Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler

[41] contest wherever Connecticut men took part, whether in Pennsylvania or Wyoming, or in the western reserve of Ohio.

Zephaniah went to Quebec with Wolfe, and I have the powder-horn which he bore, dated April 22, 1758.

He went from Connecticut to the town of Nottingham in New Hampshire, and married Abigail, daughter of General Joseph Cilley. They had several children, the youngest of whom was John, my father, who was born May 17, 1782. He married Sarah Batchelder, of Deerfield, New Hampshire, June 5, 1803. By her he was the

Powder-Horn of Zephaniah Butler, 1758.

father of three girls, Polly True, born June 8, 1804, Sally, born March 11, 1806, and Betsey Morrill, born January 9, 1808. The last of these is now living at Nottingham, New Hampshire, the widow of the late Daniel B. Stevens, Esq. Mrs. Sarah Batchelder Butler died February 23, 1809. John Butler then married Charlotte Ellison, July 21, 1811. She bore him three children. The eldest, Charlotte, born May 13, 1812, died in August, 1839. The second child, Andrew Jackson, was born February 13, 1815, and died February 11, 1864. The third, Benjamin F., was born at Deerfield, New Hampshire, Nov. 5, 1818, about four o'clock in the afternoon.

Upon the breaking out of the war of 1812, John Butler applied to the war department for permission to raise a company of light dragoons among his neighbors. Permission was granted, the company was raised, and he was commissioned its captain on the twenty-third of July, 1812.

Captain Butler served with his troop on the northern frontier until he broke his left leg. The broken limb was so badly set that he could not thereafterwards wear a boot, and he resigned his commission. Unwilling to remain idle while the war was going on, and having a taste for the sea and shipping, he sailed from