In 1709 he inherited the manor of Flete, Devon from Richard Hele (1679–1709).
In 1718 he married Mary Crocker, daughter and heiress of Courtenay Crocker (died 1740), of Lyneham, Yealmpton, inheriting Lyneham in 1740. With Mary he had two sons and four daughters, including:
James Courtenay Bulteel, his eldest son, who predeceased his father in 1746 but left one one-year-old son, Courtenay Croker Bulteel of Flete and Lyneham, who also died as a young man (before 1800).
John Bulteel (1733–1801)[3] of Membland (adjacent to Flete) in the parish of Holbeton, who became heir to his young nephew Courtenay Croker Bulteel.
^Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, p.273
^Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, vol. 4, p.13