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Letter from Mrs. Butler, December 22, 1791 |
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TRANSCRIPT GLC 2437.30.061
Mrs. Butler. Letter: Pittsburgh, to George Washington, 1791 December 22. 3 pg. + address.
PittsBurgh Dem 22 1791
[inserted - different hand: Washington from Mrs. Butler]
Sir –
I should address you with diffidence if I did not know from your great Philanthropy, that you concern enter into the feelings of Individuals to – I am the unhappy Relick of Genl Butler (official Accounts will have informed you of the particulers) Constitutionaly I am [strike-out] Almost worn out by a succession of Melancoly Events – I am you to now for Sorrow.
With the little exertions I can make and the great Anxiety I feel, for mine and my Children Situation as their are not one white Inhabitant between my Hous and the spot where his Body lies in the Wilderness – I am compeld by my Miserable feelings, to request you if it is not Inconsistant with the Policy of the United States, to have a few regular Troops [2] Gar[inserted: r]isond at this Place, as the Inhabitants can witness how much Publick property has been risqud from time to time for want of gaurds.
A Committee from the four Countys Westmorland Payet Washinton and Allegany has met in this place – Praying some Immediate relief from the Governor and Legislature of this State – as I feel Confident they will not send – the consequence I suppose will be the Militia orderd out on the Frontier – which if any thing can be concievd less or then nothing they are – They cannot give the People Confidance to sit still – And at present the Inhabitants only want the example of one or two families to Move from fear to train the of its strength – It is my Ardent Desire to be protected in the Land that was so dear to my friend [3] And live in the Country that his Blood has been shed for – I hope youll be Indulgent of this Impromted card by the Unhappy and Miserable State of
Mussr Butler
May the Supreme director Long Spare you to be A Father to the People and to me – – Who has Lost in one year Father Husband and Brother
[address]
To The President
of the United States
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