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he left the Manor plantation. (This is believed to be the house shown on the sampler worked by the great, great, great grandmother of James Robrt Bruce Butt Williams.) The Manor had thirty-three rooms and was said to be very beautiful. Rishard's daughter, Frances, and sons Caleb and Arthur were given Negro slaves. Daughter, Abigail, was given a four-post bed and sons Richard and Anthony each received 2-year old heifers. Son, Joseph was given his father's long gun and sword. His wife, Frances, was named executrix and bequeathed the balance of' the estate, at her death to be divided among the youngest children. Frances, daughter of Richard and Frances above, ~~ried first Horatio Butt who was the son of Lemuel Butt and Kathrine Wilkins. This means that cousins married cousins, which is collateral or double descent. Frances and Horatio had six children. When Horatio died Frances married the Rev. Edmund Hall and they had one son, Horatio Edmund Hall. The Reverend Hall died and Frances married as third husband Capt. Nathaniel Butt (d. 1804) He was the son of Josiah Butt (ancestor of Maj. Archibald Butt) and Mary Boush Butt. All husbands were cousins. Mr. James Robert Bruce Butt Williams of Napa, California, i~ descended from Frances and Horatio through their daughter, Sarah, who married Henry MODre of North Carolina. He has been most helpful with the Virginia Butts. He would be a third or fourth cousin of the children of William Miles Butt • . Horatio Butt II was a son of Frances and Horatio above. He married (1) Sallie Stevenson, (2) Sallie Wells, (3) Jane Butt,(4)Esther Gordon. There two daughters of the first three marriages, Martha Frances and Cassandra and three sons of the fourth marriage. Lucius, Joseph John and Horace (Horatio) James. Dr. Horace James Butt, son of Horatio Butt II and Esther Gordon, was graduated from the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1841. He married Olivia Ann Creenmuir of Norfolk County, Va. He moved to the Bonnerton District of North Carolina, which is in Eastern North Carolina. Here he practiced medicine for many years. According to Mrs Laura Tripp, Dr. Butt had a cousin, John N. Butt, who was also a doctor in North Carolina. Both of Dr. Butt's brothers, Lucius and Joseph John, died. Lucius in infancy and Joseph John in 1861. Dr. Butt was never in the Confederate Army though he lived during the time of the war. It is thought that this was because he was the only doctor in this section for miles around and was needed there, or for reason~ of health or age. Family legend says that after the battle at Fort Hill, near Washington, N. C., he slipped through the yankee lines to treat the wounded Confederate soldiers and was with the army for this period. Major Archibald Butt was Aid to both President Theodore Roosvelt and President and is remembered because be gave up his seat in the last lifebOat to leave the sinking to women and children and went down with the ship. Major Butt was descended from Josiah Butt through his son, Jeremiah Butt. This is a oollateral line to the descendents of Horatio Butt. Josiah was an officer and fought in the Revolution. It is said that two of Jeremiah's sons, John and Diward, left Virginia with a large number of slaves to settle on land they had bought in Florida. On the way the slaves mutined and killed one brother. The surviving brother stopped in Augusta, Georgia, instead of going to Florida. He was later joined by his brother, Jeremiah, and they married two Boggs sisters in Augusta and established this line.