William Butram14,367 was born about 1735 in Baltimore Co., Maryland. He lived in Pittsylvania Co., VA in 1743. He lived in Rowan County, NC about 1750. William lived in Rich Fork Abbotts Cr. Rowan Co NC in 1783. He appeared in the census in 1790 in Rowan Co., North Carolina. He lived in Davidson Co (Out Of Orig Rowan Co) in 1793. William lived in Iredell County, NC in 1793. He lived in Hankins Br, S. Yadkin River, NC in 1795. He lived in Hankins Br, S. Yadkin River, NC in 1800. William lived in Hankins Br, S. Yadkin River, NC in 1801. He died after 1801 at the age of 66 in Iredell Co., NC?. He died in 1806 at the age of 71 in Lee County, VA. William lived in Rowan County, NC. He was also known as I William BUTTRAM I. A generous amount of information on this man, known as William I in this book, is found in the BUTTRAM FAMILY ASSOCIATION genealogy, published 1998 Library of Congress card 98-072518. It is believed he was born about 1735 and that his father was William Butteram (known as Will iam the Elder). The exact date that William I and Margaret Buttram arrived in Rowan County, NC is unknown, but records document him as being there by at least the 1750s. By 1793 he had moved to Iredell County, NC William Buttram Jr. had been born by 1759 and Wi lliam I was now using the title William, Sr. There may have been as many as 13 children by William Sr and his wife Margaret.
A note in Jack Ferguson's well known book, EARLY TIMES IN CLINTON COUNTY(KY), VOL. I, states: "An article on Davis STOCKTON - Elizabeth BERTRAMin the Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly Vol. XIV, no. 3,Fall, 1982, identified him as the son of Peter Hargard STOCKTON. He wasborn in Clinton county. He married around 1827, Elizabeth BERTRAM,daughter of ANDREW BERTRAM, a Revolutionary War soldier who settled inthe present Wayne county. She was born in May, 1806 in North Carolina.During the Revolution the BERTRAM family lived a short distance fromwhere the battle of Cowpens* was fought, so that the firing could beheard easily while the battle was in progress.
* Battle of Cowpens - At the Cowpens, a frontier pastureland, on January17, 1781, Daniel Morgan led his army of tough Continentals and backwoods militia to a brilliant victory over Banastre Tarleton’s battle-hardenedforce of British regulars. Located in present-day Cherokee County, South Carolina north east of Spartanburg. The Cowpens National Battlefield Siteis just south and east of the town of Cliffside, in present day Rutherford Co., North Carolina and just south of present day Cleveland Co., North Carolina. As near as I can figure out from consulting the maps available to me it is likely Elizabeth BUTTRAM'S family was living either in that portion of South Carolina where the Battle of Cowpens was fought,or over the North Carolina State Line, probably in what was then Rutherford Co., North Carolina. Until now it has been assumed they lived in Rowan or Iredell Counties in North Carolina about 1781. This was nine years before William BUTTRAM, I, and Margaret were on the 1790 Census in Rowan Co., North Carolina! However, it is believed that William and Margaret were in Rowan Co., North Carolina by January 28, 1776 when their oldest child, Elizabeth, married William PERLY there on Abbots Creek.
5. WILLIAM6 BUTTRAM (WILLIAM5, JOHN4, WILLIAM3, NICHOLAS2, JOHN1)5,6 wasborn 1735 in Pittzlvania County Virginia, and died Bef. 1806 in , LeeCo., Virginia7. He married MARGARET. She was born 1740 in New BannisterVirginia8, and died Bef. 1784.
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It is believed that WILLIAM was born about 1735. No document has been found which proves the names of his parents , but it is thought that hemay be the son of an elder William Butteram (born 1706) who, when he was eight years old and with the consent of his father, John Butteram, bonded him self to Daniel Scott, the younger, in 1714 in Baltimore County,Maryland. This occurred one month after the death of John Butteram's wife, Elizabeth Westbury.
John remarried Jane Mayer that same year, and was in Cecil County ,Maryland by 1727. William remained with the Scott family in BaltimoreCounty, Maryland and moved with them to Pittsylvania County, Virginia by1743. The exact date that William and Margaret Buttram arrived in RowanCounty, North Carolina is not known, but records document him as being there by at least the 1750's. A deed from Lord Granville to Joseph Tateon Jacobs Creek of the Daniel River "including Butrums's Camp," was written 17 December 1761. Until his death in 1763, Lord Granville, who lived in England, owned all of Rowan County, except for a small portion which was owned by Henry McCullough . The people who settled on vacantland own by Lord Granville, paid him rent which was collected byGranville's agents.
The 1778 Rowan County tax list shows William Buttram as owning land valued at 169 pounds. No record has been found showing how he obtained or disposed of this land. On 12 February 1780, William was replaced by JacobBrumel as overseer of roads for a part of Rowan County. Civil service such as this is recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution(DAR) as patriotic service during the Revolutionary War. Descendants ofWilliam who can document their lineage are eligible to become members ofthe DAR or the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) by virtue of his civil service, which is recorded in the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Rowan County, North Carolina. In 1783, William purchased 200 acres of land "including his own improvement", on RichFork of Abbott's Creek of Rowan County. This means that William had already lived on this land long enough to clear and improve it. This landon Abbott's Creek lies in what became Davidson County, Norh Carolina, in1822.
In 1790, William sold 4 1/2 acres of this land to Christopher Attinger,and in 1791 he and his wife , Margaret, sold the remaining 195 1/2 acres to John Hiatt. By 1793, William and much of his family had moved to Iredell County, North Carolina. Deed book B, pages 47-49 show that Peter Keeton sold 140 acres to John Lund. This land adjoined the domiciles of,among others, "William Buttram, Sr. ". William began using "Sr." afterhis name about this time, because his son William Buttram, Jr., born 1759, who became 21 years of age in 1800, was beginning to enter into land transactions. Several other Iredell County deeds are recorded for membersof the Buttram family, but one indicates that William Buttram, Sr.,bought 200 acres from James Patterson on the north side of Hankin'sBranch of the South Yadkin River in 179 5. He sold 50 acres of this land to William Blankenship in 1800, and the remaining 150 acres to Joseph Rayin 1801. William's date of death is not known, and a record of his will has not been found. It is presumed that his wife , Margaret, listed inthe 1791 Rowan County deed, was the mother of his children, which mightnumber as many as 13.
Children of WILLIAM BUTTRAM and MARGARET are:
i. ELIZABETH7 BUTTRAM, b. 1757.
ii. WILLIAM BUTTRAM, b. July 18, 1759.
iii. MARGARET BUTTRAM, b. Abt. 1760.
iv. JOHN BUTTRAM, b. January 01, 1765.
v. ANDREW BUTTRAM, b. June 1768.
vi. JAMES BUTTRAM, b. Abt. 1772.
vii. CORNELIUS BUTTRAM, b. 1773.
6. viii. JACOB BUTTRAM, b. Abt. 1775, , Rowan Co., North Carolina; d.Abt. 1855, , Mcminn Co., Tennessee.
ix. LEVI BUTTRAM, b. November 04, 1777.
x. SEEDY BUTTRAM, b. Abt. 1779.
xi. NICHOLAS BUTTRAM, b. 1780 Parents: William Buttram.
Spouse: Margaret . Children were: Elizabeth Boutteram, William Butram, Margaret BUTTRAM, Nicholas L. Buttram, John Bertram, Andrew Bertram, James Buttram, Cornelius Bertram, Jacob Buttram, Levi Buttram, Seedy Buttram.
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