Butler, Zebulon
soldier, was born in 1731 in Lyme, Conn. In 1769 he settled at Wyoming, Pa. In the early part of the revolutionary war he was a lieutenantcolonel in the Connecticut line, serving in New Jersey in 1777-78, and became colonel on March 13, 1778. On July 3, 1778, he commanded the weak garrison at Wyoming at the time of the massacre, which he was unable to prevent. He accompanied Sullivan in his Indian expedition in 1779, and served with distinction throughout the war. He died July 28, 1795, in Wilkesbarre, Pa.