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His career as one among the most able editors of the Boston press, for a long series of years, is too well known to the present generation, to be noticed in a work of this kind. He was a patriot, a statesman, and an honest man. He was repeatedly elected a Representative and Senator in the State Legislature; a member of the Council, Alderman of the city, and many other subordinate offices, all of which he filled in a man- ner highly satisfactory to his fellow-citizens, and honorable to himself. He died January 4, 1845, at the good old age of fourscore and four years.
Colonel EBENEZER RUSSELL, a soldier and officer in the war of 1812, respected and beloved by all, died at Springfield, Mass., in 1855. Those who knew him best, loved and respected him most. He was with the troops at South Boston in 1813, when threatened with invasion by the British fleet. Among his numerous relatives now living, we must not omit the BROTHERS-RUSSELL, the gentlemanly conductors on the Western Railroad.
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Midway, between the beautiful town of Hadley, Mass., and the Connecticut River, and almost beneath the shadow of Mount Holyoke on the south, Amherst College on the east, and Northampton westerly, the traveller will find amid the fields of golden corn, the ancient ceme- tery in which repose all that was mortal of the pilgrims of Hadley for near two centuries. Among them he may read, on two brown stone tables, the following inscriptions :
REVEREND RVS
THE FLOCK OF TIL THE CHIEF CHRIST IN HADLEY SHEPHERD SVDEN ARD IN THE 66 YEAR OF HIS AGE DECEMBER 10 1692 33 YEARS FAITHFULLY GOVERND SELLS REMAINS WHO FIRST TO RECEIEV HIS REW LLY CALL'D HIM OFF LLY BVT MERCIFV
HERD AND FOR GAT
GOFFE and WHALLEY, two of the judges of Charles I., were concealed from the rage of their pursuers for several years, in the Rev. Mr. Rus- sell's cellar. One of them was there for a long time, and was so care- fully screened from the public eye, that none of Mr. Russell's neighbors had any knowledge of the circumstance.
The tradition is that on a certain occasion, when the town was beset by Indians, an aged man of a remarkably venerable aspect, with a long board, white as the driven snow, suddenly rushed into the engagement,
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fought with wonderful adroitness, animated the soldiers by his cheering language and valiant conduct, and after repelling the enemy, immediately withdrew to his place of concealment. It was reported that an angel had appeared with a sword, and achieved the victory.
REBEKAH
MADE BY GOD A MEIT HELP TO MR JOHN RUSSELL, AND FELLOW LABOVRER IN CHRIST'S WORK
A WISE VERTVOVS PIOVS MOTHER
IN ISRAEL LYES HERE
IN FULL ASSURANCE OF A TOYFVL RESURRECTION SHE DIED IN THE 57 YEAR OF HER AGE NOVEMBR 21 1688.
[The following epitaphs we find in the beautiful cemetery of Northampton, Mass.]
IN MEMORY OF
MRS. RACHEL RUSSELL, CONSORT OF MR. JOHN RUSSELL,
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 10, 1810, AGED 27 YEARS.
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[The following inscription we copy from the beautiful cemetery of Springfield, Mass. ]
IN MEMORY OF 2 SONS OF MR. ELLIS RUSSELL, WHO WERE BOTH DROWNED TOGETHER MAY 23, 1783, VIZ. : MR. STEPHEN RUSSELL, IN YE 31 YEAR OF HIS AGE, AND
ARCHELAUS,
IN YE 13 YEAR OF HIS AGE.
READER BEWARE, AND VENTURE NOT TOO FAR, TO SAVE ONE DROWNING, LEST MY FATE YOU SHARE. THE SECOND I VENTURED IN TO SAVE, A BROTHER DROWNING, BROUGHT ME TO MY GRAVE.
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[The following beautiful lines were written in 1850, and presented to us, by Mrs. D. ELLEN GOODMAN, whose remains now repose in the cemetery of Springfield, Mass.] "OH, ALL UNSHAKEN
IS THE COLD, DEEP SPELL AROUND THEM,
PULSELESS EVERY BREAST;
IN THE SLUMBER THAT HATH BOUND THEM, THEY MUST EVER REST.
BRIGHT, PURE ONES TAKEN
FROM THE EARTH SO GLAD AND BLOOMING,
FROM LIFE'S TREACHEROUS WAVE, WHILE RICH FLOWERS THE AIR PERFUMING, NOD ABOVE THEIR GRAVE."
