Captain Joseph Butterfield1

b. 28 January 1718/19, d. 4 April 1786
Captain Joseph Butterfield|b. 28 Jan 1718/19\nd. 4 Apr 1786|p927.htm|Joseph Butterfield|d. 1757|p1197.htm|Sarah Colburn|||Joseph Butterfield|b. 15 Aug 1649\nd. 1720|p1194.htm|Lydia Ballard|||||||||

2nd cousin 6 times removed of Louise Underwood.
2nd cousin 8 times removed of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
     Captain Joseph Butterfield was born on 28 January 1718/19 in Dunstable (later Tyngsborough), Middlesex County, Massachusetts.2,3 He was the son of Joseph Butterfield and Sarah Colburn.2 Marriage intention for Captain Joseph Butterfield of Nottingham and Elizabeth Richardson was published on 29 November 1741 in Dracut, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.1,4 He died on 4 April 1786 in Dunstable (later Tyngsborough) at age 67.2,5
     
     Gordon, in "The Butterfields of Middlesex," wrote:
He grew up in what were the palmy days of colonial life. The savages were gone, the bear and the deer were plenty. The farms were fertile and crops abundant. No political storm disturbed the serenity of the frontier. Money was scarce, the churches and the schools poor, but game and fish were plenty. The neighbors Perhams, Richardsons, Coburns, Varnums, Fletchers and Parkers were of a merry, festive character. Families were large and healthy, good cheer was abundant, and, though their lives were plain, their happiness was substantial.2
He and Elizabeth Richardson had seven children.6,7

Citations

  1. [S110] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Dracut Massachusetts (Boston: The Essex Institute, 1914), 230.
  2. [S182] George A. Gordon, "The Butterfields of Middlesex", New England Historic and Genealogical Register (NEHGR) 44 (January 1890): 41.
  3. [S113] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Dunstable, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1913), 18, citing 1st Book of Dunstable Town Records at City Hall, Nashua, NH.
  4. [S166] John Adams Vinton, The Richardson Memorial, Comprising a Full History and Genealogy of the Posterity of the Three Brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel, and Thomas Richardson, Who Came from England, and United with Others in the Foundation of Woburn, Massachusetts, in the Year 1641, of John Richardson, of Medfield, 1679, of Amos Richardson, of Boston, 1640, of Edward and William Richardson, of Newbury, 1643, with Notices of Richardsons in England and Elsewhere (Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston & Co., 1876), 63.
  5. [S113] Dunstable VR (published), 210, citing gravestone record, Sherburne Cemetery, East Tyngsborough.
  6. [S182] George A. Gordon, "The Butterfields of Middlesex", 42.
  7. [S113] Dunstable VR (published), 17, 18.