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Malachi Butler

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of George Plimpton — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 240 
  • Father:
  • John Butler 
  • Mother:
  • Priscilla Norton   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1689 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1770 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jemima Daggett
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1718 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Thanful Butler

  Susannah Butler

  Zephaniah Butler (Ahnentafel No:120 )

  Benjamin Butler

  Margery Butler

  Silas Butler

  Solomon Butler

  Lydia Butler

  Mary Butler

  Jemima Butler

• Sources for Malachi Butler

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1973, Vol. 127, p. 213.
  • 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 Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 132, 402.
  • ⁵ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 160-162.