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HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MRS. HANNAH COWEL,
WIFE TO MR. EDWARD COWEL,
AND DAUGHTER TO MR. NATH'L & MRS. HANNAH A. MARTIN, DIED JUNE YE 24, 1746, AGED 24 YEARS.
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MR. SAMUEL MARTIN,
AGED 26 YEARS, DIED DEC'R YE 11, 1742.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF
MR. BENJAMIN EASTBROOK,
DEO'D JULY YE 3D, 1730, IN YE 25 YEAR OF HIS AGE.
BENJ. YE SON OF MR. BENJ. & MRS. RUTH EASTBROOK, AGED 4 MONTHS, DIED DEC. YE 15, 1728.
ABIGAIL, DAU'R TO BENJ. & RUTH EASTBROOK,
DIED OCT. YE ** , 1723, AGED 1 YEAR & 12 DS.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF
RICH'D EASTBROOK, SON TO BENJ. AND ABIGAIL EASTBROOK,
AGED 24 YEARS, DIED SEPT. 26, 1721.
IN MEMORY OF
MISS SALLY CAMPBELL,
DAUGHTER MR. PATRICK CAMPBELL,
WHO DIED DECEMBER 15TH, 1790,
AGED 14 YEARS.
HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF
JOHN TADOURNEAU,
YE SON OF ELIAS & HANNAH TADOURNEAU,
AGED 23 YEARS,
DEC'D JAN'RY YE 29, 1697-8.
HERE LYETH YE BODY OF
ELIS'TH MIAM,
AGED 25 YEARS, DIED AUGUST YE 26, 1699.
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PHILLIP PALIERE,
AGED 1 MONTH,
MARGARETT PALIERE,
AGED 10 MONTHS,
DEO'D JUNE YE 5, 1730.
ELISABETH PALIERE,
AGED 1 MONTH,
ANNA PALIERE,
AGED 5 YEARS,
DEC'D JUNE Y E 6 TH, 1730.
THE CHILDREN OF PHILLIP & MARGARETT PALIERE.
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MRS. MARGARETT PALIERE,
WIFE OF MR. PHILLIP PALIERE, DIED FEB'RY 7TH, 1752, AGED 50 YEARS.
IN MEMORY OF MR. JAMES WOODROW, 1
WHO DIED NOV. 16TH, 1782, AGED 36 YEARS.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
HERE LIES BURIED
MAGDELAIN,
DAU'R TO MR. PHILLIP & MRS. SUSANNAH DUMARESQ, AGED 2 YEARS & 10 MO. DEC'D JULY YE 8TH, 1730.
BENEATH THIS STONE
ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF
CAPT. JOHN MACKAY,
WHO WAS SHIPWRECKED AT BAKER'S ISLAND, JAN'Y 6TH, 1796, AGED 32 YEARS.
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HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MR. THOMAS FILLEBROWN, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 26TH, 1754, AGED 52 YEARS.
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MR. JOHN FILLEBROWN, WHO DIED OF THE SMALL-POX, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1769, AGED 49 YEARS.
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MRS. SUSANNAH BOYER.
MARIAM,
DAU. TO MR. ANDREW & MRS. MARGARET HUNTER, AGED 1 YEAR & 3 MO. & 6 D'S. DEC'D JULY YE 11, 1734.
ANN,
DAU. TO ANDREW & MARGARET HUNTER,
AGED 3 DAYES, DEC'D MAY YE 23D, 1729.
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MR. JOHN CRAWFORD,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY THE 10TH, A. D. 1761.
JAMES,
SON TO MR. JOHN & MRS. JANE STENSON,
AGED 13 MONTHS, DIED SEPT. YE 8TH, 1747.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN RICE,
LATE OF BOSTON, BLACKSMITH,
WHOSE REMAINS LIE HERE INTERRED.
HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 8TH OF APRIL, 1783, BEING YE DAY
HE COMPLETED YE 57TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.
"BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHO DIE IN THE LORD."
HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OF
MR. JAMES NICHOLS,
WHO DIED SEPT. 29TH, ANNO DOMINI 1730, IN YE 36 YEAR OF HIS AGE.
