Person:Elijah Butler (7)

Name	Elijah Butler
Gender	Male
Birth^[2]	Abt 1738	Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
Christening^[1]	6 Jul 1740	Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	Abt 1760	to Jane Kelley (add)
Death^[3]	30 Aug 1825	Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States

References

↑ Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Edgartown, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1906)
p. 14.

BUTLER, Elijah, ch. Elijah and Thankfull, bp. July 6, 1740. CR1
[Note: sister Abigail baptized the same date.]
↑ Family Genealogies, in Banks, Charles Edward. The history of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts. (Boston: G H Dean, 1911)
p. 60.

Elijah Butler [#260], s/o Elijah, b. 1738, resided Edgartown (Farm Neck) tanner. He m. Jane Kelley [p. 226: d/o Duncan Kelley and Jane Sarson] abt. 1760. He rem. to Farmington, Me., 1790, and d. there 20 Aug 1825.
↑ Butler, Francis Gould. A history of Farmington, Franklin County, Maine: from the earliest explorations to the present time, 1776-1885. (Farmington, Maine: Press of Knowlton McLeary & Co., 1885)
p. 399.

Elijah Butler was born in 1738; he was by trade a tanner, and removed to the township about 1790, settling upon a part of river-lot No. 19, east side. About 1805 he erected a tannery. He was the father of Jonathan, Sarson, Elijah Jr., Edward, Samuel, Winthrop, and several daughters. He married Jane Kelley, and died Aug. 30, 1825. She was born in 1745, and died July 7, 1820.