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Note: Name: Jethro Butler. Sr & Jr 1810 (City, County, State): Lenox, Berkshire, Massachusetts Free White Males - 45 and over: 1 Jethro Free White Females - 45 and over :1 Rebecca Free White Males - 26 thru 44 : 1 Jethro II Free White Males - 16 thru 25: 1 Elijah Free White Females - 16 thru 25:3 Lucy, Rebecca, Mary Free White Males - 10 thru 15: 1 Levi Free White Females - 10 thru 15: 2 Persis & 1st Thankful? Free White Males - Under 10: 2 George & Cornelius Free White Females - Under 10: 1 Thankful 1820 census- Ohio > Cuyahoga > Dover, pg 1 Jethro Butler 26-45, wife 16-26, 2 boys & 2 girls 0-10 [are any of the children step children?] 1830 census- Ohio > Huron > Eldridge, image 7 Justus and the other boy, possibly Jethro III, are missing Jethro Butler 40-50, woman 40-50, girl, 15-20, girl 10-15, boy & girl 5-10 (? Jethro III), boy 0-5 ************************************ Private and special statutes of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Volume 4 By Massachusetts, pg. 355 An Act to establish The Methodist Episcopal Society of Lenox. Chap. 42. [This act passed June 22, 1811.] Sect. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Gamaliel B. Whiting, William Whiting, Amos Ben- society incorton, Josiab G. Barker, William F. Swift, William S. Smith, porated. John S. Smith, James Smith, Enoch Johnson, Erastus Benton, Simeon Calkins, JETHRO BUTLER, Salmon Andrews, JETHRO BUTLER, JUN. Joshua W. Cobb, Zebadiah Hyde, Andrew Hyde, 3d. Selah Cook, Jesse Root, Orriange Judd, Seth N. Judd, Daniel Dunbar, Solomon Bodfish, Oliver Stedman, John Bennett, Sion Turner, James Newbury, William Ross, jun. Silvanus Hullet, Samuel Hullet, William Dunham, Levi Goodrich, Horace Whiting, Jeremiah Bulmore, James Smith, jun. Selah Andrews, , Walter Cook, and Oren Stephens, members of the said religious society, with their families and estates, be, and they are hereby incorporated by the name of The Methodist Episcopal Society of Lenox, with such others as may hereafter associate and join with them, with all the privileges and immunities to which parishes are entitled by the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth : Provided however, That all such persons shall proviso. be holden to pay their proportion of all monies assessed for parochial purposes in the town or parish, to which they respectively belonged previous to the passing of this Act. Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, That Azariah Egleston, justice t° i»Esq. be, and he is hereby authorized to issue a warrant direct- sue warrant, ed to some suitable member of said Methodist society, requiring him to notify and warn the members thereof to meet at such time and place as shall be appointed in said warrant, to choose such officers as parishes in this Commonwealth are by law empowered to choose in the month of March or April annually.
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