Peter Button, 16601727 (aged 67 years)

Name
Peter /Button/
Given names
Peter
Surname
Button
Birth July 17, 1660 53 30
Birth of a sisterPatience Button
June 1, 1662 (aged 1 year)

Death of a sisterPatience Button
October 30, 1662 (aged 2 years)

Death of a motherAnn Teagle
between February 4, 1662 and February 4, 1663 (aged 2 years)

Birth of a half-sisterElizabeth Button
after 1663 (aged 2 years)

Death of a sisterAbigail Button
April 1667 (aged 6 years)

Death of a fatherMatthias Peter Button Sr
August 13, 1672 (aged 12 years)
Death of a brotherDaniel Button
September 18, 1675 (aged 15 years)
Cause: Prince Philip War
Citation details: Page 108
Text:

List of Lothrop's Company killed at Bloody Brook includes Daniel Button of Newberry.

Citation details: Chapter Fourteen, "The God of Armies"
Text:

Captain Thomas Lathrop, sixty-five, was escorting seventy-nine evacuees from the town of Deerfield. They were about to ford a small stream when several of the soldiers laid their guns aside to gather some ripe autumn grapes. At that moment, hundreds of Indians burst out of the undergrowth. Fifty-seven English were killed, turning the brown waters of what was known as Muddy Brook bright red with gore. From then on, the stream was called Bloody Brook. For the Indians, it was an astonishingly easy triumph. "€œ[T]he heathen were wonderfully animated,"€ Increase Mather wrote, "€œsome of them triumphing and saying, that so great a slaughter was never known, and indeed in their wars one with another, the like hath rarely been heard of." But the fighting was not over yet.

Death of a sisterHannah Button
1676 (aged 15 years)

Note: She was included in her father's will so must have been alive when he died in 1676.
Oath
Oath recorded at the State House in Boston
March 28, 1677 (aged 16 years)
Note: "I, PETER BUTTON, being by God's providence an inhabitant within the jurisdiction of his common…

"I, PETER BUTTON, being by God's providence an inhabitant within the jurisdiction of his commonwealth, do freely and sincerely acknowledge myself to be subject to the government thereof, and therefore do swear by the great and dreadful name of the one living God, that I will be true and faithful to the same, and will accordingly yield assistance and support with my person and estate as in equity I am bound; and will also truly endeavor to maintain and preserve all the liberties and privileges thereof, submitting to the wholesome laws made and established by the same; and further I will not plot or practice evil against it nor consent to any that shall do so; but will truly discover and reveal the same to lawful authority here established for the speedy preventing thereof, So help me God in the Lord Jesus Christ."

-- March 28, 1677, Haverhill, Mass. (Signed) PETER BUTTON [I.e., he was 17 when taking the oath.]

Death of a half-sisterElizabeth Button
December 20, 1677 (aged 17 years)

MarriageSarah CrandallView this family
October 30, 1682 (aged 22 years)
MarriageMary Lamphere or LanphearView this family
about April 24, 1687 (aged 26 years)

Birth of a sonPeter Button
January 1, 1688 (aged 27 years)
Birth of a daughterMary Button
October 6, 1689 (aged 29 years)

Death of a sisterSarah Button
1690 (aged 29 years)
Church member
Member of 1st Sabbatarian Church
1692 (aged 31 years)
Birth of a sonMatthias Button
January 16, 1692 (aged 31 years)
Birth of a daughterEliphall Button
December 16, 1694 (aged 34 years)

Death of a wifeSarah Crandall
1696 (aged 35 years)
Birth of a sonJedediah Button
1696 (aged 35 years)
Birth of a sonSamuel Button
about 1697 (aged 36 years)
Birth of a sonCyrus Button
about 1700 (aged 39 years)
Birth of a sonJoseph Button
about 1702 (aged 41 years)
Birth of a daughterElizabeth Button
about 1704 (aged 43 years)
Death of a half-sisterMary Button
1708 (aged 47 years)
Birth of a grandsonSamuel Button
1713 (aged 52 years)

Birth of a grandsonJedediah Button II
1719 (aged 58 years)

Death of a brotherMatthias Button II
1725 (aged 64 years)
Cause: epidemic of some sort
Note: In 1725 an epidemic of some sort hit the town and so many people were sick that neighboring towns ha…

In 1725 an epidemic of some sort hit the town and so many people were sick that neighboring towns had to be called upon for help. Many of the town's leading citizens died, including Matthias Button.