IN MEMORY OF
* *
WELLER,
SON OF GEORGE & ABIGAIL WELLER,
WHO DIED SEPT. 2, 1790,
AGED 11 MONTHS & 14 DS.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF
WILLIAM BUTLER, AGED 43 YEARS,
DIED MAY THE 7TH, 1714.
BUTLER.
HENRY BUTLER was a freeman in 1651. He was born in Kent, England, educated at Cambridge, and came to New England about 1650, and was in the ministry eleven or twelve years. He returned to Eng- land, and was settled at Yeovil, in Somersetshire, and died April 24, 1696, aged about 72. John Butler, of Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1635. One of this name was a member of the ancient and honorable Artillery Company in 1644; another, John Butler, of Massa- chusetts, was a freeman in 1649. Nicholas Butler, of Dorchester, was a freeman in 1638. Richard Butler, of Cambridge, in 1632, was a free- man in 1634. Thomas Butler, of Lynn, removed to Sandwich in the year 1637. William Butler, of Boston and Cambridge, was a freeman in 1635. He married Eunice, sister of Tristram Coffin, who came to New England in the year 1644. Peter Butler, perhaps his son, died at Boston in 1699 .- Farmer.
Major-general RICHARD BUTLER, an officer of the Revolutionary army, in the latter part of the war had the rank of Colonel, and was distin- guished on several occasions. About 1787, he was agent for Indian Affairs in Ohio. In the expedition against the Indians in 1791, he
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accompanied St. Clair, and commanded the right wing. Our troops, encamped a few miles from the Miami villages, were attacked in the morning of Nov. 4th. The militia, who were in advance, were thrown into confusion, and rushed through the first line, commanded by General Butler. The action was now severe; the Indians lying on the ground, and pouring a deadly fire upon the whites. General Butler, in a heroic charge with the bayonet, drove them back three or four hundred yards. But resistance was ineffectual. In a short time six hundred, of the army of twelve hundred, were killed and wounded, and the rest at nine o'clock fled with precipitation. Gen. Butler was wounded, and carried to a convenient place to have his wounds dressed ; but an Indian broke in upon him and tomahawked and scalped him, ere he himself was killed by our troops. Major Ferguson was another victim. In one of the charges Major Butler was dangerously wounded. A son of Gen. Butler distinguished himself at Fort Meigs, under Harrison, in April, 1813 .- Holmes, II. 388; Marshall, v. 329-334.
Colonel THOMAS BUTLER, a brave officer during the Revolutionary war, was a brother of the preceding. Three other brothers fought in the service of their country. In the year 1776, he was a student at law with Judge Wilson, of Philadelphia; but early in that year he quitted his studies, and joined the army as a subaltern. He soon obtained the command of a company, in which he continued till the close of the Revo- - lutionary contest. He was in almost every action that was fought in the Middle States during the war. At the battle of Brandywine, Sept. 11, 1777, he received the thanks of Washington on the field of battle, through his aide-de-camp, General Hamilton, for his intrepid conduct in rallying a detachment of retreating troops, and giving the enemy a severe fire. At the battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, he received the thanks of Wayne for defending a defile in the face of a heavy fire from the enemy, while Colonel Richard Butler's regiment made good their retreat. At the close of the war he retired into private life as a farmer, and continued in the enjoyment of rural and domestic happiness till the year 1791, when he again took the field against the savages, who menaced our western frontier. He commanded a battalion in the disas-
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trous battle of Nov. 4, in which his brother fell. Orders were given by General St. Clair to charge with the bayonet, and Major Butler, though his leg had been broken by a ball, yet on horseback led his battalion to the charge. It was with difficulty that his surviving brother, Captain Edward Butler, removed him from the field. In 1792, he was con- tinued on the establishment as Major, and in 1794, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-colonel commandant of the fourth sub-legion. He commanded in this year Fort Fayette at Pittsburg, and prevented the deluded insurgents from taking it more by his name, than by his forces, for he had but few troops. In 1797, he was named by Washing- ton as the officer best calculated to command in the State of Tennessee, when it was necessary to dispossess some citizens, who had imprudently settled on the Indian lands. Accordingly in May he marched with his regiment from the Miami on the Ohio, and by that prudence and good sense, which marked his character through life, he in a short time re- moved all difficulties. While in Tennessee he made several treaties with the Indians. In 1802, at the reduction of the army, he was con- tinued as Colonel of a regiment on the peace establishment. The close of his life was imbittered. In 1803, he was arrested by the com- manding general at Fort Adams on the Mississippi, and sent to Mary- land, where he was tried by a court-martial, and acquitted of all the charges, except that of wearing his hair. He was then ordered to New Orleans, where he arrived to take the command of the troops Oct. 20. He was again arrested the next month. He died Sept. 7, 1805, aged fifty-one years .- Louisiana Gaz .; Polyanthos, I. 13-17; Marshall, v. 332.
