Individual Details

Property

Swanton Vermont deed index – 1:25, 1:26, 1:37 andmany more for Thomas Butterfield – don’t see any yet for Jonathan or Samuelhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLR-N97M-V?i=14&cat=90531deed bookshttps://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/90531?availability=Family%20History%20Library  Land records index – 1:25 (hauled off in 1795 for owningmoney), 1:26, 1:37, 1:127. 1:138, 2:31 (Clark Butterfield marriage), 2:132,3:274, 3:50, 4:11 – and a bunch more – 4:11 – there are some for Augustus,Clark H. – 4:294 – there is one for a Jonathan Butterfield 4:176 (he is brotherof Thomas)https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLR-N97M-V?i=14&cat=90531 9:228 is Esther Butterfield and 9:273, 10:103,11:47 – not sure who she is – deeds are through 1832 – maybe this is Thomas’swidow and she does not die in 1809?  Orsome completely different Esther Butterfield deed bookshttps://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/90531?availability=Family%20History%20Library

Military

Thomas Butterfield received his commission asLieutenant in the Vermont militia on 25 April 1778, serving then in the companyof Capt. Ebenezer Wallace. Thomas Butterfield served from Arlington, Vermont asLieutenant in the Vermont militia company of Capt. Teham Noble, Col. Warren’sregiment for defense of the Northern Frontier from 18 April to 18 June 1779. Heresponded with the company of Capt. Jacob Hines to an alarm in December 1781. ThomasButterfield held the rank of Captain in March 1783 when he was employed to rideto Canada to retrieve a prisoner.[1][1] Goodrich,The State of Vermont: Rolls of the Soldiers, p 786, p 127, p 549, p 768ThomasDAR says Esther Hawley, he is a lieutenant -- Ancestor #: A017790https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/default.cfm

Biography

Brothers Thomas and Jonathan Butterfield in theHistory of Swantonhttps://archive.org/details/historyoftownofs00perr/mode/2up?q=butterfield  Butterfield in Orange County Vermont – seems notmuch there for this generation  -- doeshave a grandson Wellbeehttps://archive.org/details/gazetteeroforang00chil/mode/2up?q=butterfieldnot much about the children in the history books –he was the town clerk, selectman, justice of the peace, etc.https://archive.org/details/cu31924028837544/page/18/mode/2up?q=butterfield https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofs00perr/page/n137/mode/2up?q=butterfield some herehttps://archive.org/details/cu31924028837544/page/788/mode/2up?q=butterfield some town records – nothing much therehttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L99D-YS6B?i=15&cc=1987653&cat=1193018https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1193018?availability=Family%20History%20LibraryFranklin County Vermont probate – no probate foundhttps://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index?owc=M6FT-PTG%3A213957901%2C213957902%3Fcc%3D1921463