Excerpt Of Lt. Colonel Butler's Letter To Captain Mathews

Lieutenant Colonel John Butler To Captain Robert Mathews

Niagara   22 September 1781

I enclose you the muster roll of the 10th Company of Rangers... .  I also enclose you a list of articles which will be requisite for the farmers.

The Corps of Rangers being now completed to a battalion of ten companies, I should think the 10th
Company would be proper to the Lieutenant Colonel's, with a Captain-Lieutenant instead of a
Captain. However, I submit the whole to His Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief. 

I have applied to Brigadier General Powell for leave for Captain Butler to go to Canada for a few weeks to settle bills for the payment of the clothing, arms, &c, for the Rangers lately arrived from England, as he, having transacted all the business, none will be so able to arrange them so well as him; and finally, settling his former accounts as Paymaster will require his being down a few weeks this fall.

*We learn from Detroit that Captain Joseph Brant, being advanced with a party some way ahead of Captain Thompson and Mckee, fell in with a party from Clarke's army, attacked and defeated them before Thompson and McKee got up to him. He killed 37 and made 64 of the rebels prisoners. This, I hope, will put an end to all Clarke's views in that quarter, and may probably subject him to the fate this party met with.
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British Library. Sloane and Additional Manuscripts, Add MSS 21765, Correspondence with Officers
at Niagara, 1777-1784; National Archives of Canada, Haldimand Collection, microfilm reel number
A-682.

*Known as Lochry's Defeat