ZEBULON BUTLER, a soldier of the Revolution, was one of the early settlers at Wyoming, said to be the cousin of Colonel John Butler, but this has been recently denied by his grandson. He fought bravely. in the old French war. In the war of the Revolution he was the second in command at Wyoming, when that beautiful vale was desolated by the ferocious John Butler; he marched July 3, 1778, from Wilkesbarre, where a small guard was left, to the neighboring fort of Kingston, with four hundred men. On being summoned to surrender in two hours he
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demanded a parley, and a place in Kingston was appointed for the meet- ing ; he proceeded thither with his troops, and on approaching a flag, seen at the foot of a mountain, he was drawn thus treacherously into an ambush, and the enemy rose upon him in great numbers. He fought bravely three-quarters of an hour, when one of his men cried out, that he had ordered a retreat. This interrupted their fire, and a total rout ensued. Many were lost in the river, when endeavoring to cross it, the enemy pursuing them with fury. Only seventy escaped to Wilkesbarre. On this day two hundred women were made widows. July 4th, the enemy, with a summons to surrender, sent one hundred and ninety-six scalps into Fort Kingston, where Col. Dennison commanded. In the evening Col. Butler left the fort with his family, and proceeded down the river in safety. Such is the account, written or published at Poughkeepsie, July 20th, and published in Almon's Remembrancer, and which was fol- lowed by Gordon, Marshall, and others, excepting that Marshall reduces the number which escaped July 3d, to twenty, instead of seventy. But this account of the affair has been recently contradicted by E. D. Griffin, whose mother was the daughter of Col. Butler. According to his statement, his grandfather was compelled to fight prematurely by the , rash vehemence of his men, who could not brook the delay requisite for obtaining information concerning the enemy; but, ambushed, he rode amongst the ranks, exposing himself with the utmost coolness to the whole fire of the enemy, in the vain hope of sustaining the courage of his men; and of three hundred, only four escaped, of which number he was one. Such an incautious, rash attack of the enemy under Brant, by the troops of Goshen, issued the next year in a similar defeat at Minisink , Col. Tusten being compelled to march by the brave flourish of a subor- dinate officer. Col. Butler received marks of confidence from Wash- ington. Mr. Griffin, about the year 1816, visited the grave of-his grandfather, the patriarch of Wyoming, and found some uncouth rhymes chiselled on his monument. Had Thomas Campbell resided one winter at Wyoming, ere he wrote his Gertrude, a beautiful poem, he never would have associated the objects of tropical scenery with the vale of the Susquehanna; he never would have made the crocodile to swim in
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that river ; nor caused the red flamingo and the huge condor of the rock to spread their wings there ; nor planted on its banks the aloe, the high magnolia, and the palm tree .- Almon's Amer. rememb. 1779, p. 51-55; Gordon, III. 188; Thacher's mil. jour. 141; Marshall, III. 557; Grif- fin's remains.
Colonel WILLIAM BUTLER, an officer of the Revolution, after the de- struction of Wyoming by John Butler and the Indians, July 5, 1778, was immediately detached in command, as Lieutenant-colonel of the fourth Pennsylvania regiment, for the assistance of the frontiers. He marched from Schoharie, and penetrated into the Indian country in October, with great difficulty, crossing high mountains and deep waters, and destroyed the towns Unadilla and Anaguaga, the latter being the head-quarters of Brant, lying on both sides the Susquehanna, where it is two hundred and fifty yards wide. Many farm houses and about four thousand bushels of grain were destroyed. His account of the expedi- tion was published. It is believed that he is the Col. Brown who was distinguished in the expedition of Sullivan against the Indians in 1779 .- Marshall, III. 562 ; Almon's remem. 1779, 253.
