Person:Thomas Butler (11)
Thomas Butler, I
b.Abt 1603 Roxwell, Essex, England
d.1646 Kent Island, Queen Anne's, Maryland, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 27 Dec 1599
  1. John Butler1600 - 1642
  2. Thomas Butler, IAbt 1603 - 1646
  3. Jane Butler1605 -
  4. Sarah Butler1607 -
  5. Elizabeth ButlerAbt 1609 - 1676
Spouse and Children
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m. 16 Jan 1625
  1. Nathaniel Butler
  2. William Butler - 1734
  3. Thomas Butler, II1625 - 1678
  4. John Butler, of Cople Parish1637 - 1684
  5. Christopher ButlerAbt 1641 - Abt 1729
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Facts and Events
Name Thomas Butler, I
Gender Male
Alt Birth? 1602 Essex, England
Birth? Abt 1603 Roxwell, Essex, England"Thobie", Little Bursted,
Marriage 16 Jan 1625 London, Middlesex, Englandto Joan Mount-Stephen Christopher
Occupation? Merchant
Death? 1646 Kent Island, Queen Anne's, Maryland, United States
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1. First of the line in America.

2. Thomas became a merchant in London, joined the "Merchant Adventurers," as a partner with his brother, Capt. John Boteler, and their brother-in-law, Col. William Claiborne, (who had married their sister Elizabeth Boteler) in his Kent Island, now in Maryland, with Col. Claiborne and his wife in 1637; they had secured a charter to establish a trading post on the Island for business with the Indians. Lord Calvert claimed Kent Island on his later Charter for Maryland, and challenged Col. Claiborne and the Botelers for possession. Captain John Boteler died during the feud, in 1642, and left his Kent Island shares to Thomas his brother who moved out to the Island with his family, dying there in 1646. Under persecution from the Calverts, Claiborne was driven out, and Joan, the widow Boteler, escaped with her five young Boteler sons to Westmoreland County Va., assisted by her husband's friend Edward Thompson, whom she later married. In Virginia, the name Boteler became Butler, and the five young sons of Thomas I grew up in Washington Parish, Westmoreland County Va.

THOMAS BUTLER was born in 1602 in Essex County, England.

Thomas married JOAN MOUNT STEPHENS in England.

Thomas died in 1646.

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