22nd Generation

50. Henry BOTELER I (!) was born about 1658 in England, United Kingdom.

The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland. Its first settlement and capital was St. Mary's City, in the southern end of St. Mary's County, which is a peninsula in the Chesapeake Bay and is also bordered by four tidal rivers.

The province began as a proprietary colony of the English Lord Baltimore, who wished to create a haven for English Catholics in the new world at the time of the European wars of religion. Although Maryland was an early pioneer of religious toleration in the English colonies, religious strife among Anglicans, Puritans, Catholics, and Quakers was common in the early years, and Puritan rebels briefly seized control of the province. In 1689, the year following the Glorious Revolution, John Coode led a rebellion that removed Lord Baltimore from power in Maryland. Power in the colony was restored to the Baltimore family in 1715 when Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, insisted in public that he was a Protestant.

Despite early competition with the colony of Virginia to its south, and the Dutch colony of New Netherland to its north, the Province of Maryland developed along very similar lines to Virginia. Its early settlements and population centers tended to cluster around the rivers and other waterways that empty into the Chesapeake Bay and, like Virginia, Maryland's economy quickly became centered on the cultivation of tobacco, for sale in Europe. The need for cheap labor, and later with the mixed farming economy that developed when tobacco prices collapsed, led to a rapid expansion of indentured servitude, penal transportation, and forcible immigration and enslavement of Africans. Maryland received a larger felon quota than any other province.

The Province of Maryland was an active participant in the events leading up to the American Revolution, and echoed events in New England by establishing committees of correspondence and hosting its own tea party similar to the one that took place in Boston. By 1776 the old order had been overthrown as Maryland citizens signed the Declaration of Independence, forcing the end of British colonial rule.

. He signed a will on 27 August 1713. From WikiTree: "In the name of God, Amen. I Henry Boteler of Prince George's in the Province of Maryland, being sick and weak in body but of sound and perfect mind & memory praised by God and calling to mind the Certainty of Death but the uncertainty of the time when & being willing to settle & dispose of my Temporale Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me doe make and ordain this my last Will & Testament in manner and form following impremiss.

I give unto my Dear Son Charles Borteler & to his heirs and assigns forever all that tract or parcel of land laying in Prince George's County called Renehers Adventure containing fifty acres; as also all that tract of land called London Derry containing two hundred and fifty acres; as also all that tract of land called Harry's Lott after the Decease of my Dear & Loving wife, I give to my son Charles Boteler his & heirs and assigns forever.

Item, I give unto my Dear son Henry Boteler and to his heirs forever all that part of a tract of Land called Buttington given me with my wife by her Father William George Lingan, deceased by estimation two hundred acres.

Item, I give unto my Dear Son Thomas Boteler & to his heirs and assigns forever all that trat of land called Appledore which I purchased of Jim Middleton containing two hundred fourty and two acres.

Item, I give unto my Dear and loving Son Edward Boteler and to his heirs forever all that part of a tract of Land laying in Baltemore County willed to me by William George Lingan deceased called Lingan's Adventure containing by estimation five hundred acres.

Item, I give unto my Dear and loving Daughter Alice Boteler one negro girl called Dinah and her increase and one Feather Bed & furniture to be delivered to her when she shall arrive at the age of sixteen years.

Item, I give unto my dear Daughter Catherine Boteler one negro girl called Joyce and her increase also one Feather Bed and furniture to be delivered unto my Dear Child after she arrives at the age of sixteen years."

But provided and in case any of my sons should dye before they come to the age of twenty one years his or their parts of the Estate left shall be equally divided amongst the Survivors of my sons to them and theirs forever both reale and personale but if all my sons should dye before they arrive of the age aforesaid that then their parts shall be equally divided between my two Daughters both reale and personale to them and their heirs forever and in case either of my daughters should dye before they shall arrive at the age of sixteen she that survives shall have the deceased's part but in case both my daughters should dye before they shall arrive at the age aforesaid that then my will is that my dear wife have their parts wholly to herself.

Item, I give unto my Dear and loving wife Cathering Boteler one negro man called Dick as also my best Bed and furniture and after my Debts and Legacys before mentioned be paid I give unto my dear and loving wife one third part of all the remainder of my substances both reale and personale let the same be in any kind or specie whatsoever, also the tract of land called Harry's Lott with the appurtenances thereunto belonging I give to my loving wife during her natural life and the other two thirds of my Estate after my Debts and Legacys as aforesaid be paid my Wife is it shall equally be divided amongst my six dear children before mentioned my dear and loving wife to keep the whole estate in her hand both reale and personale to bring my dear children who in the nurture and fear of the Lord and give them as good learning as is reasonable to be had for which consideration my will is that my dear and loving wife have all the profits and advantages that is to be gained by Rents increase interest or any other way or as means lawful whatsoever during the time that she shall remain in the state of Widowhood; but if my Dear wife should either marry or Dye before my Dear Children come to age to receive their parts of the Estate that then my Will is that my loving Brother Edward Boteler Josiah Wilson & Thomas Lingan and either or any of them (all being equally concerned) doe take into their are and charge (att their discretion) all my children with what is their due both Real and personale and I beg and desire that my Friends aforesaid, will take care to give my dear babes all necessary education and bring them up in the nurture and fear of the Lord and I doe hereby appoint my Dear and loving Wife Catherine Boteler sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament hereby Revoking all former Wills by me heretofore made. In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and Seal this twentieth seven day of August one thousand seven hundred and thirteen.

(signed) Henry HB Boteler"

. He died on 5 September 1713 at the age of 55 in Calvert County, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America.

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Henry BOTELER I (!) and Catherine LINGAN (!) were married in 1690 in Calvert County, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America.

. Catherine LINGAN (!), daughter of George LINGAN and Ann HARDESTY, was born in 1673 in Calvert County, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America. She died in November 1725 at the age of 52 in Calvert County, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America.

Henry BOTELER I (!) and Catherine LINGAN (!) had the following children: