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From Ancient Middlesex: with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the county officially since its settlement
by Levi S. Gould, Somerville Journal Print, Somerville MA, 1905
Page 137
Stedman Buttrick, of Concord, 1837 to 1855 (18 years)
born there September 16, 1796. He was a member of the Buttrick family renowned for patriotism in the Revolutionary period. He was a Selectman several years and Town Clerk from 1842 to 1851, and represented the town of Concord in 1836-37-38 and '39 as a Democrat and anti-Mason. He was also the candidate of the anti-Masonic party for County Treasurer, defeating his fellow townsman, John Keyes. He resided upon the estate and cultivated the very ground from which Major John Buttrick, his grandfather, gave the order which fired "the shot heard 'round the world." Three of his sons, true to their ancestry, were in the Civil war; one of them died in the service, having previously fought for the cause of freedom under John Brown, in Kansas. Stedman Buttrick was a man of splendid physique, and a striking example of the sterling qualities of mind and body which characterized the yeomanry of Middlesex county. In youth he was fond of hunting and fishing, and in later years of a good game of whist. His last words, so it is said, were: "What's trumps?" He died November 6, 1874, aged seventy-eight years.
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