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1732-1793). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: liter-
ate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION Anglican. OCCUPA-
TIONAL PROFILE planter; owned mills. PUBLIC
CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE Lower House, St.
Mary's County, 1745, 1745/46-1748, 1749-1751
(election voided on June 10, 1749, because of ille-
gal conduct of the sheriff at the election; reelected
and seated; Bills of Credit Cv-3), 1751-1754 (Bills
of Credit 1-6). LOCAL OFFICES: justice, St. Mary's
County, 1746-at least 1764 (quorum, 1761 -at
least 1764); justice, Court of Oyer and Terminer
and Gaol Delivery, St. Mary's County, commis-
sioned 1768; trustee, St. Mary's County Free
School, in office 1772. MILITARY SERVICE: captain,
by 1758; major, by 1768. WEALTH DURING LIFE-
TIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: probably 200
acres in St. Mary's County. SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION
AND DEATH: purchased 162 acres in St. Mary's
County in the 1750s and patented an additional
1,011 acres in St. Mary's County in 1768. WEALTH
AT DEATH. DIED: will probated on February 1,
1776, in St. Mary's County. LAND: probably ca.
1,500 acres in St. Mary's County.
BOOTHBY, EDWARD (?-1698). IMMIGRATED
by 1685 as a free adult. RESIDED: in St. Mary's
County; Spesutia Hundred, Baltimore County, by
1691. MARRIED in 1693/94 Elizabeth, widow of
both Nathaniel Utie (ca. 1635-ca. 1675/76) and
Henry Johnson (?-1690/91); daughter of John
Carter, Esq., of Lancaster County, Virginia. CHIL-
DREN. STEPSON: Joseph Johnson. DAUGHTER:
Frances. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate.
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Protestant. SOCIAL STA-
TUS AND ACTIVITIES: a very active attorney in the
Baltimore County Court in 1691; Gent., by 1696.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: placeman; attorney, ad-
mitted to the Baltimore County Court in the early
1690s. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Lower House, Baltimore County, 1692-1693
(Laws 1; Aggrievances 2), 1694-1697 (Laws 3-8).
OTHER PROVINCIAL OFFICES: clerk, Secretary's
Office and Provincial Court, 1686-1687/88; agent
to Pennsylvania on Indian affairs, 1697. LOCAL
OFFICES: deputy commissary, Baltimore County,
serving in 1693; justice, Baltimore County, 1694-
1698 (quorum). WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PER-
SONAL PROPERTY: 2 slaves, 1694 and 1696; 1 slave
in a household of 7 taxables, 1695. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: ca. 700 acres; patented 900 addi-
tional acres in 1695. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: on
December 12, 1698. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV,
£755.13.2 sterling (including 1 slave and 4 ser-
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vants); FB, estate overpaid £1.0.0. LAND: ca. 1,600
acres.
BORDLEY, JAMES (?-ca. 1793). BORN: of age
by 1769. IMMIGRATED: probably. RESIDED: on a
farm on a branch of Corsica Creek, Queen Anne's
County. MARRIED by May 1769 Mary Ann (1742-
?), widow of Philemon Charles Blake (?-1765), of
Queen Anne's County; daughter of William
Hopper ( 1707- 1772); stepdaughter of Sarah Dock-
cry Hopper; niece of both Anne Wright, who mar-
ried Edward Oldham (1709-1773) and Thomas
Wright (?-ca. 1784). Her brother was Will/am
Hopper (by 1747-1806). Her half sister was
Elizabeth Hopper (1739-1806), who married Jo-
seph Nicholson, Jr. (?-1786). Her first cousins were
Ann Oldham (?-by 1794), who married Joshua
Clarke (?-1781); Elizabeth Oldham (?-by 1776),
who married William Hopper (by 1747-1806);
Hannah Oldham (?-1828), who married Nicholas
Martin (1743-ca. 1808); and Samuel Turbutt
Wright (1749-1810). CHILDREN. SONS: James; Wil-
liam Hopper, who married Deborah, daughter of
John Fisher; and John Wesley. STEPSONS: Phile-
mon Charles Blake (ca. 1763-?); William Hopper
Blake (ca. 1764-?). DAUGHTERS: Alice, who mar-
ried Christopher Cox; Ann; and Maria. PRIVATE
CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIA-
TION: Anglican; probably converted to Method-
ism. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Gent., by
1774. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: probably a
planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Lower House, Queen Anne's County, 1777, 1778-
1779 (Grievances 1; Tax Commissioners 1; Manu-
factories 1). LOCAL OFFICES: St. Paul's Parish Ves-
try, Queen Anne's County, in office 1769, 1781-
1783; register, St. Paul's Parish Vestry, Queen An-
ne's County, in office 1771; justice, Queen Anne's
County, 1773-at least 1786; Committee of Corre-
spondence, Queen Anne's County, elected 1774;
justice, Orphans' Court, Queen Anne's County,
1778-at least 1786. MILITARY SERVICE: captain of
a company of Queen Anne's County Militia of the
Twentieth Battalion, 1776. STANDS ON PUBLIC/-
PRIVATE ISSUES: refused to acknowledge the valid-
ity of appointments of militia officers by the Con-
vention, 1776. Bordley manumitted all of his
slaves after various terms of service between 1785
and 1792 and gave one of his slaves an acre of
ground, rent free for life. WEALTH DURING LIFE-
TIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: assessed value
£1,252.0.0, including 21 slaves and at least 12 oz.
plate, 1783. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 852 acres
in Queen Anne's County (all by purchase). SIGNIF-
ICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELEC-
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