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Joel Butler was born in MA in 1752, and served in the American Revolution as a Private in Col. Joseph's Regiment in 1777 in the Vermont Militia. Joel is listed by the D.A.R. as #142333, and is in the Vermont Militia Rolls which is cited in the * Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution buried in Indiana. Joel was one of the first in Jennings county, IN and is listed as the first school teacher, and also a Baptist minister. In *this source, he is listed in being buried in the 'Old cemetery near Scipio, Jennings County'.

Joel Butler was born in MA in 1752, and served in the American Revolution as a Private in Col. Joseph's Regiment in 1777 in the Vermont Militia. It seems that his brother James also served. Joel is listed by the D.A.R. as #142333, and his brother James is listed but there is no number in this source, the Vermont Militia Rolls which is cited in the * Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution buried in Indiana.