Deacon Richard Butler

Bef 1610 - 1684  (> 74 years)

• Name	Deacon Richard Butler  [1, 2]
  Birth	Bef 1610  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Aug 1684	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I19558	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family 1	(Unknown first wife of Deacon Richard Butler)   d. Abt 1640
  Children	+ 1. Mary Butler,   b. Abt 1639   d. Bef Feb 1690 (Age ~ 51 years)
  Family ID	F1685	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 May 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth   d. 11 Sep 1691, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
  Marriage	Bef 1641  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Butler,   b. Abt 1654   d. 28 Apr 1729 (Age ~ 75 years)
  Family ID	F11859	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated 1633; first at Cambridge, then removed to Hartford by 1636, probably in the party of the Rev. Thomas Hooker. At Hartford he was the first deacon of the Rev. Hooker's congregation. Deputy to the Connecticut general court in 1659 and 1660. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2544] Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America by Henry King Olmsted. New York: A. T. de la Mare Printing and Publishing Company, Ltd., 1912. [S4121] Boardman Genealogy 1525-1895 by Charlotte Goldthwaite. Hartford, Connecticut: William F. J. Boardman, 1895. [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. [S4122] One Branch of the Booth Family by Charles Edwin Booth. New York, 1910.