Butler, Percival
soldier, was born in 1760, in Pennsylvania. He rose to the rank of captain in the revolutionary war; and served as adjutant-general in the war of 1812. He died Sept. 11, 1821, in Port William, Ky.
BUTLER, PIERCE,, soldier, United States senator, was born July 11, 1744, in Ireland. In 1778 he was a delegate from South Carolina to the old congress; and in 1788, a member of the convention which framed the constitution of the In United States, and signed the same. 1802 he became again a senator in congress, but resigned in 1804. He died Feb. 15, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa.