History of Butler County, Pennsylvania, Part 8

Author: Brown, Robert C., ed; Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.); Meagher, John, jt. comp; Meginness, John Franklin, 1827-1899, jt. comp
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Chicago : R. C. Brown
Number of Pages: 1658

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In The Repository of June IS, 1828, is a notice of the marriage of James Nicholl, aged sixty years, with Elizabeth Snow, aged twenty years, both of Parker township. The poet of The Repository added the following lines:

The groom of three score summer suns Has braved the heat and sultry wind. But now ere scorching August comes, With naught but Snow can comfort find.

The persons recommended for tavern licenses in 1804, were William Ayres and James Thompson of Butler borough, with John Moser, Robert Graham, George Bowers and William Brown. In Connoquenessing township, were Guy Hilliard, Robert Boggs, Benjamin Garvin, James Amberson and Matthew White ; David Sutton, of Middlesex ; Robert Reed and Adam Funk, of Slippery Rock, and Daniel Fiedler of " Muller."

In 1805 Adam Funk applied for township leave to open a tavern at Butler ; while William Brown, John Moser, George Bowers, Joseph McClelland, Abner Coats, James Thompson and Abraham Brinker also made similar applications. Thomas Lyon, of Middlesex: Matthew White, Robert Boggs, George Smith, James Amberson and William Freeman, of Connoquenessing ; Samuel A. Rippey, of Slippery Rock ; Benjamin Garvin, of Cranberry, and Robert Reed, of Mercer, were also applicants for license in 1805; and in 1806, Richard Maybury of Muddy

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Creek ; James Thompson, Michael Waterhouse and George Young, of Butler; Henry Evans, of Mercer, and John Cooper, of Donegal.

In June, 1807, Frederick Rapp was recommended for a license to keep tavern at Harmony. In 1809 Elisha Frost was permitted to keep tavern at Zelienople, and Jacob Mechling and William Martin in Butler ; while in 1810, John Shryock asked for a license to keep tavern in Donegal.

In 1799, when Matthew White settled at Whitestown-where he had pre- viously purchased 100 acres of land-he brought with him three slaves named George Mitchell, Pompey and Eleanor Troy, or " Black Nell." They were really the property of Alexander White, of Franklin county, father of Matthew, who manumitted them prior to 1803, in fulfillment of a promise made during a serious illness. In order, however, that they might be cared for, he gave George Mitchell to his son, Matthew, Pompey to his son, James, later of Waterford, Erie county, Pennsylvania, and " Black Nell " to his daughter, Mrs. Anna Gal- braith, the wife of Alexander Galbraith, of Centre township. Eleanor Troy, or "Black Nell," who was listed in the assessment of 1821, in Centre township, as a female slave forty-five years old, died March 11, 1857. For over thirty years she was a member of the Associate Reformed Church, of Butler. She was buried on the Moses Thompson farm in Centre township, where a monument marks her grave.

In 1803 Captain Parker was assessed as the owner of one slave. In 1821 the widow Galbraith was assessed as the owner of a slave named John, valued at $100. In the same year a slave named Lewis Martin, aged thirteen years, was valued for taxable purposes in Muddy Creek township. Ile was bound for six years. In this year, also, there were two male slaves in Connoquenessing town- ship-one named Fulton, aged six years, and one named Thomas, aged five years ; also a slave girl named Sylvia, aged fourteen years.

The apprentice of sixty years ago was made acquainted with experiences practically unknown to the boys of to-day. Ile was generally an orphan boy or the son of poor parents, and his apprenticeship, in many instances, approached actual slavery. He was often poorly clothed and fed, and so harshly treated as to be compelled to regain his liberty by running away. This he often did even when well treated. Sometimes his master made no further attempt at his recapture than to offer a reward, something like the following :

SIX CENTS REWARD.

Ran away from the subscriber on Saturday evening, the 29th ult., an indented apprentice to the cabinet-making business, named John Rimbey, between nineteen and twenty years of age. He had on when he went away a new black fur hat, blue coat and corded pantaloons and striped vest. He also took with him a pair of black, thick cloth pantaloons and vest. The public is hereby cautioned against employing or harboring said apprentice, as the law shall be enforced against any person doing so.

BUTLER, NOVEMBER 4, 1828.

