Benjamin Butterfield, of Chelmsford

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Don't copy these parents - the origins and parents of Benjamin Butterfield have never been discovered.

No evidence found for origins or parents. may not be related to Thomas Butterfield of Halifax, Yorkshire. There is a Benj and Ann with 1st three ch identical in Ridge, Hertfordshire near Chelmsford Essex. Thomas Whittemore was from Hitchens, Hertfordshire

Benjamin Butterfield

• Birth: in England 1
• Death: 2 Mar 1687/1688 1

Marriage

1. Anna b: in England. Married: (No evidence of her maiden name has been found)
2. Marriage 2 Anna HANNAH (Chawkley) WHITTEMORE Married: 3 JUN 1663 3 (She was widow of Thomas Whittemore of Hitchens, Hertfordshire).

Children , all of 1st wife

• 1. Jonathan BUTTERFIELD b: in England
• 2. Mary BUTTERFIELD b: in England
• 3. Nathaniel BUTTERFIELD b: in Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA
• 4. Samuel BUTTERFIELD b: in Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA
• 5. Joseph BUTTERFIELD b: 15 AUG 1649 in Woburn, MA

•Note: 2 3 4

Benjamin came to Charlestown, MA, from England in 1638. He was made a freeman in 1643 (five years after his arrival). By 1654, Benjamin Butterfield and a number of associates had successfully petitioned for a 36-square-mile tract of land which was incorporated in 1655 as Chelmsford. Benjamin Butterfield built his house and developed his farm in this tract, in a location which was, in 1890, Ward 4 of Lowell. He continued to acquire land in the Chelmsford area, until he had 42 acres, more than any other one person. In 1686, the adjacent Indian land and some 500 acres of "wilderness" land was purchased. Butterfield's sons, Nathaniel, Samuel and Joseph, were granted land there, land that would by the 1890's be occupied by the factories of Lowell, MA.

A genealogy written by the wife of a seventh generation descendant, Nancy Bemis (Mrs. Orville K.) Butterfield sometime between 1897 and 1904 (and probably based on the 1890 NEGHS Buttefield genealogy by George Gordon) says that Benjamin Butterfield was "born in England, came to Charlestown, 1630/ -moved to Woburn 1640/ -[moved] to Chemsford, 1654/ d. 1688."

•Change Date: 13 MAY 2004

Links

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bing&id=I773

Sources:

1.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.

2.Text: George A. Gordon, A.M. "The Butterfields of Middlesex." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 44, (Jan.) 1890 . Pp. 33-43.

3.Text: William Richard Cutter. "Genealogical and Family History of Western New York." (Vol I, p. 312-314) New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912

4.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.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bing&id=I773

•ID: I773

•Name: Benjamin BUTTERFIELD

•Sex: M

•Birth: in England 1

•Death: 2 Mar 1687/1688 1

•Note: 2 3 4

According to the 1890 NEGHS article "The Butterfields of Middlesex" by George A. Gordon (and a 1912 history of the Butterfields of western New York derived from it), Benjamin came to Charlestown, MA, from England in 1638. He was made a freeman in 1643 (five years after his arrival). By 1654, Benjamin Butterfield and a number of associates had successfully petitioned for a 36-square-mile tract of land which was incorporated in 1655 as Chelmsford. Benjamin Butterfield built his house and developed his farm in this tract, in a location which was, in 1890, Ward 4 of Lowell. He continued to acquire land in the Chelmsford area, until he had 42 acres, more than any other one person. In 1686, the adjacent Indian land and some 500 acres of "wilderness" land was purchased. Butterfield's sons, Nathaniel, Samuel and Joseph, were granted land there, land that would by the 1890's be occupied by the factories of Lowell, MA.

A genealogy written by the wife of a seventh generation descendant, Nancy Bemis (Mrs. Orville K.) Butterfield sometime between 1897 and 1904 (and probably based on the 1890 NEGHS Buttefield genealogy by George Gordon) says that Benjamin Butterfield was "born in England, came to Charlestown, 1630/ -moved to Woburn 1640/ -[moved] to Chemsford, 1654/ d. 1688."

•Change Date: 13 NOV 2008

Marriage 1 Anna b: in England

•Married:

Children

1. Jonathan BUTTERFIELD b: in England

2. Mary BUTTERFIELD b: in England

3. Nathaniel BUTTERFIELD b: in Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA

4. Samuel BUTTERFIELD b: in Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA

5. Joseph BUTTERFIELD b: 15 AUG 1649 in Woburn, Middlesex, MA

Marriage 2 Anna HANNAH [WHITTEMORE]

•Married: 3 JUN 1663 3

Sources:

1.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. 2.Text: George A. Gordon, A.M. "The Butterfields of Middlesex." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 44, (Jan.) 1890 . Pp. 33-43. 3.Text: William Richard Cutter. "Genealogical and Family History of Western New York." (Vol I, p. 312-314) New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912 4.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.

Arrived Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630's, possibly 1636 on

the ship "James" Other sources don't place him in the colony

until 1638

The Life Summary of Benjamin When Benjamin Butterfield was born on 23 August 1610, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, his father, Thomas Butterfield, was 38 and his mother, Hazel Murgatroyd, was 38. He married Ann Jundon on 26 October 1632, in Halifax St James, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1640 and Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1654. He died on 2 March 1688, in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 77, and was buried in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Chelmsford Deaths

Benjamin, s. Benjamin, Feb. ––, –––– [1662-3?]

Benjamin, Mar. 2, 1687-8 CTR

Anna, w. Benjamin, [May 19. CTR] 1661.

Hannah, w. Benjamin, 19: 3m: ––– ––, 1677

https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Chelmsford/aDeathsB.shtml#...

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