(c) Hannah Gedney's lineage so far as I can trace it is as follows;
John Gedney, b. 1603; d. Aug. 5, 1688; == Mary ----.
admitted to church in Salem, Nov. 19, 1637. = = Catherine ----.
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Sarah. Eli. Bartholomew, Eleazer. John, lost at sea, = = ----.
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Freeman,1669; d. |
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William, b. 1668; m. 1690; d. 1730. = = Hannah Gardner.
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Hannah, == (b) Humphrey Davie.
10. James Butler was brought up to the trade of a hatter; was married May 10, 1763, by Rev. Andrew Eliot of New North Church; in Aug., 1774, fled with his wife and six children under ten years of age, to Georgetown, Me., a four days' voyage. He was driven to this flight by the Boston port-bill, which brought all business to a stand. After remaining four years in Maine, he returned to Boston, and soon removed to Oxford, Ms.; where he resided till his death, Dec. 20, 1827, aged 88.
11. Mary Sigourney was great-granddaughter of a Sigourney, who, being a Huguenot, fled from Rochelle in France, with his wife and four small children, in 1685. This first emigrant was among the first settlers in Oxford, Ms., and some of his children married there. Through fear of Indians, he removed to Boston. I have made out an extensive table of his posterity, but on account of its length, must refrain from inserting it here, except so far as relates to my own family. Among the descendants of this Huguenot exile, are the Brimmers, the Inches, and the Dexters, of Boston; the Commander of the Schooner Asp, killed by the British in the Potomac, in 1813; and the husband of our most popular poetess.
---- Sigourney, = ----.
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Andrew, m. ab. = Germaine ----.
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Anthony, b. Boston, Aug. 17, 1713, =[W]Mary Waters.
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(11) Mary, b. March 23, 1741; m., May 18, 1763; = (10) James Butler.
was early taught French by her grandmother,
as the tongue of her ancestors;
consulted by Dr. Holmes as to Huguenot
annals; had the covenant propounded to
her at the New North church, Feb. 22, 1761.
12. James Davie Butler was born in Boston, Oct. 5, 1765. In 1786, left a school he was teaching in Oxford, to be a volunteer against Shays. Emigrated to Rutland, Vt., in Aug., 1787; was at first a hatter; in 1792, became a merchant, and continued in trade fifty years, till his death, June 3, 1842.
He was married, Aug. 22, 1802, to the widow Rachel Maynard, and March 15, 1827, to Lois Harris. He represented the town of Rutland in the Vermont Legislature, for the years 1812 and 1813. In the year 1814, he was a member of the State Council.
His first wife was daughter of Capt. Israel Harris of Williamstown, Ms., who went with Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys to take Ticonderoga, and was an officer in the battle of Bennington.
13. This infant of days may be noticeable as being the seventh of those who, in one unbroken line during one hundred and eighty-one years, have born the name of James.