Ahnentafel #160 - (--?--) Butler, ver. 2

(--?--) Butler

Looking for this guy in South Carolina and Virginia.

Marriages:
A John Butler md. Mary Thacker before the American Revolution.  She was ca. 98 in 1837 and made a deposition that she married John Butler in Hanover County many years before the war.  He died in Hanover County.

A good possibility is: 

1. Enoch Butler b. 1765 VA, d. 1837, Hart Co., KY

1a. John Butler b. 1796 SC d. 1854 md. 1) Mary A. Clagett, md. 2) (--?--)

1a1. Henry C. Butler

1a2. Minor E. Butler

1a3. Charles W. Butler b. 5/1/1831 Hart Co., KY, moved to Grayson Co 1851, moved to Breckinridge Co. 1856 & Ohio Co. 1866.  Md. Anne E. Stone 2/13/1855.  

1a4. Joseph A. Butler 

1a5. John W. Butler 

1a6. Cynthia J. (Butler) Day

1a3a. Thomas E. Butler b. 2/13/1866

1a3b. Mary A. Butler b. 6/19/1868

This account only mentions one son of Enoch, but he has a grandson Minor.  It is possible that James is son of Enoch.

Westerfield, Thomas. Kentucky Genealogy & Biography Vol. III, Owensboro, KY: Genealogical Reference Company, 1971.

Possibilities in King William County, Virginia from Malcolm Harris' Old New Kent County: Some Account of the Planters, Plantations & Places in King William County, St. David's Parish, West Point, VA: Harris, 1977:

The Butler Family - Thomas Butler and Alice his wife of King William County were the parents of Samuel Butler, Sr. of King William County.

Samuel Butler, Sr. had four sons, Samuel B. Butler, Jr. who made his will on 4 August 1756 in which he named his wife Mary, and his three brothers Thomas, Isaac, and Reuben Butler who were living in King William County.  

These three brothers were of age in 1772 when they sold a tract of land in Chesterfield County. 

The Butler family had been granted land, 470 acres, which lay next to Mr. Croshaw's in the narrows on the south side of the York River, behind John Meridith's land. This was in the name of John Butler and dated July 20, 1727.

In the Tithe Lists for 1704, Thomas Butler was charged with 150 acres of land.

In 1782, Isaac Butler was charged with 490 acres of land in King William County; Joseph Butler, with 210 acres in King William County; Phoebe Butler with 226 acres of land in King William; Reuben Butler with 575 1/2 acres, and Thomas Butler with 600 acres in King William County.

Col. Reuben Butler was born January 27, 1750 in King William County.  He enlisted in the Continental Army and served from February 25, 1777 to October 1, 1778 as a Lieutenant of Infantry in Col. William Grayson's Continental Regiment. He was at the siege of Yorktown and served as a Captain. He remained in service until the surrender of Cornwallis in October 1781.

In 1787 Reuben Butler conveyed to Robert Pollard his tract of land which contained 475 1/2 acres and which was the Edge Hill plantation. 

On January 27, 1780 Capt. Reuben Butler married Anne Lisle Smelt, daughter of Rev. Mr. John Smelt of Caroline County. She was born February 24, 1758 in Essex County, and died in 1843. The Butlers lived in King William until they moved to North Carolina.

Family record in pension papers:

• John S. Butler b. -- d. childless
• Samuel Waring Butler b. Nov. 6, 1780
• Martha Butler b. March 6, 1782, d. Nov. 6, 1782
• Ann Smith (Satterwight) b. Oct. 17, 1783
• Thomas Perion Blunt Butler, b. Nov. 1, 1792
• Henry Todd Butler b. Nov. 9, 1794, d. May 29, 1870
• Catherine Butler b. April 24, 1796
• William S. Butler b. March 26, 1798
• Lucy Robinson Butler b. Oct. 12, 1793, d. July 19, 1865

[Reuben is not our grandfather, but he may be our uncle]

Two of the daughters of Capt. Reuben Butler married in Virginia:  Catherine Butler married on Dec. 4, 1823, Warner Lewis of Essex County and Lucy Robinson Butler married, on May 16, 1821, William Overton Harris of Cedar Hill, Hanover County. These marriages have preserved the Butler family relationships through marriages of Caroline H. Harris of Cedar Hill and Camm Garrett of King William County, who were the parents of Camms S. Garrett, and grandparents of the late Ben C. Garrett who served the County of King William in the clerk's office for many years.

