| Found in | Wikipedia, viewed Sept. 18, 2014 (John Butler; born in New London, Connecticut in 1728; died at Niagara on May 12, 1796.; Loyalist who led an irregular militia unit known as Butler's Rangers on the northern frontier in the American Revolutionary War; led Seneca and Cayuga forces in the Saratoga campaign; later raised and commanded a regiment of rangers; after the war he resettled in Upper Canada as a farmer in the Niagara region; became a political leader of Upper Canada; appointed as a Deputy Superintendent for the Indian Department, a Justice of the Peace, and the local militia commander)
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