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Matthias Button

BIRTH
11 Oct 1607
Harrold, Bedford Borough, Bedfordshire, England

DEATH
13 Aug 1672 (aged 64)
Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

BURIAL
Pentucket Cemetery
Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
MEMORIAL ID
103861582 ·

Matthias Button was a son of Thomas Button of Harrold, Bedfordshire. He was baptized on 11 Oct 1607 Harrold, Bedfordshire, England. He had a brother William (bap 23 Nov 1600) and a sister Ann (bap. Dec 1604). His father was buried at the Parish Church of St. Peters at Harrold 26 June 1617. The mother may have been Mary (Price) Button. I have no further information on the mother at this time.

Name:Matthias Button
Gender:Male
Baptism Date:11 Oct 1607
Baptism Place:Harrold,Bedford,England
Father:Thomas Button
FHL Film Number:845460

Source Information
Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013

R. Glen Nye, "Button Families of America", (Private Publisher, Utah 1971), page 40. 1

--MATTHIAS BUTTON, probably born ca. 1607; bapt. Oct. 11, 1607 at Harrold, Bedfordshire, England. He came to America on the ship Abigail, with Governor John Endicott's party, landing at Salem, Mass. Sept. 6, 1628. He removed to Boston in 1633 where he was among the earliest settlers. He was admitted to the First Church with his wife Jan. 26, 1633. He removed to Ipswich prior to 1639, later, in 1646 to Haverhill, Mass., where he resided until his death. Matthias married four times; (1st) Lettyce; she died before 1639. He married (2nd) about 1639, Joane, widow of John Thornton. He married (3rd) ca. 1648/9 Ann Teagle or Tagall; she died Feb. 4, 1662/3. He married (4th) June 9, 1663 Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Duston and daughter of John and Ann (or Agnes) (Yeoman) Wheeler. She was buried July 16, 1690 at Haverhill. He was the son of Thomas Button of Harrold, England, who was buried at Harrold June 26, 1617 as recorded in the Register of the parish Church at Harrold. Matthias is said in many records to have been a Dutchman. It is not known from whence he came to America other than by the records mentioned above. It is therefore sometimes theorized that he might have emigrated to Holland with his parents when quite young, during the exodus of other Pilgrims between the years 1609 and 20. In Davis' Ancient Landmark of Plymouth, the Pilgrims emigrated from England to Amsterdam, Holland, in the winter of 1608-9; to Leyden in the spring of 1609, where they resided for nearly twelve years. Precisely how many and who at that time composed the Pilgrim Church, besides William Bradford and the families of Brewster and Robinson is not known; though it is probably true that members of the Wright, Southworth, Morton and Button families were among the number. It is known there were other Buttons early in Boston and there was a William Button on the Mayflower who died on the passage in 1620, which may show there were Buttons among the Pilgrims. There are other circumstances which support the theory that Matthias Button may have emigrated from Holland, besides the fact that he is spoken of as a Dutchman by early chronicles. First: the register books of the Parish Church of Harrold, Eng. shows that Thomas Button, supposed father of Matthias was buried there June 26, 1617 but gives no account his death, from which it might be inferred that his remains were brought from elsewhere, possibly abroad, to be buried beside a wife or child, it having been shown that he resided there in 1607 when Matthias was born. Second, among the effects of Daniel, son of Matthias and Ann Teagle Button (who was impressed into Captain Lathrop's Company in 1675 and killed in the Battle of Bloody Brook) was a Holland shirt, so called in the inventory of personal effects taken of his personal estate, indicating the family may have brought the same from Holland, or that his mother may have been of Holland (Dutch) parentage, as her name Ann Teagle might indicate, as does the name Lettyce, the first wife of Matthias. Matthias, as before said, came with Governor John Endicott's party. This company included adventurers, sons of noblemen and those of impoverished estates. They were in an exhausted condition when they landed from a long and hazardous voyage with exhausted stores of provisions. Many were sick and weak of limb. They brought with them cannon and small arms for their protection from savages. While some of them were acting as scouts in the wilderness, they overheard or observed some savages planning for the entire destruction of the colonists. They, accordingly prepared to meet them and with great effort got out and planted their cannon so as to command their projected approach. When the main body of the savages was located, they fired the cannon and frightened the Indians so they scattered like sheep. Matthias Button is spoken of in this incident of the first landing as one of the few colonists who were able to get and man the big gun, so nearly exhausted were they from sickness and from want of food. He was spoken of as a hale and hearty man. Nothing is known whether Matthias was married before or after his arrival at Salem. He did not reside there long, removing thence to Boston sometime prior to 1633 where he is found among the earliest settlers and identified with the 1st Church where two of his children were baptized. He removed thence to Ipswich, where he was a commoner in 1641, then to Haverhill in 1646 where he finally settled and where several of his children were born. He sold land at Ipswich to Thomas Wells June 14, 1644, subscribed to Major Dennison's allowance Dec. 29, 1648, this probably after he removed to Haverhill. In 1650 his estate at Haverhill was valued at 60; he had a house granted him and received six acres of plow land laid out June 2, 1652. His name appears in a list of twenty who built houses on the common of Haverhill. He first lived in the village of Haverhill, then in the western part of the town, then in the eastern, and finally where his house was burned in 1671, a thatched house situated about one mile northeast of the village. Matthias Button accumulated considerable landed estate during his lifetime but at no time was considered wealthy, as land was very cheap. He died intestate and the inventory of his estate Mar. 9, 1673 was only 99:11s:1d exclusive of the 80 acres of land given to his wife, Elizabeth. Children: 1 Mary, baptized Feb. 23, 1633/4 at Boston, Mass. She married Dec. 6, 1652 at Haverhill, Edward Yeoman. Records of Haverhill show births of six children 1653 to 1664. A daughter died April 1667. This family is believed to have moved to Plainfield, Conn. Their last two children were born in Stonington, Conn. Children: i Mary Yeomans, born Jan. 4, 1653. ii Samuel Yeomans, born Sept. 1, 1655. iii Thomas Yeomans, born Dec. 6, 1657. iv Elizabeth Yeomans, born Jan. 19, 1659. v Mehitable Yeomans, born Oct. 11, 1661; died Apr., 1667. vi Edward Yeomans, born Feb. 6, 1663; died Apr, 1667. (?) vii Henry Yeomans, born Jan. 15, 1669 in Stonington. viii John Yeomans, born Apr. 18, 1670 in Stonington. 2 Daniel, bapt. Feb. 22, 1634/5; died young. *3 Sarah, born 1650/51. 4 Hannah, born May 11, 1652. 5 Daniel, born Apr. 10, 1654 at Haverhill. He was killed Sept. 18, 1675 at Bloody Brook. His estate was inventoried Sept. 25, 1677. His "brother" Kingsbury is mentioned. 6 Abigail, born June 16, 1656; died in Apr., 1667. *7 Matthias, born Mar. 17, 1657/8. *8 Peter, born July 17, 1660. 9 Patience, born June 1, 1662; died Oct. 30, 1662.

