Person:Samuel Butler (1)

Notes

• 1668 - chosen town school master ^{Citation needed}
• 1670 - resident householder ^{Citation needed}
• 1689 - selectman ^{Citation needed}
• In the record of his death, December 31, 1692, he is called "Ensign Samuel Butler", deacon at Wethersfield ^{Citation needed}
• devised all his father's meadow land in Wethersfield ^{Citation needed}
• Hinman says he died at Wethersfield December 30, 1692; will dated same day and year ^{Citation needed}

1. ↑ Wethersfield (CT) Vital Records, in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records.

   BUTLER:
   Samuell, Dea., died Dec 31, 1692 Samuell, Ens., died Dec 31, 1692

2. ↑ Richard Butler, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   1:287.

   'SAMUEL, b. say 1641; m. by 1665 Elizabeth Olmsted, daughter of Nicholas Olmsted (Roger D. Joslyn, "The Wife or Wives of Samuel Butler of Wethersfield CT" [TAG 60:27-32]).'

3.   Olmsted, Henry King (1824-1896), and George Kemp Ward (1848-1937). Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmstead and Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries, 1632-1912. (New York: A. T. DeLaMare, 1912)
   17.

   (16) ELIZABETH OLMSTED ... m. Samuel Butler; d. Dec. 20, 1692, in Wethersfield, Conn.; son of (Deacon) Richard and Elizabeth (Bigelow) Butler. ...
   
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   [Note: The identification of Samuel Butler's mother as Elizabeth Bigelow has since been discredited. See her page for explanation.]