Family:Whitney, Lucy (1779-1848)
Lucy5 Whitney (Uriah4, Nathan3, John2, Henry1), daughter of Uriah4 and Martha (Hart) Whitney, was born 1 May 1779, Simsbury, CT,[1] and died 5 or 7 Nov 1848, Lee, MA, aged 69 years 6 months, of consumption. She was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Lee, MA.[2]
Marriage intentions were published 19 Aug 1798, Granville, MA,[3] for her and Jonathan Buttles, "of Granby". She married, 28 Nov 1798, Jonathan Buttles, son of Jonathan and Lois (Viets) Buttles. He was born 9 Jun 1778, Turkey Hill, Simsbury, now Granby, CT, and "Capt." died 13 Sep 1851, Lee, MA. He was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Lee, MA.[4]
He was, at various times, shoemaker, schoolmaster, millwright, and turner; and was captain of a company of militia, minute-men, in the war of 1812. After dwelling in Granville, MA, for three or four years, they moved to Berkshire Co., MA, living principally in Loudon, now Otis, and in Becket, and, later in life, at the house of their daughter, Lois Hauver, in North Lee. By descent an Episcopalian, he became a member of the Wesleyan Church; of which also she was a worthy member.
Children of Jonathan and Lucy5 (Whitney) Buttles:
i. Jonathan Buttles, b. 15 Aug 1799, Granville, MA; d. 20 Aug 1799, Granville, MA, aged 5 days; bur. Granville, MA. ii. Lucy Buttles, b. 28 Feb 1803, Loudon, now Otis, MA; d. 23 Sep 1837, Seneca Falls, NY; bur. Seneca Falls, NY; m. 11 Jul 1820, Marvin Stephen Baird, of Becket, MA, b. 1779, d/ 25 Feb 1872, Lamont, MI, son of Asa and Abigail (Kimball) Baird, of Otis, MA. He was a butcher and packer. They moved to Clarksviile, in Aurelius, a suburb of Auburn, NY, about 1827, and thence, about 1835, to Seneca Falls, NY. iii. Jonathan Buttles, b. 16 Jun 1806, Loudon, now Otis, MA; m. 5 Sep 1827, Otis, MA, Betsey Caroline Webb, b. 22 Apr 1809, Otis, MA, dau. of Asa and Betsey (Downs) Webb, of Otis; a wood-turner. In Sept 1836 they moved to Pennsylvania, and were living at New Era, in Terry, in 1874. iv. William Riley Buttles, b. 22 Jan 1811, Otis, MA; d. 26 Feb 1877, Newark Valley, NY, of a disease of the heart; bur. Hope Cemetery, Newark Valley, NY; m. 27 Sep 1832, Tyringham, MA, Cynthia Ward, b. 24 Jul 1812, Tyringham, MA, dau. of Elisha and Anna (Wright) Ward; a wood-turner, and manufacturer of grain-cradles. They have lived in Mount Holley, VT; Winchendon, MA; Nichols, NY; and, in 1866, moved to Newark Valley, NY. v. Lucy Buttles, b. 17 Oct 1812, Otis, MA; d. 22 Oct 1812, Otis, MA, aged 5 days; near the Kibbe Pond, bur. East Otis, MA, near the Kibbe Pond. This child was not named till her death, when her father recorded her birth and death as Lucy, though he then had a living child of that name, nearly ten years old. vi. Morden Uriah Buttles, b. 24 Feb 1816, Otis, MA; m.(1) 31 Dec 1837, Lee, MA, Sarah Jane Bassett, b. 21 Feb 1816, Litchfield Co., CT, d. 3 Mar 1851, Nichols, NY, bur. Smithboro, NY, dau. of Joseph Bassett; a farmer; m.(2) 23 Sep 1851, Nichols, NY, Amy Reed, b. 3 Feb 1819, Nichols, NY, dau. of Thomas and Phebe (White) Reed. He lived in Spencer, NY, in 1874. vii. Lois Buttles, b. 2 Jun 1820, Becket, MA; d. aft. 1874; m. 17 Jun 1838, Lee, MA, Samuel Hauver, of Copake, b. 17 Jun 1813, Hudson, NY, son of Jacob Henry and Margaret (Stever) Hauver. After living in Copake for one year, they removed, 1 May 1839, to North Lee, MA, and bought two acres of land about half a mile from the village, on Bradley Street, where they lived till 1852. In September of that year, he sold his place, which contained a quarry of marble, to a company engaged in building the Capitol extension at Washington, and moved to Nichols, NY; and thence, in the Autumn of 1856, to Owego, NY, settling on the south side of the Susquehanna, where they were still living in 1874.
References
- Stephen Whitney Phoenix, The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations; being an attempt to trace the descendants, as well in the female as the male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; to which is prefixed some account of the Whitneys of England. (New York : Priv. Print. [Bradford Press] 1878), p. 114. and , p. 332-333.
1.^ FindAGrave Memorial #105160937, Lucy Whitney Buttles.
2.^ "Lucy [Whitney] and Jona[than] Buttolph Jr. of Granby, int. Aug. 19, 1798," according to Vital Records of Granville, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1914}.
3.^ FindAGrave Memorial #154558041, Cpt. Jonathan Buttles.
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