Pierce Butler was an Anglo-Irish American politician who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in the Kingdom of Ireland, Butler emigrated to the British North American colonies,
Pierce Mease Butler and Frances Butler
Pierce Butler House (demolished 1868), NW corner 7th & Walnut Sts., Philadelphia
Burr–Hamilton duel
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The Burr–Hamilton duel took place in Weehawken, New Jersey, between Aaron Burr, the U.S. vice president at the time, and Alexander Hamilton, the first and former secretary of the treasury, at dawn on
Pierce Butler (American politician)
…Aaron Burr was Butler's guest at his St. Simons plantations in September 1804. Burr was, at the time, lying low after shooting Alexander Hamilton in the July 1804 duel. The states of New York and New Jersey had each indicted Burr for murder in the duel's wake. Burr had traveled during August to Butler's plantation…
1902 illustration of duel
Philip Schuyler, Hamilton's father-in-law, a Continental Army general under Washington and later a U.S. Senator, representing New York state
This July 31, 1804 article in the Georgia Republican & State Intelligencer reviewed the extended contentious communications between Burr and Hamilton that culminated in the duel, which the newspaper criticized as a "barbarous custom".
An artistic impression of Burr's shot of Hamilton