William Butler and Eleanor [Unk]

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Husband William Butler ¹

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           Born: 1743 - Cookeny, County Wicklow, Ireland 1
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           Died: 1 Mar 1839 - Sadsbury Twp, Crawford Co, PA 1
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         Father: James Butler (1718-      ) 2
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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Wife Eleanor [Unk] ¹

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Children

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1 F Sallie Butler ¹

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           Born:  - eastern Pennsylvania
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2 F Mary Butler ¹

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           Born:  - eastern Pennsylvania
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3 F Catherine Butler ¹

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           Born:  - eastern Pennsylvania
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4 M James Butler ^{1 3 4}

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           Born:  - eastern Pennsylvania
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           Died: Bef 1880 - Crawford Co, PA
         Buried:  - Harmonsburg, Crawford Co, PA

         Spouse: Martha Clark (      -      ) 1 3 4

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5 M William Butler ¹

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           Born:  - eastern Pennsylvania
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6 F Jean Butler ¹

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           Born:  - eastern Pennsylvania
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7 F Nancy Butler ¹

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           Born:  - eastern Pennsylvania
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8 F Eleanor Butler ¹

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           Born:  - eastern Pennsylvania
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General Notes: Husband - William Butler

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He was born in the Parish of Cookeny, County Wicklow, Ireland, and was educated in the schools of Dublin. In 1760, at the age of seventeen, he was pressed into the British navy, to take part in the war between England and France then being carried on in America. He was brought on a British man-of-war to what were then the English Colonies in America, but succeeded in escaping and made his way to the interior of the Province of Pennsylvania, where he found employment. When the Colonists took up arms against the mother country he enlisted in the cause of freedom, joining a Berks County regiment under Capt. Henry Christ, Pennsylvania Regiment, Rifles and Musketry. He served his full time in that and other companies, under several enlistments. From March 1, 1777, to May, 1777, he served under Capt. Patrick Anderson; in January, 1778, he served for a time in Colonel Patten's regiment; again enlisted in Capt. John Marshall's company, 2d Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental army; was corporal in John Paterson's company, and was sergeant until the close of the war; in 1780-81 was in the Pennsylvania regiment of artillery under Col. Thomas Proctor and later under Colonel Harris, serving until the end of the struggle. In 1818 he applied for a pension for his Revolutionary services. About 1823 he settled in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, becoming a land owner in Sadsbury township, where he remained to the close of his long life, dying at the remarkable age of ninety-six years.

1 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1173.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1172.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 716.

4 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 533.