Francis Moore(b. CAL 1586, d. 20 Aug 1671)

Given Name: Francis

Death: 20 Aug 1671 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: Katherine

Death: 28 Dec 1648 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: Hannah

Death: 14 Aug 1689 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: Mary Ann

Death: 25 Jan 1703 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Note: Benjamin Butterfield, from whom the American family chiefly derived issue was at Charleston, in the Bay Colony, in 1638. His name appears among the first town orders of Woburn and in 1643, he was made a Freedman. In 1645, we find his name on the Woburn tax list. In 1652, the inhabitants of Woburn petitioned for leave to explore the west side of the Concord River. The report was "a very comfortable place to accommodate a company of God's people". In 1653, Benjamin Butterfield headed a petition of twenty-nine, including the petitioners of the preceding year, for a tract of land six miles square to bebin at the Merrimack River, at a neck of land next to Concord River, "....to run southerly on Concord River and westerly into the wild country." The spot was know to the natives as Naamkeek. The Indian apostle, Rev. John Eliot, about the same time received a grant of "the Great Neck," lying between Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack and the Massic Falls on the Concord, as a reserve for the Christianized Indians. This tract was known as Wamesit. The six mile tract was occupied in 1654 by Butterfield and his associates and in 1655 was Butterfield's high way and was marked by a ditch. On this highway, Benjamin Butterfield pitched his farm and built his house, somewhere within the limits of what is now ward Lowell. In 1656, he is named as one of the citizens of Chelmsford to whom the Gov. Dudley farm of 1500 acres in Billerica was conveyed. In 1666 Newfields, a tract of 241 acres of intervale across Stony Brook and extending up the Merrimack, was granted to Chelmsford. Of this perhaps the best land in the growing town. Benjamin Butterfield obtained 42 acres, the largest share of any one person. In 1686 the Indian reservation, Wamesit, was purchased by the whites. Three of Butterfield's sons, Nathaniel, Samuel, and Joseph, were among the grantees. This territory, which had been occupied by Wanalancit and his tribe as a cornfield and fishing station, is now occupied by the manufactories of Lowell. The purchase included also 500 acres upon the north and east side of the Merrimack of "Wilderness" land, a general term for the unsettled country outside incorportated limits. Nathaniel and Samuel Butterfield settled on the Wamesit lands and Joseph in the wilderness between Tying's Pond and the river.

Given Name: Benjamin

Death: 2 Mar 1686/1687 Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Burial: Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: Ann

Death: 19 May 1661 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: John

Death: 22 Sep 1674 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: Margaret

Death: 10 Aug 1640 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: Grace

Death: May 1641 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: Dorothy

Death: 29 Oct 1694 Denham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: Dorcas

Death: 1 May 1650 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: William

Death: 10 Jul 1689 Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: Grace

Death: 27 Apr 1694 Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: James

Death: 15 Dec 1732 Billerica, , Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: Ephraim

Death: 25 Sep 1724 Billerica, , Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: Stephen

Death: 1748 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: Enoch

Death: 1752 Billerica, , Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: Samuel

Death: 4 Jul 1724 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Given Name: John

Death: 12 Aug 1680 Teddingworth, Leicester, England

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Given Name: Elizabeth

Death: 31 Mar 1668 Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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