Elizabeth Button

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Elizabeth Wheeler Button

BIRTH
10 Jan 1617
Wiltshire, England

DEATH
16 Jul 1690 (aged 73)
Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

BURIAL
Burial Details Unknown
MEMORIAL ID
35987288 ·

Matthias Button married (4) at Haverhill, on June 9, 1663, Elizabeth (Wheeler) Duston, born about 1622 (deposed aged forty-seven June 29, 1669), daughter of John Wheeler, and widow of Thomas Duston. Elizabeth testified about the strange behavior of John Godfrey.*

• Button gave Godfrey an acquittance (9 January 1662/3), before the burning of his house. Godfrey was accused, in the course of testimony, of being in two places at once, and appearing suspiciously the day after Goody Archer was buried, among other trappings of witchcraft. Matthias's fourth wife, Elizabeth Button, deposed "aged about forty-seven years,...that on a rainy day, she and her daughter Saray laid in a bed by the fireside about twelve or one o'clock there was a great noise about the house which this deponent took to be the cattle, but when she was awake she saw a shape of a man and [it] sat in a great chair and being a great fire near the bed and near the chair within a yard and a half I saw Godfrey sitting and I would faine have struck him but could not put forth my hand and I did what I could to wake the maid that was in bed with me but could not for I could neither speak nor stir and thus he continued for the space of two hours and I see him three or four times but as soon as I had come to settle myself in the bed he vanished away to my apprehension for he went strangely out and the door was fast and when I rose in the morning I went to the dore and it was fast bolted." Godfrey was found legally not guilty of witchcraft by the Court of Assistants, but was found "suspiciously guilty."

Family Members

Parents

John Wheeler
1591–1670

Ann Yeoman Wheeler
1595–1662

Spouses

Thomas Dustin
1606–1662 (m. 1644)

Matthias Button
1607–1672 (m. 1663)

Siblings

David Wheeler

Roger Wheeler
unknown–1661

Ann Wheeler Chase
1621–1687

Thomas Wheeler
1622–1724

Henry Wheeler
1633–1696

Children

Elizabeth Duston Green
1645–1677

Thomas Dustin
1652–1732

Thomas Duston married Elizabeth Wheeler (daughter of John Wheeler and Ann Yoeman), baptized January 10, 1617 or 1618 in Salisbury, Wilts, England, died July 16, 1690, Haverhill, MA. She survived him & married Matthias Button next as his 4th wife.

Their children were

• Elizabeth Duston, born 1645 at Kittery
• Sara Durston, born January 21, 1650, and baptized February 17, 1650 (Parish registry) and
• Thomas Durston, born 1652, St. George Wilton.

From Anderson's Great Migration Project, sketch for Mathias Button, he married:

(4) Haverhill 9 June 1663 Elizabeth (Wheeler) Duston, born about 1622 (deposed aged forty-seven 29 June 1669 [EQC 4:154-55]), daughter of John Wheeler, and widow of Thomas Duston [Pillsbury Anc 1107-09]; died Haverhill 16 July 1690.

• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via brother Henry Wheeler by SmartCopy: Aug 1 2015, 10:57:22 UTC
• Haverhill Vital Records to 1850 - Deaths
  • BUTTON ... Elizabeth, wid. Mathias, July 16, 1690.

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GEDCOM Note

Bio notes: m. 1) Thomas Durston b.1652 d.1732 2) Matthias Button

GEDCOM Source

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