GEORGE MILLER.

Such rewards as one "gill of whisky" and $000 were offered in January, 1829, by John Welsh and William Stewart, the first advertising for Robert Gold, a young tailor, and the latter for John Powell, a young printer.

The " Fourth " and " Training Day " were the fete days of early times. The militia held the country then, and on " Training Day" felt they were its sole

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defenders, if not actual owners. Among the carly celebrations was that of July 4, 1823, which was presided over at Butler by Capt. William Beatty. William Campbell, the secretary, read the Declaration. Fifteen general toasts and twenty- seven volunteer toasts were responded to at the banquet, held in the house of Col. Henry Evans. \ second organization, presided over by Moses Sullivan, with John Bredin as secretary and reader, dined at David Scott's tavern and responded to thirty toasts. At the Harmony meeting twenty-two toasts were pro- posed during the banquet at Jacob Kelker's house. Such patriarchs as Peter Duffy, Moses Sullivan, Jacob Mechling, Hagerty, Neyman, Beatty and others emptied their glasses as each name or sentiment was given.

At a celebration held in Cranberry township, on another occasion, the militia received a toast in their honor with several cheers, the memory of Wash- ington, Lafayette, Jackson, Wayne and other heroes being likewise honored. It Prospect the local warriors observed the same rule.

Butler county may be called the cradle of Mormonism, in so far as the idea of a polygamic colony originated here with Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet of Nanvoo, Illinois. In the "Twenties," Smith resided at Harmony, where he boarded at the house of Isaac Hale. On January 18, 1827, he married Emma, a daughter of Isaac Hale, the union occurring in opposition to the wishes of her father, who would not permit the wedding to take place within his cabin. The sly Joseph was engaged at that time in digging for hidden treasure at Ilarmony ; so he alleged. That he conceived the idea of his community here is highly prob- able. Studying the plans of the Harmony Society, he saw that by observing the same business ideas and opposing the extreme of celibacy by the other extreme of polygamy, he could gather round him men and women to live under the laws of free love. To make the bonds closer, he conceived of a spiritual rule. In September his god gave him the book of Mormon, and, in December, 1827, he crossed from Pennsylvania into New York, found the " plates" which he had buried there and began the organization of the Mormon Society.

The prices of goods and provisions from 1804 to 1830, as they appear in the account-book of Gen. William Ayers, of Butler, now in possession of the com- missioners of the county, is given as follows :

Paper of ink-powder at Thomp- sons. .. 5 25

Pantaloons, vestcoat and trim- mings 7 6712 One-half yard of lining 20c, three-

fourths yards of muslin .... 23c 43

Black pair of hose from Crawfords 1 50

Pair of socks. 50

Pair of pantaloons and cloth to make a surtout. 7 72

One pound of tobacco 33

Thirteen doz. quills @@ 4c 51

Two bull calves @ $3.00. 6 00

One pound of coffee (from Pitts-

Six yards cotton cassimere (@50c $ 3 00 A pair of coarse woolen stockings 75

Sixteen eggs and three chickens. 34

Cider, 1 barrel. 5 00

Two thousand brick at $5.00 per M 10 00

Plasterer, per diem. 75

Building three chimnies and cel- larwall. 65 50

Bed-bolsters, tick and pillow, 25

1bs 7 8115

Wheat, per bushel. 1 00

Shoulder of bacon, 12 1bs. 10c. . 1 20 Eighty-seven lbs. of pork at 4/2c. 3 91

Hired man, per month 5 00 burgh)

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One pound of sugar (from Pitts- burgh). S

One and one-half doz. eggs 17

One loaf of sugar, 7 1bs. 5 oz. ( 44c . 3 23

Wheelbarrow 4 00

Horse-collar 1 50

Two quarts of salt 25

Herrings, per doz 31

Lime. per bushel. 1834

One-half bushel of salt 1 25

Butter, per 1b 612

Flour, 33 lbs 67

Hide of small steer 2 00

Beef -- 14 1bs at 6c 84

Tallow-412 1bs. at 12'c 5612

Veal-712 lbs. at Sc. 375

Coal-50 bushels m 5c. 2 50

Bacon from Scotland, 72 1bs ( 1312C. 9 72

Grinding wheat for bread, per

Skein of sewing thread. 615

bushel.