Family Members
Parents
Thomas Button
unknown–1617
Spouses
Elizabeth Wheeler Button
1617–1690 (m. 1663)

Teagle Button
1630–1663
Children
Sarah Button Kingsbury
1652–1690

Daniel Button
1654–1675

Matthias Button
1657–1725

Peter Button
1660–1726

• Born about 1610 [location unknown]
• Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
• [sibling%28s%29 unknown]
• Husband of Lettice — married 1633 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Husband of Joane — married before 16 Nov 1639 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts [uncertain]
• Husband of Teagle — married before 1650 in Massachusetts[uncertain]
• Husband of Elizabeth Wheeler — married 9 Jun 1663 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
• Father of Mary (Button) Yeomans, Daniel Button, Sarah (Button) Kingsbury, Hannah Button, Daniel Button, Abigail Button, Peter Button, Patience Button
• Died 13 Aug 1672 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Categories: Puritan Great Migration.

Matthias Button migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

Disputed origins:

In 1971, authors R. Glen Nye and Katherine (Watson) Nye reported that Matthias Button immigrated in 1628.[1] Further, that he was one and the same, the child baptized Harrold, Bedford, England on 11 October 1607, a son of [Thomas Button"Thomas Button."][2] This same information and association is found in one of the much earlier handwritten manuscripts by Alphonzo Button.[3]

In his 1995 profiling of the immigrant, Robert Charles Anderson found no record of Mathias Button at New England prior to 1633. Anderson wrote further of the parentage claimed by the Nyes, saying[4]

"Such a baptism does exist, but there is no other evidence in support of this claim. Furthermore, since our Matthias is called at one point a "Dutchman," he presumably derived from a Germanic-speaking region on the Continent and not from England."

Biography

His origins are unknown. No record of the birth or baptism of Matthias Button has been identified. As yet, no records found about the New England immigrant mention parents or siblings. Apparently the New England records discovered also do not memorialize the age of the early settler, for In 1995, Robert Charles Anderson estimated Matthias Button's birth as "by 1610 based on approximated date of first marriage."[5]

Matthias Button arrived in New England in 1633, initially settling in Boston, removing to Ipswich in 1636, and Haverhill in 1652. Notions that he arrived earlier and/or on the Abigail have not proven to be justified. "The Winthrop Society recognizes Matthias Button as a very early planter but does not list him as the passenger on any ship."[6]

He died in Haverhill 13 August 1672. Later his wife/widow Elizabeth refused to relinquish her dower rights.[7] He left no will, but an inventory was ordered in October 1672[8]; Captain Nathaniel Saltonstall was appointed administrator pro tempore in 1673.[9] The inventory proceeded in four installments -- 2 Dec 1672, 5 Apr 1673, 7 Oct 1673, 9 Mar 1673/4. Finally, 14 Nov 1676 it was ordered that the estate be divided equally among his five children, two of whom were identified as daughters, implying that at this administration, 3 sons lived.[10]

family

Matthias Button married four times.

1. Lettice _____, "by 1633"[11]; she died sometime after 1635 (birth of child) and before Mattias married again
2. Joan (_____) Thornton, by 16 November 1639; she was the widow of John Thornton of Ipswich[12]. She died before Matthias married again.
3. Teagle _____, by about 1650[13] She died Haverhill 4 February 1662[/3] when their home was burned down; John Godfrey was accused.[14]
4. Elizabeth (Wheeler) Duston, at Haverhill 9 June 1663.[15] She was born about 1622,[16] the daughter of John Wheeler and widow of Thomas Duston.[17] Elizabeth died Haverhill 16 July 1690.[18]

Children

With first wife, Lettice ____:

1. Mary, bp Boston 23 Feb 1633/4; m at Haverhill; m Edward Yeomans.
2. Daniel, bp Boston 22 Feb 1634/5; d bef 10 April 1654 (brother of same name then born)

With third wife, Teagle ___ :

1. Sarah, b "say 1650 [possibly daughter with second wife]"; James Kingsbury [prob s/o Henry & Susannah Kingsbury].
2. Hannah, b Haverhill 11 May 1652; before the court in 1671 for fornication.[24]
3. Daniel, b Haverhill 10 April 1654; slain at Muddy-Brook Bridge 18 Sep 1675. His 1677 estate was divided among his brothers and sisters.
4. Abigail, b Haverhill 16 June 1656; No further record; was probably deceased at the time Matthias' estate was divided.
5. Matthias, b Haverhill 17 March 1657/8; m Mary Neff.
6. Peter, b Haverhill 17 July 1660; m Mary Lanphear, daughter of George Lanphear. NOTE: Anderson initially believed that this Peter was deceased by the 1676 distribution of his father's estate (GMB, p 295). But a correction to GMB published on page 2088 points out that the division clearly implies 3 surviving sons, and the only other two known sons were Daniel and Matthias, leaving Peter as still living. The correction also points out that Peter Button was a witness to a land deed related to his sister in 1692, and that the Peter Button who married Mary Lanphear named one of his sons Mathias.
7. Patience, b Haverhill 1 June 1662; d Haverhill 30 October 1662.

Additional notes

He was a mariner.[19] No record has been discovered to indicate that Matthias Button became a church member. His first wife was admitted to the Boston church in 1633/34.[20]

Mention of Matthias Button is found in various court records, and he engaged in a number of land transactions.

"Ipswich Proceedings" 19 Dec 1648 a list of subscribers contributing to a fund payable annually to Maior (sic) Denison: Mathias Button 3 shillings.[21]

He accused John Godfrey of setting the 1672[/3] fire that burned Button's home, killing his wife. Related court hearings followed over many years. Anderson goes into great detail about Button's relations and problems with Godfrey, which also included Button's wife accusing Godfrey of witchcraft. After the fire, Button claimed he had losses there totalling £111 1s. and "the loss of his owne time and which is the most damage to his estate the death of his wife occassioned hereby, £20."[22] Anderson wrote,[23]

"His daughter Sarah refused to swear to the inventory, saying that her father had sold the butter he was claiming to the merchant for hats, and that the amount of linen in the house was much overstated. The bedding had been seen since the house was burned. Button angrily told Abraham Whitaker that if he swore against the inventory, he would strike him, and that if there were some things in the inventory which should not be there, there were some things left out which should have been in, so they might set one against the other."

