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John Bordley was born on February 11, 1727, at Annapolis, Maryland, United States, the posthumous son of Thomas Bordley, by his second wife, Mrs. Ariana Vanderheyden Frisby. His father came from Yorkshire, England, in 1694, settled in Maryland, and was attorney-general there in 1712. After his mother's death, John was brought up by Col. Hynson at Chestertown, Maryland.
John studied law under his eldest brother, Stephen, and also did much general reading of history, philosophy, science, and arts.
In 1753 John Bordley was appointed prothonotary of Baltimore County, and after resigning this office and moving to Baltimore, he was appointed a judge of the Maryland Provincial Court in 1766, and the following year also judge of the Admiralty. In 1770 he came into possession of 1, 600 acres on an island at the mouth of Wye River, and resided there. He also purchased Pool's Island, near Joppa. From this time he farmed on a large scale and endeavored to improve practises with the aid of imported machinery, seeds, and treatises on husbandry. He rotated crops and grew wheat, as a substitute for tobacco, together with hemp, flax, cotton, and many kinds of vegetables and fruits. He made bricks, salt, and beer, the last, as better than whiskey, for his farm people. He was on the side of the colonists in their contest with Great Britain and helped to supply the American army with food.
Results of his farm operations and studies were published at first on written cards, and then on handbills and as essays. Among these are: A Summary View of the Courses of Crops, in the Husbandry of England and Maryland (1784) and Sketches on Rotations of Crops and other Rural Matters (1797). His Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs, published in 1799, and with additions in 1801, is a book of 566 pages describing a system of farming based on rotation of crops and deals with the several kinds of crops, fruits, and animals grown on English and Maryland farms (particularly his own), manures, farm buildings, dairy products, food and diet for farm people, etc. American and foreign practises are compared and results of experiments are given. The style is clear and practical, an effort evidently being made to give such data as would enable the intelligent farmer to make use of the information thus conveyed. Bordley also published an essay on Money, Coins, Weights and Measures in 1789 and a supplement to this in 1790.
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John Bordley was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Bordley was a founding member of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture in 1785, and was its vice-president and active in its affairs until his death.
In 1750 John Bordley married Margaret Chew, who died November 11, 1773. They had four children: Thomas Bordley, Matthias Bordley, Henrietta Maria Bordley, John Beale Bordley, Jr. Their joint property included several farms, on one of which, near Joppa, Maryland, they resided twelve years. On October 8, 1776, he married Mrs. Sarah Fishbourne Mifflin, of Philadelphia, and moved to that city in 1791. They had the daughter Elizabeth Bordley.
