Hi Everyone, I have seen a couple of mentions lately on Samuel Bolling and Abigail Choice Bolling. I am sending a document that I copied and typed up on MSWord about Samuel and his family. Thought it might help someone. Jan Morrow ANCESTORS OF SAMUEL BOLLING: ENSIGN IN CONTINENTAL ARMY, 1776 (1) Jno. Rolfe (gent) of England was born May 6th, 1585 son of Jno. Rolfe and Dorothy Mason of Heacham Norfolk. His coat of arms is well preserved and a proof oof his belonging to the English Gentry. He started to Virginia June 1608 and in May 1614, married Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan, by whom he acquired thousands of acres of land in Virginia, Rolfe returned to England in 1616, carrying his young wife and they were received as distinguished guests by the King and Queen. Their son Thos. Was born there. As they were about to set sail to return to America, Pocahontas died and was buried at Graves End Church March 21, 1617. (2) Thomas Rolfe, their son, born Jan. 1617 was reared by his uncle Henry Rolfe and educated in England. He came to Virginia and entered the Army in 1646 as Lieutenant. Having inherited vast acres through his mother, he was very wealthy, and soon married Jane, daughter of Captain Francis Paythress (Arminger). (3) Their daughter Jane Rolfe married in 1675, Col. Robert Bolling of Prince George County, Va., and lived at his beautiful Villa, Kappase and at his county-seat, Farmingdale. Cole. Robert Bolling was born Dec. 26, 1646. He was son of Jno. And Mary Bolling of "All Hallows" Tonar St., London, Eng. (Arminger) and a descendant of the Bollings of Bolling Hall of Bradford in Yorkshire. Robert Bolling came to Virginia Oct. 1660 and married first, in 1675, Jane daughter of Thos. Rolfe and Jane Paythress and had one son, Jno. He married again in 1681, Annie, daughter of Capt. Jno. Smith and had four sons and two daughters. Agnes, the youngest daughter married Richard, the son of Col. Richard Kennon, whose sister Mary, married Col. Jno. Bolling. (4) Jno. Bolling, son of Jane Rolfe and Robert Bolling, was born Jan. 27, 1676, was immensely wealthy being the eldest child, resided at Cobbs not (Chesterfield) and was buried there Apr. 20, 1729. He was a member of the House of Burgesses from Henrico Co. 1714, 23, and 26. He married Mary Elizabeth Warsham whose mother was Miss Isham of distinguished ancestry. Richard Kennon was a merchant and attorney for a merchant of London and crossed the Atlantic 8 times. He was a Burgess from Henrico County, 1686. Jno. Bolling married Mary Kennon in 1699. (5) Col. Jno. Bolling, son of Maj. Bolling and Mary Kennon was born in 1700, and died 1757 on his estate, Bolling Hall, Goochland Co., Va. In 1728 he married Elizabeth Blair,, daughter of Dr. Archibald Blair and Mary Wilson. Archibald Blair was born in Scotland in 1660, and died 1735 in Va. Mary Wilson, mother of Elizabeth, was born 1675, and died 1741,---married first William Roscom Gent., and had three children; married second, Col. Miles Cary, Gent., and had four children; her father, Col. Wm. Wilson, was very wealthy and a naval officer of the lower James River. Wm. His only son, Wm, died 1701. This son, named Wm. Col. Wilson died 1713, or 1715, willing all his property to his daughters and wife, Annie Wilson, whose family crest is engraved on her tomb at Cely' Va., the family estate. Elizabeth Blair was born, 1708 and in 1728 married Co. Jno. Bolling above mentioned. (6) Col. Wm. Bolling 2nd son Col. Jno. Bolling and Elizabeth Blair, was born about 1731 and married first, Amelia Randolph (second Elizabeth) Jno. Bolling above mentioned. Archibald, and Samuel, sons of the first marriage. Records at Martinsville Va., state that Jno. And Archibald Bolling (sons of Wm. Bolling, who died in service 1776, in the Va. Continental Line) took oath of Allegiance 1778 in Henrico Co., Va., to the American cause against King George, III, and it is recorded in the Henry Co. Court, (see pages 11 to 15 and 110 and 266 of Va. Historical Magazine, Vol. IX that they were sons of Wm. Bolling who died 1776 in the Va. Continental Line, and that Samuel Bolling, the younger son of Wm. Bolling, was Ensign under Capt. Wm. Ryan, whose first Lieutenant was Spencer Clark (see Va. H. Mag. XI page 90) Heming stated that Wm. Bolling in 1758 joined the troopers as Sergeant from Prince Wm. Co. Va., in the French and Indian War, when he was about 27 years old (see Croziers Va. Militia, page 72) page 80 Vol. I of Meades Families of Va., states that Wm. Bolling of Bolling Hall, Goochland Co., married a daughter of Richard Randolph and Annie Meade, both of this county, being 5th in descent from Pocahontas. (7) Samuel Bolling, son of Wm. Bolling and Amelia Randolph, married a daughter of Capt. Tully Choice of the Va. Militia from Henry Co., Va. Her name was Abigail. Samuel Bolling was on Jan. 23, 1785, appointed Ensign in Conti nental Army. At the close of the War, he and his wife moved to South Carolina, Laurens Co., where he died in 1808. Samuel Bollings wife, Abigail, was the daughter of Capt. Tully Choice, Jr., of the Va. Militia, from Henry Co., 1778, who is the son of Tully Choice, Sr., who moved from Spottsylvania Co. Va., to Henry Co. Va. Oct. 2, 1744.