Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . his lineage back to the early settlers of New Hamp-shire is born of fighting stock. I have endeavored to sketch that part of the early historj^ of mynative State Avhich pertains to the colonists Avho settled it and thecauses contributing to the character of its people, in order that Imight demonstrate the proposition Avith which I began, that thestock from Avhich one comes is A^ery material. For if the proposi-tion be not true, then, in a republican go
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . his lineage back to the early settlers of New Hamp-shire is born of fighting stock. I have endeavored to sketch that part of the early historj^ of mynative State Avhich pertains to the colonists Avho settled it and thecauses contributing to the character of its people, in order that Imight demonstrate the proposition Avith which I began, that thestock from Avhich one comes is A^ery material. For if the proposi-tion be not true, then, in a republican government, the questionof whom begotten or by whom begot? is, and ought to be, of noconsequence to any individual, or to his peers. My paternal grandfatlier Avas born in Woodbury, Connecticut, ofIrish descent, and of a most strictly Irish Presbyterian family, ashis OAvn name Zeplianiah, and his uncles, Levi and Malachi, mostplainly shoAV. The branches of tlie family were numerous, and thenames of those who Avere of the proper generation to take part inthe War of the Revolution, Avill be found in the local history of that BUTLERS BOOK. 41. Copyrighted. PowDER-HoRN OF Zephaniah Butler, 1758. contest wlierever Connecticut men took part, whether in Pennsyl-vania or Wyoming, or in the western reserve of Ohio. Zephaniah went to Quebec with Wolfe, and I have the powder-horn which he bore, dated April 22, 1758. He went from Connecti-cut to the town of Notting-ham in New Hampshire,and married Abigail,daughter of General JosephCilley. They had severalchildren, the youngest ofwhom was John, my father,who was born May 17,1782. He married SarahBatchelder, of Deerfield,New Hampshire, June 5,1803. By her he was thefather of three girls, Polly True, born June 8, 1801, Sally, born March 11, 1806, and BetseyMorrill, born January 9, 1808. The last of these is now livingat .Nottingham, New Hampshire, the widow of the late Daniel , Esq. Mrs. Sarah Batchelder Butler died February 23,1809. Jo
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