Thomas Butler and Unknown

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Husband Thomas Butler ¹

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           Born: 6 Apr 1720 - Kilkenny, Ireland 1
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       Marriage: 1742 - Kilkenny, Ireland 1

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Wife Unknown

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Children

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1 M 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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2 M Col. William Butler ¹

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           Born: 6 Jan 1745 - Ireland 2
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           Died: 16 May 1789 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Trinity Church

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3 M Capt. Thomas Butler ¹

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           Born: 28 May 1748 - Ireland 2
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           Died: 7 Sep 1805 4
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4 F Eleanor Butler ²

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           Born: Abt 1754
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5 M Lt. Percival Butler ¹

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           Born: 6 Apr 1760 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 2
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           Died: 9 Sep 1821 2
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         Spouse: [Unk] Hawkins (      -      ) 4

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6 M Lt. Edward Butler ¹

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           Born: 20 Mar 1762 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 2
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           Died: 6 May 1803 2
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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Butler

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He was born and married in Kilkenny, Ireland, where some of his children were born. The family then emigrated to the Cumberland Valley in Pennsylvania, settling at Carlisle.
He belonged to the Church of England, and was prominent in securing the building of the original (St. John's) Episcopal Church, which stood on the northeast corner of the public square at Carlisle.

F. P. Blair relates an anecdote of 1781, when the Indians became troublesome on the frontiers, derived from a letter belonging to an old Pennsylvania friend of the Butler parents, who brought it with him from Ireland. "While the five sons," says the epistle, "were absent from home in the service of the country, the old father took it into his head to go also. The neighbors remonstrated, but his wife said: "Let him go; I can get along without him, and have something to feed the army in the bargain; and the country wants every man who can shoulder a musket."
It was doubtless this extraordinary zeal of the family Gen. Washington had in mind, when at his own table, surrounded by a large party of officers, he gave as a toast, "The Butlers and their five sons." This anecdote rests upon the authority of Gen. Finley, of Cincinnati, who long survived his comrades in arms, and delighted to talk of their martial deeds. Gen. Lafayette, in a letter still extant in the possession of a lady connected by marriage with the Butlers, wrote: "When I wished a thing well done, I ordered a Butler to do it."

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 John Blair Linn, The Butler Family of the Pennsylvania Line (The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XII, No. 1, 1883), Pg 5.