Ruth Butterfield

Ruth Butterfield died on January 11, 1754, at Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.[1] She was a widow and died of old age when she was 80 years old.

Daughter of John Wright Sr. and Abigail (Warren) Wright

Family

Jonathan Butterfield (Jonathan Benjamin) was born in Chelmsford. He was a husbandsman at West Cambridge, near the Foot of the Rocks, now Arlington.
In February, 1706, he was one of a scouting party (Green's Groton) in the Indian War. He died in 1744.

On June 18, 1744, the widow Ruth and sons Jonathan, John and William sign the mother's bond as administratix of the estate of Jonathan Butterfield late of Cambridge, deceased intestate. The widow died 1753-4

CHILDREN

1. Jonathan b 1695
2. Mary. b 1697 m. Thomas Frost
3. John b 1699
4. Abigail b 1702 m. Joseph Wheeler
5. Ruth b 1704 m. William Robbins
6. Jane b 1706 m. George Cutter
7. Lydia bap. 1708
8. William bap 1710
9. Phebe bap 1713
10. *Deborah b. 1713 m. Samuel Locke, son of Francis and Elizabeth Winship Locke of Cambridge. She d. 7 Sept. 1769.

References

• Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Arlington, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904) p. 126. “BUTTERFIELD, Ruth, wid., old age, [died] Jan. 11, 1754, a. 80.” P [Birth about 1674. PR=Rev. Samuel Cooke's Abstract of Births, Deaths and Marriages]
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Ruth_Wright_%2832%29