Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Joseph Butler

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 478 
  • Father:
  • Richard Butler 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1648 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Dec 1732 
  • Death Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Bushnell
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 6 Sep 1705 
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  • Child:

  Mary Butler (Ahnentafel No:239 )

• Additional marriages for Joseph Butler

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Goodrich
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 14 Nov 1676

• Sources for Joseph Butler

  • ¹ American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 12, (Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1899)), 11.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1936, Vol. 13, pp. 220-222.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 287.
  • ⁴ Case, Lafayette Wallace, M.D., The Goodrich Family in America: A Genealogy of the Descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., . . ., Chicago: Fergus Printing Company (1889), 34.
  • ⁵ Stiles, Henry R., Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1999, original 1904), 174.

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