JOEL BUTLER-Pvt.
Born March 20, 1752 in Mass.
Died September 13, 1822 at 70 years of age in the old town of Geneva in Geneva Township, buried in Old Geneva Cemetery.
Service:
Joseph Marsh's Regiment, Vermont Militia, Captain Stafford's company; Wait's Battalion, Vermont Mititia from Vermont Militia Rolls by Goodrich page 28.
Jeffersonville land entry November 27, 1817
Land Record Jennings County Book A--451
Joel Butler came early to this part of Southern Indiana, a missionary to the Western Country, being a Baptist minister. Date of immigration not known. He was a soldier of the revolution, and lived at one time at Woodstock, VT.
HISTORY OF JENNINGS CO.,INDIANA 977.217 H2L
p 2;
Joel Butler, a Minister from New England, was a teacher in the first school in Vernon, in a cabin on the commons. He was a frequent pulpit supply.
p 33;
Joel Butler opened a school in Vernon in 1817.p 63 The Reverend Joel Butler, an aged Baptist minister from New York State, taught the first school. Mr. Butler's son, Chauncey Butler and family had come to this new territory in 1816 and his father had come to visit him. While visiting is son, he occupied his time by teaching the pioneer children. Ovid Butler, the founder of Butler College, was a son of Chauncey Butler.
MILITARY:HISTORY OF WINDSOR, VERMONT 974.365, D3b p294 Military record of Revolutionary War.
"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.
Married; Mabel Thompson-September 24, 1771 she was born June 18, 1749, Farmington, Mass. died January 31, 1834, Jennings County, Indiana
Born March 20, 1752 in Mass.
Died September 13, 1822 at 70 years of age in the old town of Geneva in Geneva Township, buried in Old Geneva Cemetery.
Service:
Joseph Marsh's Regiment, Vermont Militia, Captain Stafford's company; Wait's Battalion, Vermont Mititia from Vermont Militia Rolls by Goodrich page 28.
Jeffersonville land entry November 27, 1817
Land Record Jennings County Book A--451
Joel Butler came early to this part of Southern Indiana, a missionary to the Western Country, being a Baptist minister. Date of immigration not known. He was a soldier of the revolution, and lived at one time at Woodstock, VT.
HISTORY OF JENNINGS CO.,INDIANA 977.217 H2L
p 2;
Joel Butler, a Minister from New England, was a teacher in the first school in Vernon, in a cabin on the commons. He was a frequent pulpit supply.
p 33;
Joel Butler opened a school in Vernon in 1817.p 63 The Reverend Joel Butler, an aged Baptist minister from New York State, taught the first school. Mr. Butler's son, Chauncey Butler and family had come to this new territory in 1816 and his father had come to visit him. While visiting is son, he occupied his time by teaching the pioneer children. Ovid Butler, the founder of Butler College, was a son of Chauncey Butler.
MILITARY:HISTORY OF WINDSOR, VERMONT 974.365, D3b p294 Military record of Revolutionary War.
"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.
Married; Mabel Thompson-September 24, 1771 she was born June 18, 1749, Farmington, Mass. died January 31, 1834, Jennings County, Indiana
JOEL BUTLER-Pvt.
Born March 20, 1752 in Mass.
Died September 13, 1822 at 70 years of age in the old town of Geneva in Geneva Township, buried in Old Geneva Cemetery.
Service:
Joseph Marsh's Regiment, Vermont Militia, Captain Stafford's company; Wait's Battalion, Vermont Mititia from Vermont Militia Rolls by Goodrich page 28.
Jeffersonville land entry November 27, 1817
Land Record Jennings County Book A--451
Joel Butler came early to this part of Southern Indiana, a missionary to the Western Country, being a Baptist minister. Date of immigration not known. He was a soldier of the revolution, and lived at one time at Woodstock, VT.
HISTORY OF JENNINGS CO.,INDIANA 977.217 H2L
p 2;
Joel Butler, a Minister from New England, was a teacher in the first school in Vernon, in a cabin on the commons. He was a frequent pulpit supply.
p 33;
Joel Butler opened a school in Vernon in 1817.p 63 The Reverend Joel Butler, an aged Baptist minister from New York State, taught the first school. Mr. Butler's son, Chauncey Butler and family had come to this new territory in 1816 and his father had come to visit him. While visiting is son, he occupied his time by teaching the pioneer children. Ovid Butler, the founder of Butler College, was a son of Chauncey Butler.
MILITARY:HISTORY OF WINDSOR, VERMONT 974.365, D3b p294 Military record of Revolutionary War.
"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.
Married; Mabel Thompson-September 24, 1771 she was born June 18, 1749, Farmington, Mass. died January 31, 1834, Jennings County, Indiana
Born March 20, 1752 in Mass.
Died September 13, 1822 at 70 years of age in the old town of Geneva in Geneva Township, buried in Old Geneva Cemetery.
Service:
Joseph Marsh's Regiment, Vermont Militia, Captain Stafford's company; Wait's Battalion, Vermont Mititia from Vermont Militia Rolls by Goodrich page 28.
Jeffersonville land entry November 27, 1817
Land Record Jennings County Book A--451
Joel Butler came early to this part of Southern Indiana, a missionary to the Western Country, being a Baptist minister. Date of immigration not known. He was a soldier of the revolution, and lived at one time at Woodstock, VT.
HISTORY OF JENNINGS CO.,INDIANA 977.217 H2L
p 2;
Joel Butler, a Minister from New England, was a teacher in the first school in Vernon, in a cabin on the commons. He was a frequent pulpit supply.
p 33;
Joel Butler opened a school in Vernon in 1817.p 63 The Reverend Joel Butler, an aged Baptist minister from New York State, taught the first school. Mr. Butler's son, Chauncey Butler and family had come to this new territory in 1816 and his father had come to visit him. While visiting is son, he occupied his time by teaching the pioneer children. Ovid Butler, the founder of Butler College, was a son of Chauncey Butler.
MILITARY:HISTORY OF WINDSOR, VERMONT 974.365, D3b p294 Military record of Revolutionary War.
"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.
Married; Mabel Thompson-September 24, 1771 she was born June 18, 1749, Farmington, Mass. died January 31, 1834, Jennings County, Indiana
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Joel Butler born Mar. 31, 1752 Died Sept. 13, 1822 Mabel THompson Widow of Joel Butler Born June 18, 1749; died Jan 31, 1834
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