212

A pair of Morocco boots. 2 00

Paper of pins. 25

Six yards of calico or 3712 2 25

The California gold-fever " struck " this county in 1849 and continued until 1852. During the two years several stalwart fellows left the county for the Pacific slope. Many of them found profit and pleasure, a greater number disap- pointment, and a few death. Among the Argonauts who left in 1819 was Will- iam J. Beatty, son of Captain Beatty. He died near Coloma, California, Feb- ruary 1, 1850. Alexander Martin, another Argonaut, died there in April, 1850. In March, 1850, the following-named residents of Butler borough started for Cali- fornia : C. E. Purviance, 1'. De Park Taylor, Robert J. Jordan, J. Q. A. Ken- nedy, John Bredin (son of Maurice ), Capt. A. M. Evans, John Young, Simon P. Young and Christian Bortmass. At the same time a detachment left Harris- ville, under Capt. James Harris. In February, 1851, Captain Ziegler and friends returned from the golden country. On March 4, 1851, Peter Schenck returned and died here a day later. Peter Duffy left with a thorough outfit in 1849, and did not return until 1853. Jacob Ziegler remained fourteen months. William Russell, who died here in October, 1885, was one of the Argonauts of 1850. IIe resided in the Golden State for thirty years: while Martin McCandless, who left here in 1852, revisited his home in September, 1893. for the first time.

Within a year or so many of those who set out with such high hopes were glad to return to their friends here. Among the jokers of the company were the local poets, one of whom wrote as follows :

I've been to Californy With my wash-bowl on my knee; I've seen the tallest elephant That ever mortal see- Ile measures, from one tip to tip, About a million feet. And from the other tip to top, The eritter can't be beat.

Housekeeper per week ....... 30 to 66c

Six bu. oats ( 20c and 30 bu. rye w 3712c per bushel .. $ 8 25 Pair of shoes, made by C. Myers. 1 75 Coarse blue and white handker- chief 3716

One cow and three bushels of buckwheat. 20 00

Whisky, per gallon. 50

Cord-wood, per cord 75

Comb. 50

Blanket $3.00, blanket $6.50. 9 50

Large kettle for hatters shop. . . . Five and one-half yards flannel for Mallissa Jones (colored ser- vant) 3 0914

Tobacco, per 1b. 1212

Nails, per 1b. 10

Pine tub 1 50

Bonnet and gingham for Mallissa 2 85

Three and one-half yards linsey

( 8713C. 3 0612

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The right of petition and its accompanying right of remonstrance were freely exercised by the pioneers. The following is one of the earliest instances of the exercise of the former right. It was presented to the court of quarter sessions in November, 1804.

To the honourable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Butler, now composing a Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in and for the said county. The petition of a number of the inhabitants of the said county humbly sheweth, that the county labours under inconvenience for want of proper wood-rangers, and, therefore, pray your Honours to license two suitable persons for that purpose, agreedbly to the 7th section of an Act of Assembly on that subject, passed the 9th day of May, 1724. And your petitioners as in duty bound will Pray, etc.

This petition was written by William Ayres and signed by the following named pioneers : Matthew White, John Negley, David Kerr, James Scott, William Campbell, David Dougal, John McCandless, Samuel Cunningham, Will- iam Dodds, Andrew Allsworth, John Woodcock, John Shannon, James Irvine, James Amberson. William Skellen, Barnet Gilliland, Jacob Mechling, Daniel McMichael, William Adams, Christopher McMichael and David McMichael. The indorsement shows that the court appointed David Sutton, Sr., and John Stewart to serve as wood-rangers for one year.

From the beginning of 1800 to December 2, 1803, the sum of $491.03 was paid out on wolf orders. From April 5, 1825, to May 10, 1831, there were only $412.97 paid out on warrants for wolf scalps. The names of the recipients of this money are given as follows: Philip Ililliard, David Say, John Ekas, John Pol- lock, Elisha Baker and John Woods, in 1825; Neal Strawick and William Thompson in 1826; David Cypher in 1827; Robert Sloan in 1828; Jacob Ekas and Elisha Hilliard in 1829; George W. Smith, William Thompson and William McQuistion in 1830, and Thomas Hagerty, Jr., in 1831.

