Ancestry of
Wild Bill Hickok

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Benjamin Butler

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• • Great-grandfather of Wild Bill Hickok — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • Israel Butler 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Blossom   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Dec 1727 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Mar 1800 
  • Death Location:
  • Middletown Springs, Rutland, Vermont 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susanna Whiting
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Jan 1757 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island 
  • Children:
  
  

  James Butler (Ahnentafel No:6 )

  Nathaniel Butler

• Sources for Benjamin Butler

  • ¹ Barnstable, MA: Vital Records 1625-1903, (2008), p. 136, Birth record for Benjamin Butler.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A017587.
  • ³ Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914, Birth record for son Nathaniel Butler.
  • ⁴ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, Vol. 1, p. 40, Marriage record for Benjamin Butler and Susanna Whiting.
  • ⁵ The Mayflower Descendant, 1934, Vol. 32, p. 56.
  • ⁶ Lazell, Theodore S., comp., Whiting Genealogy: Nathaniel Whiting of Dedham, Mass., 1641, and Five Generations of his Descendants, Boston, Massachusetts: Theodore S. Lazell (1902), 28.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 444, 512.