Clymer Weir Cox Genealogy » CAPT. THOMAS PARKER BUTLER Col. (1748-1805)

Données personnelles CAPT. THOMAS PARKER BUTLER Col. 

• Il est né le 29 mai 1748 dans Dublin, Ireland.
• Alternative: Il est né le 29 mai 1748 dans Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
• Il est décédé août 1805 dans Louisiana, il avait 57 ans.
• Alternative: Il est décédé le 7 septembre 1805 dans Yellow Fever, Ormonde Plantation, Louisiana, United States, il avait 57 ans.
• Il est enterré dans "Red Church", Ormonde Plantation, LA with his queue hanging out of a hole in his coffin.
• Un enfant de THOMAS DAUGHERTY BUTLER et ELEANOR PARKER
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 2 mars 2024.

Famille de CAPT. THOMAS PARKER BUTLER Col.

Il est marié avec Sarah Jane Sample.

Ils se sont mariés.

Enfant(s):

1. Thomas Sample Butler  
2. Robert Sample Butler  
3. Lydia Sample Butler  
4. William Edward Sample Butler  1790-1882

Notes par CAPT. THOMAS PARKER BUTLER Col.

Colonel Thomas Butler Jr.
Born about 28 May 1748 in Cumberland, Lancaster, Pennsylvania [uncertain]
ANCESTORS
Son of Thomas Butler and Eleanor Parker
Brother of Richard Butler, William Butler, Mary Butler, Rebecca Butler, Percival Butler, Edward Butler and Eleanor Butler
Husband of Sarah Jane (Samples) Butler – married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS
Father of Thomas Butler, Robert Butler, Lydia (Butter) Hays and William Edward Butler
Died about 7 Sep 1805 at about age 57 in New Orleans, Orleans, Orleans Territory, United States
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Biography

Thomas Butler Jr. was born in Ireland.

Thomas Butler Jr. is Notable.

Captain Thomas Butler Jr. served with 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Thomas Butler Jr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A017723.
"Capt. Thomas Butler 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 court-martial, and acquitted of all the charges save that of wearing his hair.* He returned to New Orleans and took command, but was rearrested. He died September 7, 1805, aged 57. Out of the arrest and persecution of this sturdy veteran, Washington Irving (Knickerbocker) has 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.
Lieut. Col. Thomas Butler had three sons. The oldest was Judge Butler; the second. Col. Robert Butler, was Gen. Jackson's chief-of-staff throughout the war of 1812; while the third, William E. Butler, also served in Gen. Jackson's Army.
•in disobedience of Wilkinson's well-known order to cut off queues "
Thomas Butler served in the American Revolutionary War. The son of an Irish immigrant, he was a law student in the office of Judge James Wilson, an eventual signer of the Declaration of Independence. At the outbreak of the American Revolution, he enlisted and was commissioned 1st lieutenant in 1776 in Col. Arthur St. Clair's Pennsylvania regiment, receiving his commission as captain in the Third Pennsylvania the same year. He would participate in almost every major action in the middle states during the Revolution. He was commended by General Washington at the Battle of Brandywine "…for his intrepid conduct in rallying retreating troops, and checking the enemy by a severe fire.…" At the Battle of Monmouth, General Anthony Wayne thanked him for defending a defile, in the face of a severe fire from the enemy. In 1791 was promoted to major and commanded a battalion in Gibson's regiment, under General St. Clair. At the Battle of Miami in Ohio Territory, he was twice wounded. His leg was broken by a ball; but he kept his horse and led a charge. His brother General Richard Butler was killed in the battle. In 1794, he was a lieutenant colonel commandant of the Fourth Sub-Legion, at Fort Lafayette, Pittsburg. Not long after, he was ordered to the South during the removal of the 'civilized tribes' to western lands - a policy of which he disapproved.
On April 30, 1801, a General Order issued by Major General James Wilkinson, Commanding General of the Army abolished the queue as an acceptable military hairstyle, breaking the custom of a century. Butler applied for and was granted an exemption from the order. Within two years, however, the exemption was mysteriously revoked and Butler stood before a court martial which ended in a recommendation of reprimand. Butler was assigned to New Orleans, and was again ordered to cut his hair. He again refused and was again before a court marital. He was found guilty of mutinous conduct with a recommendation for a year's suspension. Within days of the verdict, Butler was ill with yellow fever. He died from the disease at his nephew's plantation a short time later leaving instructions in his will: "Bore a hole through the bottom of my coffin, right under my head, and let my queue hang through it, that the damned old rascal will see that, even when dead, I refuse to obey his orders." His last wishes were obeyed. He was buried at the Ormond Plantation. His obituary in the Carlisle Herald Nov. 1, 1805 read: "Now sleep the brave! who sink to rest; With all their country's wishes blest."
Children
1. Judge Thomas Butler of St. Francisville, LA. He studied law in Pittsburgh with his uncle Steel Semple.
2. Lydia Butler Hays, wife of Stokely Donelson Hays, my ggg grandmother who died in Memphis, TN
3. Adj. Robert Butler who was Adj Gen of Florida for many years
4. Dr. William Edward Butler, founder of Jackson, TN.
All of the children except Judge Thomas Butler married nieces and nephews of Andrew Jackson. Lydia Steel's father was the Rev. Capt. John Steel of Carlisle, The Fighting Parson of Carlisle.
Robert was born 14 Aug 1733 Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States. Formed from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania c. 1730. Around the area of Carlisle during the Frontier Wars. Hereditary Sempill Lords of Blackburn, Kirkhouse, and Long Dreghorn & Clan Sempill.
Sources

•Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol VII, No. 1, 1883 https://archive.org/stream/jstor-20084587/20084587#page/n1/mode/2up
•Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Butler_(soldier)
•Find A Grave, database and images (findagrave.com: accessed 30 December 2018), memorial page for Col Thomas Butler, Jr (28 May 1748œ8 Sep 1805), Find A Grave: Memorial #11898725 , citing Ormond Plantation Cemetery, Destrehan, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by Iola (contributor 46780914) .
•Ormond Plantation Cemetery Destrehan, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, USA NOTE: Birth 28 May 1748
•S A R Application
•CT Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and News Paper Notices
•First hand information from GGGG granddaughter, Jean Rawlings Meaney

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