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R. Glen Nye, "Button Families of America", (Private Publisher, Utah 1971), page 40. 1

--MATTHIAS BUTTON, probably born ca. 1607; bapt. Oct. 11, 1607 at Harrold, Bedfordshire, England. [SIac] He came to America on the ship Abigail, with Governor John Endicott's party, landing at Salem, Mass. Sept. 6, 1628. He removed to Boston in 1633 where he was among the earliest settlers. He was admitted to the First Church with his wife Jan. 26, 1633. He removed to Ipswich prior to 1639, later, in 1646 to Haverhill, Mass., where he resided until his death. Matthias married four times; (1st) Lettyce; she died before 1639. He married (2nd) about 1639, Joane, widow of John Thornton. He married (3rd) ca. 1648/9 Ann Teagle or Tagall; she died Feb. 4, 1662/3. He married (4th) June 9, 1663 Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Duston and daughter of John and Ann (or Agnes) (Yeoman) Wheeler. She was buried July 16, 1690 at Haverhill. He was the son of Thomas Button of Harrold, England, who was buried at Harrold June 26, 1617 as recorded in the Register of the parish Church at Harrold. Matthias is said in many records to have been a Dutchman. It is not known from whence he came to America other than by the records mentioned above. It is therefore sometimes theorized that he might have emigrated to Holland with his parents when quite young, during the exodus of other Pilgrims between the years 1609 and 20. In Davis' Ancient Landmark of Plymouth, the Pilgrims emigrated from England to Amsterdam, Holland, in the winter of 1608-9; to Leyden in the spring of 1609, where they resided for nearly twelve years. Precisely how many and who at that time composed the Pilgrim Church, besides William Bradford and the families of Brewster and Robinson is not known; though it is probably true that members of the Wright, Southworth, Morton and Button families were among the number. It is known there were other Buttons early in Boston and there was a William Button on the Mayflower who died on the passage in 1620, which may show there were Buttons among the Pilgrims. There are other circumstances which support the theory that Matthias Button may have emigrated from Holland, besides the fact that he is spoken of as a Dutchman by early chronicles. First: the register books of the Parish Church of Harrold, Eng. shows that Thomas Button, supposed father of Matthias was buried there June 26, 1617 but gives no account his death, from which it might be inferred that his remains were brought from elsewhere, possibly abroad, to be buried beside a wife or child, it having been shown that he resided there in 1607 when Matthias was born. Second, among the effects of Daniel, son of Matthias and Ann Teagle Button (who was impressed into Captain Lathrop's Company in 1675 and killed in the Battle of Bloody Brook) was a Holland shirt, so called in the inventory of personal effects taken of his personal estate, indicating the family may have brought the same from Holland, or that his mother may have been of Holland (Dutch) parentage, as her name Ann Teagle might indicate, as does the name Lettyce, the first wife of Matthias. Matthias, as before said, came with Governor John Endicott's party. This company included adventurers, sons of noblemen and those of impoverished estates. They were in an exhausted condition when they landed from a long and hazardous voyage with exhausted stores of provisions. Many were sick and weak of limb. They brought with them cannon and small arms for their protection from savages. While some of them were acting as scouts in the wilderness, they overheard or observed some savages planning for the entire destruction of the colonists. They, accordingly prepared to meet them and with great effort got out and planted their cannon so as to command their projected approach. When the main body of the savages was located, they fired the cannon and frightened the Indians so they scattered like sheep. Matthias Button is spoken of in this incident of the first landing as one of the few colonists who were able to get and man the big gun, so nearly exhausted were they from sickness and from want of food. He was spoken of as a hale and hearty man. Nothing is known whether Matthias was married before or after his arrival at Salem. He did not reside there long, removing thence to Boston sometime prior to 1633 where he is found among the earliest settlers and identified with the 1st Church where two of his children were baptized. He removed thence to Ipswich, where he was a commoner in 1641, then to Haverhill in 1646 where he finally settled and where several of his children were born. He sold land at Ipswich to Thomas Wells June 14, 1644, subscribed to Major Dennison's allowance Dec. 29, 1648, this probably after he removed to Haverhill. In 1650 his estate at Haverhill was valued at 60; he had a house granted him and received six acres of plow land laid out June 2, 1652. His name appears in a list of twenty who built houses on the common of Haverhill. He first lived in the village of Haverhill, then in the western part of the town, then in the eastern, and finally where his house was burned in 1671, a thatched house situated about one mile northeast of the village. Matthias Button accumulated considerable landed estate during his lifetime but at no time was considered wealthy, as land was very cheap. He died intestate and the inventory of his estate Mar. 9, 1673 was only 99:11s:1d exclusive of the 80 acres of land given to his wife, Elizabeth.

