William Button
d. 1620
Not much is known about William Button, who travelled on Mayflower as a servant to Samuel Fuller. William Bradford described his unfortunate death before Mayflower reached Cape Cod: "there died but one of the passengers, which was William Button, a youth, servant to Samuel Fuller, when they drew near the coast."
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