===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: MCGLAUGHON-L@rootsweb.com From: CATAULAVIC@aol.com (Vicki McGlaun Culpepper) Subject: Butler http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Brooks_Byrd.htm _http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Brooks_Byrd.htm_ (http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Brooks_Byrd.htm) BUTLER FAMILY 1. Ann Butler, born say 1670, was the servant of Samuel Hersey on 15 January 1690 when she admitted in Somerset County, Maryland court that she had a "Molatta" child by "Emanuel Negro" a slave of William Coulborne. She promised to pay Hersey 1,200 pounds of tobacco for his expenses in raising the child. Emanuel was given 39 lashes on 10 June 1690 when he was convicted of stealing a hog [Judicial Records 1689-90, 36, 57, 60a, 106, 200]. She may have been the ancestor of the members of the Butler family who were in North Carolina by 1751: 2 i. Margaret, born say 1725. 3 ii. Elizabeth, born say 1730. 4 iii. Martha, born say 1734. iv. Robert1, born say 1735, listed in the Summary List of the Bertie County Tax List for 1751 filed with the central government [CCR 190]. In 1755 he posted bastardy bonds for two unnamed children he had by Jane Mitchell [Camin, N.C. Bastardy Bonds, 8]. In 1757 he was taxable on one tithe in the list of John Hill, Esqr., and in 1763 he was a "Free Mulatto Male" taxable in his own household in John Hill's list [CR 10.702.1, box 1]. In 1764 he and (his son?) John Mitchell, "2 free molattos," were listed in the Bertie County Summary Tax List, and in 1766 he was taxed in his own household in the list of John Crickett. In 1770 he was one of the freeholders who were ordered by the September Bertie court to work on the road to Cashie Bridge under Arthur Williams, overseer [Haun, Bertie County Court Minutes, IV:375]. He sold 100 acres on Cypress Swamp in Bertie on 16 February 1785 [DB M:720] and was head of a Bertie household of 4 persons for the 1787 North Carolina State census. He died before May 1790 when Amos Turner returned an inventory of his estate in Bertie court [Haun, Bertie County Court Minutes, VI:813]. 2. Margaret Butler, born say 1725, was head of a household of herself and "free Mulatto" Isaac Butler in the 1761 Bertie tax list of John Hill. On 15 July 1768 her brother James Currey informed the court that she (a "Singlewoman") had been delivered of a bastard child [N.C. Archives, Bertie County Bastardy Bonds 1740-1815, folder for 1766-1770 by ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/bertie/court/curry.txt]. And in September 1768 she brought John Castellaw and Edward MGloghan to court as securities "for her keeping Harmless and indemnifying the Parish of this County from Charge" [Haun, Bertie County Court Minutes, III:831]. She may have been the mother of i. Isaac, born say 1738, taxable in Bertie County in 1751 [CCR 190] and a "Free Mulatto Male" taxable in the list of John Hill in Margaret Butler's household in 1761. ii. William1, born say 1745, taxable head of a Bertie household of 2 "free molattos" in the 1763 summary list. iii. Rachel, born say 1746, taxable in Granville County in 1762 in Samuel Benton's list for Oxford District & Fishing Creek in the household of (her brother-in-law?) George Pettiford [CR 44.701.23]. iv. Abigail1, born before 1750, taxable in her own Bertie household with (her brother?) William Butler in the 1761 list of John Hill. 4 v. John, born about 1755. 3 Elizabeth Butler, born say 1730, was a "Free Mulatto Female" taxed in the 1761 and 1763 Bertie County Tax List of John Hill in the household of Arthur Williams along with David James and seven slaves. Arthur Williams was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly for Bertie County in 1735 [Saunders, Colonial Records of North Carolina, IV:115]. She was Arthur William's common-law wife and the mother of his two sons Isaac and Elisha who were taxed as white servants in 1767 in his household in the list of John Crickett and as "Mollatoes" in 1768: Masters: Arthur Williams Mulattos: Isaac Williams, Elisha Williams, Wm. James, Elizth. Butler, Elizth. James, Mary James Slaves: Gye, Grace, Sezer, Bess, Robin, Joan, Treser [CR 10.702.1]. Arthur left a 28 January 1775 Bertie County will, proved May 1775, leaving slaves Guy, Cesar, Grace and Joan to Elizabeth Butler "now living with me" and naming Elizabeth's children Isaac, Elisha, Ann, Cathoran, Joab, and Arthur. He also named Sarah, wife of Josiah Reddit [WB B:30-4]. In the undated Bertie County List of Humphrey Hardy, Elizabeth was head of a household of 5 taxables: slaves Gye, Cezar, Grace, Joan and herself (not identified by race). The children of Elizabeth Butler and Arthur Williams were i. ?Sarah, born say 1746, married Josiah Redditt, 14 May 1767 Bertie County bond. ii. Isaac Williams, born say 1748, counted as white in 1771 and thereafter. He married Nancy Bunch, 7 December 1769 Bertie County bond with Jeremiah and Henry Bunch, Jr., bondsmen. iii. Elisha Williams, counted as white in 1771 and thereafter, married Sarah Josey, 24 March 1775 Bertie County bond. iv. Ann, wife of Joseph Simons. v. Catherine. vi. Joab. vii. Arthur. 