John Buttrick

(1731-1791)

BIRTH

July 20, 1731

PLACE

Concord, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America

DEATH

May 16, 1791

PLACE

Concord, Massachusetts

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John Buttrick (1731–1791) was a Concord farmer, town official, and militia major. On April 19, 1775, he helped organize Massachusetts companies and led their advance toward the North Bridge. After British soldiers fired, he ordered the provincials to return fire, marking a decisive opening clash of the Revolution. He married Abigail Jones and raised ten children. He repaired roads and bridges, served as selectman, and worked on Revolutionary committees.

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EARLY LIFE

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.

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DEATH

John Buttrick was a Concord farmer, town official, and militia major. On April 19, 1775, he helped organize Massachusetts companies and led their advance toward the North Bridge. After British soldiers fired, he ordered the provincials to return fire, marking a decisive opening clash of the Revolution. John Buttrick died on May 16, 1791 in Concord, Massachusetts. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.

Old Hill Burying Ground

Old Hill Burial Ground, Concord, MA, United States