary m. Mr. Hicks, of Long Island, and d'r Phebe m. Mr. Peck ; perhaps other d'rs. He owned a favorite servant, who settled, after the death of Mr. Butler, at a place then called Escek, and his neighbors drove him out of Escek. In 1651, the Deputies of Stratford to the Gen. Court, in- formed the Court in behalf of Richard Butler, that Nimrod, an In- dian, had wilfully killed some swine of Mr. Butler's, and the Court consented that Mr. Ludlow should prosecute Nimrod according to an order made by the commissioners.
BUTLER, THO'S and DANIEL, were both from Mass. to Wind- ham, Ct., at an early period of the settlement of Hampton.
BUTLER, THO'S, of Windham, and Abigail Crafts, were mar'd March 9, 1732, and had issue, Thomas, b. June 23, 1734 ; Eleazer, b. Sept. 24, 1736 ; Benjamin, b. April 21, 1739; Abigail, b. Jan. 10, 1744. His wife Abigail d. Jan. 11, 1744. And he m. for his second wife, Deborah Meacham, Feb. 7, 1744. She d. March 3, 1749, and he m. Thankful Luce, of Windham, June 19, 1749, and had issue, Mary, b. Sept. 20, 1750 ; Deborah, b. March 22, 1752 ; Wm., b. Jan. 27, 1754 ; Hannah, b. Feb. 2, 1756 ; Sarah, b. Mar. 14, 1760. This family came from Mass. to Windham, not known to have been connected with Richard or Wm. Butler, of Hartford.
BUTLER, DANIEL, and Hannah Parker married Dec. 5, 1744. Had two Daniels and Wm., and seven dau'rs b. at Hampton, Conn. Daniel was also from Mass .; neither is it known that the Butlers of Windham and Hampton were connected with Richard Butler, an early settler at Stratford, Ct. Daniel's children were all baptized at Hampton, the eldest May 11, 1746, and the youngest Oct. 13, 1765.
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were from Wethersfield or Hartford, as many people from Wethers- field settled in Branford. JOHN, of Branford, perhaps from New Haven.
BUTLER, JOHN, of Branford. The bounds between William Barker, of Branford, for himself and the land of John Todd, of New Haven, in right of his wife Hannah, heir to the estate of her brother John Butler, dec'd, of Branford, near Stoney Creek, in Branford, were settled in 1710.
BUTLER, RICHARD, had swamp land in Branford, granted him by the town in 1685. JOHN BUTLER and Cha's Tyler, cho- sen collectors of Branford town rate, 1685.
BUTLER, JOHN, Wm. Bartholomew and Samuel Bradfield, were surveyors of highways at Branford, in 1684. John had his division of plow land March 13, 1682, in Branford.
BUTLER, SAMUEL, Deputy, May, 1668, to the Gen. Court.
There were two families of this name in Branford, (one John was there before 1682,) who were not relatives.
The Butlers of Durham, are supposed to have been descendants of Jonathan Butler, of Saybrook.
Deacon Richard Butler, and his sons Thomas, Joseph, Nathaniel and John, were all in the list of freemen at Hartford, who lived there October 13, 1669. His son Samuel had removed to Wethersfield, and was in the list of freemen at Wethersfield. Richard Butler in the list of freemen at Stratford, 8th mo. 7th day, '69, with Arthur and John Bostick, John Birdseie, Sen., townsman, and his son John, Jr.
Butler, (Marquess of Ormonde,) has one coat of arms; Butler, (Earl of Carrick and Viscount Ikerrin,) 1; Butler, (Earl of Lanes- borough,) 1; Butler, (Earl of Kilkenny,) 1 ; Butler, (Earl of Glen- gall,) 1; Butler, (Lord Dunboyne,) 1 ; and about 50 others.
Seven of this name have graduated at Harvard College, eleven at Yale, and two at Brown Univ.
BUTLER, JOHN and THOMAS, were not first settlers at New London. Miss Caulkins locates them there after 1650, and says that Tho's d. Dec. 20, 1701, aged 59, and John Butler d. March 26, 1733, aged 80. Katherine, wife of John, d. Jan. 24, 1728-9, aged 67, a daughter of Richard Haughton. Her daughter, Abigail Butler, April 8, 1725, m. Allan Mullins, chirurgeon, (surgeon,) and son of Doctor Alexander Mullins, of Galway, Ireland. WALTER BUT- LER was in the east division of lands in Greenwich, Ct., in 1672. Miss Caulkins says, Walter Butler, of N. London, was probably a son of Thomas, of N. London, and m. Mary, only child of Thomas
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Harris, and an heiress, and that Lieut. Butler m. in 1727, Deborah, relict of Ebenezer Dennis, and had a son John bap. April 28, 1728. That the name of Walter Butler is associated with the annals of Tryon County, N. Y., as well as with N. London ; that he received a military appointment in the Mohawk country in 1728, and removed his family there fourteen years after, where he was several years Capt. of the Fort. That Capt. Butler was ancestor of Col. John and Walter, who were associated with the Johnsons as royalists in the be- ginning of the war of the Revolution __ and few of this family or de- scendants are now found at N. London.
