John Buttrick
BIRTH
Jul 20, 1731
Concord, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America
DEATH
May 16, 1791
Concord, Massachusetts
FAMILY
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Buttrick, John
(1731-1791)
John Buttrick was a Concord militia major who led Massachusetts provincials at the North Bridge on April 19, 1775. He gave the order to return British fire, making the engagement one of the opening battles of the American Revolution.
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Horatio Gates Buttrick
(1778-1856)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Major John Buttrick House | 231 Liberty St, Concord, MA 01742 | MUSEUM |
DIED:
Concord, Massachusetts
May 16, 1791
John Buttrick was born on Jul 20, 1731. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies John Buttrick with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. John Buttrick died on May 16, 1791 in Concord, Massachusetts. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.