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Benjamin Butterfield III

Born: 5/14/1726 Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts

 

Parents: Benjamin Butterfield, Kezia Patterson

 

Married: 9/26/1748 Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts to Susanna Spaulding

 

Children: Benjamin (1749),  Susannah (1753),  Jesse (1756),  Ezra (1758),  Levi (1763),  Zeri (1765),  Cyrus (1767),  Sybil (1770)

 

Died: 7 Dec 1804; Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont

 

Notes:

From the notes of Jeff Gosnell :
“REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE: He served as an Ensign in Capt William McCune’s Co. of Seth Warner’s Regiment (Green Mountain Boys). Records from the War Service Dept. as taken from Heitman’s Registry state his service started 1 Jan 1777, taken prisoner 7 July 1777 and did not rejoin his Regiment. VT Rolls of Rev. Service give a longer period of service showing that he signed up for additional service, and was still active around 1780.
Served as a Lt. in Capt. William McCune’s Co, Seth Warner’s Regt Green Mountain Boys.
SOURCE: Record of 255 Vermont Revolutionary Soldiers Whose Graves Have been Located, Service Proven and Official Markers Placed, 1909-1930, Brattleboro Chapter, DAR, pg 5; Ref Vol 1, pges 273-320; MA Soldiers and Sailors; NSDAR #41127.
War Records from Washington DC show Benjamin Butterfield enlisted 1 Jan 1777 and was an Ensign in Warner’s Regiment, Continental Troops, Capt. William McCune’s Co. in the Battalion of Forces commanded by Col. Seth Warner. Revolutionary War. It also shows he enlisted originally in February of 1750 on an original record borrowed form the State of VT. Show he was taken prisoner 7 July 1777 and appears on a list of prisoners released and returned from Quebec in Nov 1777 in the Ship Andrew Cap Gier. Show him active but Co Muster Rolls show him as “Prisoner on Parole” until 1780. On 1 August 1780, on a Warner’s Regt “Return” slip he is shown as Lt Benjamin Butterfield and is shown as Lt through January 1783, which is the last slip.”

“History of Westminster, MA”: “Benjamin was son of Benjamin and Keziah born in Westford in 1726. He was undoubtedly a descendant of Benjamin, the immigrant, who was in Charlestown before 1640, taxed in Woburn in 1644, and who ten years later moved to Chelmsford. He married Susannah daughter of Jacob and Susannah (Pierce) Spaulding of C. and sr. of Joseph of this town, Sept. 26, 1748; resided for a time in Westford, removed thence to Lunenburg, and finally to Nar. No. 2 in 1752, locating first on the present W. H. Carter (Miles) place, but later on lot no. 43, So. of the house of Ge. W. Whitney. He was a carpenter by trade and an active citizen, holding the office of Assessor in 1756. He left Westminster in 1762 or 3 for Brattleboro, VT, where he took a leading part in settling the town and in forming the first church. He gained some military as well as political honors, and became Asst. Judge of the County Court of Common Pleas. An earnest participant in the movement to annex a part of FT [VT?] to NY, he was involved in certain war-like demonstrations which caused his arrest and temporary imprisonment at Northampton. He lived to a great age, leaving a considerable number of children, four of whom were born in Westminster.”
“Annals of Brattleboro”: “Benjamin Butterfield in 1766 settled where Doctor Bemis lived, taking up one hundred rods wide on the river, to extend back far enough to make one hundred acres, for which he paid L120. This land adjoined the farms of John and Thomas Sargent. He was a captain of New York militia, justice of the peace and a man of influence, being a firm supporter of the government. He was also called “Esquire Butterfield.” Benjamin Butterfield, Junior, about 1772 built and lived in a house where there is a cellar in the northwest corner of the roads west of the Sargent cemetery, and probably kept a tavern at this place.”

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