Elizabeth (Adams) Butler (1758 - 1798)

Born 19 Jan 1758 in Worcester, Worcester, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Smith Butler — married Nov 1785 (to 3 Jun 1798) in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 3 Jun 1798 at age 40 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth Adams was born at Worcester, Massachusetts on January 19, 1758, daughter of Nathaniel and Martha (Emerson) Adams. ^[1]

Her father Nathaniel Adams of Worcester, wrote his will on April 7, 1775. In it he left bequests to his children including daughter Elizabeth. ^[2]

She married Smith Butler in Nov 1785 and their son Martin was born at Somers, Connecticut in February, 1786. ^[1]

They returned to Worcester, Massachusetts where several more children were born between 1790 and 1799.

Her mother, widow Martha Adams wrote her will on March 3, 1797. She left her estate to be equally divided between:

• daughter Elizabeth, wife of Smith Butler
• granddaughter Hannah Gates, daughter of my daughter Lucy Adams deceased ^[3]

Elizabeth died at Worcester in 1798. Smith Butler remarried ^[1], and is thought to be buried in Hope Cemetery, Worcester.

Research notes

Worcester BIrths

Adams, Elizabeth, d. Nathaniel and Martha, Jan. 19, 1758. (p, 9)

Butler, Martin, s. Smith and Elizabeth, Feb. 12, 1786. (In Summers, CT.) (p. 42)

Butler, Elizabeth, d. Smith and Elizabeth, Jan. 24, 1788. (In Summers, CT.) (p. 41)

Butler, Sally, d. Smith and Elizabeth, July 25, 1790. (p. 42)

Butler, John, s. Smith and Elizabeth, Mar. 17, 1792. (p. 42)

Butler, Suel, s. Smith and Elizabeth, Nov. 18, 1794. (p. 42)

Butler, Lucy, d. Smith and Elizabeth, June 12, 1799. (p. 42)

Worcester Marriages

Butler, Smith and Tabitha Wright, June 9, 1799. (p. 311) ^[1]

Harvard Births

Butler, Smith, s. John and Abigail, Aug. 24, 1757. ^[4]

Elizabeth (Adams) Butler was born on 19 Jan 1758 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.^[5]

Elizabeth married Smith Butler (1757 - 1825).

Elizabeth died on 3 Jun 1798 in Worcester aged 40. She is buried in Hope Cemetery, Worcester.^[6]

^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Collections of the Worcester Historical Society, Volume 12 Worcester, Massachusetts, 1894
2. ↑ Case 402: p. 1-30: Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
3. ↑ Case 364: p. 1-5: Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
4. ↑ Baldwin, Thomas, compiler. Vital Records of Harvard, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1917, p. 22
5. ↑ Birth: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
   Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook)
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #4478175 (accessed 23 September 2022)
   Elizabeth Adams born on 19 Jan 1758, child of Nathaniel Adams & Abigail, in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
6. ↑ Burial: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131595410/elizabeth-butler: accessed 23 September 2022), memorial page for Elizabeth Adams Butler (19 Jan 1758-3 Jun 1799), Find A Grave: Memorial #131595410, citing Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States; Maintained by Cat (contributor 46600972) .
7. ↑ Burial: "Worcester, Massachusetts, Burial Index, 1727-1859"
   Worcester Society of Antiquity. Inscriptions from the Old Burial Grounds in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1727 to 1859: With Biographical and Historical Notes. Worcester, MA, USA: Worcester Society of Antiquity, 1878
   Ancestry Record 4821 #1202 (accessed 23 September 2022)
   Elizabeth Butler burial (died on 3 Jun 1798) in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.