Esther Butler

Notes:

Her name was sometimes spelled "Easter" or "Hester."

Esther married Jonathan Mead on 7 Dec 1713 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut. Jonathan (son of John Mead and Ruth Hardy) was born in 1684 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; died in Nine Partners, Dutchess, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Enos Mead was born on 17 Nov 1721 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; died before 19 Dec 1774 in Stillwater, Saratoga, New York.
2. Nehemiah Mead was born on 8 Aug 1723 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; died after 21 May 1760.

Walter married Rebecca Reynolds. Rebecca (daughter of Jonathan Reynolds and Rebecca) was born about 1657; died on 3 Jun 1730 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her parentage is not perfectly proven, but Donald Lines Jacobus argued (in "Walter Butler of Greenwich, Conn." and "Walter Butler, Penoyer, and Reynolds", citation details below) that she was probably a daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca Reynolds. In deeds at Greenwich after the death of her husband Walter Butler, her name is generally written "Clapman." Peter Clapham, a widower with one daughter, married a second wife Rebecca about 1694. By her he had three children and died 18 Feb 1698. His widow married, by 1717, a man named Brown, and died in Fairfield, where her oldest married Clapham daughter was living, and where her stone says that she died 3 Jun 1730 in her 75th year, placing her birth near 1655.

The inventory of the estate of Jonathan Reynolds, taken 23 Jan 1674, lists daughter Rebecca "about sixteen years of age", which would place her birth about 1657. Assuming this is the woman buried at Fairfield in 1730, as argued above, this would make her a sister-in-law of Joshua Knapp (husband of her sister Elizabeth Reynolds), who was her co-administrator on the estate of her first husband Walter Butler, and also a sister of Jonathan Reynolds who with Jonathan Knapp was, after the death of Peter Clapham, guardian of the Clapham children.

Evan married Johane about 1617. Johane was born about 1601. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was probably a member of the Penoyer family.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 13 Jan 1674 and 23 Jan 1674, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut
• Alternate death: Bef 23 Jan 1674

Jonathan married Rebecca about 1656. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was not, as long claimed, a daughter of Angel Husted; rather, she was Husted's second wife following the death of her husband Jonathan Reynolds. Her origins remain unknown.

John married Anne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emigrated 1634. First in Watertown, then Wetherfield 1636, Stamford 1641.

Notes:

He was a weaver.