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JAMES BUTLER (d. 1681)

MARY UNKNOWN (d. aft 1720)

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James Butler, Sr. "Irishman" died on 20 March 1681 in Billerica, Middlesex Count, Massachusetts. [1][2]

Mary died after 8 March 1719/20. The widow Mary Butler married John Hinds on 9 February 1681/2 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [3, 321][4] He died in March 1720. [5]

Inventory was taken on James's estate in 1681 in Nashaway (Lancaster). [6] 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. [7]

A record of the estates of the first inhabitants of Lancaster—used for dividing the land—shows that James was one of the poorest inhabitants, with an estate of only 50 pounds. James Butler received the 39th lot in the second division of meadow on 5 February 1659 in Lancaster. 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. 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. [3]

John Hinds came from Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts and had been married before. [3] He later moved to Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [3] He sold his home lot to his son John on 13 April 1719 and returned to Lancaster. [5]

The widow Mary Hinds sold land to her son John Hinds of Brookfield on 8 March 1719/20. [4]

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. [8] He married Elizabeth Wilson. [9] John and Elizabeth are buried in the Grumpas Graveyard in Pelham, New Hampshire. [9]

iii. Mary Butler was born on 11 July 1679 in Billerica. [1]

iv. Eleanor Butler was born on 13 July 1681 in Billerica. [1]

Children of John Hinds and Mary Unknown: Names in [4][5]

v. John Hinds was born on 19 January 1683 in Lancaster. [2][4] He died on 10 October 1747. [5] He married Anna Corliss of Haverhill. [5] She died on 8 September 1764 in Brookfield. [5]

John, Hopestill and Enoch Hinds were taxed in North Brookfield on 23 April 1717. [5]

vi. Jacob Hinds was born about 1685 "likely" in Brookfield. [4][10] He married Grace Morse of Marlborough. [5]

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. [10]

Jacob lived in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts and Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [5]

vii Hopestill Hinds married Mary Walker. [5][10]

viii. Enoch Hinds married Elizabth, the daughter of Deacon Henry Gilbert, on 20 February 1722. [5]

ix. Hannah Hinds

x. Deborah Hinds

xi. Experience Hinds married Joseph Marks, Jr. on 18 November 1718.

References:

1. Vital records of Billerica, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1908).

2. Henry S. Nourse, Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643–1850 (Clinton, MA, W. J. Coulter, Printer, 1890).

3. 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).

4. "Gleanings—No. 9," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 18 (1864): 267.5.

5. J.H. Temple, History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts (Boston : the town, 1887).

6. Flint, James, comp., "Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1648–1870," database, Ancestry (2000: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/4775).

7. "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.

8. Edward Francis Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Part 1 (births), Part 2, (deaths) Part 3 (marriages) (Woburn: Andrew Cutlery & Co., 1890).

9. Albert Wilmot Rook, The Butler Family (Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1901), 15–19.

10. 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.

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