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Zephaniah Butler

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of George Plimpton — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 120 
  • Father:
  • Malachi Butler 
  • Mother:
  • Jemima Daggett   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 15 Jan 1727/1728 
  • Christening Location:
  • Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1800 
  • Death Location:
  • Nottingham, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Cilley
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1782 
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  • Child:

  John Butler (Ahnentafel No:60 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Zephaniah Butler

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A017748.
  • ² Ames, Blanche Butler, The Butler Ancestry of Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler in America, Lowell, Massachusetts: Unknown (1895), 3.
  • ³ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 101.
  • ⁴ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy: Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, of England . . ., Chicago, Illinois: W. B. Conkey Company (1898), 187.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 402.
  • ⁶ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 161.