John McNees, a celebrated hunter of the pioneer period, delivered five wolf- heads and five wolf puppies in 1820, receiving as bounty thirty-two and twenty- five dollars respectively. Joseph Embry received twenty-five dollars for five wolf puppies, Justices Scott and Galbraith certifying that they were captured within the county.

In 1821-22 such hunters as Manassas Gillespie, John Parker, David Garvin and Patrick Gillespie were paid bounties for the killing of old wolves and the capture of wolf puppies. The hunters who received bounties in May, 1823, for wolf scalps and wolf puppies were William Smith, William McPherrin, Jacob Slator, Robert Thompson and Joseph Embry.

The grand hunt of December 21, 1820, was organized for the purpose of destroying bears, wolves, deer and other wild animals, which preyed upon the farmers' live stock or fed upon their crops. Four great divisions were organized. The northern division, under Captain Beatty, assembled at John L. Maxwell's house ; the western division, under William Purviance, assembled at Purviance's powder-mill ; the southern division, under Capt. John Dunbar, assembled at the house of Peter Peterson, Sr., and the eastern division, under Capt. William Camp- bell, started from the court house. No spirituous liquor was allowed to be carried into the field. This hunt was very successfully carried out, and a large number of wild animals were destroyed.

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The great wolf hunt of April, 1828, was suggested at a meeting of farmers held in James McMahon's house, in Venango township. The hunters were ordered to assemble early on April 25, at five places, under Gen. Thomas Gra- ham, Col. Benjamin Mc Junkin, Capt. John Parker, John Jack and Thomas Kerr, and to close in on Elean or Barnett's cabin as a center. No spirituous liquors were allowed nor were fire arms permitted. Horns, bells and drums were called into play and the work of surrounding the wolves and other wild animals was begun and prosecuted successfully.

The grand circular hunt of March 26, 1829, was carried out in three divis- ions, all under Jacob Mechling. The center or closing-in point was at Negley's farm on the turnpike. No guns or liquor were permitted.

One of the last grand hunts in this county, and the first since 1863, took place October 30, 1866, -- twenty-four men of the " Dan Boones," under Capt. Charles Duffy, being matched against thirty one men of the " Davy Crocketts," under Capt. Edwin Lyon.

The roster of the " Dan Boones" contained the following names: Charles Duffy, captain: John McCandless, John Purviance, Frank Eyth, Joseph B. Mechling. John B. McQuistion, Joseph Elliot, W. A. Lowry, Frank Strawick, 1. J. Cummings, Joseph L. Purvis, John Hutchison, Gottlieb Longbine, William Leckey, John Lemmon, William Stoops, James Collins, Col. Alexander Lowry, Dr. J. C. Redick, Daniel Johnson, Matthew Cunningham, Henry Reiger, George W. Fleeger, Maj. George W. Reed, Jacob Gible, Benjamin Huselton, George Gil- lespie, Isaac Ash, Thomas S. Hutchison, Daniel McDevitt, J. D. Albert, John Snyder, C. Hurley, Andrew Knouse, Mike Fair, V. Reiger, Jacob Knouse, Eli Patterson, Isaiah Albert, William Campbell, Thomas A. Hutchison, Jacob Shields, George Hutchison and Samuel Beatty.

The roll of the " Davy Crocketts," contained the following names : Edwin Lyon, captain ; Abraham McCandless, D. H. Mackey, R. C. McAboy, George W. Ziegler, R. C. Sharp, Conrad Smith, Lynn McAboy, Joseph McCaskey, Col. John M. Thompson, Samuel Sykes, Jr., Lieut. Jerry Millinger, Harvey Col- bert, R. M. McLure, Maj. Cyrus E. Anderson, John Beatty, W. F. Hutchison, W. S. Purviance, T. H. Lyon, Samuel Johnson, William Derrimore, Simon Young, George Black, Milton Henry, Samuel Campbell, James Shanor, Simeon Nixon, Col. Thomas Bayne, William Mardorf, Christ Rider, Robert Stevenson, George Campbell, Dr. Samuel Graham, Dave Birch, Mike Emerick, John Hoff- man, Daniel Heck, G. A. Mazerie, James Moser, William Ramsey, Aaron Henry, W. J. Young, Mathew Kline and Lewis Sparr.

