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I must have completely missed ancestry.com's announcement of the PCC Wills so was very grateful when this was pointed out by you Katerimmer. They are a bonus and add certainty to what may have been a tentative link or provide previously unknown names. Martha Elizabeth BUTTALL was born 20 June 1627 at Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales and married Dr Thomas WYNNE Jr abt 1656 in Wrexham. They had one known  child, a son named Jonathan. Martha died abt 1670 in Flintshire and her husband remarried Elizabeth CHORLEY in 1676. In 1682 Thamas and Elizabeth WYNNE migrated to Pennsylvania, USA on board the ship 'Welcome'. I assume Jonathan Wynne migrated with them. This is part of the Quaker link to Pennsylvania.
Yvonne

RE BUTTALLS OF WREXHAM

I live in New Zealand and am a BUTTALL descendant. There are many descendants both here and in Australia who have come down through the BUTTALL/HODGES marriage when Mary BUTTALL, the daughter of Samuel (son of Randle and Jane) married Sir Nathaniel HODGES in London in 1702. Mary and Nathaniel's daughter Mary married Thomas GLASS MD in 1737, Thomas and Mary's GLASS'S daughter Ann married John LOWDER in 1778, John and Ann LOWDER'S daughter Mary Ann married John LEES in 1799, John and Mary Ann LEE'S son William Lowder LEES married twice. After the death of his first wife, Harriet TEW, he married Elizabeth KINNERSLEY in 1845 and they migrated to Melbourne, Australia and then onto New Zealand in 1864. They had 13 children, though John had also had 2 sons in his previous marriage to Harriet TEW. I am a great great grand daughter of William and Elizabeth LEES.
Through my research I have discovered a book first published in 1996 titled "Thomas Glass MD Physician of Exeter" by Alick Cameron. In it are photos of the BUTTALL Sugar House (now called The Retreat) in Topsham, Devon and I quote the following: " The Sugar House deserves mention, not least because the building is still standing. It had passed to Lady Hodges (nee Mary Buttall) from her relative Samuel Buttall (who was in fact her father), an importer of sugar from the West Indies, having purchased the building for his purposes in 1684. The raw sugar was brought to the port of Topsham in barrels, in the form of molasses, thence up the river by lighter, to be refined at the Sugar House and converted into sugar cones."
There are several other references to the BUTTALLS in this book.
It appears that the previous one or two generations of Buttall's in Wrexham were Quakers, though Samuel BUTTALL became a Baptist Minister from about 1690 in Plymouth. I have found the Baptism records of three (possibly six but parents not noted for the other three) of Samuel and Mary's children, namely Mary in 1680, Anthony in 1681, and An in 1685. The other tree were another Anthony in 1678, Nathanile in 1685 and Samuel in 1701. All six Baptism's took place in Charles Church, Plymouth, Devon. This church was bombed in the blitz and it's shell is left as a monument to those who lost their lives during the bombing raids of WWII.
I await further fascinating research snippets from other BUTTALL researchers.