Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Gen Percival "Pierce" Butler.

Gen Percival "Pierce"  Butler.

Butler. Birth: Apr. 4, 1760, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Death: Sep. 9, 1821, Carrollton, Carroll County, Kentucky.

Parents: Thomas Butler (1720 - 1791), Eleanor Parker Butler.

Wife: Mildred Hawkins Butler (1763 - 1833).

Children: Eleanor Butler (1787 - 1844), Thomas Langford Butler (1789 - 1880), William Orlando Butler (1791 - 1880), Richard Parker Butler (1792 - 1885), Pierce Butler (1794 - 1851), Frances Maria Butler (1796 - 1843), Caroline Thomas Butler Pryor (1798 - 1885), Edward Butler (1800 - 1801), Edward Butler (1802 - 1821), Mary Langford Butler (1807 - 1861).

Siblings: Mary Butler Tipton (1732 - 1776), Richard Butler (1743 - 1791), William Butler (1745 - 1789), Thomas Butler (1748 - 1805), Percival "Pierce" Butler (1760 - 1821), Edward Butler (1762 - 1803).

Burial: Butler Family Cemetery, Carrollton, Carroll County, Kentucky.

Revolutionary War Record.

Butler, Pierce (or Percival), was born in Carlisle, Pa., April 4, 1760, died in CarroUton, Ky., Sept. 9, 1821. Was commissioned First Lieutenant 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment, under Col. Thomas Craig, Sept. 1, 1777. With this regiment through campaigns of 1778, '79, '80, '81, '82. Was at siege of Yorktown on Gen. La Fayette's staff and received handsome sword from La Fayette after the surrender of Cornwauis. Jan. 1, 1783, transferred to 2nd Pennsylvania. Sept. 23, 1783, joined 1st Pennsylvania with which he remained to close of War.- Butler, Pierce.

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