Abigail Butterfield

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Name: Abigail MORSE

Sex: F

Birth: 28 MAR 1755 in Newton, Middlesex, MA 1 2

Death: AFT 1810 in Washington or Saratoga County, NY? 3

Note: 4 2 5 6 7 8 9

Abigail Morse was a sixth generation descendant of Anthony Morse (1606-1686) who emigrated from Wiltshire, England, to Middlesex County in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her mother's Jackson ancestors were also among the early settlers in Middlesex County. Her 2G-grandfather, Sebastian Jackson (1642-1690), is believed to have been born at sea enroute to Massachusetts from Whitechapel, Stepney, London, England.

A pre-1904 family Bible and one 1973 source assert that Abigail was a "first cousin to Andrew Jackson," presumably the Andrew Jackson (b1767) who was president of the United States from 1829 to 1837, but no relationship has been proven. The Durfee Family Notebook, a collection of material related to the ancestry of Jane Butterfield Durfee (a granddaughter of Abigail Morse) includes a photo of a small reddish-brown cup whose caption reads: "Small cup given by Andrew Jackson to either Jane Johnson or Lucy Johnson Butterfield as a wedding present, owned by Mrs. Edith [Surname] of Springfield, MO." If the cup was indeed a gift from a cousin of Abigail's named Andrew Jackson, it may have been given on the occasion of the wedding of Abigail's son, William Butterfield, to Lucy Morton Johnson in 1806. No published Jackson family genealogies have so far been found which include an Andrew Jackson who would have been Abigail's first cousin.

There were no adults over 45 years of age in the John Butterfield household in the 1820 U.S. census for Putnam, NY. Living in John Butterfield's house were one female aged 26-45 and four children: two boys and one girl under 10 and one boy 10-16. Abigail Butterfield may have died before 1820 or may have been living in the household of one of her married children at that time. A woman over 45 years old lived in the household of Ezra and Mathilda (Butterfield) Holcomb in 1820 Fort Ann, for example, who could have been Mathilda's mother Abigail Butterfield.

Change Date: 26 DEC 2005

Father: Nathan MORSE b: 16 JUL 1728 in Newton, Middlesex, MA

Mother: Mary JACKSON b: 25 OCT 1731 in Newton, Middlesex, MA

Marriage 1 John BUTTERFIELD b: 28 JUL 1753 in Westford, Middlesex, Ma

Married: 16 FEB 1774 in Newton, Middlesex, MA 4 6

Children

John BUTTERFIELD b: 10 MAY 1775 in Newton or Keene, NH,

Sally BUTTERFIELD b: 1 OCT 1777 in Packersfield [Nelson], Cheshire, NH
Octavia BUTTERFIELD b: 7 MAY 1779 in Keene, Cheshire, NH
Edward BUTTERFIELD b: 1 MAR 1781 in Keene, Cheshire, NH
Nathan BUTTERFIELD b: 2 MAR 1783 in Keene, Cheshire, NH
William BUTTERFIELD b: 25 MAY 1785 in Keene, Cheshire, NH
Fifth Son? BUTTERFIELD b: ABT 1791
Sixth Son? BUTTERFIELD b: ABT 1793
Matilda BUTTERFIELD b: Bet 1794/1800
Marie [Maria] BUTTERFIELD b: ABT 5 NOV 1800 in New York
Sources:

Text: Paul J. Lareau, submitter of Our English Lines - Morse. "Abigail Morse and John Butterfield." (Family Group Record) RootsWeb WorldConnect database. <http:worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.gi?op=GET&db=lareau-p3&id+13229> 27 Oct 2002.

Text: Graham Thomas Smallwood, Submitter. Abigail Morse pedigree. FamilySearch Ancestral File. <http://www.familysearch.corg/Eng/Search/AF/pedigree_view.asp?recid=...> 26 Jan 2002.

Text: 1810 U.S. Census for Putnam, Washington County, NY, p. 389. Ancestry.com Census Images Online 3 Feb 2002.

Text: Jeff Gosnell. Selected family group records from "Gosnell and Butterfield Family Genealogy Pages," a RootsWeb WorldConnect Project database submitted 19 Aug 2000, updated 1 Nov 2003, 13 Feb 2004, 11 Jul 2004, 2 Jan 2005. <http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jgosnell> Oct 2000, 27 Jan 2004, 13 Feb 2004, 12 Dec 2004, 12 Jan 2005.

Text: Charles A. Butterfield of Danvers, MA, comp. Family Group Sheets for John Butterfield/Abigail Morse, Nathan Butterfield/ Anne Backus and Chloe Canfield, Sarah Octavia Butterfield/ William Butterfield, William Butterfield/ Lucy Morton Johnson. 1973.

Text: Goodrich Family Bible (pub. 1855). Descendants and ancestors of William Butterfield (b1785) reportedly compiled by Nancy (Bemis) Butterfield, wife of Orville K. Butterfield (b1823) before 1904. Family Record pages of the Bible include b/m/d facts for the family of Orville and Nancy Butterfield's daughter, Clara Eliza Butterfield and her husband Ernest Milo Goodrich. In the possession of Jermey Kuhne, an Orville K. Butterfield descendant (through Clara), May 2004.

Text: Durfee Family Notebook. (Family Group Sheet for Aaron and Jane Butterfield Durfee, pedigree for Delilah Durfee Mark, asst. photos, Pork Road and other cemetery transcriptions by Judy Stoddard of Clymer, NY) Comp. from contents of the Durfee Family File at the Fenton Hist. Soc., Jamestown (Chautauqua), NY. 1991.

Text: 1820 U.S. Census for Putnam Township, Washington County, NY, p. 2 of 3. Ancestry.com Census Images Online. 17 Dec 2001.

Text: 1820 U.S. Census for Fort Ann Township, Washington County, New York, p. 147 (Asa Halcom [sic] household; Ezra Halcomb [sic] household). Image 10 of 13; Ancestry.com Census Images Online. 26 Dec 2005.