The Morris Clan

Thomas BUTLER

HUSBAND:
[F498]. Thomas BUTLER. [PC W3].
Born about 1745 at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut; son of John BUTLER [F996] and Sarah FOSTER [F997].
He married Jane WHITE [F499] on 1 JUN 1769 at Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. They were both of Salisbury at the time of their marriage. They were married by John Hutchinson, J. P. {S6}.
He died on 19 FEB 1806 at Hinesburg (Heinsburgh), Chittenden County, Vermont.

WIFE:
[F499]. Jane WHITE. [PC W3].
Born 27 AUG 1752 at Salisbury, L. County, Connecticut, daughter of Ruloff WHITE [F998] and Maritjen KNICKERBOCKER [F999]. She married Thomas BUTLER [498] on 1 JUN 1769 at Salisbury, L. County, Vermont.
She died 4 MAR 1834 at Hinesburg (Heinsburgh), Chittenden County, Vermont.

CHILDREN of Thomas BUTLER [F498] and Jane WHITE [F499]:

Molle Butler. Born on 20 NOV 1770 in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. {S6}.
[F249]. Hannah BUTLER. [PC W3]. Born on 18 AUG 1772 in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. {S6}. She married (1) Zalmon WHEELER. Zalmon Wheeler was born in 1762 probably in Fairfield, Connecticut; son of Joseph Wheeler and Francis Hill. His parents were among the first settlers of Fairfield, Franklin County, Vermont, Zalmon died on 29 DEC 1799 in Fairfield, Franklin County, Vermont. She married (2) Peter THURSTON [F248] in 1802. "Mrs. Thurston was a woman of great energy, endurance, bright intellect, and social culture; having remarkably uniform good health, a sound and strong physical body, which, together with similar qualities in her husband, produced a wonderfully healthy, vigorous, and hardy family of children. She would weave fourteen yards of cloth a day after she was sixty years of age." (S1a). She died (23-S2,S3, S1)(28) MAY 1866 at (Granville-S1)(Centerburg-S2,S3), Knox County, Ohio at the home of her son, Johnston. She was said to have been age 97, but this does not agree with the dates for her birth and death. She was buried in the Robbins-Thurston Cemetery in Centerburgh, Ohio. (S1).
Sarah Butler. Born on 15 MAY 1776 in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. {S6}.

SOURCES:

[S1]. Thurston Family History. http://www.spicerweb.org/legacyfiles/65.htm and http://www.spicerweb.org/legacyfiles/64.htm QUOTES as sources: a) Thurston, Brown, comp., The Thurston Genealogies (Portland, ME, Hoyt, Fogg & Dunham, 1880). b) Jacobus, Donald Lines, Families of Ancient New Haven (Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1974).
[S2]. Wheeler Family 1416-1918. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/ODTs/WHEELER.shtml#WHEE1289.
[S3]. First Census of the Inhabitants of Fairfield - 1791, with Genealogical Notes from "Some early records of Fairfield, Vermont." Selected and Edited by Gilbert Harry Doane. Published in Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the First Settlement of the Town by the Anniversary Committees. Transcribed by Coralynn Brown. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/vt/fairfield_vt_census.htm.
[S4]. Matz & Schramm Families. Compiled by Bob Rugo. http://homepage.mac.com/bobrugo/MatzPublic/PS04/PS04_147.HTM.
[S5]. http://members.tripod.com/gardner_2/dat135.htm
[S6]. Historical Collections Relating to the Town of Salisbury Litchfield County Connecticut. Volume II. Arranged and published by The Salisbury Association, Inc. http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/falmouth/996/sal2-ad.htm
[S7]. Thomas BUTLER - Direct Line ancestor of Stephen Spicer. www.spicerweb.org/legacyfiles/6654.htm
[S8]. Middletown Vital Records from Barbour, 1668-1852 - BLAKESLEE-BYNES. Transcribed by Coralynn Brown. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/barbour/middletown_barbour_b2.htm.