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A likeness of Sgt. Jacob Dittrick, in Butler's Rangers uniform, by Canadian artist, Garth Dittrick. The company commanders of Butler's Rangers were: Captain Andrew Bradt; Captain Walter Butler, John Butler's son, killed in action in 1781; Captain William Caldwell, victor at the Battle of Sandusky and the Battle of Blue Licks; Captain George Dame
Uniform of Butler's Rangers. John Butler returned to service, as a Loyalist, when the American Revolution turned to war in 1775. In May 1775, he left for Canada in the company of Daniel Claus, Walter Butler, Hon Yost Schuyler and Joseph Brant, a Mohawk leader. On July 7, they reached Fort Oswego and in August, Montreal.
By 1794, Butler was a full colonel with four battalions reporting 976 all ranks. Many of the officers, NCOs and men had served with Butler’s Rangers during the Revolution and had received land grants in Niagara for this service. There is, however, no lineal connection of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment to Butler’s Rangers. [1]
Butler's Barracks was the home of Loyalist military officer John Butler (1728–1796), in what was then Newark, Upper Canada; present day Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.Butler is most famous for leading an irregular military unit known as Butler's Rangers on the northern frontier during the American Revolutionary War.
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Captain Peter Hare (11 May 1748 — 6 April 1834) was a company officer in Butler's Rangers, a militia unit during the American Revolutionary War, and British Loyalist. [1] After the war ended Hare emigrated and settled with his family in Lincoln County, Ontario where he farmed until his death in 1834.
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