Moses Butts

Moses — Mary Unknown. [Group Sheet]

1. Hannah Butts
2. Daniel Butts was born 1769; died 20 Jun 1817.

Notes:

The following notes are excerpted from the book "John Butts: His Ancestors and Some of His Descendants," by Alison Butts, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1898, pp. 23 - 24:
Some time after his marriage, John Butts moved from Rhode Island and settled in the easterly part of what is now the town of Washington, Dutchess County, New York, then called Crom Elbow Precinct. Oct. 4, 1748, he purchased a tract of land containing 200 acres of Isaac Thorn, one of the early settlers of that county. This original deed is now in the possession of Mr. J. DeWitt Butts, of Rochester, New York, and by his courtesy I am able to insert a copy of it. (Mr. J. DeWitt Butts is a great grandson of Aaron Butts, who was one of the executors of the will of John Butts.) John Butts owned this land with other land adjoining until his death, and it is mentioned in his will, a copy of which is also inserted. It is located in the east part of the town of Washington, Dutchess County, New York. The locality has long been known as "Butts Hollow."
The easterly line of the land purchased from Isaac Thorn is the division line between the towns of Amenia and Washington. By his will, John Butts divided his lands between his sons Thomas and Aaron, and it has since been further changed-parts taken from and added to.
The principal parts are now (1898) owned by the heirs of Cyrus Duncan and the heirs of Jesse Green. The Duncan farm is wholly within the boundaries of the Thorn land, its northeast corner being the northeast corner of the Thorn land. There is a tradition in the Butts family that John Butts took this land in payment of wages for carpenter work in building a house for Isaac Thorn at the rate of an acre of land for a day's work. The Thorn house was located near the village of Mechanic in the Town of Washington, and is referred to in the history of Dutchess County published in 1888, as follows:
"There were three brothers of the Thorns, of whom Isaac was the oldest, and, we are led to think, the possessor of the most land. He built a gambrel roofed house upon the hill east of the Brick Meeting House."

One genealogy says this John married second to Patience Brayton, in 1752. However, Patience may have married his son or nephew. The marriage record identifies him as John Butts of Tiverton, and by this time John would have been in NY.

John married Alice Wodell 26 Oct 1727. Alice (daughter of Gershom Wodell and Sarah Mott) was born 18 Apr 1705. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Moses & Alice were first cousins, his mother, Elizabeth, and her father, Thomas, being siblings. Moses & Alice and family lived at Little Compton.

Moses married Alice Lake Abt 1699. Alice (daughter of Thomas Lake and Sarah Post) was born 6 Dec 1677, Dartmouth, MA; died 3 Jul 1739. [Group Sheet]

Gershom married Sarah Mott Abt 1692. Sarah was born Abt 1673. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The following notes are adapted from John O. Austin's "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island."

Thomas emigrated from Norfolk, England by 1662 to Portsmouth where he bought four acres from Richad Hart 16 Nov 1662. On 1 Oct 1666 he bought from Richard Bulgar two acres in Portsmouth for a cow and 10 s in wampum. On 20 Nov 1668 he deeded William Earle seven acres, and he bought from Richard Earle, of Dartmouth, a quarter of a purchaser's share of meadow, an eigth share of upland, etc. in Dartmouth. On 31 Oct 1682, in Little Compton, he and James Case were sent for, to be at the next court to give reason of their being and continuance at Punckateest without liberty to do so first obtained from the government. On 27 Oct 1685 Thomas was granted a division of land in Dartmouth, purchased of Woosamequin and Wamsutta.

The following notes are adapted from "The Butts Family of RI," by Francis B. Rutts, pub. 1891 & 1962, p. 9:

The name Thomas Butts first appears in Plymouth Co. records on 16 Nov 1662. There may also have been a Thomas Butts in Salem in 1652. His name is later found in several town records, including land transactions, in the years 1665, 1666, 1668, 1682, 1685, & 1696, in the towns of Portsmouth, Dartmouth, & Little Compton. He was admitted a freeman at Portsmouth 9 May 1660 (town records). In 1679 he was chosen surveyor of cattle. His will, dated 28 Dec 1702, was entered at Little Compton and proved 2 Feb 1703. It mentions his wife Elizabeth.

Thomas married Elizabeth Lake Abt 1664. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry LAKE and Alice Unknown) was born Abt 1641; died Aft 20 Jun 1709, Little Compton, RI. [Group Sheet]

Thomas — Sarah Post. Sarah died 1728. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

One genealogy has her name as Sarah Peet.

Gershom married Mary Tripp Abt 1662. Mary was born Abt 1646. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Whose daughter? Is she the same Mary Tripp who married Jonathan Gatchell, possibly as her second husband? See elsewhere on this tree.