Person:Mary Butterfield (1)

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Mary Butterfield
 
 
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Name[1] Mary Butterfield
Gender Female
Marriage 1 Nov 1750 Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United Statesto James Wheeler
References
  1. Wheeler, Albert Gallatin. The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler family in America. (American College of Genealogy , 1914)
    33.

    James Wheeler [#202] m. 1 Nov 1750 Mary Butterfield of Hollis, N.H.
    [Note: some facts attributed to this James in 1740, and 1744, that are incompatible with a birth in 1731, casting doubt on this identification of the husband.]

  2.   George Tolman, Joseph C. Wheeler. Wheeler Families of Old Concord, Massachusetts
    p. 13, 21.

    James Wheeler [#155] m. Hollis 1 Nov 1751 [sic] Mary Butterfield.
    [Note: the website corrects the marriage date and adds this information: "They settled east of Patch Corner in the township of Monson. He became involved in debt. 'He removed about a mile east, near the Shattuck land, and told his folks to tell [his creditors] he had gone to Boston. The place has been called Boston Lot ever since. Mr. Wheeler served in the war of Revolution in Capt. Noah Worcester's company at Cambridge in 1775. shortly after this he removed to the north part of Dunstable, where his wife's people resided, and soon after became insane and remained in that condition four or five years. He spent all his wife's property, who became heir to several hundred acres of those pitch pines forests of Dunstable plains.'"