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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].
Vicki McGlaun Culpepper
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some are sharp, some are pretty,
some are dull, some have weird names,
and all are different colors...but
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