To The President of the united states’

Pittsrbur

Washington from Mrs Butler

Pitts Burgh Decr 22

Sir

I should address you with diffidence if I did not know from our great Philanthropy, that you own can enter into the feelings of Individuals

I am the unhappy Relict of Gen^l Butler (official Accounts will have informd you of the particulars)[indecipherable] only believe I am Almost worn out by a succession of Melancoly Events - I am beleagured now for sorrow With the [undecipherable] I can make and the great Anxiety I feel, for mine and my Childrens situation as [undecipherable] not one Whit. [undecipherable] between my house and the spot where his Body lies in the Wilderness. I am compeld by my Miserable feelings, to request you if it is not Inconsistent with the Policy of the United States, to have [undecipherable] Regular Troops

garrison at this place, as the Inhabitants can witness how much Publick property has been [indecipherable] from time to time for want of guards.

A Committee from the four Countys Westmorland Fayet Washington and Allegany has met in this place - Praying some immediate relief from the Governor and legislature of this state - as I feel confident they will not send - the consequences I suffer will be the Militia orderd out in the Frontier - which if anything can be [undecipherable] then nothing they are - they cannot give the People confidence to [undecipherable] - And at present the Inhabitants only wants the example of one or two families to [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] to drain the [undecipherable strengths - it is my ardent desire be protected on the land that was so dear to [undecipherable] and to live in the Country that his blood has been shed for - I hope you [undecipherable] to this [undecipherable] the unhappy and Miserable state of

Mary Butler

May the supreme orator long spare you to be A Father to the People and to Me who has lost in one year father husband and brother