EV. FRANCIS BUTT, Jr., came from the Methodist Protestant Church to the Christian Church. He was a member of the Washington Point (Berkley) church. [292] He was ordained April 4,1852, and became a member of the Eastern Virginia Conference. Not many years afterwards, charges were brought against him and he was suspended from the ministry by the Standing Executive committee till the meeting of the Conference held at Providence, in Norfolk county. The report of the committee was adopted, and "on motion, the name of Francis Butt, Jr., of Norfolk, Virginia, a member of the Conference, was ordered to be erased from the Conference record, and he declared no longer a member of this Conference."

[LCM 292-293]