John Butterfield1

b. 12 January 1697/98, d. 1766
John Butterfield|b. 12 Jan 1697/98\nd. 1766|p1200.htm|Benjamin Butterfield|d. 24 Jul 1715|p960.htm|Sarah Bates|b. 1677/78\nd. 5 Apr 1735|p969.htm|Nathaniel Butterfield|b. 14 Feb 1642/43|p947.htm|Deborah Underwood|b. s 1652/53\nd. 25 Jun 1691|p940.htm|John Bates|b. 9 Jan 1641/42\nd. 11 Apr 1722|p906.htm|Mary Farwell|b. 26 Dec 1640\nd. 7 Mar 1713/14|p907.htm|

4th great-granduncle of Louise Underwood.
6th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
     John Butterfield was born on 12 January 1697/98 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.1 He was the son of Benjamin Butterfield and Sarah Bates.1 He married Anna Hildreth on 10 December 1721 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.2 He died by 1766 when his sons sold a large part of this estate, later the most valuable part of the city of Lowell, to Thomas Fletcher.
     
     In January 1728/29 John purchased a large portion of the Brenton farm in Naticook now Litchfield, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.3 On 24 March 1763 he divided his Chelmsford lands between his sons Benjamin and Ephraim, reserving life interest.3

Children of John Butterfield and Anna Hildreth

Citations

  1. [S111] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1914), 34.
  2. [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 196.
  3. [S182] George A. Gordon, "The Butterfields of Middlesex", New England Historic and Genealogical Register (NEHGR) 44 (January 1890): 40.
  4. [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 35.
  5. [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 37.
  6. [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 36.