Captain Reuben Butterfield1

b. 15 October 1727, d. between 22 February 1815 and 1816
Captain Reuben Butterfield|b. 15 Oct 1727\nd. bt 22 Feb 1815 - 1816|p928.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 Reuben Butterfield was born on 15 October 1727 in Dunstable (later Tyngsborough), Middlesex County, Massachusetts.3,2 He was the son of Joseph Butterfield and Sarah Colburn.2 He married Mary Richardson, daughter of William Richardson and Elizabeth Colburn, in 1745.1,2,4 He died between 22 February 1815 and 1816 in Tyngsborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.5
     
     It is said he was a suckling child till into his ninth year, and grew to be broad-shouldered and of great strength. He was the champion athlete of his settlement, and could leap twelve feet.2 He was an officer in the Revolution and a participant in most of the engagements of the Northern army.2,5 He and Mary Richardson had eleven children.2,6

Citations

  1. [S165] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Richardson, of Chelmsford," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. III, 3: 228, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth (1958).
  2. [S182] George A. Gordon, "The Butterfields of Middlesex", New England Historic and Genealogical Register (NEHGR) 44 (January 1890): 42.
  3. [S113] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Dunstable, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1913), 16, citing 1st Book of Dunstable Town Records at City Hall, Nashua, N.H.
  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. [S114] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Tyngsborough, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Lynn: Thos. P. Nichols & Son Co., 1913), 95, citing gravestone record, Sherburne Cemetery, East Tyngsborough.
  6. [S114] Tyngsborough VR (published), 11, 12.