Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . of his estate, which was one ofthe largest ever administered upon in Middlesex County up tothat date. He was a Director in the Concord Bank and in theMill Dam Corporation, a Trustee of the Middlesex Savings In-stitution, and President of the Middlesex Mutual Fire InsuranceCompany. He died August 29, 184-1, aged fifty-seven years. Stsdman Buttrick, of Concord, J837 to J855 (J8 Years). Born there September 16, 1796. He was a member of theButtrick family renowned for patriot
Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . of his estate, which was one ofthe largest ever administered upon in Middlesex County up tothat date. He was a Director in the Concord Bank and in theMill Dam Corporation, a Trustee of the Middlesex Savings In-stitution, and President of the Middlesex Mutual Fire InsuranceCompany. He died August 29, 184-1, aged fifty-seven years. Stsdman Buttrick, of Concord, J837 to J855 (J8 Years). Born there September 16, 1796. He was a member of theButtrick family renowned for patriotism in the Revolutionaryperiod. He was a Selectman several years and Town Clerk from1842 to 1851, and represented the fown of Concord in 1836-37-38and 39 as a Democrat and anti-Mason. He was also the candi-date of the anti-Masonic party for County Treasurer, defeatinghis fellow townsman, John Keyes. He resided upon the estate andcultivated the very ground from which Major John Buttrick, hisgrandfather, gave the order which fired the shot heard round theworld. Three of his sons,true to their ancestry, were in the Civil. STEDMAN BUTTRICK, of Concord. County Treasurer 1837 to 1855. (See page 137.) ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. 139 war; one of them died in the service, having previously foughtfor the cause of freedom under John Brown, in Kansas. Sted-man Buttrick was a man of splendid physique, and a striking ex-ample of the sterling qualities of mind and body which charac-terized the yeomanry of Middlesex county. In youth he wasfond of hunting and fishing, and in later 3ears of a good game ofwhist. His last words, so it is said, were: Whats trumps?He died November 7, 1874, aged seventy-eight years.
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