Capt. Thomas Butler

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Husband Capt. Thomas Butler ¹

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           Born: 28 May 1748 - Ireland 2
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         Father: Thomas Butler (1720-      ) 1
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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Children

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1 M Judge Butler ³

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2 M Col. Robert Butler ³

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3 M William E. Butler ³

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Thomas Butler

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He was a student of law in Judge Wilson's office, when, January 5, 1776, he was commissioned 1st Lieutenant of his brother William's company in Col. Arthur St. Clair's Battalion, and October 4, 1776, was promoted Captain in the 3d Pennsylvania. At the battle of Brandywine he received the thanks of Gen. Washington on the field, through the commander's aid Gen. Hamilton, for his intrepid conduct in rallying some retreating troops, and checking the enemy by a severe fire; and at Monmouth Gen. Wayne thanked him for defending a defile in the face of a severe fire from the enemy, while Col. Richard Butler's regiment made good its retreat. At the close of the war he became a farmer, but entered the army again as Major in 1791. At St. Clair's defeat he headed a bayonet charge on horseback, though his leg had been broken by a ball. It was with great difficulty that his surviving brother Edward removed him from the field. In 1794 he was Lieut.-Col. Commandant of the 4th sub-legion at Fort Fayette, Pittsburgh, which he prevented the insurgents from taking more by his name and threats than by his force. In 1803 he was arrested by the commanding General Wilkinson, at Fort Adams on the Mississippi, and sent to Maryland, where he was tried by a courtmartial, and acquitted of all the charges save that of wearing his hair. [In disobedience of Wilkinson's well-known order to cut off queues.] He returned to New Orleans and took command, but was re-arrested. Out of the arrest and persecution of this sturdy veteran, Washington Irving (Knickerbocker) worked up a fine piece of burlesque, in which Gen. Wilkinson's character is inimitably delineated in that of the vain and pompous General Von Poffenburgh.

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 5.