Sources

• ↑ Citing "Savage's Gen.Dict.," in R. Glen Nye [and Alphonso Button and Clayton A. Button], Button Families of America, Katherine (Watson) Nye, ed. (1971), 23; digital images, Family History Library Catalog (accessed 2014).
• ↑ Citing "Parish Records of Harrold" in R. Glen Nye [and Alphonso Button and Clayton A. Button], Button Families of America, Katherine (Watson) Nye, ed. (1971), 23; digital images, Family History Library Catalog (accessed 2014).
• ↑ Alphonzo Button (b. 1834), Matthias Button and His Descendants, n.d. [manuscript, 206 pp.], p. 127 of 233 in downloaded PDF; digital images [as "Alphonso Button genealogy volume 2, Family History Library Catalog (accessed 2014)].
• ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 292-298 [and corrections, 2088], especially p. 294 (for his birth) and 295 (for references to Nye and Nye, 1971 (in particular parts).
• ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 292-298, 2088 (“Addenda et Corrigenda”), especially p. 294 (for his birth, in particular part).
• ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 292-298
• ↑ Citing "EQC 5:153" in Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 293 (in particular part).
• ↑ Citing "EQC 5:104" in Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 293 (in particular part).
• ↑ Citing "EQC 5:153" in Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 293 (in particular part).
• ↑ Citing "EPR 3:101" in Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 293 (in particular part).
• ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 294 (in particular part).
• ↑ Citing "Essex Ant. 8:3" in Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 294 (in particular part).
• ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 293, 294 (in particular part); at p. 293, citing "NLR 1104-06," Anderson reports deed of 18 March 1658[/5?] cited grantors as "Matthis Button and Tegell his wife of Haverhill" in a sale to John Hazelton of Rowley."
• ↑ Citing "EQC 4373-5" in Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 293 (in particular part).
• ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 293 (in particular part).
• ↑ Citing "EQC 4:154-55" and writing "deposed age forty-seven on 29 June 1669" inRobert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 293 (in particular part).
• ↑ Citing "Pilsbury Anc 1107-09" in Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 293 (in particular part).
• ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 293 (in particular part).
• ↑ Anderson: "In a letter [undated but circa April 1636] ... Mary Dudley asks that her mother send her "a child's chair for I can get none made here and goodman Button's Boat shall call for it a fortnight hence" [WP 3:242].
• ↑ "Lettyse Button the wife of Mathew [sic] Button" admitted to Boston church 26 Jan 1633/4 [BChR 18]" Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 292-298, 2088 (“Addenda et Corrigenda”).
• ↑ NEHGS Register, Vol. 2 (Jan), 1848, pp. 50/1
• ↑ Citing "EQC 4:373-5" in Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 293 (in particular part).
• ↑ Citing "29 August 1670, for June Term, 1671, EQC 4375" in Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 293 (in particular part).
• ↑ Anderson reported she was probably among the children to receive a share of her father's estate. As Great Migration determined later that Matthas' son Peter likely survived. It follows, then, that Hannah probably did not.
• See also:
• Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 292-298, 2088 (“Addenda et Corrigenda”).
• R. Glen Nye [and Alphonso Button and Clayton A. Button], Button Families of America (1971), Katherine (Watson) Nye, ed.; digital images, Family History Library Catalog (accessed 2014).
• A Genealogical Sketch of the Earliest Descendants of Mattias Button Who First Settled at Salem, MA., NEHGS (1903)
• Alphonzo Button, Genealogical sketch of the Early Descendants of Matthias Button who came to America with Governor John Endicott, landing at Salem, Mass., September 6, 1629--Compiled from Authentic Sources (Second Edition and Prospectus, 1903); digital images, Internet Archive (accessed 2014}.
• Alphonzo Button (b. 1834), Matthias Button and His Descendants, n.d. [manuscript, 269 pp.]; digital images [as "Alphonso Button genealogy volume 1", Family History Library Catalog (accessed 2014)].
• Alphonzo Button (b. 1834), Matthias Button and His Descendants, n.d. [manuscript, 206 pp.]; digital images [as "Alphonso Button genealogy volume 2", Family History Library Catalog (accessed 2014)]. Includes cover letter and about 42 pages of penned remarks by Perley Derby, 1888; the bulk of the Derby material overviews local area sources concerning Matthias Button, with references.
• George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (1916-1920), 3:110, “Estate of Matthias Button of Haverhill,” citing “Salisbury Quarterly Court Records, vol 2, leaf 67” (by footnote, also to “ante, vol. 2, page 299”); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
• George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (1916-1920), 2:299-301, “Estate of Matthias Button of Haverhill,” citing “Hampton Quarterly Court Records, vol. 2, leaves 5, 6,” Salisbury Quarterly Court Records, vol 2, leaf 14,” “Hampton Quarterly Court Records, vol 2, leaves 22, 23,” “Essex County Probate Files, Docket 4,380” (notes also “Copy, Norfolk Deeds, vol 2, leaf 325”); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
• Scott Andrew Bartley, “George Lanphear of Westerly, Rhode Island, and his Descendants,” in three parts, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 153 (1999):131-140, 159 (2005):333-340, 160 (2006):47-59; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).
• Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, 2 vols. (1910-1911), 1 (births):52-53 for Button entries; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
• Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, 2 vols. (1910-1911), 2 (marriages):51 for Button entries; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
• Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, 2 vols. (1910-1911), 2 (deaths):368 for Button entries; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
• "Torrey's New England Marriages prior to 1700"; database, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).
• George W. Chase, The History of Haverhill, MA from its First Settlement in 1640 to the Year 1860, 1861, NEHGS.
• Source: S-2050775427 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Name: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
• Source: S-2049665188 Repository: #R-2139194211 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=21920874&pid... Repository: R-2139194211 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com

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On 6 Sep 2014 at 00:33 GMT Jillaine Smith wrote:

snip snip On 3 Sep 2014 at 17:21 GMT GeneJ X wrote:

Thomas has returned, bringing a wife Mary. No new information concerning the association is learned from the corresponding profiles.

Shall we snip these parents? Any objections?

Thank you in advance for your time and thoughts.--GeneJ

On 1 May 2014 at 17:01 GMT Jillaine Smith wrote:

Oh yeah, this profile is royally messed up-- possibly as a result of incorrect merges. Elizabeth Wheeler was married to Mathias Button; Lettice Unknown was also married to Mathias Button; Daniel Button (son here) was son of Mathias Button. The other children do not match what is in Anderson. On 1 May 2014 at 16:46 GMT Jillaine Smith wrote:

I think we have the wrong first name for him. I think he was MATHIAS Button. I went looking for his children, and son Daniel is documented in 5PnyCHQz2ooC&printsecfrontcover&dqhistory+of+haverhill&hlen&saX&eiLHliU8fDM-nWyQHN6YCIAQ&ved0CCsQ6AEwAA#vonepage&qhistory%20of%20haverhill&ffalse History of Haverhill," p 115 as son of *Mathias* (not Peter) Button by his first wife Mary Lettice. On 1 May 2014 at 16:31 GMT Jillaine Smith wrote:

There are no Haverhill vital records before 1641. Where does this marriage come from? On 1 May 2014 at 16:26 GMT Jillaine Smith wrote:

Fascinating. I find no reference to him in any of the NEHGS journals or in the Great Migration series. There is a Peter Button, but son of the immigrant Matthias Button (and therefore a generation younger than this Peter) and he settled in RI. On 29 Mar 2014 at 20:24 GMT Vic Watt wrote:

Bob, I think your birth year on this profile must be wrong, given that his kids were born in the 1630s. I think Button-190 as the better date. On 29 Mar 2014 at 10:37 GMT M. (Stewart) H. wrote:

Button-578 and Button-190 appear to represent the same person because: duplicate profiles. please merge into lowest number.

NOTES ON MATHIAS BUTTON:

From Genealogical Guide to Early Settlers of America p. 74:

Button, Matthias of Boston, by wife Lettia, had Mary 1634, David 1635. He was at Ipswitch 1639 and afterwards Haverhill where he died 1672.

From Button Families of America:

Matthias may have been married 4 times. His occupation was that of a mariner. There is no evidence that he was ever a church member, but at least one of his wives was. He signed deeds and bonds by his mark.

From The Witter Tyler Button Families:

"Busson was a Dutchman and seems to have been a movable one. He first lived in the village, then in the western part of the town, then in the eastern, and finally about a mile north-easterly from the village. When we recollect the fact that the people of Haverhill suffered severely from the depredations of the hostile Indians, we cannot wonder that the settlers frequently changed their places of abode. In 1671 the thatched house belonging to Matthias Button was burned.