Major-general WILLIAM BUTLER, an officer of the Revolution, was the son of James Butler, who in the command of a party of whigs was sur- prised and taken prisoner near Cloud's creek, South Carolina, by a party of Cunningham's horse, and after his surrender perished with the other prisoners, who were marched out one by one and cut to pieces. This treacherous murder, by the hand of the royalist leader, gave a keen edge to the spirit of the son. At the head of a body of cavalry he, with Capt. Michael Watson, of the mounted rangers, attacked with great gallantry and dispersed double the number of the enemy in Dean's Swamp, though Watson fell in the action. In 1800 he was a Represen- tative in Congress. In the war of 1812, he commanded the forces of South Carolina employed in the defence of the State. He died in Edgefield district, Nov. 15, 1821, aged 67.
General PERCIVAL BUTLER, a soldier of the Revolution, was with the army at the siege and capture of York, Oct. 19, 1781. He died at Port William, Kentucky, Sept. 11, 1821, aged 61.
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PEIRCE BUTLER, a Senator, was of the family of the dukes of Ormond in Ireland. Before the Revolution he was a Major in a British regiment in Boston. He afterwards attached himself to the republican institu- tions of America. In 1787, he was a delegate from South Carolina to Con- gress ; in 1788, a member of the Convention which framed the Constitu- tion of the United States. Under the Constitution he was one of the first Senators from South Carolina, and remained in Congress till 1796. On the death of Mr. Calhoun, in 1802, he was again appointed; but re- signed in 1804. In his political views he was opposed to some of the measures of Washington's administration. Jay's treaty he disapproved, while he approved of the war of 1812. He died at Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1822, aged 77. His wife, a daughter of Col. Middleton, of Charles- ton, whom he married in 1768, died in 1790.
[On the oldest monument in Williamsburgh, Mass., is the following inscription. ]
THIS MONUMENT
IS SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. AMOS BUTLER,
WHO WAS BORN AT HARTFORD ;
SETTLED THE FIRST GOSPEL MINISTER IN THIS TOWN;
SUSTAINED THE MINISTERIAL CHARACTER
WITH UNCOMMON DIGNITY AND USEFULNESS FOUR YEARS,
AND RESTED FROM HIS LABORS ост. 13TH, 1777,
IN THE 30TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.
"IF THEY HEAR NOT MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, NEITHER WILL THEY
HEAR THOUGH ONE ROSE FROM THE DEAD."
THE BUTLER FAMILY.
PREPARED BY PROFESSOR JAMES DAVIE BUTLER OF NORWICH, VT.
* (1) STEPHEN BUTLER, == Jane d. in Boston.
(2) Benjamin, Aug. 2, 1653; Feb. 10, 1658.
Isaac, Oct. 9, 1661 ; May 29, 1664 ; Aug. 10, 1667.
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Mary, Feb. 21, 1683.
(6) Grace, May 2, 1685.
- Elisabeth, Dec. 23, 1686.
1 (5) James, Aug. 21, = (4) Abigail Eustice, 1688; d. Boston. d. Dec. 15, 1713.
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Abigail, Jan. 26, 1710-11.
(7) Eliza, March 3, 1711-12.
(8) James, Dec. 4, = (9) Elisabeth Davie, 1713 ; d. Boston.
= - Wakefield. 1
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(10) James, Feb. 15, 1739; = (11) Mary Sigourney. d. at Oxford, Ms.
Sarah.
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1 Mary.
(12) James Davie, = Rachel Harris.
Anthony.
Elizabeth.
1 Hannah.
- John.
Peter.
Sarah.
Celia.
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Mary Sigourney.
Sophia Gedney.
Chloe Harris.
James Davie, Jan. 6, 1814 ; March 15, 1815. = Anna Bates.
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(13) James Davie, June 25, 1846.
* This and the other figures at the head of names refer to the notes following this Table.
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1 (3) James, Aug. 2,= Grace -· d. 1665; Boston.
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The following details are published not as being complete, but with the hope that the publication of them may be as a magnet, attracting to itself, and thus supplying the wanting links, which might otherwise perish from the chain of a family history. Any information, however slight, respecting any of the lines, whether direct or collateral, hereby brought to light, will be welcomed by the author of this article, or the editor of this journal.
