Proceedings of a general court martial held at the house of Mr. Peter Doxtator at the German Flats, August 20th 1777, by order of the honorable Major General Arnold for the tryal of such prisoners as shall be brought before them, 1777.

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Butler, Walter, 1752?-1781,. Proceedings of a general court martial held at the house of Mr. Peter Doxtator at the German Flats, August 20th 1777, by order of the honorable Major General Arnold for the tryal of such prisoners as shall be brought before them, 1777.

Proceedings of a general court martial held at the house of Mr. Peter Doxtator at the German Flats, August 20th 1777, by order of the honorable Major General Arnold for the tryal of such prisoners as shall be brought before them, 1777.

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Transcript and sentences of a court martial, presided over by Marinus Willet, of two men: Walter Butler, an officer in his father's Loyalist troop, Butler's Ranger, and Joseph Schuyler, and American soldier. Butler was convicted of spyng and sentenced to death; he escaped and continued leading the Rangers, culminating in the Cherry Valley Massacre; he was killed in 1781 in a skirmish with Willet's soldiers. Schuyler was convicted of deserting and sentenced to 100 lashes and imprisonment.

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