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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Butler , John , 1776 -1794 (search)
Butler, John, 1776-1794
Tory leader; born in Connecticut; was in official communication with the Johnsons in the Mohawk Valley before the Revolutionary War, and was colonel of a militia regiment in Tryon county, N. Y. In 1776 he organized a band of motley marauders — white men and Indians, the former painted and behaving like savages.
He was in command of them in the battle of Oriskany (q. v.), and of 1.100 men who desolated the Wyoming Valley in July, 1778.
He fought Sullivan in the Indian country in central New York, in 1779, and accompanied Sir John Johnson in his raid on the Schoharie and Mohawk settlements in 1780.
After the war, Butler went to Canada, and was rewarded by the British government with places of emolument and a pension.
He died in Niagara in 1794.
His son, Walter, was a ferocious Tory.
and was killed during the wa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harmar , Josiah 1753 -1813 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson , John 1806 -1879 (search)
Johnson, John 1806-1879
Educator; born in Bristol, Me., Aug. 23, 1806; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1832; Professor of Natural Sciences at Wesleyan University in 1837-73, when he was made professor emeritus.
He was the author of A history of the towns of Bristol and Bremen in the State of Maine, etc. He died in Clifton, S. I., Dec. 2, 1879.
Indian agent; born in Ballyshannon, Ireland, in March, 1775; came to the United States in 1786 and settled in Cumberland county, Pa. He participated in the campaign against the Indians in Ohio in 1792-93; was agent of Indian affairs for thirty-one years; served in the War of 1812, becoming quartermaster.
In 1841-42 he was commissioner to arrange with the Indians of Ohio for their emigration from that district.
He was the author of an Account of the Indian tribes of Ohio.
He died in Washington, D. C., April 19, 1861.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Royal Greens, (search)
Royal Greens,
The name of a British corps in the Revolutionary War. Sir John Johnson, son of Sir William, was commissioned a colonel in the British army soon after the outbreak of the Revolution, and raised two battalions, composed of Tories and his own Scotch retainers, in number about 1,000.
This corps he called The Royal Greens, because of their green uniforms.
They were a formidable corps in connection with Indian allies, and carried destruction and distress throughout large portions of the Mohawk region.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stone , William Leete 1792 -1844 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stony Point , capture of (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stuart , James 1776 -1849 (search)
Stuart, James 1776-1849
Traveller; born in Dunearn, Scotland, in 1776; killed the son of Sir Alexander Boswell, Dr. Johnson's biographer, in a duel and then came to the United States, through which he travelled in 1828-30.
He was the author of Three years in North America, a book which was severely criticised by English papers antagonistic to republican institutions.
This criticism elicited a reply from Stuart in a volume entitled A refutation of aspersions on Stuart's Three years in North America.
He died in London, England, Nov. 3, 1849.