John Butts

1707 - Abt 1797  (89 years)

• Name	John Butts
  Born	31 Aug 1707	Little Compton, RI   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1797	NY   [2]
  Person ID	I07697	Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	Moses Butts,   b. 30 Jul 1673, Dartmouth, MA ,   d. 9 Jun 1734, Little Compton, RI  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Alice Lake,   b. 6 Dec 1677, Dartmouth, MA ,   d. 3 Jul 1739  (Age 61 years)
  Married	Abt 1699  [3]
  Family ID	F02964	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice Wodell,   b. 18 Apr 1705
  Married	26 Oct 1727  [1]
  Children	1. John Butts,   b. Abt 5 Aug 1728   2. Samuel Butts,   b. 9 May 1730   3. Richard Butts,   b. 16 Mar 1731/32   4. Gershom Butts,   b. 12 Sep 1734,   d. 1812  (Age 77 years)   5. Ruth Butts,   b. 26 May 1737   6. Susannah Butts,   b. 26 Jul 1739   7. Moses Butts,   b. 4 Mar 1743/44,   d. Between 1776 and 1783  (Age 31 years)   8. Sarah Butts,   b. 4 Jan 1745/46   9. Aaron Butts,   b. 31 Aug 1749,   d. 17 Jun 1833  (Age 83 years)   10. Thomas Butts,   b. 22 Jul 1751
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018
  Family ID	F02969	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S013215] The Butts Family of RI, Francis B. Butts, (1891, additional notes 1962), 13. [S013216] John Butts: His Ancestors and Some of His Descendants, Allison Butts, (Poughkeepsie, NY: Press of A. V. Haight, 1898), 23. [S013215] The Butts Family of RI, Francis B. Butts, (1891, additional notes 1962), 12A.