Name John Bolling Parents Jane Rolfe | Spouse Mary Kennon (m. 1691) | |
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Children Jane Bolling, Martha Bolling, John Bolling, Jr., Elizabeth Bolling, Mary Bolling, Anne Bolling Grandparents Thomas Rolfe, Jane Poythress Similar People | ||
Major John Fairfax Bolling (January 27, 1676 – April 20, 1729) was a colonist, farmer, and politician in the Virginia Colony. He was the son of Colonel Robert Bolling and Jane (nee Rolfe) Bolling. His maternal grandfather was Chief Powhatan's grandson, Thomas Rolfe.
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John Bolling was born at Kippax Plantation, in Charles City County, a site which is now within the corporate limits of the City of Hopewell. He made his home at the Bolling family plantation "Cobbs" just west of Point of Rocks on the north shore of the Appomattox River downstream from present-day Petersburg, Virginia. (Cobbs was located in Henrico County until the area south of the James River was subdivided to form Chesterfield County in 1749).
Personal life
John Bolling married Mary Kennon (1679–1727), daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham, on December 29, 1697. They had at least seven children, whose names appear in John Bolling's will:
Later life
Major Bolling served in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1710 until his death.
In 1722, he opened a tobacco warehouse in what is now the 'Pocahontas' neighbourhood of Petersburg. William Byrd II of Westover Plantation is said to have remarked that Major Bolling enjoyed "all the profits of an immense trade with his countrymen, and of one still greater with the Indian."
Legacy
John and Mary Bolling's descendants are the only descendants of Pocahontas, and include Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, wife of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, Percival Lowell, Harry Flood Byrd and Richard Evelyn Byrd.