Generation No. 1
John Butler was born before 1652 in Barton Regis, Bristol, England, and died about 1712. �He was a Quaker. �He married Elizabeth about 1679.
Their children:
1. �John Butler, born 1670, Bedminster,
England; died after 1704.
2. �Jonathan Butler, born about 1672; died�March 22, 1731/32,
Bedminster (near Bristol), Somersetshire, England.
Generation No. 2
John Butler married Bersheba Noble (daughter of William Noble and Frances Price) in 1703 in Friends Meeting, Bristol, England. �They emigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1670 and 1711. �Bersheba's brother, Able Noble, emigrated to Philadelphia as early as 1684, only two years after William Penn. �Her father, before his death in 1696, had obtained certain rights to lands near Philadelphia. �These factors could have prompted the coming of the Butlers, who thus joined the considerable migration of Quakers to Pennsylvania from the Bristol area and from many other parts of England.
Their children:
1. �Son Butler
2. �Daughter Butler
3. �Daughter Butler
4. �Noble Butler, born March 4, 1702/03, Bedminster (near Bristol), Somersetshire, England; died about December 10, 1799, Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. �
Generation �No. 3
Noble Butler �was born March 4, 1702/03 and married Rachel Jones on October 18, 1727 in Kennett Meeting House, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He died about December 10, 1799. �Noble established the Butler family in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
From the time of his birth until he reached the age of twenty-three, there is little record of Noble Butler. �We know, however, that he lived with his parents in Philadelphia for most of that period. �Before coming of age, he had moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania, as appears from a certificate of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends directed to the Monthly Meeting in Kennett (Chester County).
From 1736 until his death more than 60 years later, Noble and his family lived and prospered in that portion of Uwchlan Township which is now Upper Uwchlan Township. �Noble was a cordwainer (worker in leather) by occupation, but also a farmer, and through the years acquired close to 650 acres of land consisting of several adjoining farms on which his sons settled. �This land is now situated around the present villages of The Eagle and Byers; close to it now runs the Pennsylvania Turnpike and through it State Route #100. Noble was active in Quaker affairs and was an overseer in Meeting from 1740-1743.
Their children:
1. �Bersheba Butler
2. �Enoch Butler, born 1732, Chester County, Pennsylvania (probably in Kennett Township); died 1801, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
3. �John Butler, born about 1734, Chester County, Pennsylvania (probably in Kennett Township); died February 1808, Uwchlan Township, Chester Co., Pennsylvania.
4. �William Butler, born about 1738
5. �Noble Butler, Jr. born 1739, died May 8, 1799.
6. �Benjamin Butler, born 1743.
Generation No. 4
Enoch Butler was born in 1732 and married Deborah Swayne (daughter of Francis Swayne and Esther Dicks) on May 29, 1755 in Caln Friends Meeting, Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. �He died in 1801.
Their children:
�1. �Esther Butler--mar. John Matthews
�2. �Abigail Butler--mar. Mr. McCashlan
�3. �John Butler--mar. Jane Moore
�4. �Enoch Butler, born about 1757
�5. �Noble Butler, born about 1766, Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania; died between March--May 1840, �Birmingham Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
�6. �Benjamin Butler, born about 1767, died about 1815, West Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
�7. �Elisha Butler, born about 1768, Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania; died 1821.
�8. �Rachel Butler, born about 1770, died May 25, 1846.
�9. �Sarah Butler, born 1773, Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania; died September 5, 1851, West Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
10. �Elijah Butler, born about 1775, Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania; died after 1840.
11. �Swayne Butler, born about 1778, Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania; died about 1839.
Generation No. 5
Noble Butler was born about 1766 married Isabella Simonson, daughter of William Simonson. �He died between March--May 1840 in Birmingham Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Their children:
1. �Martha Butler--mar. Hugh Sloan
2. �William Simonson Butler, born March 1, 1799; died March 22, 1878
3. �Deborah Butler, Born about 1810; died after 1860, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
4. �Jane Butler, born about 1825; died 1881
Generation No. 6
William Simonson Butler was born March 1, 1799 and married Margaret Moore on January 2, 1821. �He died on March 22, 1878. �He was a farmer. �
Their children:
1. �Martha Jane Butler, died before 1835
2. �Lydia Butler
3. �Margaret Butler, died after 1911.
4. �John Noble Butler, born August 10, 1831, Birmingham Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; died January 7, 1901, Chichester Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
5. �Edmund H. Butler, born May 12, 1838; died Upper Chichester Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
6. �Anna Butler, born about 1842
7. �Mary Emma Butler, born about 1844, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
8. �William E. Butler, born August 16, 1848, Birmingham Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; died October 20, 1883.
Generation No.7
John Noble Butler was born August 10, 1831 and married Sarah Brinton Pyle, daughter of John Pyle and Margaretta Hanum, on April 19, 1866 in Dilworthtown. �He died January 7, 1901.
Their children:
1. �Margaretta Pyle Butler, born July 20, 1867, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware; died August 24, 1956. �
2. �Edna Isabell Butler, born March 3, 1869, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; died May 27, 1951.
3. �Mary Ellen Butler, born March 11, 1871, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware; died October 1941.
4. �Anna Elizabeth Butler, born between �August 3, 1871--August 16, 1873; died 1917.
5. �William Simonson Butler, born November 25, 1875; died December 31, 1934.
6. �Charles Moore Butler, born May 1, 1879, Boothwyn, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; died December 29, 1955.
7. �Martha Virginia Butler, born July 1, 1881, Chadds Ford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; died March 7, 1970.
Generation No. 8
Edna Isabell Butler was born March 3, 1869 and married Charles Edward Peters, son of Pennell Peters and Mary Twaddell, on March 10, 1896. �She died May 27, 1951.
Their children:
1. �Elizabeth Sara Peters, born November 15, 1896, Granogue, New Castle County, Delaware; died November 28, 1984.
2. �William John Peters, born November 21, 1898, Chadds Ford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; died August 1972.
3. �Martha Ellen Peters, born September 10, 1902; died October 30, 1902.
4. �Charles Edward Peters, Jr., born September 5, 1905, Boothwyn, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; died October 17, 1982, Boothwyn, Pennsylvania.
5. �Marian Helen Peters, born June 10, 1911, Boothwyn, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
6. �Paul Lawrence Peters, born September 24, 1913; died December 1913.
Generation No. 9
Charles Edward Peters, Jr., was born September 5, 1905 and married �Elva Irving McCafferty, daughter of John McCafferty and Bessie Heacock, on December 25, 1926 in Boothwyn, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He died October 17, 1982.
Charles and Elva McCafferty Peters were my grandparents. �I have considerable information on their descendants.
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