Walter Butler was probably an Episcopalian, as he subscribed £10, about 1725, to build the first Episcopal Church in N. London, for their service, according to the Liturgy of the Church of England. This branch of the Butler family has produced its share of prom- inent men.
Butlers, or Butler, John, had an ear mark at Lyme, in 1737.
BUTLER, JOHN, m. Eliz'th Morrill, Jan., 1665, and had a d'r b. at New Haven, Sept. 9, 1667-perhaps of the Branford family.
BUTLER, JONATHAN, an Irish gentleman, came to New Lon- don, Ct., about 1724, and settled at Saybrook, where he m. Temper- ance Buckingham, of Saybrook, Dec. 8, 1726 ; he d. March 30, 1760. His grandson says they had ten children born there; but the following is the record found there of his marriage and children ; yet I am inclined to believe the grandson is correct in the number of children.
Butler, Jonathan, (an Irishman,) m. Temperance Buckingham, of Saybrook, Dec. 8, 1726. " He d. March 30, 1760. (Issue recorded at Saybrook, viz.,) Elnathan, b. April 18, 1728 ; Jonathan, b. Mar. 28, 1730 ; Stephen, b. Feb. 26, 1732 ; Ezekiel, b. April 12, 1734 ; Temperance, b. March 24, 1737." He also must have had sons John and Charles.
Three of his sons, viz., Ezekiel, John and Charles Butler, settled at Branford. Ezekiel m. and had a family of children. His son Ezekiel settled near Hudson, N. Y., and had a family. Ezekiel, Jun., had a son Medad, who also m. and had sons Benj'n F., Cha's, Esq., and other children. This Benj'n F. Butler is the Hon. B. F. Butler, of N. York, who has been far famed as a politician, states- man and lawyer. As well known at Washington as Attorney Gen. of the U. S. for the Southern District of New York, as in his own city. Charles, Esq., his brother, holds a high rank in his profession as a lawyer in the state of N. York. John, son of Jonathan, Sen.,
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m. and had a family born in Durham, Ct. He removed west of the Hudson River, in the state of New York. Charles Butler, Esq., youngest son of Jonathan, Sen., d. in Branford, Ct., Dec. 17, 1811, aged 64 years. He m. Hannah Atwater ; she d. Dec. 16, 1805, aged 54. Their children were two by the name of Anna, who died young. Benedict A. d. in Brazil in 1810. Wyllis, Esq. has a fam- ily, and now resides in Branford, aged about 72 years. David d. in New Haven. Wm. d. at Trinidad, W. Indies. Nathaniel d. in North Carolina. Charles, Jun., resides in Mass. Two only of the family of Charles, Sen., are now living.
BUTLER, JOHN, was a voter at Norwalk in town affairs in 1694, (probably from Hartford or Wethersfield.)
BUTLER, WALTER, had land at Greenwich in 1672 ; (he ap- pears to have been of none of the former families, except of New London.
There was a PETER BUTLER, at New London about 1699.
BUTLER, HENRY, b. in Kent, Eng., in 1624. Educated at Cambridge College. Came to N. England in 1650, and was in the ministry eleven or twelve years. He returned to England, and was settled at Yeovil, in Somersetshire, and d. April 24, 1696, aged 72.
BUTLER, RICHARD, Cambridge, 1632 ; freeman, 1634.
BUTLER, WM., Boston and Cambridge, freeman, 1635 ; he m. Eunice, sister of Tristram Coffin, who came to N. England in 1644. (Farmer.) The last Richard and William were probably the two brothers who came to Hartford. Wm. Butler was an original pro- prietor and settler in Hartford, in 1639; house-lot No. 17, between State and Village Streets. Richard was also an original settler at Hartford, as early as 1639 ; he also had a house-lot No. 26, between State and Village Streets. In Nov., 1674, Richard and Thomas Butler drew lot No. 2, in the west division, and Deacon Rich'd drew lot No. 11.
