Judith Bolling DePriest

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• Residence: 1704, Cobbs Plantation, Henrico, Virginia, USA

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The Cobbs from County Kent, England
In 1639, Ambrose Cobbs and his family landed in Virginia, in the original Henrico County deeper inland on the James River, and settled Cobbs Hall, a 350 acre estate on the north side of the Appomattox River in York County. According to Early Virginia Immigrants 1623-1666, by George Cabel in 1912, Robert Cobbs and Margarett Cobbs, the children of Ann and Ambrose Cobbs were brought to Henrico County by Ambrose and Ann Cobbs.

Ambrose Cobbs was born in 1603 in Petham, Kent, England, where he married Ann White on 18 April 1625. Ann White was born in 1608 in Norton Parish, Kent. Before the marriage, Ann was living in Willesborough with her sister Sarah and brother-in-law Thomas Cobbs, the brother of Ambrose. Ambrose and Ann gave birth to son Robert in 1627, and then in 1633 sold their property in England in preparation for the trip to the colonies. On July 25, 1639, Ambrose patented 350 acres on the Appomattox River, near Swift's Creek, about nine miles from present Petersburg, about fifty miles upriver from Jamestown, and adjacent to properties owned by Abraham Wood and John Baugh. During his lifetime, the entire locale became known as 'Cobbs' or 'Cobbs Hall', a name that was used to identify the entire surrounding area until well after the Civil War. Robert, the son of Ambrose, became the York County Anglican Church Warden of Marston Parish two years after the death of Ambrose. He was York County’s Justice of the Peace in 1676, and High Sheriff of York County in 1682 – the year Robert died. At that time Robert’s son, Ambrose, was a member of Bruton Parish in Williamsburg, and helped build the Bruton Parish Anglican Church, which is still operating today. Robert inherited Cobbs Hall when Ambrose died in 1656, and he immediately sold the property to Michael Masters, who then sold it to John and Thomas Burton that same year. In 1704, a son of Thomas Burton sold "Cobbs" to John Bolling, and though it continued to be known as "Cobbs", the property remained in the possession of the Bolling family for over a hundred years.

John Bolling was the son of Colonel Robert Bolling and his wife Jane Rolfe, daughter of Thomas Rolfe and granddaughter of Pocahontas. The state of Virginia owns a painting of the mansion at Cobbs Hall, but was probably built by the Bolling family. During the Revolution, the property was raided by the British. The crops and outbuildings were burned, but the main house was left untouched. During the Civil War however, the entire property was overrun in 1864 and burned to the ground by Federal troops.


Major John Bolling (January 27, 1676 – April 20, 1729) was a colonist, farmer, and politician in the Virginia Colony. John Bolling was the son of Colonel Robert Bolling and Jane (née Rolfe) Bolling. His maternal grandfather was Chief Powhatan's grandson, Thomas Rolfe and maternal great grandmother was Pocahontas. 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.)

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:

John Bolling Jr. (1700–1757) married Elizabeth Lewis in 1720. Later married Elizabeth Bland Blair (the niece of James Blair, the first president of the College of William & Mary) on August 1, 1728 and had at least nine children, including John Bolling III, who married Mary Jefferson (the sister of United States President Thomas Jefferson.

Jane Bolling (1703–1766) married Colonel Richard Randolph in 1714 or 1720 and had seven children.
Elizabeth Bolling (b. 1709), married William Gay of Scotland and had three children.
Mary Bolling (1711–1744), married John Fleming and had eight children.
Martha Bolling (1713–1737), married Thomas Eldridge in 1729 and had four children.
Anne Bolling (1718–1800), married James Murray and had six children.
Sarah Bolling (1727–1816), married Major Robert Davis and had one child.

In 1722, he opened a tobacco warehouse in what is now the 'Pocahontas' neighborhood 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.". Major Bolling served in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1710 until his death in 1729. John and Mary Bolling's descendants are some of the descendants of Pocahontas, and include Latter-day Saint pioneer Martha Jane Crismon Lewis, First Lady of the United States Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, astronomer Percival Lowell, Virginia Governor then Senator Harry Flood Byrd, New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, and Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd.

In Old Virginia Houses Along the James by Emmie Ferguson Farrar (New York: Bonanza Books, 1957). On pp. 61-62, Ms Farrar has this to say about Cobb's Hall:

"AMBROSE COBB patented three hundred and fifty acres on Appomattox River in 1639. The patent was granted him in order that he might bring over himself, his wife, his son and three others to Virginia and settle on the patented land. He was in business in York, and from the records, there were two other sons, Ambrose II and Thomas. (Bishop Meade mentions Ambrose Cobb, vestryman at the Church in Williamsburg, some time between 1674-1769.)