Death between January 1, 1726 and December 31, 1727 (aged 67 years)
Burial October 11, 1726 (on the date of death)
Address: River Bend Cemetery
Family with parents
father
A ship similar to the Abigail
16071672
Birth: about 1607 49 45Harrold, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
Death: August 13, 1672Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
mother
16301663
Birth: 1630Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: between February 4, 1662 and February 4, 1663
Marriage Marriagebetween 1648 and 1649
4 years
elder sister
16501690
Birth: between 1650 and 1651 44 21
Death: 1690Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
2 years
elder sister
16521676
Birth: May 11, 1652 45 22
Death: 1676
23 months
elder brother
Bloody Brook Mass Grave
16541675
Birth: April 10, 1654 47 24Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: September 18, 1675South Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA
2 years
elder sister
16561667
Birth: June 16, 1656 49 26
Death: April 1667
22 months
elder brother
1657/58 CE1725
Birth: March 17, 1657/58 CE (March 27, 1658) 51 28Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: 1725Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, USA
2 years
himself
16601727
Birth: July 17, 1660 53 30Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: between January 1, 1726 and December 31, 1727Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
23 months
younger sister
16621662
Birth: June 1, 1662 55 32
Death: October 30, 1662
Father’s family with Lettyce
father
A ship similar to the Abigail
16071672
Birth: about 1607 49 45Harrold, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
Death: August 13, 1672Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
step-mother
15941639
Birth: 1594Westminster, Middlesex, England
Death: before 1639Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Marriage Marriage1632Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
2 months
half-sister
16321708
Birth: February 23, 1632 25 38Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: 1708Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
3 years
half-brother
1634
Baptism: between February 22, 1634 and February 22, 1635 28 41
Father’s family with Joane
father
A ship similar to the Abigail
16071672
Birth: about 1607 49 45Harrold, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
Death: August 13, 1672Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
step-mother
Marriage Marriageabout 1639
Father’s family with Elizabeth Wheeler
father
A ship similar to the Abigail
16071672
Birth: about 1607 49 45Harrold, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
Death: August 13, 1672Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
step-mother
1690
Death: July 16, 1690Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Marriage MarriageJune 9, 1663
7 months
half-sister
Family with Sarah Crandall
himself
16601727
Birth: July 17, 1660 53 30Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: between January 1, 1726 and December 31, 1727Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
wife
16541696
Birth: 1654Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Death: 1696Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
Marriage MarriageOctober 30, 1682Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
5 years
son
21 months
daughter
2 years
son
16921749
Birth: January 16, 1692 31 38Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA
Death: after June 20, 1749Voluntown, New London, Connecticut, USA
3 years
daughter
Family with Mary Lamphere or Lanphear
himself
16601727
Birth: July 17, 1660 53 30Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: between January 1, 1726 and December 31, 1727Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
wife
16711737
Birth: October 5, 1671Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
Death: April 7, 1737
Marriage Marriageabout April 24, 1687
10 years
son
16961760
Birth: 1696 35 24Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
Death: 1760
2 years
son
1697
Birth: about 1697 36 25Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
4 years
son
1700
Birth: about 1700 39 28Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
3 years
son
17021750
Birth: about 1702 41 30Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
Death: May 20, 1750Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
3 years
daughter
1704
Birth: about 1704 43 32Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
Josiah Witter + Sarah Crandall
partner’s partner
wife
16541696
Birth: 1654Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Death: 1696Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
Marriage Marriage1676
Identification numberButton Families of America
Citation details: p.45
SourceButton Families of America
Citation details: #1.8, p.45
Oath

"I, PETER BUTTON, being by God's providence an inhabitant within the jurisdiction of his commonwealth, do freely and sincerely acknowledge myself to be subject to the government thereof, and therefore do swear by the great and dreadful name of the one living God, that I will be true and faithful to the same, and will accordingly yield assistance and support with my person and estate as in equity I am bound; and will also truly endeavor to maintain and preserve all the liberties and privileges thereof, submitting to the wholesome laws made and established by the same; and further I will not plot or practice evil against it nor consent to any that shall do so; but will truly discover and reveal the same to lawful authority here established for the speedy preventing thereof, So help me God in the Lord Jesus Christ."

-- March 28, 1677, Haverhill, Mass. (Signed) PETER BUTTON [I.e., he was 17 when taking the oath.]

Note

I, PETER BUTTON, being by God's providence an inhabitant within the jurisdiction of this commonwealth, do freely and sincerely acknowledge myself to be subject to the government thereof, and therefor do swear by the great and dreadful name of the one living God, that I will be true and faithful to the same, and will accordingly yield assistance and support with my person and estate as in equity I am bound; and will also truly endeavor to maintain and preserve all the liberties and privilegesthereof, submitting to the wholesome laws made and established by the same; and further I will not plot or practice evil against it nor consent to any that shall do so; but will truly discover and reveal the same to lawful authority here established for the speedy preventing thereof, So held me God in the Lord Jesus Christ. March 28, 1677, Haverhill, Mass. Peter Button