Drs. Neyman, Bredin and Huselton were referees ; E. Ferrero and E. Mc- Junkin, clerks ; Lewis Z. Mitchell, orator ; Phillip Bickel, German orator ; Ed. M. Bredin, historian ; James Karns, herald ; James Bredin, regular toaster ; James Gilmore Campbell, toaster for the winners ; Jacob Ziegler, toaster for the losers ; Thomas Robinson and John Call, representatives of the press ; Colonel Lowry, Judge Mechling, H. C. Heineman and Charles McCandless, carvers ; Joseph Stehle, chief of music ; Alderman Kelly, butler ; Sheriff Brackenridge, sergeant- at-arms ; John Scott, marshal; Maj. Richard Hughes, master of ceremonies; George W. Moore, wire-puller ; Maj. C. E. Purviance, Harvey Osborn and H. J.

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Klingler, committee on light ; while the committee to report arrangements for celebration of July 4th, comprised Capt. E. L. Gillespie, Capt. George W. Fleeger and Capt. C. S. Barclay.

The number of officers and the variety of offices speak at once of the character of the banquet which followed the hunt. The marshal arranged the hungry hunt- ers at table and the herald proclaimed the lists of game ; the toaster for the losers led the winning captain to the head, while the toaster for the winners lead the los- ing captain to the foot of the banquet table ; the chief of music blew his horn as occasion required ; the historian granted permits for songs or yarns, and the butler took charge of punsters and arranged punishments. He also decided what were and were not intoxicating drinks, and laid-out-under the table-any one who introduced politics. Deaf men were exempt from joining in the merry laugh, and, in the matter of profane language, its use was only countenanced when uttered by the losing captain and the toast-master for the losers. Married participants in this affair were not permitted to receive messages from their wives, as the receipt of such messages was considered an obstacle to the hilarity of the festive meeting. The orators spoke until " choked-off," and held the "Dans" and " Davys " spell-bound. At the close, when many were too " full for utterance," the memory of the hunters, who died since the last great hunt of 1863, was received in silence, and the hunters of 1866, so far as they were able, quietly dispersed.

The " Crocketts " counted 3,715 head of game, or 119 head for each of the thirty-one members of that club in the field. The " Dan Boones " counted 2,955, or 124 8-10 head for each of the twenty-four members who went into the field, with their blue colors, under Captain Duffy. The colors of the " Crocketts" were orange, in many shades, and of the officers, red, white and blue in rosettes

Two important items, in pioneer times, were farming and milling. Axes and hoes were clumsily made by the rough blacksmith. Grain and hay were stacked in the fields or yard or placed in crude log barns. Threshing was done with flails or the grain tramped out by oxen or horses, when it was winnowed through the meshes of a riddle ; or in a calm, two persons would raise and maintain a breeze by a dexterous swinging movement of a double linen bed-sheet, while the third operator would winnow the threshed grain from a riddle. Corn and buck- wheat were sometimes ground in hand-mills and sifted in sieves made from dressed perforated sheep or deer skin, drawn tightly over a wide oaken hoop. The nether or bed stone of the hand-mill was fixed to a bench, and the upper or runner stone revolved on a spindle by means of a pole, the upper end of which passed into an auger hole in a board fastened overhead, and the lower end was fitted into a hole drilled in the upper surface of the runner, near the periphery. The miller would seize the pole with one hand, sweeping it around, and with the other would feed the grain. A ruder device was simply a hollow in a tree stump, which would hold a peck of grain. \ hard wooden pestle was then made to fit the hollow in the stump, and this was fastened by withes to the top of a sapling bent for a spring-pole. The operator would then place the grain to be ground in the mor- tar or hollow, and seizing the pestle with both hands, would thrust it into the mortar, crushing the grain. The spring-pole would raise the pestle when released from the hand, and leave it ready to be thrust again and again into the mortar

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until the grinding process was completed. Of course there were grist mills as early as 1800, with mill-stones made of fine conglomerite rock, but many of the early farmers found it more convenient to rely upon the domestic hand-mill than to make a perilous journey through the forest to the nearest grist-mill and there, after taking their turn, according to custom, wait through the tedious processes then in vogue. In either case the flour was coarse, containing much of the gluten, phosphates and starch, lost by the modern process. It was a brain food, as well as a mascle-maker, and was particularly adapted to pioneer times.