BUTLER, JOHN, of Middletown, (vol. 2, p. 44,) m. Sarah Fos- ter, Dec. 3, 1728, and had children, Hannah, b. Dec. 20, 1729 ; Wm., b. Sept. 29, 1731 ; Peter, b. Aug. 10, 1733 ; Sarah, b. June 20, 1736 ; Ruth ; John, Jun., b. Jan. 16, 1740-1 ; Comfort, b. Nov. 16, 1743, d. aged 83 ; Thomas ; Mehitable, b. Sept. 30, 1747.
BUTLER, DEACON SAMUEL, of Wethersfield, d. Dec. 31, 1692, ye last day of ye year, ye last of ye month, ye last day of ye week, and he had said, so it proved, ye last of his life. ( Wethersfield Rec., p. 19.) His wife, Eliz'th, d. Oct. 12, 1681.
BUTLER has fifty-seven coats of arms.
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BUTTER has four coats of arms. Butters, one.
There appear to have been several distinct families in the two Colonies, at an early period, viz., Wm. and Richard, of Hartford ; Richard, of Stratford ; Thomas and Daniel, of Windham; Walter, of Greenwich ; John and Thomas, of New London; Jonathan But- ler, of Saybrook, and John, of Branford.
Walter, of N. London, was probably the same Walter Butler, pre- viously found at Greenwich, a land holder.
Eleven of this name had graduated at Yale College, in 1850, and seven at Harvard Coll.
BUTTERFIELD, freeman, Mass., 1643. BUTTERFIELD, Woburn. NATH'L, of Chelmsford, freeman, 1682. WILLIAM, of Bolton, Ct., aged 16, chose Ephraim Shailor, of Bolton, for his guardian, in 1738.
BUTTERFIELD, of Saybrook, was taken by the Indians and tortured to death by them, in October, 1636 ; and the meadow where he was taken, was afterward called Butterfield's meadow, and is so named until this day.
BUTTERFIELD has four coats of arms.
BUTTERS, JOHN, had an ear mark at Lyme, 1737.
BUTTOLPH, LT. JOHN, settled at Wethersfield, not as early as some others. He m. Hannah, and had Jonathan, b. Jan. 8, 1677 ; Joseph, b. Dec. 12, 1680, d. in 83; (John, David and George.) His wife d. June 6, 1681. He m. Abigail, for his second wife, June 27, 1682, and had Abigail, b. April 3, 1683 ; James, b. Dec. 22, 1684. His second wife d. June 5, 1687, and Lieut. John, the father, d. Jan. 18, 1682. Estate, £1,042, 3s. 1d. He owned lands in Wethersfield, Hartford, Glastenbury, a farm at Lancaster, with buildings in Wethersfield and Hartford, a house and the land upon which it stood in Boston, in reversion, five acres ; about 3 or 4,000
* NOTE .- Whether the three Butlers who early settled in Conn., were descended from a cob- bler, or from Tho's Butler, Esq., of Clonghgrenan, in the County of Carlow, or the 9th Earl of Ormonde, is not known. They were all respectable families. A good story is told of one of the sons of Deacon John Butler, of Ms., that he often inquired of foreigners whom he happened to meet, if they knew any Butlers in their country. A man lately from Ireland, called at his house ; he made of him the usual inquiry. The Irish wit answered that he did, saying they were of noble blood, that the Duke of Ormond was a Butler ! Butler remarked, they were of high blood then, were they ? Yes, answered the Irishman, I have seen some of them so high they stood upon nothing.
WM. BUTLER, of Salem, made free 1682. JOHN, free in Mass., 1649. WILLIAM, made free in Mass., May 6, 1635; and NICHOLAS in 1638-9. RICHARD, free in Mass., 1634. WALTER BUTLER was in the drafts for lands in the east division in Greenwich, Ct., in 1672.
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acres at Norwich. (Inventory, the last he had by his wife.) Capt. Mason and his son John were executors.
His son John also d. at Wethersfield, Jan. 13, 1692, and left his wife Eliz'th. Estate, £687, and left a son David and other children. Geo. Buttolph, of Wethersfield, died about 1696. An inventory was presented of his estate by his widow, and John Buttolph and Henry Buck appointed to assist her in 1696. He left three children, Geo., aged 6 years, Elizabeth, 3, and Joseph, 2. Estate, £204, 3s. 6d. Buttolph, David, probably from Wethersfield to Simsbury, d. at Simsbury in 1717; left his wife Mary, his relict, who was admin'x. Children, Jonathan, Martha Adams, David, Penelope Case, Silence Mather, Mehitabel Holcomb, Mary and Hannah. In 1723, the widow was appointed guardian for Hannah, aged 11 years, and Temper- ance, aged 9 years.
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