Matthias Button was baptized 11 Oct 1607 at Harrold, Bedforshire, England. He came to America on the ship ABIGAIL with Governor John Endicott's party, landing at Salem, Mass. 6 Sept 1628. There is a possiblity that he actually came from Holland to America, a son of one of those who immigrated from England to Amsterdam in the winter of 1608-9 and to Leydon, Hollland in the spring of 1609 where they resided for 12 years. According to the Button Families of America, his supposed father was buried at Harrold, Bedfordshire, England 26 June 1617, but the record says nothing about his death, perhaps inferring that his body was brought there to be buried beside his wife or child. Further, among the effects of Matthias', his son Daniel found at his death a "Holland shirt", perhaps indicting that his family had brought it with him from Holland or alternatively indicating a Dutch ancestry of Daniel's mother, Ann Teagle or Mathias' first wife, Lettyce.

From Vital Records of Haverhill:

Matthias Button married Elizabeth (Wheeler) Duston on 9 June 1663 in Haverhill.

In "Old Norfolk Count (MA) Records, Matthias Button of Haverhill with his wife, Elizabeth mortgaged to Mr. John Ward of Haverhill my mansion or dwelling house and land on the west side of Merrie's Creek in Haverhill for 21 pounds, 3 shillings, 10d. Acknowledged in court at Ipswich 18 March, 1665. In 1665, Matthias "Butten" of Haverhill conveyed to brother-in-law, George Wheeler, "for the use of my wife, Elizabeth, 80 acres of land in Haverhill. Acknowledged in court 11 May 1665.

Other notes: http://larkturnthehearts.blogspot.com/2009/04/did-john-godfrey-burn...

MATTHIAS BUTTON

ORIGIN: Unknown

MIGRATION: 1633

FIRST RESIDENCE: Boston

REMOVES: Ipswich 1636, Haverhill 1652

OCCUPATION: Mariner.

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: There is no evidence that Matthias Button was ever a church member, but at least one of his wives was, and perhaps more.

EDUCATION: Signed deeds and bonds by mark.

ESTATE: Matthias Button sold one half acre houselot in Ipswich to William Symmons of Ipswich, it "having been granted to John Thornton, deceased, and falling into hands of the grantor by marriage with Joane, widow of said Thornton, who is living," entered 16 November 1639 [Essex Ant 8:3]. On 14 June 1644 Matthias Button of Ipswich sold to Thomas Welles of Ipswich two parcels given to Button by the town, one of meadow, the other upland, thirteen acres [ILR 1:155].

On 18 March 1658[/9?] "Matthias Button and Tegell his wife of Haverhill" sold to John Hazeltine of Rowley six acres of planting land, three acres of meadow at Hawke's Meadow and three commonages with all privileges belonging thereto [NLR 1:104-06].

On 14 February 1664[/5?] "Matthias Button of Haverhill" mortgaged to Mr. John Ward of Haverhill "my mansion or dwelling house and a parcel of land belonging to me"; Elizabeth ac~knowledged the deed and made her mark [NLR 2:23]. On 11 April 1665 "Matthias Butten of Haverhill" granted to "my brother-in-law George Wheelar for the use of my wife Elizabeth Butten" fourscore acres of upland, part of his third division [NLR 2:24]. Elizabeth sold thirty of the eighty acres almost immediately to son-in-law John Kingsbury, 28 December 1670 [ELR 33:229]. On 7 December 1673 she deeded twenty acres near Hawk's meadow to "Peter Green my son-in-law" [NLR 3:107].

Button brought in an account of what he had lost in the fire "when John Godfrey burnt his house," which totalled œ111 1s., and included "the house itself with the cellar and leanto," "a musket with a firelock," "a sword and a pair of bandoliers, 2 pound of powder," "16 pound of lead," "a great brewing tubb" and "the loss of his owne time and which is the most damage to his estate the death of his wife occassioned hereby, œ20" [EQC 4:373-5]. His daughter Sarah refused to swear to the inventory, saying that her father had sold the butter he was claiming to the merchant for hats, and that the amount of linen in the house was much overstated. The bedding had been seen since the house was burned. Button angrily told Abraham Whitaker that if he swore against the inventory, he would strike him, and that if there were some things in the inventory which should not be there, there were some things left out which should have been in, so they might set one against the other [29 August 1670, for June Term, 1671, EQC 4:375].

The clerk of the writs at the October Term, 1672, was ordered to inquire after the estate left by Matthias Button and to bring an inventory to the next Salisbury court [EQC 5:104]. Captain Nathaniel Saltonstall was appointed administrator pro tempore at the April Term, 1673, and the court addressed the fact that widow Elizabeth Button refused to relinquish her dower right as the court directed, despite having received land from her husband in his lifetime [EQC 5:153]. Saltonstall ac~knowledged a judgment to Daniel Ela from Button's estate at the April Term, 1674 [EQC 5:297].

The estate of Matthias Button was inventoried in four installments. On 2 December 1672 six swine were appraised at œ3. On 5 April 1673 a collection of moveables was valued at 14s. 6d. On 7 October 1673 a second collection of moveables was valued at œ2 1s. 6d. And finally an inventory of the remainder of his estate, taken on 9 March 1673/4, totalled œ99 11s. 8d., of which œ35 wasreal estate: "3 acres Duck meadow, 8li.; Spiggot meadow 3 acres, 8li., Strong water meadow 3 acres, 5li.; land about the house 7 acres, 14li.," the latter appeared to have a mortgage [EPR 2:300; NLR 2:2:325].

At court 14 November 1676, it was ordered that the estate be divided into five equal sums, "a part for each child, and that the share to the two daughters be delivered to their husbands as soon as possible and the other shares at age or marriage" [EPR 3:101].

BIRTH: By 1610 based on approximated date of first marriage.

DEATH: Haverhill 13 August 1672 "Husband of Elizabeth".

MARRIAGE: (1) By 1633 Lettice _____; "Lettyse Button the wife of Mathew [sic] Button" admitted to Boston church 26 January 1633/4 [BChR 18]; died after 1635 and before 1639.

(2) By 16 November 1639 Joan (_____) Thornton, widow of John Thornton of Ipswich [Essex Ant 8:3]; died by about 1650.

(3) By about 1650 Teagle _____; died Haverhill 4 February 1662[/3] as a result of the firing of their house by John Godfrey (see COMMENTS below).

(4) Haverhill 9 June 1663 Elizabeth (Wheeler) Duston, born about 1622 (deposed aged forty-seven 29 June 1669 [EQC 4:154-55]), daughter of John Wheeler, and widow of Thomas Duston [Pillsbury Anc 1107-09]; died Haverhill 16 July 1690.

CHILDREN:

With first wife

i MARY, bp. Boston 23 February 1633/4 [BChR 278]; m. Haverhill 6 December 1652 Edward Yeomans.

ii DANIEL, bp. Boston 22 February 1634/5 [BChR 279]; no further record; presumably died without issue before 10 April 1654, when his half-brother of the same name was born.

