HI... I saw this on the Melungeon listing and am posting it to the Bowling listing....Thanks!!!!!! ==== ubj: Re: [Melungeon-L] Jason Walker Bolling, KY 1898 Date: 98-07-19 11:31:49 EDT From: lawson@crosslink.net Reply-to: Melungeon-L@rootsweb.com To: Melungeon-L@rootsweb.com This came from the Dickey Diary, from Rev. Dickey who collected oral histories of families during the era. I saved it from: Return-Path: <VALEE-L-request@rootsweb.com> Resent-Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 13:15:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Ykmjk@aol.com deposition of jason walker bolling. benge ky, june 15, 1898 my great grandfather, jesse bolling, came to kentucky in 1810. my grandfather elijah bolling was born at the three fork of powell river in lee co. va in 1798, and when he was 12 years old his father removed to perry co ky. daniel duff baptized my grandfather, elijah bolling. rev. andrew baker baptized my great grandfather at blackwater church now hawkins co tennessee. my great great grandfather was major john bolling. he had 19 sons, william bolling married martha jefferson, sister of thomas jefferson, president of the united states. other sons were, jesse above mentioned, benjamin the oldest born 1752 or 3, jesse was born 1765. robert the wife of u.s. senator, archibold dixon, was the daughter of dilany bolling of missouri and the granddaughter of major john bolling, aforesaid. gov. john young brown's wife was a daughter of archibald dixon. (roger cornett, son of the original william cornett built the house where hamp. coldiron lives, in 1802 he married zilpha callahan. this makes the date of the cornett's coming to kentucky 1796-1799 probable. men from crug's ferry at mouth of sexton were at the raising. roger cornett was in slaves and land. he owned the coleman survey. patented in 1783, 5600 acres.) there are bollings in western ky. one went to congress some years ago. perhaps 1870 or 1872. the first bolling who came to american was colonel robert bolling of london england. i think old cava baker made the rhyme on the "cattle war". i have always heard it that way. old julius bob baker and william neal were in st. clair's defeat. baker held a major's commission. they are both buried buffalo, owsley co. neal requested to be buried beside baker. john gilbert and john amis married sisters of james bolwing, eli, john, grandfather of judge josiah combs' wife,christopher, william, joseph, nancy (sizemore) was another sister from these have descended most of the bollings in clay county. jesse bolling, my great grandfather, married mary pennington in lee co. va. he was born in north carolina at hillsboro. his father was born in va. david pennington, her brother, was living during the war of the rebellion. my grandfather, elijah bolling, stayed with him in lee co during the late war. jesse bolling had children as follows; hannah married huff; mary married abram barger; justice married ?????; john married polly lewis; jesse married lewis for his second wife; william married a daughter of daniel duff elijah married roberts; george married lewis; a daughter married joseph spencer; betsy married abel pennington; another married haggard; another died single. a.p. hill and basil duke married sisters of john morgan. his mother was the daughter of john hunt, the first millionaire in ky.