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- from "A history of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, from its first beginnings to the present time", Vol II by Oscar Jewell Harvey, 1909
John Butler (born at Chebacco in 1708), third and youngest child of Lieut. William and Mary (Ingalls) Butler, grew to manhood in the town of Ipswich, where he was married in January, 1730, to Hannah Perkins. In 1732 John Butler and his wife and their only child, accompanied by James Perkins - a brother of Mrs. Butler - removed from Ipswich to Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Lyme, which was originally a part of Saybrook, now covers some seven or eight miles square of territory, bounded on the west by the Connecticut River and on the south by Long Island Sound. As originally laid out the town of Lyme extended eastward to the bounds of the town of New London. It was settled in 1666, largely by inhabitants from the Saybrook town-plot - an active, sensible, resolute and blueblooded people. Lyme today embraces a number of villages and hamlets scattered throughout its territory - among them being Lyme, Lyme Street or Old Lyme (for the village is known by all these names), South Lyme, Bill Hill, Hamburg and North Lyme. (See notes on pages 246 and 248.) Lyme and South Lyme lie in the southern part of the town near the Sound, while Hamburg and North Lyme are distant, respectively, about eight and ten miles, by the public highway, from the coast - being in that part of the town which formerly was designated as the North Quarter, North Society or Third Society of Lyme. Through the north-west corner of Lyme flows a small stream known as Eight-Mile River, which empties into an arm of the Connecticut River. This arm, or inlet, was known in early days as Eight Mile River Cove, but now is called Hamburg Cove from the village near by. It is at the head of tidewater. Another small stream, called Falls River, flowing from the east in a zig-zag course, empties into Hamburg Cove just south of the village.
John Butler and James Perkins settled within the bounds of the North Society of Lyme, not far from the present village of Hamburg, and later Mr. Perkins became a Deacon in the Congregational Church there. At the time of their settlement they jointly purchased 290 acres of land back of Mount Archer, in the direction of the district known as Joshuatown - the north-westernmost section of Lyme, which has, from the first, borne this name, derived from Joshua, the third son of Uncas the noted sachem of the Mohegans (mentioned on page 196), who was once the lord and tenant of that rough and romantic region. About 1786 Messrs. Butler and Perkins bought in common other lands in Lyme, and in January, 1739, they made an amicable division of all their Lyme lands. In the Spring or Summer of 1755 John
Butler died at Lyme, being survived by his wife, Hannah, and nine children, the youngest of whom was only three years of age. The inventory of John Butler's estate - the bulk of which was in lands - amounted to £6,403, 8sh., in "money of the old tenor" (see note "*", page 252), and the debts footed up to £3,154, 17sh. 5d.
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1707 - 1755 (48 years)