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TION AND DEATH: bought at least 224 additional
acres in Queen Anne's County between 1779 and
1785. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will probated on
February 5, 1793, in Queen Anne's County. PER-
SONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £749.1.3 current money
(including 2 Negroes and 7 other servants with
various terms of service remaining, 30 oz. plate,
and books); FB, £372.6.2. LAND: 1,090 acres in
Queen Anne's County.
BORDLEY, JOHN BE ALE (1726/27-1804).
BORN, on February 11, 1726/27, in Annapolis,
Anne Arundel County; youngest son. NATIVE: sec-
ond generation. RESIDED: in Joppa Town,
Baltimore County, in the 1750s; Baltimore Town,
1766; 'The Vineyards," Wye Island, Queen An-
ne's County, 1770; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1791 until death. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER
Thomas Bordley (ca. 1683-1726). STEPFATHER:
Edmund Jennings (?-1756). MOTHER: Ariana
(1690-1741), widow of James Frisby (1684-1719);
daughter of Matthias Vanderheyden (?-1729).
HALF UNCLE. Henry Ward (?-1734). AUNTS: Fran-
cina Vanderheyden, who married second, Charles
Hynson (1692-1748); Augustina Vanderheyden (?-
1775), who married James Harris (1682-1743).
BROTHERS: Thomas (ca. 1724-1748); Matthias
(1725-1756). HALF BROTHERS, PATERNAL:
Stephen Bordley (ca. 1710-1764); William (1714-
1762); John (?-1718); and John (1721-1761).
HALF BROTHERS, MATERNAL: Peter Jennings
(1729-by 1737); Edmund Jennings (1731-1819);
and (first name unknown) Jennings (?-by 1737).
HALF SISTERS, PATERNAL: Elizabeth (1716/ 17-
1789); Margaret (1719-by 1726/27); and Mary
(1722-1722). HALF SISTERS, MATERNAL: Sarah
Frisby (1714-1782); Ariana Margaret Frisby
(1717-?), who married William Harris (1704-
1748); Francesca Augustina Frisby (1719-1766);
and Ariana Jennings (1730-?). FIRST COUSIN:
Matthias Harris (1718-1773). ADDITIONAL COM-
MENTS: his father's first wife was Rachel Beard (?-
1722). MARRIED first, in 1751 Margaret (?-1773),
daughter of Samuel Chew (ca. 1704-1736/37) and
wife Henrietta Maria Lloyd (?-1765); stepdaugh-
ter of Daniel Dulany (1685-1753); granddaughter
of Philemon Lloyd (ca. 1674-1732/33). Her broth-
ers were Samuel Chew (by 1734-1786); Bennett (?-
1793), who married Anna Maria, daughter of Ed-
ward Tilghman (1713-1786); and Philemon Lloyd
(?-1770). Her stepbrothers were Daniel Dulany,
Jr. (1722-1797); Walter Dulany (?'-1773). Her sis-
ters were Henrietta Maria (1731-1762), who mar-
ried Edward Dorsey (1718-1760); Ann Mary (?-
1774), who married William Paca (1740-1799).
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Her stepsister was Margaret Dulany, who married
first, Alexander Hamilton (1712-1756), and sec-
ond, William Murdoch (?-1769). Her niece was
Henrietta Maria Chew (1759-1847), who married
Benjamin Galloway (1752-1831). MARRIED sec-
ond, on October 8, 1776, Sarah Fishbourne,
widow of John Mifflin, of Philadelphia, Pennsylva-
nia. CHILDREN. SONS: Matthias, of Wye Island,
Queen Anne's County; John, of Kent County, a
farmer. STEPSON John F. Mifflin, of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. DAUGHTERS Henrietta Maria, who
married John Ross, of Bladensburg, Prince
George's County; Elizabeth, who married James
Gibson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. PRIVATE
CAREER. EDUCATION: had approximately two
years of schooling under Rev. Charles Peale in
Chestertown, Kent County; studied law under his
half brother Stephen Bordley (ca. 1710-1764) in
Annapolis from 1744 to 1749. RELIGIOUS AFFILIA-
TION: Anglican. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES
Esq. at death; member of the Tuesday Club in An-
napolis in the 1750s; elected to the American Phil-
osophical Society, 1783; founded the Philadelphia
Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1785. ADDI-
TIONAL COMMENTS When Bordley was ten years
old his mother Ariana departed for England with
her third husband Edmund Jennings (?-1756),
leaving Bordley in the care of his uncle Charles
Hynson (1692-1748) and his wife Francina Van-
derheyden. Bordley read extensively in the natural
sciences and philosophy, and enjoyed mathematics
and landscape painting in his leisure time. He pub-
lished many books and pamphlets, among which
were A Summary View of Courses of Crops in the
Husbandry of England and Maryland (Philadel-
phia, 1784), Yellow Fever (Philadelphia, 1793),
Money, Coins, Weights and Measures (1789), Na-
tional Credit and Character (1790), and Essays and
Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs (Philadel-
phia, 1799; 2nd ed., Philadelphia, 1801). He also
wrote on diet, conservation, lead poisoning, and
was an experimental agriculturalist, amateur
mathematician, and animal breeder. He ran a self-
sufficient farm with livestock, brick kilns, a brew
house, and a windmill. He produced his own salt,
gunpowder, and fabric. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE
lawyer, 1750 until approximately 1770, admitted
to the following courts: Cecil County by March
1757, also Harford and Baltimore counties. Mer-
chant, 1751; planter and agronomist from approxi-
mately 1770, when his first wife inherited Wye
Island, Queen Anne's County; officeholder, 1753-
1775. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE Up-
per House, 1768-1770, 1771, 1773-1774. OTHER
PROVINCIAL STATE OFFICES judge, Provincial
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