With third wife

iii SARAH, b. say 1650 [possibly daughter with second wife]; m. Haverhill 6 January 1673[/4] James Kingsbury.

iv HANNAH, b. Haverhill 11 May 1652; presented for fornication in 1673, thus unmarried at that date [EQC 5:233]; probably still alive on 14 November 1676, as otherwise there would not be five children to receive the distribution of their father's estate.

v DANIEL, b. Haverhill 10 April 1654; apprentice to John Dresser Sr. April 1672 [EQC 5:40]; slain at Muddy-Brook Bridge 18 September 1675 with Capt. Lathrop [Bodge 136]; his 1677 estate was divided among his brothers and sisters, indicating he was unmarried [EPR 3:124].

vi ABIGAIL, b. Haverhill 16 June 1656; deceased before the division of her father's estate in November 1676.

vii MATTHIAS, b. Haverhill 17 March 1657/8; m. Haverhill 16 or 24 November 1686 Mary Neff.

viii PETER, b. Haverhill 17 July 1660; m. by about 1690 Mary Lanphear, daughter of George Lanphear [NEHGR 153:139-40].

ix PATIENCE, b. Haverhill 1 June 1662; d. Haverhill 30 October 1662.

ASSOCIATIONS: "Thomas Davis, constable of Haverhill, according to the Governor's warrant, brought in Stephen Kent, Matthias Button, Dutchman, and John Mackcalamy, Scotchman" [EQC 1:278, March Term, 1653].

The inventory of his estate was filed at Salisbury, Mass. court 14 April 1674. He was "of great age" when he died.

Sharon Fehr:

from email dated May 12, 2008

Google "Governor John Endicott."

Page 6

MATTHIAS BUTTON [6] ANN TEAGLE/TAGELL [6]

Matthias immigrated to Salem, Mass. Sept. 6, 1628 on the Abigail. Gov. John Endicott’s party.

He may have come from Holland to America, a son of a Pilgrim who first immigrated to Holland.

Signed with a U on its side.

April 13, 1659 Mathias Button sued John Godfrey for “The fireing of his chimney, which caused the burning of my house and the death of my wife.”

--Sharon Fehr

Laurel Logan, July 31, 2008:

from http://www.winthropsociety.org/settlers/b-data.htm

Matthias BUTTON

Born a 1610

Died 13 Aug 1672

English Origin

Came to New England 1633

With ?

Resided in Boston, Ipswich 1636

Freeman of MBC

Occupation mariner

First Spouse Lettice (d a1639)

Children Mary, Daniel

Second Spouse Teagle (d 1663)

Children Sarah, Hannah, Daniel, Abigail, Matthias, Peter, Patience

--Laurel Logan

Laurel Logan, July 31, 2008:

from http://www.bencamp.com/button.html

MATHIAS BUTTON

Mathias Button and Ann Teagle. Matthias Button was baptized on October 7, 1607, at Harrold, England. He joined a group of one hundred colonists in the ship "Abigail” which sailed from Weymouth, England on June 20, 1628 and reached the shores of New England on September 6, 1628, landing at Salem, Ma. Matthias' wife Elizabeth and a daughter, Sarah, were called to testify against John Godfrey for acts of witchcraft done against them during the “witch-hunting” trials.

Matthias was married 4 times First Lettyce ? married sometime before 1633 and died before 1639. Second ti Joane Thornton (widow of John Thornton) Third to Ann Teagle @1648/9. Ann Teagle died on February 4, 1662/3 Fourth to Elizabeth Wheeler Duston (widow of Thomas Duston) on June 9, 1663. Elizabeth was the daughter of John and Ann (Yeoman) Wheeler. Elizabeth Button was buried July 16, 1690.

Mathias died in Haverhill, Ma. August 13, 1672.

Children of Matthias and his first wife Lettyce were:

  1. Mary Button - baptized February 23, 1633.  Married Edward Yeoman.

2. Daniel Button -baptized on February 22, 1633. Died 1635.
Children by 2nd wife Joane:

  1. Sarah Button - born 1650/51.  Married James Kingsbury

Children by 3rd wife Ann Teagle:

  1. Hannah Button - born  May 11, 1652.

2. Daniel Button - born April 10, 1654. Killed at “Bloody Brook”- September 18, 1675.
3. Abigail Button - born June 16, 1656.
4. Matthias Button - born March 17, 1657/58. Married Mary Neff on November 24, 1686
5. Peter Button - born July 17, 1660. Married Mary Lamphere - 1687
6. Patience Button - born June 1, 1662. Died October 30, 1662
Children by 4th wife Elizabeth:

  1. Mary Button -born 1664

--Laurel Logan

Laurel Logan, July 31, 2008:

fun transcript of the "firing of Matthias' house, and other recorded events

from http://members.aol.com/nashtoni/butonmathiasgmb.html

  Button brought in an account of what he had lost in the fire "when John Godfrey burnt his house," which totalled £111 1s., and included "the house itself with the cellar and leanto," "a musket with a firelock," "a sword and a pair of bandoliers, 2 pound of powder," "16 pound of lead," "a great brewing tubb" and "the loss of his owne time and which is the most damage to his estate the death of his wife occassioned hereby, £20" [EQC 4:373-5]. His daughter Sarah refused to swear to the inventory, saying that her father had sold the butter he was claiming to the merchant for hats, and that the amount of linen in the house was much overstated. The bedding had been seen since the house was burned. Button angrily told Abraham Whitaker that if he swore against the inventory, he would strike him, and that if there were some things in the inventory which should not be there, there were some things left out which should have been in, so they might set one against the other [29 August 1670, for June Term, 1671, EQC 4:375]. 

And also about this dispute from the same source:

 Matthias Button had the poor judgment to deal with the notorious John Godfrey. Owing him a bond dated 12 January 1663[/4], at June Term, 1668, Button was sued by Godfrey for debt and the jury found for Button. The court disagreed and set the verdict aside. In this case John Hutchins and Abraham Whitaker deposed that four years before, Godfrey had them accompany him to Button's to demand the cattle valued to £12 that Button owed him.