Cobb built the first mansion at Cobb's. Its site was on the north side of
Appomattox River in what is now Chesterfield County. Later John Bolling
(the great-grandson of Pocahontas and John Rolfe) and his wife, Mary Kennon, of Brick House, bought Cobb's, and it became a Bolling home for many generations. John Bolling went into mercantile business and carried on extensive trade with the Indians as well as the English.

John and Mary had a son, John, who was something of a gay blade and liked
dancing, fishing, hunting, dogs and horses. He was devoted to his family.
He became a justice in the courts, while the family acres were still a part of Henrico, and later presided over the first Court of Chesterfield County. John had a son, Thomas, who married Elizabeth Gay. She rode about the county and to church with her coach and four, with coachman, footman and postillion in bright yellow livery.

Many distinguished Americans, including the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, were descendants of this family.

The burial ground at Cobb's is surrounded by a high brick wall, and many
Bollings are buried here. There is a granite monument on which is
inscribed, 'Around this stone lie the remains of Colonel John Bolling of
Cobbs. Great Grandson of Rolfe and Pocahontas--Born 1676--Died 1709.'

Some members of the Bolling family were deaf, so William Bolling engaged a teacher, John Braidwood, of Washington, and in 1815 organized the first
school for the deaf in America. It continued for only four years.

Cobbs suffered damage both during the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars.

It eventually burned down but was rebuilt. After the Bollings sold the
place, there was a succession of owners and several changes of name. Now,
since Mr. M. T. Broyhill, of Hopewall, purchased the property and subdivided it into small farms, there are many people living at Cobb's."

John married Mary Sarah Kennon on 29 Dec 1697 in St Johns Church, Henrico, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham) was born on 29 Jun 1679 in Conjurers Neck, Henrico, Virginia, USA; died on 29 Jun 1727 in Cobbs Plantation, Henrico, Virginia, USA; was buried in Enon, Chesterfield, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mary Elizabeth Kennon

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• Name: Robert Bowling

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Parents of Robert Bolling were John Bolling and Mary Cary who resided in Bolling Hall, Bradford, Yorkshire,England. Robert was baptised at All Hallows, Barking Essex. Emigrated to America, arrived on October 2,1660 at age 13. He married Jane Rolfe in 1675. Jane Rolfe was a descendent of Pocahantas and John Rolfe. His wife died the next year in 1676, leaving one child. Robert remarried in 1681 to Jane Anne Stith. They had 7 children. Robert, Edward, Anne, Drury, Thomas, Agnes (1700-1762), Mollie (1702) in Virginia. Descendents of Jane Anne Stith-Bollings were referred to as the "white bollings" and descendents of Jane Rolfe were known as the "red bollings". Robert died at Kippax, Virginia on June 17th, 1709.



Robert Bolling, founder of the family in Virginia, was the son of John Bolling, of "All Hallows," Backen Parish, Town St., London. This John Bolling was descended from a younger branch of the Bolling Hall. His son, Robert, b. December 26, 1646, arrived in Virginia, October 2, 1660, when not quite fifteen years old. He lived at Kippox, sometimes called Farmingdale, a large estate below Petersburg on James River. His dwelling house is now in ruins. Robert Bolling grew up, and early attained prominence in the colony and married Jane Rolfe, daughter of Lieut. Thomas Rolfe and Jane Poythress, and granddaughter of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. They had one son, Col. John Bolling, b. 1676, the same year his mother died. He settled, lived and died on his plantation called "Cobbs," on the Appomattox River, below Petersburg, hence his sobriquet "of Cobbs." Col. John Bolling engaged in commerce and soon became very wealthy. He is described as gay and social in his disposition and eminently adapted for society. Judge Windham Robertson, a descendant of the Bollings, in his "Biographical Sketches," relates the following anecdote of him: "Col. Robert Bolling, in England, at a feast given him by a kinswoman, met a Yorkshire lady, who hearing him talk, exclaimed, 'Oh, mine Got, you no hear dat man, an he talk English as well as me.' 'Aye, madam, and a good deal better, or I would not talk at all,' was the Colonel's quick and not over gallant rejoinder."
Volume IV Chapter XII Bolling Family.

Robert married Jane Rolfe in 1674 in Petersburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. Jane (daughter of Thomas Rolfe and Jane Poythress) was born on 10 Oct 1650 in Varina, Henrico, Virginia, USA; died on 26 Jan 1676 in Hopewell, Prince George, Virginia, USA; was buried in Hopewell, Prince George, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jane Rolfe (October 10, 1650 – 1676) was the granddaughter of Pocahontas and English colonist John Rolfe, (credited with introducing a strain of tobacco for export by the struggling Virginia Colony). Her husband was Colonel Robert Bolling who lived from 1646 to 1709. Robert and Jane had one son John Fairfax Bolling (1676–1729).

