Butler Family Tree

William Witherell

Person Chart

Partners

Partner Date of Birth Children
Mary Fisher 4/17/1604 Sarah Witherell

Person Events

Event Type Date Place Description
Birth 1600
Death 4/9/1685 Scituate, Massachusetts, USA

Kinship Report

Name Type Place of Birth Date of Birth Place of Death Date of Death
Partner
Mary Fisher Wife Boughton Monchelsea, Kent, England 4/17/1604 Before 1604
Children
Sarah Witherell Daughter
Sons- & Daughters-In-Law
Israel Hobart Son-in-law Hingham, Massachusetts, USA 6/29/1642 Scituate, Massachusetts, USA 4/14/1731

Notes

Family tradition says that his mother was the daughter of John Rogers, the Smithfield martyr.
Came to the new world in 1634. Employed in a grammar school in Charleston in 1635, Cambridge in 1636.
An associate of Cotton Mather.
Minister for the second church in Scituate Massachusetts starting in 1644. Ordained pastor in 1645. Record of baptism kept in his hand from 1645 to 1674.
Moved to Duxbury in 1638, and received a grant of a considerable tract of land there in 1640, "on the north-west side of North Hill".

Sources

Description
History of HIngham

History

Date Age Event Category
Feb 15, 1564 - Jan 8, 1642 (-36.4) - 41.6 Life of Galileo Galilei Personalities
Dec 31, 1600 0.5 Establishment of the British East India Company Discoveries & Colonization
CA 1601 1.0 William Gilbert discovers electricity Technology
1606 6.0 Discovery of Australia Discoveries & Colonization
1618 - 1648 18.0 - 48.0 Thirty Years' War Wars & Military Conflicts
1620 20.0 Voyage of the Mayflower, puritan 'Pilgrims' establish Plymouth (Massachusetts) USA
1623 23.0 Start of construction of Versailles Palace Monuments
1626 26.0 French settlement in Senegal Discoveries & Colonization
Dec 25, 1642 - Mar 20, 1726 42.5 - 125.8 Life of Isaac Newton Personalities
Nov 7, 1665 65.4 First issue of the London Gazette Companies
May 2, 1666 - Sep 5, 1666 65.9 - 66.2 Great Fire of London Great Britain
1682 82.1 German company lands at the Gold Coast Discoveries & Colonization
Mar 21, 1685 - Jul 28, 1750 84.8 - 150.2 Life of Johann Sebastian Bach Personalities