American Revolutionary War Veteran-one of the famous "fighting Butlers" of Pennsylvania.
Killed at Arthur St. Clair's Defeat in Ohio territory. It is alleged that he was buried separately from the other dead in a coffin; that the burial site was lost; and that the coffin was accidentally found years later in the Town of Ft Recovery Ohio and that it was reburied in Soldiers Monument, Ft Recovery Ohio


Service Record:
Ref: Heitman's register of Officers of the Continental Army during the war of the Revolution April,1775 to December 1783 published 1893 .p.111

"Butler, Richard (PA)
Captain 2d Pennsylvania Battalion 5th January, 1776;
Appointed Indian agent 17th May, 1778, and lost rank in army:
Major 8th Pennsylvania, 20th July, 1776;
Lieutenant-Colonel,12th March, 1777, to rank from 28th September, 1776;
Colonel 9th Pennsylvania, 7th June, 1777;
transferred to 5th Pennsylvania, 17th January, 1781;
transferred to 3d Pennsylvania, 1st January, 1783, and served to 3d November, 1783;
brevet Brigadier-General, 30th September, 1783;
Major-General UNited States Levirs in 1791;
killed 4th November, 1791, in action with Indians near Fort Recovery, Ohio"

American Revolutionary War Veteran-one of the famous "fighting Butlers" of Pennsylvania.
Killed at Arthur St. Clair's Defeat in Ohio territory. It is alleged that he was buried separately from the other dead in a coffin; that the burial site was lost; and that the coffin was accidentally found years later in the Town of Ft Recovery Ohio and that it was reburied in Soldiers Monument, Ft Recovery Ohio


Service Record:
Ref: Heitman's register of Officers of the Continental Army during the war of the Revolution April,1775 to December 1783 published 1893 .p.111

"Butler, Richard (PA)
Captain 2d Pennsylvania Battalion 5th January, 1776;
Appointed Indian agent 17th May, 1778, and lost rank in army:
Major 8th Pennsylvania, 20th July, 1776;
Lieutenant-Colonel,12th March, 1777, to rank from 28th September, 1776;
Colonel 9th Pennsylvania, 7th June, 1777;
transferred to 5th Pennsylvania, 17th January, 1781;
transferred to 3d Pennsylvania, 1st January, 1783, and served to 3d November, 1783;
brevet Brigadier-General, 30th September, 1783;
Major-General UNited States Levirs in 1791;
killed 4th November, 1791, in action with Indians near Fort Recovery, Ohio"