Constant Butts

Brief Life History of Constant

When Constant Butts was born on 18 December 1725, in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, John Butts, was 34 and her mother, Abigail Briggs, was 27. She married Daniel Barrington on 30 May 1790, in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.

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Daniel Barrington
1720–
Constant Butts
1725–
Marriage: 30 May 1790

Sources (4)

  • Constant Butts, "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
  • Content Butts, "Rhode Island Town Marriages Index, 1639-1916"
  • Constant Butts, "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"

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World Events (2)

1763 · First Synagogue in America

The first Jewish Synagogue in America was built in Newport, Rhode Island in 1763. It still stands today, making it the oldest synagogue in the United States.

1772 · The Gaspee Affair

On June 9, 1772, colonists that are angry with the trade restrictions that Britain put them under, board the HMS Gaspee and set it ablaze. This was the first act of violence against the British on the North American continent.

Name Meaning

variant of Butt , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

topographic name from Middle English buttes, either a reference to the short ridges of plowed land at the edge of a common arable field, or the plural form of butt ‘tree stump’ or ‘mound, hillock, archery butt’. See Butt 2.

English:

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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