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Maria and Mathilda Butterfield appear to have been the youngest daughters of John and Abigail (Morse) Butterfield. Their ages in the 1800 and 1810 censuses for Washington County, New York, suggest that they were born between 1794 and 1800., Maria Francisco's official death record says her father was John Butterfield, but her mother's name is not given.
No official birth record has been found for Maria Butterfield. When Maria married in 1840, she reported her age then as 42 (b abt 1798), but her official Michigan death record gives her age at death as 75 years, 2 months and 13 days, suggesting a birthdate of around 5 Nov 1800. Her gravestone in the Wilsey Cemetery in Clinton County, MI, however, says she died 18 Jan 1876 at the age of 76 years, 9 months and 18 days, suggesting an earlier birthdate, one of around 31 Mar 1799.
A Family Group Record compiled for John and Abigail (Morse) Butterfield by Charles Butterfield of Danvers, Massachusetts, in 1973 provides only minimal information about Maria Butterfield, saying only that she was one of the younger daughters of John and Abigail, that she married "Lonson Brown of Stockton, New York" (a township in Chautauqua County) and that she "went West."
One Alanson Brown, aged 30-39 (b betw 1791 and 1800), appears in the 1830 U.S. census for Portland Township in Chautauqua County, NY. In addition to a wife of the same age, his household consisted of one son b 1826-1830, one son b 1821-1825, one son b 1816-1820 and one daughter aged 10-14 (b 1816-1820). This Alonson Brown's wife, though of an age consistent with Maria's age, has not been identified. No Alanson Brown appears in the index for Chautauqua County's 1835 census.
Another Alanson Brown, b abt 1802, and his family is found in the 1850 U.S. Census for Pomfret in Chautauqua County, New York. He and his wife Betsey had eight minor children at the time, born between 1836 and 1848. One of those children, Seneca Brown, lived in Stockton (adjacent to Pomfret) in 1880, and is buried in a Stockton cemetery.
A third Lonson Brown appears in the 1830 U.S. census for Verona Township in Oneida County, New York, as a man of 20-30 years of age with a wife of the same age group, a son under 5 years and a daughter under 5. It is unlikely that this David Lonson Brown (b 1805) of Verona, NY and (by 1850) of Plymouth County, Iowa, is the same person as the Lonson Brown of Stockton, NY, who reportedly married Maria Butterfield. As this David Lonson Brown was only 22 when he married Diana Sturtevant in 1827, it is unlikely that he had been married before that time to anyone else, particularly to Maria Butterfield who was five years older than he.
No evidence has been found to confirm Maria's first marriage to any of these or any other Lonson or Alonson Browns.
Maria did "go West," however, for she married her second husband, Francis Francisco, in Clinton County, Michigan in 1840. She reported her age then as 42 (b abt 1798). Francis was 33.
The Franciscos were living in Watertown Township in Clinton County in 1850 when the U.S. census was taken. Living in their household was Mary Johnson, 28, and five young children--Jackson (12), Nancy A. (8), Sidney (6), and Richard Johnson (4), presumably Mary's children, and a 4-year-old girl, Cornelia Case. Nathan and Ephraim Case, Maria's nephews and sons of Octavia Butterfield and Ephraim Case, lived nearby.
In 1860, the Franciscos were living in Riley Township, presumably on their farm in Section 34 which Francis had purchased in 1841. The 4-year-old Cornelia Case from the 1850 census still lived in their household, but in 1860 was listed as "Jane Francisco," aged 14. Also in their household was 6-year-old Charlie [Francisco], reportedly born in Michigan. Mary Johnson and her children no longer lived with the Franciscos.
By 1870, Maria and Francis Francisco had moved to Olive Township. At 71 and 62, they lived alone except for a 16-year-old Charles Bricker who helped with the farm work. They lived adjacent to the family of young Edward Case, one of Nathan and Emilene Case's sons.
Note: Much of the information received about John Butterfield and Abigail Morse descendents was rec
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