Rev. John George Butler

note difficulties with multiple wives and multiple children named George (unsolved)

https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/u/t/Robert-G-Butler/WEBSITE-0001/UH... is captured as a source

~• journals <project> : Feb. 5, 1779 (Trappe)
~• allegedly a deserter of the Continental army > He served under Col. Georg Weltener and Capt. Jacob Bonner

• March 20 1779 (plot and key to Church) "the wanton foolish fellow"
• March 24 1779

"In the AM, Wolf and Meyer return from Philadelphia, Muhlenberg given a report from his son Heinrich and Pastor Kuntze that a "revolution was taking place" (apparently in the Forest church).. They didn't want a Deputy-Rector, but they wished to elect a rector. They found out that JGB deserted from Captain Jacob Bonner's company. Found out that "a Reformed man of Rob(e)son Township has furnished security for Butler to produce him or some other man in his place." Muhlenberg they gave them a letter to preserve his role in the matter."

• * April 1779

Secretary of War Richard Peters sends response to a church disparaging Butler's character and disallowing his release from the army:
http://books.google.com/books?id=pkDZvZ1YOIUC&pg=PA224&lpg=PA224&dq...
~• asked Rev. H.M. Mühlenberg to ordain him but was refused (Feb. '79

• July 20, '79 (another letter) from his mother to Rev. M. > further commentary: ransom money for release on July 24

burial

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56718300/john-george-butler