Pocahontas, who adopted the Christian name of Rebecca, [1] [2] married John Rolfe on April 5, 1614 in Jamestown. Rolfe's longtime friend, Reverend Richard Buck presided the wedding. [3] They had one child, Thomas Rolfe, who was born in Virginia on January 30, 1615.

Jane Rolfe was born in Varina, Henrico County, Virginia on October 10, 1650 [4] to Thomas Rolfe and his wife, Jane Poythress, whose parents were Francis Poythress and Alice Payton of England. [5] [6] [7]

In about 1675, Jane married Robert Bolling of Prince George County, Virginia. Their son John was born on January 27, 1676. Jane is said to have died shortly afterward. [4]

John Bolling married Mary Kennon, daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham of Conjurer's Neck.[4] The couple had six surviving children, each of whom married and had surviving children. [8] As a result, many Americans are today able to claim descent from Pocahontas through her great-grandson, John Bolling.

Rolfe's interment was near her father in the Kippax Plantation, but her birth year was never engraved on her headstone.

References
The conversion of Pocahontas to Christianity was undertaken by Alexander Whitaker.

"Pocahontas Biography: also called Matoaka and Amonute, Christian name Rebecca (1595–1617)".

Travels and Works of Captain John Smith (Edinburgh 1910), p. 514

John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 4th ed., Vol. 3, pp. 23–36.

Snow, Megan (May 2003). "Thomas Rolfe". Historic Jamestowne. National Park Service.

Pecquet du Bellet, Louise (1907). "Bolling Family". Some prominent Virginia families. Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Co. p. 304. Retrieved August 31, 2011.

"The Descendants of Pocahontas: An Unclosed Case", by Elizabeth Vann Moore and Richard Slatten, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, XXIII, no.3, pp. 3–16, cited by John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 4th ed., Vol. 3, p. 26, fn23–24. Moore and Slatten traced the suggestion that his wife was a Poythress back to a comment by W. G. Stanard in "Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents", Virginia Historical Magazine(I, 1894, 446–447): "His wife is said to have been a Miss Poythress (if so, doubtless a daughter of Francis Poythress." According to Moore and Slatten, Stanard cited as evidence handwritten notes on the flyleaf of a copy of A Complete Collection of All the Laws of Virginia Now in Force Carefully Copied from the Assembled Records (London, 168[?], now in the Library of Virginia. Moore and Slatten state: "Interestingly, Thomas Rolfe here is recorded as married to a 'Miss Payers'. We recall that in John Rolfe's will the name of his third wife is spelt Pyers (Peirce) and that it was John who married a "Jane". Here again a Bolling descendant confused the son with his father. Not recognizing the name 'Payers' as another variant of Peirce, someone searched the records for a name beginning with 'P' and having a 'y' in the first syllable. Francis Poythress lived in adjacent Charles City County and his name ended in s! Stanard wrote, 'His wife is said to have been a Miss Poythress (if so, doubtless a daughter of Francis Poythress).' (VMHB I, 446) Wyndham Robertson, a Bolling descendant, wrote in Pocahontas Alias Mataoke and Her Descendants (Richmond, 1887), 'I adopt "Jane Poythress" (not "Poyers") whom he is stated in the Bolling Memoirs to have married in England.' He added in justification of his charming adoption of an ancestress, '...no such name as "Poyers" is anywhere known ... the family of Poythress was already settled in Virginia.' ... The result has been the acceptance of a non-existent personage, 'Jane Poythress', in the Bibles of Virginia genealogy, as the bona fide ancestress of many illustrious Virginians. Who the wife (or wives) of Thomas Rolfe may have been remains an unanswered question."
Henrico County Deeds & Wills 1697–1704, p. 96

VA PROMINENT FAMILIES VOL 4 Chapt XII BOLLING FAMILY

For over a year Pocahontas was held as a hostage by Gov. Dale and lived in his family. During these months she proved a willing and apt scholar in many things. An old chronicle says quaintly, "When instructed in the Christian religion she made good progress and was baptized." While staying with Gov. Dale, she met a young Englishman, one Capt. John Rolfe, Gent., of the old family of Beacham Hall, County Suffolk, England. They were married at Jamestown, and, a year or so later, Capt. Rolfe took her to England, where she became the guest of the Virginia Company, was introduced at court and received marked attention from the Queen and her ladies. She was also "entertained with special and extraordinary state festival and pomp by the Lord Bishop of London." Imagine what the contrast must have been to her, taken from the wigwam of an Indian chief, to the palace of England's queen. Some one has said, "It was small wonder this wild flower of the wilderness drooped and died when transported to the hot bed of civilization."

