Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40767, Patrick Butler, Penn.
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SERVICE   Penn.
Butler, Patrick
NUMBER  S.40767
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1806    
Pennsylvania Rolls    
Patrick Butler 
Capt Alexander 
Private  4   
Pennsylvania 6 years 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War 
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of  8  Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818 and sent to the pensioner Harrisburg, Penn- Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 
 4 Mo 11/30  $34.93 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
75 V 1818 
Harrisburg Dauphin Co
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Patrick Butler, 
Pennsylvania line, 
Revolutionary Claim 
The rolls of Pennsylvania not yet received at the pension office of the War department.- Satisfactory testimony is required of the time of enlistment, and discharge of the applicant.- 
The judge is desired to certify, under the seal of the Court, that he is satisfied; the claimant is in indigent circumstances and needs the support of his country.
HARRISBURG Pa  APR 18
Free
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of the War Department
Washington D.C.
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Dauphin County    
State of Pennsylvania Ss   
On this twenty second day of April in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in & for the said County of Dauphin State of Pennsylvania, personally appeared Patrick Butler aged 75 years resident at Harrisburg in the aforesaid County and a citizen of the United States, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War " That he the said Patrick Butler enlisted in the year 1777 in the Company of Captain Alexander of the 7th. Regiment of the United States Army commanded by Col. Irwin-- that he continued under the command of Col. Irwin, until he (Irwin) was appointed General, that Col Harmer then took command of the Regiment that he continued in the service until 1783 when he was honorably discharged in Philadelphia -  he was in the battles of Germantown, Monmouth and at the siege of York and that he is in reduced
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circumstances, & stands in need of the assistance of this County for his support and that he has now no other evidence in his power of his said services 
Patt Butler
Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid Obed Fahnestock 
I Obed Fahnestock one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Dauphin State of Pennsylvania, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Patrick Butler did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress Aprill 22th 1818. 
Obed Fahnestock 
I Obed Fahnestock one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Dauphin - State of Pennsylvania do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction
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of the aforementioned act of Congress Aprill 22th 1818 
Obed Fahnestock 
I Obed Fahnestock one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Dauphin - State of Pennsylvania do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that Patrick Butler the applicant in the preceeding declaration is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his County for his support Harrisburg July 13th 1818 
Obed Fahnestock
Dauphin County Ss. 
I John Machesney Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Dauphin do certify that Obed Fahnestock who has given the preceding certificate and whose name is thereunto subscribed was at the time of so doing an associate Judge of the County of Dauphin duly commissioned and sworn to all whose acts as such due faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Harrisburg the day & year above written 
John Machesney Prothy
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Dauphin County and State of Pennsylvania 
I John Machesney Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Dauphin do Certify that Obed Fahnestock Esqr who has given the preceeding certificate and whose name is there unto subscribed was at the time of so doing and yet is associate Judge of the County of Dauphin duly commissioned and sworn to all whose acts as such due faith & credit are and ought as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my 1 name and affixed the seal of said Court the 22d day of April A.D. 1818 
John McChesney Prothy
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In reply to your request of received a statement of the military history of   Patrick Butler   a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired formation as contained in his application for pension file in this Bureau.   S.F. 40,767 
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.   Mch or Apr 1777 to end of war    LENGTH OF SERVICE.   RANK.  Pri.    OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. Alexander   COLONEL Irvine,  Harmer   STATE. Pa 
Battles engaged in, Germantown, Monmouth, Siege of York 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated 
Date of application for pension, Apr. 22, 1818. His cl was al [His claim was allowed] 
Residence at date of application, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, Pa    
Age at date of application, 75 yrs    
Remarks: He died Apr 3, 1819 There is no data relative to family,    
Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
(Date of death taken from Agency Book)
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40767 
Revy   INVALID. 
File No.  40,767
Patrick Butler 
Pri  Rev War
Act: 18 March 18 
Index:--Vol. 5 , Page 68 
[Arrangement of 1870.] 
1916 Feb. 12, History to Miss C.B. Capshaw, FW.
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I certify that it appears by the Payrolls of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolutionary War in this office that the name of Patrick Butter is included in the first, fourth and seventh regiments, and that he was paid in the 7th Regiment up to the 1st January 1781 in the fourth regiment up to the 1 January 1783 and that he received his gratuity in the first regiment for serving to the end of the war - witness my hand and the seal of the office of the Auditor General this 9th day of July 1818- Geo. Bryan Aud Gen
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Free
Correct
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Esqr
Secretary of War Department
Washington
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Harrisburg July 15th 1818 
Hon. J.C. Calhoun Esqr 
Sir The enclosed declaration which transmitted to your Department some time previously was a few days ago handed me by Judge Fahnestock to answer the objections endorsed upon it.-- viz. the first- "Satisfactory testimony is required of the time of enlistment and discharge of the applicant " this, by a reference to the act of Congress I am induced to believe has been already sufficiently given to bring the case of Butler within that act, it requiring July the declaration of the applicant is to the particular months or days on which 1 he was enlisted or discharged there is no evidence - Butler thinks only that he enlisted in March or April 1777 and was discharged in October 1783-- not being positive as to the time and fearing lest a slip of his memory might (if it should be found on any of the public documents that he enlisted and was discharged at other time) prejudice his claim.  It was thought most advisable to omit those dates, referring them for the determination to any documents in the possession of the the War department. Notwithstanding, the time of his enlistment & discharge cannot be determined as to the
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month and day as the act of Congress very benevolently pensions all those who have served but nine months-- the enclosed certificate of the Auditor General of this State will be “satisfactory testimony” that Patrick Butler “was paid in the 7th Regt up to the 1st January 1781 - in the fourth Regiment up to the first January 1783 and that he received his gratuity in the first Regiment for serving to the end of the War" - which I presume may be so mildly construed and understood as a sufficient title to a pension. It is to be regretted that Rolls in the Auditor Generals Office do not her back to the date of Butler's enlistment, they commencing only in 1779 or 1780 of I understood correctly, the gentlemen of that department - the rolls that they may perhaps commence earlier are neither entire or correct - The enclosed certificate must I think be sufficient - that he served nine months there can be no doubt - and if the Rolls of the Auditor Genls Office were entire his name would certainly appear on them from the date of 1777 - - The Second - has been complied with - the Judge has given his certificate of Butler’s indigent circumstances which to do away the necessity of penning another declaration, and that the date of his might continue and that Butlers should be dated same day it was thought as well to draw up on a separate piece of paper and
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be connected with the other - from which I suppose no objection can arise - If this claim should yet be defective, you would have the goodness to inform me that it if possible may be remedied and made correct - you will be assisting the cause of a poor and distressed old soldier one who justly deserves to be rewarded  - 
I am Sir very respectfully  
Your Obedt. Servant –
Saml Shock
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Rev Sec C
1 
“The Colbath” 
Morristown New Jersey 
Feb. 4. 1916 
Hon G M Saltzgaber 
Washington D. C.   
Dear Sir:- 
Will you kindly let me have the information covered by form 3 -525 concerning
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Patrick Butler who, in 1777 was in Capt Wm Alexander’s Company of the 7th Penn. Line Regiment, and who, after the battle of Green Springs was transferred to the 1st Penn. Line Regiment.          
Also of Patrick and William Butler who were under Capt. Andrew Irving, in 1783, in Col. Richard Butler's troops   
Will you also be good
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enough to give the record of  John McCall, who was in Capt. Wm. Alexander's company of the 7th Penn. Regt., in 1777.   
Very truly yours 
(Miss) C.B. Capshaw