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JAMES BUTLER
MARY UNKNOWN
James Butler, Sr. "Irishman" died on 19 March 1681 at Billerica. [NERL][BMDL]
Inventory was taken on James's estate in 1681 in Nashaway (Lancaster). [MMPI] His son James Butler of Nashaway alias Lancaster and his mother, the administrator of James's estate, petitioned the court to settle his estate on 10 April 1702. [MMPR]
A record of the estates of the first inhabitans of Lancaster—used for dividing the land—shows that James was one of the poorest inhabitants, with an estate of only 50 pounds. [NERL] James Butler received the 39th lot in the second division of meadow on 5 February 1659 in Lancaster. [NERL] He was given a half a home lot, ten acres of upland for half a home lot and another 20 acres of upland for half a home lot on 2 (12) 1663 in Lancaster. [NERL] He was given enough land to make a fence along the seven acres that he bought from goodman Joslin on 26 (9) 1664 in Lancaster. [NERL]
The widow Mary Butler married John Hinds on 9 February 1681/2 in Lancaster. [NERL] John Hinds came from Woburn and had been married before. [NERL] He later moved to Brookfield. [NERL]
Children of James Butler and Mary Unknown:
i. James Butler was born say 1675. He died by 1736. He married first Lydia Unknown. He married second Hannah Wilson.
ii. John Butler was born on 22 July 1677 in Woburn. [AWR] He married Elizabeth Wilson. [AWR] John and Elizabeth are buried in the Grumpas Graveyard in Pelham, New Hampshire. [AWR]
iii. Mary Butler was born on 11 July 1679 in Billerica. [AWR]
iv. Eleanor Butler was born on 13 July 1681 in Billerica. [AWR]
Children of John Hinds and Mary Unknown:
v. John Hinds was born on 19 January 1683 in Lancaster. [NERL]
vi. Jacob Hinds was born about 1685 "likely" in Brookfield. [BEVS]
Jacob and his brother Hopestill were part of a company under Captain Thomas Buckminster of Brookfield that supplemented the regular garrison at Fort Dummer in Vermont from 6 to 20 August 1748. [BEVS]
vii Hopestill Hinds married Mary Walker. [BEVS]
viii. Enoch Hinds
ix. Hannah Hinds
x. Deborah Hinds
xi. Experience Hinds
References:
NERL. Henry S. Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643–1725 (Clinton, MA: W. J. Coulter, 1884), 72 (meadow lot), 77 (home lots)., 79 (fence land), 248 (size of estate), 301 (John Hines, birth of his children), 318 (birth of John Hinds), 321 (marriage of widow Mary), 325 (death of James).
BMDL. Henry S. Nourse, Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643–1850 (Clinton, MA: W. J. Coulter, Printer, 1890), 18 (death of James).
MMPI. Flint, James, comp., "Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1648–1870," database, Ancestry (2000: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/4775).
MMPR. "Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648–1871," database with images, AmericanAncestor, case 3693, citing records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org.
AWR. Albert Wilmot Rook, The Butler Family (Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1901), 15–19.
BEVS. Scott Andrew Bartley, "Early Vermont Settlers, 1700–1784," database with images, AmericanAncesters (2015: https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1565/i/58565/1/0) > Fort Dummer Soldiers, images 15–16.
Last revised: 26-Apr-2021