Butten said, "I will now look up my cattle and pay thee." Godfrey told him to bring them to town to Goodman Kent's before twelve o'clock where they would be appraised, and he would give up the bond. Godfrey chose Stephen Kent for his appraiser and Button chose Bartholomew Heath. The cattle were brought before the time and appraised, but Godfrey would not come to receive them, although deponents remained till almost night [EQC 4:29].
Even with the verdict set aside by the court, Godfrey evidently harbored a grudge. At the April Term, 1669, less than a year later, Button sued him for "firing his chimney which caused his house to burn and the goods therein, also the death of his wife, and for running away as soon as he had done it." The court, which did not have the power to rule in a case of wrongful death, brought a verdict anyway, and awarded Button £238 2s. [EQC 4:130-31].
More detail about this case is seen in the June Term, 1669, when Godfrey sued Matthias Button for "unjust molestation." Button won, but the court again set the verdict aside. From the deposition of Edward Clark, we learn that Button gave Godfrey an acquittance (9 January 166[2]/3), before the burning of his house [EQC 4:152]. Godfrey was accused, in the course of testimony, of being in two places at once, and appearing suspiciously the day after Goody Archer was buried, among other trappings of witchcraft. Matthias's fourth wife, Elizabeth Button, deposed aged about forty-seven years,...that on a rainy day, she and her daughter Saray laid in a bed by the fireside about twelve or one o'clock there was a great noise about the house which this deponent took to be the cattle, but when she was awake she saw a shape of a man and [it] sat in a great chair and being a great fire near the bed and near the chair within a yard and a half I saw Godfrey sitting and I would faine have struck him but could not put forth my hand and I did what I could to wake the maid that was in bed with me but could not for I could neither speak nor stir and thus he continued for the space of two hours and I see him three or four times but as soon as I had come to settle myself in the bed he vanished away to my apprehension for he went strangely out and the door was fast and when I rose in the morning I went to the dore and it was fast bolted [sworn 22 June 1669, EQC 4:154-5].
Godfrey was found legally not guilty of witchcraft by the Court of Assistants, but was found "suspiciously guilty." By the next term, he was back in court, unsuccessfully suing the deputy, Daniel Ela, for extortion [EQC 4:179]. The case would not go away. Ela sued Godfrey for "willful firing and burning of the dwelling house of Matthias Button, which was the cause of the death of said Button's wife." Godfrey replied, "Why should I bely myself; there be the witness: and asked whether he should go and execute himself; ... protested that he was cleared of firing the house and knew not of it: and that he went to Corlis his house, and there remained until Button came with his family" [EQC 4:185]. In a calmer deposition, Godfrey "acknowledged that he was at Button's house the day before the house was burned and went about ten or eleven o'clock to Corlis' house; that he said to Goody Button, lying upon the bed, Woman weigh me out some meat,' and she arose and gave him meat and brought in water; also that he made a little fire of small wood upon the hearth" [EQC 4:186].
Button apparently paid Ela for his services as deputy and attorney, and the court found Ela's charges to be excessive. During testimony at November Term, 1669, it was revealed that Button had agreed to give Ela one third of all he "should return of John Godfray for the burning of my house and goods" [EQC 4:199]. Godfrey sued Matthias Button again at the June Term, 1671, trying to overturn the conviction for burning Button's house.
The humble request of Matthias Button: that having been sued by John Godfrey and I lying very sick and weak for this great while so that I am not able to do anything nor to come to the court the hand of God have been and is still so upon me that I humbly beseech the honored court to consider how unjustly Godfrey sues me out of my own county contrary to law as I conceive because it will appear by evidence that Godfrey belongs to one town and County therefore if he find himself aggrieved he should try in the same county where we both live, therefore I humbly beseech the Court that your poor petitioner may have justice in the case as the Lord shall direct you [EQC 4:373].
As late as 29 June 1671, the court was still ordering Godfrey to pay Button in this case and Godfrey was still countersuing Ela [EQC 4:450, 5:51]. Button sued Godfrey one last time, and the case being called at the October Term, 1672, Button did not appear, and Godfrey was discharged [EQC 5:102]. Button had died the preceding August.
At the June Term, 1673, Godfrey sued Edward Clark, claiming that Clark had fraudulently prevented him from receiving even one penny of a £138 judgment Button was to pay Godfrey pursuant to a Court of Assistants' decision dated 13 March 1671/2 [EQC 5:182].
--Laurel Logan

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Button-37

His origins are unknown. No record of the birth or baptism of Matthias Button has been identified. As yet, no records found about the New England immigrant mention parents or siblings. Apparently the New England records discovered also do not memorialize the age of the early settler, for In 1995, Robert Charles Anderson estimated Matthias Button's birth as "by 1610 based on approximated date of first marriage."[5]

Matthias Button arrived in New England in 1633, initially settling in Boston, removing to Ipswich in 1636, and Haverhill in 1652. Notions that he arrived earlier and/or on the Abigail have not proven to be justified. "The Winthrop Society recognizes Matthias Button as a very early planter but does not list him as the passenger on any ship."[6]

He died in Haverhill 13 August 1672. Later his wife/widow Elizabeth refused to relinquish her dower rights.[7] He left no will, but an inventory was ordered in October 1672[8]; Captain Nathaniel Saltonstall was appointed administrator pro tempore in 1673.[9] The inventory proceeded in four installments -- 2 Dec 1672, 5 Apr 1673, 7 Oct 1673, 9 Mar 1673/4. Finally, 14 Nov 1676 it was ordered that the estate be divided equally among his five children, two of whom were identified as daughters, implying that at this administration, 3 sons lived.[10]

Matthias Button married four times:

Lettice _____, "by 1633"[11]; she died sometime after 1635 (birth of child) and before Mattias married again Joan (_____) Thornton, by 16 November 1639; she was the widow of John Thornton of Ipswich[12]. She died before Matthias married again. Teagle _____, by about 1650[13] She died Haverhill 4 February 1662[/3] when their home was burned down; John Godfrey was accused.[14] Elizabeth (Wheeler) Duston, at Haverhill 9 June 1663. She was born about 1622,[15] the daughter of John Wheeler and widow of Thomas Duston.[16] Elizabeth died Haverhill 16 July 1690.[17] He was a mariner.[18] No record has been discovered to indicate that Matthias Button became a church member. His first wife was admitted to the Boston church in 1633/34.[19]

Mention of Matthias Button is found in various court records, and he engaged in a number of land transactions.

"Ipswich Proceedings" 19 Dec 1648 a list of subscribers contributing to a fund payable annually to Maior (sic) Denison: Mathias Button 3 shillings.[20] He accused John Godfrey of setting the 1672[/3] fire that burned Button's home, killing his wife. Related court hearings followed over many years. Anderson goes into great detail about Button's relations and problems with Godfrey, which also included Button's wife accusing Godfrey of witchcraft. After the fire, Button claimed he had losses there totaling £111 1s. and "the loss of his owne time and which is the most damage to his estate the death of his wife occassioned hereby, £20."[21] Anderson wrote,[22]

"His daughter Sarah refused to swear to the inventory, saying that her father had sold the butter he was claiming to the merchant for hats, and that the amount of linen in the house was much overstated. The bedding had been seen since the house was burned. Button angrily told Abraham Whitaker that if he swore against the inventory, he would strike him, and that if there were some things in the inventory which should not be there, there were some things left out which should have been in, so they might set one against the other." Children With first wife, Lettice ____:

