Benjamin Butterfield

- 1688

• Name	Benjamin Butterfield  [1, 2]
  Birth	England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Mar 1688	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I33479	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	3 Oct 2025

  
  

  Family	Ann   d. 19 May 1661, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. Nathan Butterfield,   b. 14 Feb 1643, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. Aft Dec 1719 (Age > 77 years) + 2. Samuel Butterfield,   b. 17 Mar 1647, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 30 Jul 1714, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F19744	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Oct 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived in 1638; first at Charlestown; Woburn in 1640; Chelmsford 1654.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3431] Massachusetts, town clerk and town records, 1626-2001, on familysearch.org. [S562] Bassett-Preston Ancestors: A History of the Ancestors in America of Marion Bassett Luitweiler, Howard Murray Bassett, Preston Rogers Bassett, Isabel Bassett Watson, and Helen Bassett Hauser, Children of Edward M. and Annie (Preston) Bassett, by Howard Murray Bassett Preston. New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1930. [S5298] Geo. A. Gordon, "The Butterfields of Middlesex." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 44:33, 1890. [S8719] The Ancestry of Joseph Fletcher Parker, 1880-1962, of Duluth, Minnesota by Marian Parker Congdon. Duluth, Minnesota, 2006.