BUTTS, Elisha

1705 - 1779  (73 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	BUTTS, Elisha
  Birth	1 Nov 1705	Rhine, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Jun 1779
  Death	12 Jun 1779	Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, United States
  WAC	26 Jul 1997	JRIVE
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  Person ID	I20564	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	BUTTS ,   b. Abt 1681, Lower Rhein, , , Germany Lower Rhein, Germanyd. DECEASED
  Family ID	F11028	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Marriage	Abt 1731	Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
  Children	+ 1. BUTTS, Phebe ,   b. 12 Jan 1735, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 3 Mar 1767, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, United States (Age 32 years)
  Family ID	F10995	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY: The Butz, Buttz, Butts family is very ancient. It had it had its origin with Otto Butz in 473 A.D. According to the Vienna book of Heraldry, the original ancestor was Brutus, who was taken as a prisoner of war to what is now Germany, in 160 A.D. There is no record of this family between this date and 473. The ancient records of "Butz back on the Rhein," the birthplace of the Butz ancestors who came to America are supposed to have been destroyed in the "Thirty Years' War." Early in the 18th century many inhabitants of the lower Palatinate lying on both sides of the Rhein in Germany were driven from their homes by the persecution of Louis XIV of France, whose armies desolated their country. Many of these fugitives went to England and there changed their names to Butts or Butt and some came directly to America. There were 7 ships of Palatinates who came to America between 1732 and 1754 of which a Buttz or Butts or Butz chartered the ships and was the Master. The Butts family coat of arms has been found. The information was taken from the family history of Lura Butts Dahl. Elisha and Phoebe came to the US in 1731 with 4 children. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.