CHAPTER VI.

COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.

ERECTION OF COUNTY-BOUNDARIES DEFINED-NAMED AFTER GEN. RICHARD BUTLER -SKETCH OF HIS LIFE -- EARLY FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS-ASSESSORS AND TRUS- TEES OF 1800-TAX LEVIES 1800 TO 1803-COMMISSION TO LOCATE COUNTY SEAT- TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION OF 1804 -- NEW TOWNSHIPS CREATED-EFFORTS TO OR- GANIZE A NEW COUNTY-THE RE-SUBDIVISION OF 1854-VIEWERS ACCOUNT MODI- FICATION OF TOWNSHIP LINES-RENEWED EFFORTS TO FORM A NEW COUNTY.

B UTLER COUNTY was erected under authority of an act of the legisla- ture of Pennsylvania, approved March 12, 1800. This act provided for its attachment to Allegheny county for administrative and judicial purposes, and described its boundaries as follows :

Beginning at a locust tree on the south side of Buffalo creek ; thence along the Alleglieny line, due west, twenty-three miles, to Alexander's district ; thence due north twenty-three miles, along that line and Beaver county to a corner near the confluence of Muddy creek and Slippery Rock : thenee north, fifteen degrees east, fifteen miles along the Mercer county line to a white oak tree, in the Third Donation District: thence due east, along the Venango county line to the Allegheny river ; thence dne south along the Armstrong county line to the place of beginning.

The county was named after Gen. Richard Butler, the following sketch of whose life has been prepared expressly for this work by Dr. William II. Egle, State librarian. It is the only complete sketch of this noted pioneer and gallant soldier that has ever appeared in print, and well deserves a place of honor in the history of the county that bears his distinguished name :

" Richard Butler, the ellest child of Thomas and Eleanor Butler, emigrants from the North of Ireland, was probably born in what is now York county, Penn- sylvania, April 1, 1743, although most biographers state he was born in Ire- land. He was educated at the school of Rev. Mr. Allison, Chester county, and studied the profession of law. He served as an ensign in Capt. James Hendrick's

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company, of the First Pennsylvania battalion, in Col Henry Bouquet's expedition of 1764, and there received his first experience in the military art. At the outset of the Revolutionary struggle he entered the Pennsylvania Line as major of the Eighth regiment, commissioned July 20, 1776; was promoted lieutenant-colonel March 12, 1777, ranking from August 28, 1776, and transferred to lieutenant- colonel of Morgan's rifle command. June 9, 1777, whom he afterwards succeeded, and distinguished himself on many occasions. This regiment was made up of picked men detached from the several regiments of the Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia Lines. He was considered by Washington and General Wayne one of the ablest partisan officers of the Revolution and most familiar with Indian life and affairs .. It is said that he knew several Indian dialects, and had been requested by the commander-in-chief to compile an Indian vocabulary.

"When General Burgoyne advanced against General Gates, Washington sent Butler's Rifles from the banks of the Delaware to protect the flank and rear of Gates from the Indians under Brant ; and after participating most efficiently and suc- ccessfully in the battle of Saratoga, October, 1777, were ordered back to Washing- ton's headquarters. The same regiment distinguished itself at the battle of Mon- mouth, June, 1778, and when Washington, in a dispatch to Congress, animad- verted on the conduct of Gen. Charles Lee on that occasion, he also stated that ' Colonel Butler's was the only command which fired a gun." He was promoted colonel of the Ninth Pennsylvania, and under his command this regiment took a prominent and honorable share in the capture of Stony Point ; and St. Clair to Reed, in a letter dated July 25. 1779, says : . My friend, Colonel Butler, com- manded one of the attacks and distinguished himself.'

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History of Butler County, Pennsylvania, Part 8

Author: Brown, Robert C., ed; Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.); Meagher, John, jt. comp; Meginness, John Franklin, 1827-1899, jt. comp Publication date: 1895 Publisher: Chicago : R. C. Brown Number of Pages: 1658

Author: Brown, Robert C., ed; Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.); Meagher, John, jt. comp; Meginness, John Franklin, 1827-1899, jt. comp
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Chicago : R. C. Brown
Number of Pages: 1658