Clymer Weir Cox Genealogy » SIMON (PA 1712) BUTLER (± 1692-1764)

Données personnelles SIMON (PA 1712) BUTLER 

• Il est né environ 1692 dans Wales.
• Religion: Baptist.
• (Emigrated) en l'an 1710 dans To Pennsylvania.
• Il est décédé en l'an 1764 dans New Britain Township, Bucks County, PA.
• Un enfant de William Butler et Margaret Geeke
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 27 août 2023.

Famille de SIMON (PA 1712) BUTLER

Il est marié avec ANN (PA) (MATHEW) MATTHEWS.

Ils se sont mariés

Enfant(s):

1. Simon Mathew Butler  ± 1720-1769 
2. Benjamin Mathew Butler  ± 1725-???? 

Notes par SIMON (PA 1712) BUTLER

Of these early immigrants to New Britain, Simon Butler was probably the
foremost man. He was one of a number which immigrated from Wales about 1712,
accompanied by his cousin Simon Mathew. Landing at Philadelphia, they
settled for a time on the "London tract" in Chester county, ["Welsh
tract," in New Castle county,*]whence they removed to New Britain between
1715 and 1720, and took up land at the confluence of Pine run and the
north-west branch of Neshaminy, just east of Whitehallville [Chalfont*].
There they built a grist mill on the site of Samuel Funk's sawmill, the
first in the township, and one of the earliest mills in middle Bucks
county (3). In a few years Butler bought Mathew's interest in the tract,
when he built a new grist-mill on the site of what is Shellenberger's
(4). He became a large land-owner in the township. In 1745 he bought
four hundred and sixty-five and a half acres of James, the son of Andrew
Hamilton, to whom it had been granted in 1718. He was the only justice of
the peace in this section of the county for several years. Simon Butler
was a man of ability, and transacted a large amount of public business.
He not only settled disputes between neighbors, but wrote their wills,
surveyed their lands, settled their estates, assisted to lay out the
public roads, etc. Such men are especially useful in a new community, and
for several years he was the leading man in all this section. He was
likewise an active Baptist, and promoted the erection of the New Britain
Baptist church. His two sons, Simon and Benjamin, intermarried with the
Jameses, and their descendants are numerous in the township. Simon Butler
died in August, 1764.

THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CHAPTER XXIII, NEW BRITAIN, 1723
from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M.,
1876 and 1905* editions..

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