4. Martha Butler, born say 1734, was a "Free Mulatto Female" taxable in 1761 and 1763 in John Castellaw's household in the Bertie County list of John Hill and was taxable in Castellaw's household in the lists for 1766 through 1772. She was apparently John Castellaw's common-law wife since in 1771 William Castellaw was taxed in the Bertie list of Humphrey Nichols as a "free Molattoe," and in 1771 John made a deed of gift to "William Castellaw son of Martha Butler" [DB L:283]. The deed was proved in Bertie court by the oath of Arthur Williams who was probably the common-law husband of Elizabeth Butler. Martha was head of a Gates County household of 10 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:143]. Her son was i. William Castellaw, born say 1755, perhaps the father of James Custalo, head of a Richmond City, Virginia household of 3 "other free" in 1810 [VA:373]. 5. John Butler, born about 1755, was a taxable "Mollato" in William Butler's household in the 1774 list of Humphrey Nichols. He married Keziah Prichard, 27 December 1797 Bertie County bond with her brother Christopher Prichard bondsman. He married, second, Mary Hubbard, 13 February 1802 Bertie County bond, Buffin Harrison bondsman. He was living in Bertie County on 17 November 1820 when he applied for a pension for his services in the Revolution, stating that he enlisted in May 1776 at Windsor, Bertie County, in the North Carolina Line. He was sixty-six years old and owned 220 acres of poor land that he lived on with his wife Milly, fifty years old, and four children [NCGSJ XI:22]. They were i. Temperance, born about 1802. ii. Sucky, born about 1803. iii. William3, born about 1804. iv. Abigail2, born about 1812. Other members of the family were i. James, born in March 1759, a twelve-year-old "Mulatto" boy living in Loudoun County on 9 September 1771 when the court ordered the churchwardens of Cameron parish to bind him to Hardage Lane, Gentleman. He came into court on 14 September 1778 and agreed to serve Lane until 25 December 1779 to complete all his service including runaway time [Orders 1770-3, 213; 1776-83, 120]. He may have been the James Butler who was head of a Campbell County household of 10 "other free" in 1810 [VA:879]. ii. Jack Butlers, born say 1760, a "mulatto" who was listed among seven deserters, drafted out of Prince George County, Virginia, for whom a reward was offered in the 28 November 1777 issue of the Virginia Gazette [Purdie edition, p.3, col. 3], perhaps the "Buttlers Jack" who was head of a Martin County household of 2 "other free" in 1790 [NC:68]. iii. Jacob, born say 1770, married Patience Turner, 7 March 1796 Isle of Wight bond, John Holland surety. He was a "F.N." head of an Isle of Wight household of 11 "other free" in 1810 [NC:43]. iv. Griffin, born before 1776, married Martha Bowles, 24 October 1790 Albemarle County, Virginia bond. He was taxable in Albemarle County on one tithe and 3 horses in Fredericksville Parish in 1800 [Virginia Genealogist 3:4] and head of an Albemarle County household of 10 "free colored" in 1820. v. Edward, (brother of Griffin?), taxable in Albemarle County in Fredericksville Parish in 1800 [Virginia Genealogist 3:4] and head of a Southampton County household of 12 "other free" in 1810. vi. Robert3, born about 1790, registered as a "free Negro" in Brunswick County, Virginia, on 25 May 1835: a free man of color dark complexion about forty five years of age five feet eight Inches high one scar on the upper lip was born free as appears from the evidence of Wm Scarborough [Wynne, Register of Free Negroes, 130]. vii. Christopher, head of a Stafford County, Virginia household of 7 "other free" in 1810. viii. Daniel, head of a Chesterfield County, Virginia household of 8 "other free" in 1810 [VA:1062]. ix. William2, head of a Norfolk County household of 8 "other free" in 1810 [VA:890]. x. Lurany, born about 1788, registered in Sussex County, Virginia, on 23 September 1814: yellow complexion, 5'4", free born, 26 years old [Certificates granted to Free negroes & Mulattos, no.249].