I have a close buddy I've known for almost 50 years now, and we communicate regularly (phone/text/email) .. on a (at minimum) weekly basis. He just sent me this tonight and I find it interesting. He has a niece who is heavy into the genealogy thing and has been working on this one connection for quite some time. Evidently, she's just recently proved the family connection. This is my buddy's great, great, great, great, great-grandfather!
Jethro Butler was born in Bertie County, North Carolina in 1761. He
moved to South Carolina when he was very young and was living in the
Salem District when he enlisted at the beginning of the Revolutionary
War. A note in his file at the National Archives and Records
Administration in Washington, DC indicates that Jethro Butler gave his
enlistment date as August 7, 1776, but as he was able to give minute
details of the battle of Fort Johnson which took place in September
1775, his enlistment date was probably earlier than stated. This would
mean he probably became involved in the American Revolution around the
age of 14.
He served as a private, spy, and fifer in the South Carolina Troops
under Lieutenant William Fishburne, Captain James McDaniel, Captain
Daniel Mazyck (or Maysick), and Captain (later General) Francis Marion.
He also served under Colonel Isaac Motte, Colonel O'Ree, Colonel (later
General) Isaac Huger, and General Robert Howe.
Jethro fought in the battles of Fort Johnson, South Carolina in
September 1775, and Fort Moultrie (formerly Fort Sullivan) on Sullivan
Island, South Carolina in June 1776. In 1778 under General Robert
Howe, he went on an expedition to East Florida, was taken prisoner by
the British, and was held for three months in a dungeon in St.
Augustine. After his release, he fought in the battle of Stono Ferry,
South Carolina, in June 1779 and the Siege of Savannah, Georgia in
September 1779. He was discharged on December 6, 1779, but then he re-
enlisted as a private in the South Carolina Militia. He then fought in
the battles of Monk's (Monck's) Corner, South Carolina in April 1780
and Quinby's Bridge, South Carolina in July 1781. He was commissioned
as a Captain of the Four Hole Company of militia in the Western
Regiment for the Charleston District, South Carolina on July 4, 1794.
He served in the militia until the end of the war.
After the Revolutionary War, Jethro was given Bounty Lands of 350 acres
in South Carolina. Later, he moved to Georgia and then Mississippi
before ending up in Louisiana. He and his family settled farms in
Sections 22 and 23, Township 20, Range 6 of Claiborne Parish. He is
shown on both the 1830 and 1840 censuses residing in Claiborne Parish.
He applied for a Revolutionary War Soldier's Pension in 1835, which was
granted. He received $80 per year from September 4, 1835 until his
death for a total for $448.
He died on April 9, 1841 and was buried near Summerfield in Claiborne
Parish, Louisiana. He was survived by his children: Ransom, Britton,
William R., Isaac, Samuel, Richmond, Mary, Eliza, and Ann. The land on
which he was buried passed to his son, William, who donated it in 1848
to the Mt. Hebron Baptist Church for their sanctuary and cemetery.
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