Benjamin Butterfield

d. 2 March 1687/88

7th great-grandfather of Louise Underwood.
9th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Louise Underwood
     Benjamin Butterfield was born in England. He married Ann or Anna in England. Ann, Benjamin's first wife, died 19 May 1661, and he married second at Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on 3 June 1663, Hannah Chawkley Whittemore, widow of Thomas Whittemore.1 He died on 2 March 1687/88 in Chelmsford.2,3
     
     Benjamin Butterfield was living at Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1638.4 He was in Woburn in 1640, and his name appears there among the first town orders.4 He took the Freeman's Oath on 10 May 1643.5

Children of Benjamin Butterfield and Ann or Anna (—?—) (Butterfield)

Citations

  1. [S111] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1914), 195.
  2. [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 372, citing court record, Middlesex County Quarterly Court.
  3. [S182] George A. Gordon, "The Butterfields of Middlesex", New England Historic and Genealogical Register (NEHGR) 44 (January 1890): 34.
  4. [S182] George A. Gordon, "The Butterfields of Middlesex", 33.
  5. [S183] Lucius R. Paige, "List of Freemen", New England Historic and Genealogical Register (NEHGR) 3 (1849): 190, citing C.R. 2: 27, 28.
  6. [S182] George A. Gordon, "The Butterfields of Middlesex", 35.