The BUTLER Family of Lancaster, Worcester, MA, Woburn, Middlesex, MA and Bolton, Worcester, MA |
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JAMES BUTLER 1 (d. 1681)
of Lancaster and Woburn m. Mary Unknown
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PATIENCE BUTLER (1726-1816)
m. James Fyfe
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Generation 1
JAMES BUTLER 1 (d. 1681) of Lancaster and Woburn
Parents: Unknown
James Butler died on 19 Mar 1681. [Ref] He married Mary Unknown. [Ref] She married second John Hinds on 9 Feb 1681/2. [Ref][Ref 9 Feb 1681 o.s., editors]
A James Butler received the 39th lot in the second division of meadow on 5 Feb 1659 in Lancaster. [Ref] On 2 (12) 1663 James was given a half a home lot, ten acres of upland for half a home lot and another 20 acres of upland for half a home lot. [Ref] On 26 (9) 1664 he was given enough land to make a fence along the seven acres that he bought from goodman Joslin. [Ref]
James was of Woburn in 1676. [Ref, editors]
Children of James Butler and Mary Unknown:
Children of Mary Unknown and John Hinds. [Ref][Ref all named in their father's will]
JAMES BUTLER 2 of Bolton
Parents: James Butler 1 and Mary Unknown.
James Butler married Hannah Wilson on 19 Mar 1723/4 in Lancaster, John Houghton 3 officiated. [Ref]
After the massacre he lived on the land east of Still River that his father had purchased from the Joslins. [Ref] In 1704 James was in a garrison in Lancaster commanded by Capt. Thomas Wilder and John Houghton, Sr.; also in the garrison was Jeremiah Wilson. [Ref]
James was an early member of the First Church of Lancaster on 25 Jul 1708. [Ref, p. 270]
James settled in Bolton in 1718 on land that he bought from Benjamin Houghton. [Ref] James Butler and James Fyfe lived near each other in Bolton, but on the formation of Berlin in 1784, James Fyfe's farm became part of Berlin. [Ref]
Children of James Butler and Hannah Wilson:
PATIENCE BUTLER (1726-1816)
Parents: James Butler 2 and Hannah Wilson
Patience Butler was born on 1 May 1726 in Lancaster. [Ref] She was baptised there on 12 Jun 1726. [Ref] She died on 3 May 1816 in Berlin. [Ref] She married James Fyfe. [Ref]
References
Family Genealogies
Butler, Caleb, "Some Account of Deacon John Butler of Pelham, NH and of his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2, 1848, 355-360.
Fyfe, James William, "James Fyfe of Berlin, Mass. and his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 56, 1902, 167-.
W. H. W., 'Gleanings - No. 9,' New England Historical and Genealogical Register 18, 1864, 264 - .
Vital Records
No Author, The Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts: 1643-1850, Lancaster, unknown, 1890.
Nourse, Henry S., Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1725, Clinton, W. J. Coulter, 1884.
Ward, Andrew, "Lancaster Records," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 16, 1862, 352-359; 17, 1863, 70-.