Two of the brothers of these ladies, Henry Todd Butler and William S. Butler moved from North Carolina to Tennessee. 

Records:
1787 - June 21 - Kentucky - Tax list - a William Butler with 11 males 

1788 - Nov. 15 - Kentucky - Tax list - a William Butler with 11 males 

1789 - Hanover Co., VA - A State of the Land Tax in the County of Hanover in Saint Paul's Parish taken by John Priddy, Commissioner for the sd. District & agreeable to Act of Assembly passed in 1786 as far as the said Priddy can discover for the year 1789.

• John Butler, owned 30 acres, price / acre --, total value £11.0.0, amount of tax at 1 1/2 p cent £0.3.4
• Elizabeth Butler owned 10 acres, price/acre 2/9, total value £1.0.7, amount of tax at 1 1/2 p cent £0.0.5

1789 - July 1 - Kentucky - Tax list - James Butler, 1 male

1790 - Hanover Co., VA - The State of the Land Tax in the County of Hanover in Saint Paul's Parish taken by John Priddy, Commissioner for the sd. District & agreeable to the Act of Assembly passed in 1786 as far as the said Priddy can discover for the year 1790.

• John Butler 30 acres, price per acre --, total value £11.0.0, amount of tax at 1 1/2 p cernt £0.3.4

1790 - South Carolina

• James Butler family in Fairfield, 3 males under 16, 3 males 16+ and 3 females
• James Butler family in Orangeburg 1 male -16 and 1 female could be James the son below if his father was deceased
• James Butler family in Edgefield 3 males under 16, 2 males 16+, 4 females, 2 slaves
• James Butler family, St. James Santee, Charlestown, 3 males under 16, 1 male 16+, 15 slaves
• Millinson (?) Butler family, Ninety-Six District, Greenville, Co. 2 males under 16, 2 females
• Absalom Butler family, Ninety-Six District, Greenville Co.,  1 male over 16, 1 male under 16, 2 females

1792 - Hanover Co., VA - The State of the Land Tax in the County of Hanover in Saint Paul's Parish in the District No. 1 taken by John Priddy, Commissioner for the said District agreeable to Act of Assembly passed in the year 1786 as far as the said Priddy can discover for the year 1792.  As in previous Returns of John Priddy, the material is very faded, but this 1792 Return shows enough names or figures to reconstruct most of the Return). 

• John Butler 30 acres, total value £11.0.0, amount of tax at 1 1/2 p cent £0.3.4
• Thomas Butler bought of John Clarke 351 acres, total value £160.17.1, tax at 1 1/2 p cent £2.8.5
• Thomas Butler bought of Elisha White 1 acre, total value £0.9.2, tax at 1 1/2 p cent £0.0.2

1793 - Kentucky - Tax list a Joseph Butler with 1 male

1810 - Kentucky

• Joel Butler family in Hardin, 1 male 26-45, 1 male 45+, 3 females under 10  
• Betsy Butler family in Hardin, 3 males 16-26, 1 female 10-16, 1 female 16-26 and 1 female 45+

1814 - Sept. 14 - Kentucky - Hardin Co. - Henry Butler md. Elizabeth Meek - could be James' brother. 

1818 - Jan. 21 - Kentucky - Hardin Co. - William Butler md. Margaret Camahorn, daughter of Nathaniel Camahorn - could be James' brother. 

Children:

James
Henry b. ca. 1794 md. Elizabeth Meek 1814 - is this James' brother?

John Butler b. 1796 SC d. 1854 md. 1) Mary A. Clagett, md. 2) (--?--) - is this James' brother

• Henry C. Butler
• Charles W. Butler b. 5/1/1831 Hart Co., KY, moved to Grayson Co 1851, moved to Breckinridge Co. 1856 & Ohio Co. 1866.  Md. Anne E. Stone 2/13/1855.  
• Minor E. Butler
• Joseph A. Butler 
• John W. Butler 
• Cynthia J. (Butler) Day

William b. ca. 1798 md. Margaret Camahorn 1818 - is this James' brother? 

Bailey Clifton - possible brother, but less likely based on place of birth, too late to be so fart north b. 1779 King George Co., VA, d. 1842 Butler's Landing, Clay Co., TN

Revised 1/29/2024