1Richard Butler to GW, 13 March 1788 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: Richard Butler to GW, 13 Mar. 1788. On 3 April GW wrote Butler : “I have received your letter of the 13th ulto.”
2To George Washington from Richard Butler, 30 November 1787 (Washington Papers)
To know at any time that it is your Excellencys wish that any thing within my power should be done, will always be a Sufficient motive with me to do it. But when you were pleased to inform me that it had been required by the August Empress Sovereign of all the Russias, Through the medium of that Excellent Character the Right Honorable Major General The Marquis de La Fayette, it was an...
3Enclosure II: Extract of letter from Richard Butler, 30 November 1787 (Washington Papers)
Extract of a Letter from General Butler to General Washington (accompanying this Vocabulary). The little which I have been able to collect of the history of the Shawanoes from oral tradition & their old men, with some observations of my own may not be unacceptable, & may probably assist, or open a door to more able Inquirers. They say they were originally from an Island, and that they came to...
4Enclosure I: Richard Butler’s Indian Vocabulary, 30 November 1787 (Washington Papers)
The following Seven pages to the word Ten markd thus #, are the words which were sent me to be translated, The Shawano I have done myself which are Spelled as nearly as possible to the real Sound of the Indian word. The Lenoppea, or Delaware, was done by a Young man Called John Killbuck, an Indian of that nation who has been Educated at Princetown College at the Expence of the U.S. & patronage...