Gen. Richard Butler

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Husband Gen. Richard Butler ¹

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           Born: 1 Apr 1743 - Ireland 2
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           Died: 4 Nov 1791 3
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         Father: Thomas Butler (1720-      ) 1
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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Children

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1 M Lt. William Butler ³

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           Died: Abt 1812-1814
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2 M Capt. James Butler ³

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           Died: Apr 1842 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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3 F [Unk] Butler

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           Born: Abt 1783
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           Died: Abt 1879 - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA
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         Spouse: Col. Isaac Meason, Sr. (      -1818) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Gen. Richard Butler

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The oldest of his father's sons, he was recommended by the Pennsylvania Convention of 1776 for Major of the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment, and was elected by Congress and commissioned July 20, 1776. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, and then, June 9, 1777, was transferred to Morgan's celebrated rifle command, which owed to him much of its high character. The cool disciplined valor, that gave steady and deadly direction to their rifles, was derived principally from this officer, who devoted himself to the drill of his men. Personally he knew no fear. He was by the side of General Arnold in the attack on the Brunswicker's camp at Saratoga, when Arnold was wounded. He was promoted Colonel of the 9th, and commanded the left in Wayne's attack on Stony Point. Under the arrangement of 1781, he was placed in command of the 5th, and assigned to Wayne's detachment, which, after the capture of Cornwallis, was moved to Georgia, and only returned after the echo of the last gun of the Revolution had died away forever. After the war he was constantly employed on public business, particularly in negotiations with the Indians and was commissioner for the purchase of the Erie triangle, and so forth. Upon the erection of Allegheny County, he was appointed Lieutenant of the county and one of the Judges of its several courts, and, on the adoption of the State Constitution of 1790, became the first State Senator from that county. A year afterward, November 4, 1791, he fell at St. Clair's defeat.

1 John Blair Linn, The Butler Family of the Pennsylvania Line (The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XII, No. 1, 1883), Pg 1.

2 John Blair Linn, The Butler Family of the Pennsylvania Line (The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XII, No. 1, 1883), Pg 6.

3 John Blair Linn, The Butler Family of the Pennsylvania Line (The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XII, No. 1, 1883), Pg 3.

4 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 502, 528.