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Title: History of Washington County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men / edited by Boyd Crumrine. Illustrated. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts and Co., 1882.
Author: Crumrine, Boyd, 1838-1916
Pg. 569
NOBLE BUTLER, a Quaker, a native of Bristol, England, came to America as one of Penn’s colonists in the year 1716, and settled in Uwchland, Chester County, Pa., where he purchased one thousand acres of land. He was the father of 12 children, of whom BENJAMIN (the father of IRA R.) was the youngest. BENJAMIN married in Chester County, and in due course of time he too became the father of 12 children, of whom nine-viz. JONATHAN, ABNER, NOBLE, EUNICE, ISAAC, BENJAMIN, JOEL, JOSEPH, and IRA - had in 1805 arrived at years of discretion. The family was well to do. EUNICE had become the wife of DAVID WOODWARD, and the sons, except the youngest, were mechanics, thus JONATHAN was a wagon-and-plow-maker, ABNER was a cabinet-maker, while NOBLE, ISAAC, BENJAMIN, JOEL, and JOSEPH were carpenters.
It was determined, however, that a removal to the western country should be made, and JONATHAN, and traveling over portions of Ohio, had selected and purchased lands situated about ten miles above the mouth of the Big Miami. Early in the autumn of 1805, therefore, BENJAMIN BUTLER, accompanied by his wife and the nine children before mentioned, one son-in-law (DAVID WOODWARD), one daughter-in-law (ABNER’S wife), and three grandchildren (ABNER’S), started forth on the journey, a small wagon-train, consisting of two six-horse teams and Conestago wagons, a two-horse carriage and two lead horses, carrying the baggage, household furniture, etc., the females and younger members of the party...The party arrived at PARKINSON’S Ferry on the evening of Oct. 7, 1805. The following morning the father, as was his custom, arose at an early hour, to see that everything was in readiness for another day’s journey. He had aroused other members of the family, and while conversing with some of them was suddenly strickened with apoplexy, and expired the same evening, aged 62 year...(pg. 570) Their mother died at the age of 82 years, and their sister, MRS. WOODWARD, attained the age of 94 years.
CAPT. IRA R. BUTLER, the only survivor of the family of 16 persons which left the limits of Chester County and journeyed to the left bank of the Monongahela nearly 77 years ago, still resides on his farm, which being distant about 5 miles from Monongahela City...CAPT. BUTLER was married to MISS MARY BOYD, of Chester County, Pa. June 14, 1822, and of ten children born to him, five daughters and three sons survive. MAJ. HOWE, killed in action near Appomattox, Va., April 8, 1865, was a son-in-law. CAPT. BUTLER gave up boat-building in 1840, and moved to his present residence in 1841.
Pg. 569
CAPT. IRA R. BUTLER was born Nov. 15, 1792.
Cont. on Pg. 570
With the coming of the spring season of 1806 further journeying toward the mouth of the Big Miami was indefinitely postponed. The BUTLERS settled down at Williamsport, and have since been identified with its history.
According to the recollections of CAPT. BUTLER, there were then not more that 15 dwellings in the town, and the residents and business men were about as follows:
JOSEPH PARKINSON, innkeeper and ferry-master; WARNE (JAMES) & WILLIAM PARKINSON, merchants; WILLIAM IRWIN, merchant; PETER BOSS, merchant; ADAM and SIMON HAILMAN, the former being postmast; GEORGE TROUT, innkeeper; NATHAN CHALFANT, boat-builder; JOSEPH McCLURE, cabinet-maker; JOHN SMITH, cabinet-maker; McFERREN, a tailor; ABNER BEADLE, blacksmith; SAMUEL BLACK, merchant; ADAM WICKERHAM; ANDREW B. CHESS was his son-in-law, and the wife of United States Senator Miller, of California, is a granddaughter; and there was, besides, a vacant house owned by ROBERT WILLIAMS.
Of course, the population was considerably augmented by the settlement of the BUTLER family, and its business interests, too, for in the spring of 1806 JONATHAN and BENJAMIN BUTLER became merchants, while the other brothers began work at their individual trades. Of other early settlers, DR. JOSEPH ROSE, a practicing physician, and FREDERICK LAYMAN, a German taylor, came during the year 1807. AENEAS GRAHAM, a tailor, settled about 1809, and CHARLES BOLLMAN, merchant, in 1810...
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