Mary, bp Boston 23 Feb 1633/4; m at Haverhill; m Edward Yeomans. Daniel, bp Boston 22 Feb 1634/5; d bef 10 April 1654 (brother of same name then born) With third wife, Teagle ___ :

Sarah, b "say 1650 [possibly daughter with second wife]"; James Kingsbury [prob s/o Henry & Susannah Kingsbury]. Hannah, b Haverhill 11 May 1652; before the court in 1671 for fornication.[23] Daniel, b Haverhill 10 April 1654; slain at Muddy-Brook Bridge 18 Sep 1675. His 1677 estate was divided among his brothers and sisters. Abigail, b Haverhill 16 June 1656; No further record; was probably deceased at the time Matthias' estate was divided. Matthias, b Haverhill 17 March 1657/8; m Mary Neff. Peter, b Haverhill 17 July 1660; m Mary Lanphear, daughter of George Lanphear. NOTE: Anderson initially believed that this Peter was deceased by the 1676 distribution of his father's estate (GMB, p 295). But a correction to GMB published on page 2088 points out that the division clearly implies 3 surviving sons, and the only other two known sons were Daniel and Matthias, leaving Peter as still living. The correction also points out that Peter Button was a witness to a land deed related to his sister in 1692, and that the Peter Button who married Mary Lanphear named one of his sons Mathias. Patience, b Haverhill 1 June 1662; d Haverhill 30 October 1662. Sources ↑ R. Glen Nye [and Alphonso Button and Clayton A. Button], Button Families of America (1971), Katherine (Watson) Nye, ed.; digital images, Family History Library Catalog (accessed 2014), citing "Savage's Gen.Dict." ↑ Nye & Watson, citing "Parish Records of Harrold" ↑ Alphonzo Button (b. 1834), Matthias Button and His Descendants, n.d. [manuscript, 206 pp.], p. 127 of 233 in downloaded PDF; digital images [as "Alphonso Button genealogy volume 2, Family History Library Catalog (accessed 2014)]. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 292-298 [and corrections, 2088], especially p. 294 (for his birth) and 295 (for references to Nye and Nye, 1971 (in particular parts). ↑ Anderson, op cit., p. 294 ↑ Anderson, op cit, p 292-298 ↑ Anderson, op cit., citing "EQC 5:153" in Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 293 (in particular part). ↑ Anderson, citing "EQC 5:104" ↑ Anderson, p 293, citing "EQC 5:153" ↑ Anderson, p 293, citing "EPR 3:101" ↑ Anderson, p 294 ↑ Anderson, p 294, citing "Essex Ant. 8:3" ↑ Anderson, p 293, citing "NLR 1104-06," Anderson reports deed of 18 March 1658[/5?] cited grantors as "Matthis Button and Tegell his wife of Haverhill" in a sale to John Hazelton of Rowley." ↑ Anderson, p 293, citing "EQC 4373-5" ↑ Anderson, p 293, citing "EQC 4:154-55" and writing "deposed age forty-seven on 29 June 1669". ↑ Anderson, p. 293, citing "Pilsbury Anc 1107-09" ↑ Anderson, p 293. ↑ Anderson: "In a letter [undated but circa April 1636] ... Mary Dudley asks that her mother send her "a child's chair for I can get none made here and goodman Button's Boat shall call for it a fortnight hence" [WP 3:242]. ↑ "Lettyse Button the wife of Mathew [sic] Button" admitted to Boston church 26 Jan 1633/4 [BChR 18]" Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins ... Boston, MA: NEHGS (1995), p 292-298, 2088 (“Addenda et Corrigenda”). ↑ NEHGS Register, Vol. 2 (Jan), 1848, pp. 50/1 ↑ Anderson, p 293, citing "EQC 4:373-5" ↑ Anderson, p 293, citing "29 August 1670, for June Term, 1671, EQC 4375" ↑ Anderson reported she was probably among the children to receive a share of her father's estate. As Great Migration determined later that Matthas' son Peter likely survived. It follows, then, that Hannah probably did not. See also:

"A Genealogical Sketch of the Earliest Descendants of Mattias Button Who First Settled at Salem, MA.," NEHGS (1903) Alphonzo Button, Genealogical sketch of the Early Descendants of Matthias Button who came to America with Governor John Endicott, landing at Salem, Mass., September 6, 1629--Compiled from Authentic Sources (Second Edition and Prospectus, 1903); digital images, Internet Archive (accessed 2014). Alphonzo Button, Matthias Button and His Descendants, n.d. [manuscript, 269 pp.]; digital images [as "Alphonso Button genealogy volume 1", Family History Library Catalog (accessed 2014)]. Alphonzo Button, Matthias Button and His Descendants, n.d. [manuscript, 206 pp.]; digital images [as "Alphonso Button genealogy volume 2", Family History Library Catalog (accessed 2014)]. Includes cover letter and about 42 pages of penned remarks by Perley Derby, 1888; the bulk of the Derby material overviews local area sources concerning Matthias Button, with references. George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (1916-1920), 3:110, “Estate of Matthias Button of Haverhill,” citing “Salisbury Quarterly Court Records, vol 2, leaf 67” (by footnote, also to “ante, vol. 2, page 299”); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014). 2:299-301, “Estate of Matthias Button of Haverhill,” citing “Hampton Quarterly Court Records, vol. 2, leaves 5, 6,” Salisbury Quarterly Court Records, vol 2, leaf 14,” “Hampton Quarterly Court Records, vol 2, leaves 22, 23,” “Essex County Probate Files, Docket 4,380” (notes also “Copy, Norfolk Deeds, vol 2, leaf 325”); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014). Scott Andrew Bartley, “George Lanphear of Westerly, Rhode Island, and his Descendants,” in three parts, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 153 (1999):131-140, 159 (2005):333-340, 160 (2006):47-59; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014). Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, 2 vols. (1910-1911) 1 (births):52-53 for Button entries; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014). 2 (marriages):51 for Button entries; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014). 2 (deaths):368 for Button entries; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014). "Torrey's New England Marriages prior to 1700"; database, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014). George W. Chase, The History of Haverhill, MA from its First Settlement in 1640 to the Year 1860, 1861, NEHGS.

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Matthias Button was a son of Thomas Button of Harrold, Bedfordshire. He was baptized on 11 Oct 1607 Harrold, Bedfordshire, England. He had a brother William (bap 23 Nov 1600) and a sister Ann (bap. Dec 1604). His father was buried at the Parish Church of St. Peters at Harrold 26 June 1617. The mother may have been Mary (Price) Button. I have no further information on the mother at this time.


Name:Matthias Button 
Gender:Male 
Baptism Date:11 Oct 1607 
Baptism Place: Harrold,Bedford,England 
Father:Thomas Button  
FHL Film Number:845460 

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