"… Capt. Reuben Shaler … was master of the King George, a brigantine of seventy-two tons, with a crew of fourteen men. When he sailed in 1746 from Barbadoes to London, he filed with the custom house a list of the officers and men, which list included Benjamin Butler, Stephen Stow, Ebenezer Stocking and Daniel Curby (Kirby), of the Upper Houses. The brig and the captain were lost in 1749 and as Benjamin Butler was lost about that time he may have been on board."