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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JAMES BUTLER 2 of Bolton m. Hannah Wilson
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PATIENCE BUTLER (1726-1816) m. James Fyfe


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:

  1. James Butler 2 married Hannah Wilson.
  2. Dea. John Butler was born on 22 Jul 1677 in Woburn. [Ref, editors] His gravestone says that he died in 1759, age 82. [Ref] He married Elizabeth Unknown. [Ref] They had ten children. [Ref]
    John purchased 450 acres in Dunstable from Jonathan Tyng of Woburn on 8 Mar 1721. [Ref] He moved to this land in 1721/2. [Ref] He was a town clerk and selectman in Nottingham West (now Hudson), where some of this land must have been located. [Ref] He was styled "Deacon". [Ref]

Children of Mary Unknown and John Hinds. [Ref][Ref all named in their father's will]

  1. John Hinds was born on 19 Jan 1683 in Lancaster. [Ref, editors] He died after 10 May 1749, when he signed his will. [Ref] John married Hannah Whittaker and had at least 13 children. [Ref] Hannah died on 24 Sep 1764, age 73. [Ref] She married second Oliver Heyward, Esq. [Ref]
  2. Jacob Hinds of Marlboro married Grace Morse on 6 Dec 1716 in Marboro. [Ref] He had 11 children. [Ref] He moved to Shrewsbury. [Ref]
  3. Hopestill Hinds was of Brookfield. [Ref]
  4. Enoch Hinds
  5. Hannah Hinds
  6. Deborah Hinds
  7. Experience Hinds

Generation 2

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:

  1. Patience Butler was born on 1 May 1726 in Lancaster. She was baptised there on 12 Jun 1726. She died on 3 May 1816 in Berlin. She married James Fyfe.

Generation 3

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-.