Joel Butler (1752 - 1822)

Born 31 Mar 1752 in Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts

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Died 13 Sep 1822 at age 70 in Jennings, Indiana, United States

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Private Joel Butler served with Vermont Republic during the American Revolution.

Joel Butler is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A017641.

Joel was born in 1752 in Massachusetts. He was the son of Asaph Butler and Jennett McAllister. He passed away in 1822.

Served in the Revolutionary War in Joseph Marsh's Regiment, Vermont Militia, Captain Stafford's company; Wait's Battalion, Vermont Militia.

"Early in Jan 1776, on the broad eastern slope of the Hill of the West Parish, then at the house of Samuel Root, Hunter mustered his recruits, of whom are preserved the names of ... Joel Butler...These, with perhaps many more, he marched away on snow shoes to Skenesborough, now Whitehall, whence descending the lake on ice they reached the army destined to Quebec, and finally encamped on the Plains of Abraham." Warner's regiment, under LT. Hunter.

Ordained a Baptist minister at Woodstock, VT, 5 Jan 1785

Joel Butler came to Southern Indiana, a missionary to the Western Country, being a Baptist minister. He opened the first school in Vernon in 1817 in a cabin on the commons and was a teacher.

Sources

• DAR Ancestor #A017641 [1]

• Cemetery Marker: [2]

• FindAGrave

• Vermont Militia Rolls by Goodrich page 28.

• Jeffersonville land entry November 27, 1817, Land Record Jennings County Book A--451

• History of Jennings County, Indiana,977.217 H2L p 2

• History of Windsor Vermont 974.365, D3b p294 Military record of Revolutionary War.

• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line].
  Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.