[58] Jean Baptiste Butler had married firstly, at Rochelle, in 1741, his wife being Suzanne Bonfils, by whom he had one son, Jacques-Pierre-Charles _Patrice_ (born at Rochelle, 1743, died 1793, married in 1769, Germaine-Marie-Félicité de Butler); and one daughter, Marie-Anne-Suzanne-Rosalie Butler, who became Mme. Cormier. He married, secondly, at Saint-Domingo, Julie de Trousset d’Héricourt, by whom he had a son, Jean-Pantaléon, born at Saint-Domingo, 1753; captain of dragoons in the Militia of the Colony from 1768 to 1772; musketeer, 2nd company, May 24, 1772; sub-lieutenant, January 14, 1777; captain, February 28, 1778, promoted December 5, 1784; captain commanding, May 1, 1788; chief of squadron, June 12, 1790.--_Archives of War Office._ [59] Ernst Mellié, _Les sections de Paris pendant la Revolution française_, 1898, p. 7. [60] A. Challamel, _Les clubs contre-révolutionnaires_. A collection of documents relating to the history of Paris. Paris, 1895, 8vo, pp. 67 _et seq._ [61] _Mémoires de Mme. la Duchesse de Tourzel_, published by the Duc Des Cars, Paris, 3rd edition, 1893, vol. ii. p. 16. [62] “Section armed with pikes. “National Guard, fourth legion, seventh section, second company. “Citizen and dear comrade-- “You will be good enough to report yourself at headquarters on Friday, March 29, at eleven a.m., to mount guard for 24 hours in the guard-room there. I am, dear comrade, your fellow-citizen, _Signed_: “THOMAS. “Paris, March 27, 1792. “You are informed that, according to law, this service must be performed personally, and punctually. To the Citizen Cormier, 15, Rue Basse.”--_National Archives_, F⁷ 5152. [63] “To the Administrative Citizens of the Municipality of the 1st _arrondissement_:-- “9th Messidor, year VI. “Marie-Achille Cornier, junior, informs you, in compliance with his parents’ wishes, and in pursuance of his own desire of acquiring knowledge which will enable him to be independent of his family (whose property was situated at Saint-Domingo), he left France in the month of March, 1791, and has now gone to Holstein, in order to learn the German language there and to continue his other studies, which he hopes will afford him the opportunity of becoming useful to his family, whose estates in the Colonies had been burnt down almost immediately before his departure.”--_National Archives_, F⁷ 5621. [64] Literal copy of a certificate given to the Cornouaille, on the 3rd Prairial, 4th year of the Republic, on paper stamped in red with the stamp of said 4th year, by the citizen Scepeaux to the citizen Yves-J.-F.-M. Cormier:--