Martin Butterfield (December 8, 1790 – August 6, 1866) was a farmer and businessman from Palmyra, New York.
[2] In 1828, Butterfield moved to Palmyra, Wayne County, New York, where he engaged in the hardware business and operated a rope and cordage manufacturing enterprise.
[1] Butterfield continued to farm, was active in Palmyra's Union Agricultural Society, and served as its president.
[4] In 1843 he was one of several Palmyra residents who signed a public letter stating that they personally knew Joseph Smith, and that in their view he was not trustworthy and his claims of religious visions and revelations leading to publication of the Book of Mormon should not be believed.
[6] Butterfield declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1860 and resumed his former business and agricultural pursuits.