Person:Tabitha Butterfield (1)

Name^[3]	Tabitha Butterfield
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	29 May 1687	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	7 May 1730	Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Samuel Butterfield
Burial^[2]	20 Feb 1781	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1914)
page 37.

BUTTERFIELD, Tabitha, d. Joseph and Lydia, [born] May 29, 1687. CT.R.
↑ Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1914)
p. 372.

BUTTERFIELD, Tabitha, wid., bur. Feb. 20, 1781, a. 97 or 98 y. CR1
[Birth about 1684.]
↑ Source:Gordon, George A. Butterfields of Middlesex says Tabitha married Ephraim Waters but this is a bad assumption. The probate file for her father Joseph refers to Ephraim as a husband of "two of Deceased's Daughters", not of "the two daughters", meaning there were more than two daughters living. But Gordon assumed that because he only identified two, that was all there were. Birth records in Woburn show the Waters children were born to "Ephraim and Grace", not "Ephraim and Tabitha". So Tabitha did not marry Ephraim Waters.