Joseph Butterfield [#19], s/o Joseph Butterfield and Elizabeth Richardson [sic, this is wrong, as that couple married in 1741], d. 1741 leaving widow and six children. Petition, dated 8 Dec 1749, of "Dorathy Butterfield widow, ... wife to Joseph Butterfield lat[e] of Westford Decased, he leaving ... Six Children, the elder is Eleazer Butterfield, being about twenty-one-years old[,] hannah Butterfield being about twenty years old, martha Butterfield being about 18 year old[,] Joseph Butterfield being about 16 yers old, Ebenezer Butterfield being about 13 years old and dorathy Butterfield being about 10 years old" [requesting "Leiftenant Jabeese Keep" as guardian for two younger children, Ebenezer and Dorothy.
