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Three Butler brothers came to America from
England about 1693. Josiah Butler and two others.
The
general court of Massachusetts granted a township (Arlington) to Joshiah Willard
and others, OK'd by the general court of Massachusetts on November 30th 1736 -
Settling delayed by the Indian "Problems" in 1746 when many were killed.
The treaty of Aix La Chapelle on October 7 1748 did little to improve things.
Josiah and Valentine Butler in company with Willard - Col. Josiah Butler,
born Lancaster Mass, 1693
Valentine Butler is probably the first Butler of this line to be born in
America, in Topfield, Essex, Mass. on June 24th, 1716. He married Lois
Willard (a descendant of
Simon Willard, founder of Concord, NH) in 1742.
Valentine Butler and Lois Willard's son Josiah, born about 1743 in Hinsdale, New
Hampshire, married Thankful Alexander in about 1775. They had two
children, John Butler and
Thomas Butler.
John Butler, son of
Josiah Butler and Thankful Alexander Butler of Hinsdale, NH was born February 5,
1876.
John Butler married
Gracie Hubbard in 1810 and had 8 children:
Marshall (1811), Warren (1812), Josiah (1815), Ephriam (1815), Erastus
(1816), Maria (1818), Roswell (1822) and Otis (1826). (Josiah and Ephriam
have the same birthday, so they must have been twins.)
John's
son
Marshall Butler
married Luthera Betsey Hubbard. They had five children:
Lucius Marshall Butler, Ann Sophia Butler, Helen Pricilla Butler and Warren
Herbert Butler and Luna Ann, who lived only a few months.
Ann
Sophia Butler married Frederick L. Stone in 1861. They had 2 children (Harlan
Fiske Stone and
Winthrop Ellsworth Stone) in Chesterfield, NH and 2 others (Lawson Stone and
Helen L. Stone) in Amhearst, Mass. Harlan became chief justice of the US
Supreme Court. His brother
Winthrop
was President of Purdue University until July 17, 1921, when he died in an
accident while mountain-climbing with his wife Margaret on Mt. Eon, Alberta,
Canada. Winthrop's two children with his first wife Victoria were David F. and
Richard Stone.
Lucius
Marshall Butler married
Esther Lapreda Abbott and they had 5 children:
Helen May Butler,
Lucius Abbott Butler,
Herbert Marshall
Butler, Henry Earl Butler and Lucy Mae Butler who lived only 3 months.
Helen May Butler
was a famous bandleader, leading an all-female band. (More here)
Lucius Abbott Butler
was an engineer. He married
Annie Bird Morton from North Auburn Maine in 1864.
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