The Founders of Hartford
William Butler, Cambridge, 1634; freeman, Mass., May 6, 1635; was an original proprietor at Hartford,
and received 28 acres in the distribution of 1639-40 ; his house-lot was on the road from the Little River to the
North Meadow (now Front St.), bounded W. by John Talcott's land. He m. Eunice, sister of Tristram Coffin, of
Nantucket; d. 1648, without wife or ch., leaving by his will, dated May 11, the greater portion of his estate
to his brother, Deacon Richard Butler. He mentions children of his sister West, and his sister Winter, “living
in Old England,” and gives “three-skore pounds” to the Church of Hartford. Inv. £429. 3
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