We are still in the dark as to the family history of not a few among the first fathers of New England. Much of this darkness might be dispelled, were all the written memorials still extant sought out, com- pared, and committed to the keeping of the art preservative of all arts. Winthrop in his Journal speaks of a letter from the Yarmouth pilgrims to their brethren, with their names, as printed at London in 1630. The instructions to Endecott, the first Governor of Massachusetts Bay, were, " Keep a daily register in each family of what is done by all and every person in the family."
In Young's Chronicles of Plymouth (p. 36), and of Massachusetts Bay (p. 157), lists of names of emigrants are referred to, but the lists themselves are not given.
Notwithstanding several good works upon the Huguenots have re- cently appeared, much genealogical labor remains to be performed in tracing the lineage of particular families to France, and investigating their condition there before their emigration. I have often sought, though without success, for the records of the Old French Church in Boston, which stood on the site of the Universalist Church in School- street.
NOTES.
1. Neither the family name of Stephen Butler's wife, nor any other particulars respecting him have been ascertained, except the record of the births of his children, which is extracted from the city registers of Boston, formerly kept in the Old State House. As he became a father in Boston, within little more than twenty years after its first settlement, it may be presumed that he was an emigrant from Europe.
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2. Benjamin Butler. The different dates in this and similar cases denote the births of different children bearing the same name; the former in all probability died before the birth of the latter.
3. James Butler probably died before 1692, if the Grace Butler, married to Andrew Rankin, April 15th, of that year, by Simon Brad- street, was his widow.
4. Information as to the kindred of Abigail Eustice may doubtless be found in the public records of Boston.
5. James Butler was a proprietor in a rope-walk at West Boston ; was married April 6, 1710, by Rev. E. Pemberton, of the Old South. He was probably admitted to the First Church Jan. 24, 1703-4. A folio Bible with Clarke's annotations, now in my possession, as an heir- loom from my father and grandfather, bears the name of this James Butler, my grandfather's grandfather, and the date 1713, doubtless written by his own hand.
6. Grace Butler was married Dec. 26, 1706, to Thomas Jackson, by Benjamin Wadsworth, minister of the First Church. She had several children, Grace, Thomas, and Elizabeth, and died March 15, 1759.
7. Eliza Butler was admitted to the first church Nov. 25, 1706, and was married to Capt. Ephraim Savage, Jan. 8, 1712. Nothing further is known of her.
8. James Butler was by trade a goldsmith. About 1750 he removed to Halifax, Nova Scotia, but proving unfortunate in his enterprise, soon returned to Boston. He afterwards lived awhile in Sutton, Mass., but died in Boston, in 1776, aged 63.
9. Although I have abstained from full details of collateral lines, I am constrained to give them respecting Elizabeth Davie, since her line of ancestry is so long.
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John Davie of Exeter, Eng. = Julian Strode.
1
John,
Mary, = Humphrey, a Lon- don merchant.
John, removed from = Elisabeth Richards.
Ann, d. Sept. 12, 1662.
London and settled in Groton, Mass., 1662.
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(a) John, graduated at Har- vard 1681, became bar- onet in 1713, presented books to Yale College.
(b) Humphrey of Mary. William. Elisabeth. Sarah.
Dorchester, = (c) Hannah Gedney.
Elisabeth, d. Feb. = (8) James Butler. 15, 1739.
(a) The lineage of this nobleman, his heraldic emblazonings and the like, may be found in Burke's Peerage of England; “ vix ea nostra VOCO.""
(b) Humphrey Davie was a captain in the London trade. Hence his daughter had many fine dresses. One of these now belongs to her granddaughter, Mrs. Sarah Kingsbury, of Oxford, Mass.
It is of brocade, with many-colored figures embroidered upon a ground of green. It has two skirts, each of seven breadths, a long bodice to be worn with a satin stomacher, sleeves short at the elbows, with flowing ruffles. A silver tabby christening, or to use a better ex- pression, baptismal, blanket, now in my possession, is said to have been made of another of my great-grandmother's dresses. There is a family tradition that these dresses were pawned by her husband after her death, and redeemed by her son.
(c) Hannah Gedney's lineage, so far as I can trace it, is as follows :
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John Gedney, b. 1603 ; d. Aug. 5, 1688 ; = Mary -.
admitted to church in Salem, Nov. 19, 1637. = Catherine
Sarah.
1 Eli.
I Bartholomew,
1 Eleazer.
John, lost at sea, = -.
baptized June 14, 1640,Free- man 1669; d. March 1, 1698.
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