Colonel Robert Bolling was a wealthy early American settler planter and merchant.
Background
His mother was Mary Carie. His father was John Bolling born 1615. Robert Bolling was the son of John and Mary (Clarke) Bolling.
He was born at Tower Street, All Hallows Barking Parish, in London on December 26, 1646.
His father John, was one of the Bollings of Bolling Hall, near Bradford, England.
Career
Robert"s ancestry could be traced to Robert Bolling, Esquire, who died in 1485 and was buried in the family vault in the church of Bradford. On October 2, 1660, at the age of fourteen, Bolling arrived in the colony of Virginia. Their son John Bolling was born January 26, 1676.
Jane is said to have died shortly after the birth.
John Bolling (January 26, 1676 – April 20, 1729) married Mary Kennon, daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham, and they had seven children. He was an ancestor to First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson.
They had the following nine children together. Jane Bolling (b 1682), died young.
Robert Bolling Junior. (1682–1749), married Anne Mary Cocke.
Robert was the grandfather of Beverley Randolph, the eighth Governor of Virginia. Stith Bolling (1686–1727), married Elizabeth Hartwell. Captain Edward Bolling (1687–1710), married Mississippi
Slaughter died of smallpox at sea.
Anne Bolling (1690–1750), married Robert Wynne. Drury Bolling (1695–1726), married Elizabeth Meriwether.
Thomas Bolling (1697–1734). Agnes Bolling (1700–1762), married Richard Kennon.
Molly Mary Bolling (b 1702), married Andrew Baker.
As a merchant and planter, Bolling acquired a large estate. Robert Bolling died on July 17, 1709, and was buried on his plantation Kippax, in Prince George Company, Virginia, where his tomb still stands. Archaeologist Donald West. Linebaugh, of the University of Kentucky, located the remains of Colonel
Bolling"s house in Hopewell, Virginia in 2002.
The Archaeological Conservancy is currently trying to buy the site of Kippax Plantation to protect it from development. Thomas Rolfe, the son of Pocahontas and Robert Bolling"s father-in-law, is buried there.
The Archaeological Conservancy is in the process of raising the $205,000 needed for the purchase.
Membership
He was colonel of the militia and was a member of the House of Burgesses from Charles City County in 1702.