William Butler of Hartford

Not the same as William Butler, Sr.

Biographical Summary:

William Butler, Cambridge, 1634; freeman, Massachusetts, May 6, 1635; was an original proprietor at Hartford, and received 28 acres in the distribution of 1639-40; his house-lot was on the road from the Little River to the North Meadow (now Front St.), bounded W. by John Talcott's land. [He married Eunice, sister of Tristram Coffin, of Nantucket; SIC] died 1648, without wife or children, leaving by his will, dated May 11, the greater portion of his estate to his brother, Deacon Richard Butler. He mentions children of his sister West, and his sister Winter, "living in Old England," and gives "threo-skore pounds" to the Church of Hartford. Inventory 429. 3

SOURCE: James Hammond Trumbull, editor, The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Volume 1 (Boston, Massachusetts: Edward L. Osgood, 1886), pages 233-234. Retrieved: 3 May 2011 from Google Books

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From Anderson's Great Migration Begins, William Butler of Hartford sketch:

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• William Butler, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011), 1:515-17, Secondary quality.
  • ORIGIN: Unknown.
  • CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Cambridge church prior to 6 May 1635 implied by freemanship.
  • FREEMAN: 6 May 1635 (as "Will[ia]m Butlar," second in a sequence of eight Cambridge men [MBCR 1:370].
  • ASSOCIATIONS: Brother of Richard Butler of Cambridge and Hartford [GMB 1:285-88]..
• Butler, William, Wethersfield, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06), 1:4.

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