Hannah Butler

Biography

Hannah (Cheney) Butler was born in mid-March of 1689 (Gregorian calendar) in Roxbury, which was not yet a part of Boston proper. In 1712, in Roxbury, she married Simeon Butler, a great-grandson of the first of the Butler family on Martha's Vineyard, Nicholas; she died on Martha's Vineyard in 1769, probably in (or near) Edgartown, where she was buried on 28 February 1769.

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Hannah (Cheney) Butler (1689 - abt. 1769)

Hannah Butler formerly Cheney

Born 14 Mar 1689 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Daughter of Thomas Cheney II and Hannah (Woodis) Cheney

Sister of Margaret (Cheney) Tucker, Thomas Cheney, Henry Cheney, Henry Cheney, Thomas Cheney, Millicent (Cheney) Norton, Ebenezer Cheney, Samuel Cheney and John Cheney

Wife of Simeon Butler — married 11 Sep 1712 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Mother of Elijah Butler, Hannah (Butler) Beetle, Mary (Butler) Huxford and Rebecca (Butler) Shaw

Died about Feb 1769 at about age 79 in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony

20:13: Rick Pierpont edited the Biography for Hannah (Cheney) Butler (1689-abt.1769). (Add source.) [Thank Rick for this]

Sources

Birth (NEHGS): "CHEINY... Hannah, d. Thomas and Hannah, Mar. 14, 1688-9." -- Roxbury VRs, Vol. 1, p. 59; Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7787/59/141311630 (by subscription). Alt. record: "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ6L-SBD : 5 January 2021), Hannah Cheiny, 1688. [Julian calendar year; 1689 Gregorian] The History of Martha's Vineyard, Volume III, Family Genealogies, by Dr. Charles Banks, "The Butler Family", pp. 47 - 66; http://history.vineyard.net/butler.htm
Genealogical and Personal Memoirs: Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, by William Richard Cutter, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000, p. 101; https://books.google.com/books?id=OU0k2d8nl3IC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&d...
"Pedigree Resource File," LDS Church db, FamilySearch [1] : accessed 2016-12-27), entry for Hannah /Cheney/.
Pope, Charles Henry. The Cheney Genealogy (Boston, MA, 1897) Page 46.
Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., 1925) Vol. 1, Page 59. Birth record.

GEDCOM Note

first settled in 1641 and called Great Harbor until 1671

GEDCOM Note

Daughter of Thomas Cheney and Hannah Woodle

Married Simeon Butler on 11 Sep 1712 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA

To this union 9 children were born: Elijah, Henry, Hannah, Thomas, Ebenezer, Hannah, Mary, Rebecca, and Deborah.

Burial unknown, added to this as other family members are buried here.