Matthias Button

Abt 1610 - 1672  (~ 62 years)

• Name	Matthias Button  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt 1610  [4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	13 Aug 1672	Connecticut   [5]
  Death	13 Aug 1672	Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Person ID	I1908	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2024

  
  

  Family 1	Teagle   d. 4 Feb 1663, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
  Children	> 1. Peter Button   d. 1726, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island + 2. Matthias Button,   b. 17 Mar 1658, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts d. 1725, Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F10697	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Mar 2022

  
  

  Family 2	Letice   d. Bef 1639
  Marriage	Bef 1633  [4]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Button,   b. Bef 23 Feb 1634, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F724	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Matthew Button. Emigrated 1633. Boston, then Ipswich, then Haverhill. He was a coastal trader. His Great Migration Begins entry contains an account of his long and fruitless legal battle with the basically terrible John Godfrey. "[Button Families of America identifies] Matthias Button as 'a son of Thomas Button of Harrold, Bedford Co., England. He was baptized there October 11, 1607.' Such a baptism does exist, but there is no other evidence in support of this claim. Furthermore, since our Matthias is called at one point a 'Dutchman,' he presumably derived from a Germanic-speaking region on the Continent and not from England." [Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S471] Concetta's Genealogy Homepage. [S3718] The Yeamans-Yeomans-Youmans Genealogy by Grant S. Youmans. Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, 1946. [S930] Paul M. Gifford, "The Probable Origins and Ancestry of John Crandall, of Westerly, Rhode Island (1618-1676)." Rhode Island Roots 32:165, December 2006. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S253] Ancestry of Robert Harry McIntire and of Helen Annette McIntire, His Wife by Robert Harry McIntire. Norfolk, Virginia, 1950.