The health of Pocahontas became affected by the excitement and strain of court life, and she pined for her baby boy. In 1617 Capt. Rolfe determined to return to America, and took passage on a vessel belonging to the Virginia Company, which was specially fitted up for the comfort of his wife; but on the eve of her embarkation, she died at Gravesend, and was buried under the chancel of St. George's Church, where the tablet erected to her memory and record of her death and burial may still be seen. On the tablet is inscribed, "Pocahontas Rebecca Rolfe, b. 1595; d. 1617, wyff of John Rolfe, Gent." At "Beacham Hall," Norfolk, England, there is a handsome portrait of her, painted in 1616, by de Passe.

The name of Rolfe is Danish and first occurs in history when Rolfe Kroke was King of Denmark. This special branch of the Rolfes are recorded as owners of Beacham Hall, County Norfolk, where they were living as far back as 1560. The first entry in the record is the marriage of Eustace Rolfe to Jener (Joanna). These were the grandparents of John Rolfe. The record further states that John Rolfe, son of John Rolfe and Dorothea Mason, was b. May 6, 1585. John Rolfe, Jr., was one of the prominent characters of his time, being the first Secretary of State and Recorder General of Virginia, also a member of the Royal Council for the colony. Thomas Rolfe, the only child of John Rolfe, Jr., and Pocahontas Rebecca, b. 1615 in the colony, after the melancholy death of his young mother was taken in charge by his uncle, Henry Rolfe, of London, by whom he was reared to manhood. In 1640, when he was twenty-five years old, he came to Virginia and took possession of his property, called "Varina," located some sixteen miles below Richmond. The Rev. William Stith, President of William and Mary College, speaks of him in his "History of Virginia" as "a man of distinction and fortune" in the colony. In Hening's Statutes we find the following entry, "And be it further enacted and granted that Left. Thomas Rolfe shall have and enjoy for himself and his heirs forever ffort James, ole Chickahominy ffort, with four hundred acres of land adjoining the same, with all the houses and edifices belonging to the said ffort, provided the said Left. Rolfe doe keepe and maintaine sixe men upon the place during the term and tyme of three years, for which tyme he, said Left. Rolfe, for himself and sixe men, are exempted from publique tax." That Thomas Rolfe should have been entrusted by the government with so important a position shows him to have been a man of high standing, possessing the confidence of the leading men of the time.

Lieut. Thomas Rolfe, b. 1651, son of Capt. John Rolfe and Pocahontas, married Jane Poythress, daughter of Lieut. William Poythress, of Jamestown, Va. They had one child, a daughter, called Jane Rolfe, who married (1675) Col. Robert Bolling.

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Richard Kennon, who was founder of the family in Virginia, was a prominent merchant living at Bermuda Hundred on the James River. In 1685 he was factor for William Paggen, a London Merchant. He was a constant visitor to London, justice of the peace for Henrico county in 1680 and other years, and burgess in 1686.

He married Elizabeth Worsham, daughter of William Worsham and Elizabeth his wife. He died in 1696 and in his will names his children Richard, William, Martha married Robert Munford, Mary married married Major John Bolling of Cobbs, Elizabeth married Joseph Royall Sr, Sarah, and Judith married Thomas Eldridge.

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Vol. I-II. New York, NY, USA: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915. p 271.

Richard married Elizabeth Worsham in 1675 in , Henrico, Virginia, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of William Worsham and Elizabeth Littleberry) was born in 1656 in , Chesterfield, Virginia, USA; died in 1705 in Conjurers Neck, Henrico, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Carie on 23 Nov 1640 in London, London, England. Mary was born in 1620 in London, London, England; died on 11 Nov 1648 in London, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Jane Poythress in 1645 in Richmond, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. Jane (daughter of Francis Poythress and Mary Frances Sloman) was born in 1625 in Jamestown, James City, Virginia, USA; died in 1676 in , Charles City, Virginia, USA; was buried in Hopewell, Prince George, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Remarkable Lady of Conjurer's Neck.
This article is from the book Chesterfield, An Old Virginia County, by Francis Earl Lutz. Published by William Byrd Press: Richmond, Virginia, 1954. p. 62.

In 1639 Richard Kennon patented land on a peninsula created by the bend of the Appomattox River and Swift Creek. Kennon was a representative for a large London firm and traded the goods he imported. Among the less admirable imports by Kennon was slaves. The site of his land patent was called "Conjurer's Neck" because when the white people came to the hand of the "Appomutucks," an old Indian conjurer occupied that site.

In 1611 Sir Thomas Dale had all the Indians from this area driven off in retaliation for an Indian attack on a white settlement; thus the fertile tilled land of the Indians became available for use by the white settlers. Kennon was public spirited and served in all offices to which he was called. In addition, he was a sportsman and prior to 1677 he was known to race many horses in the "Quarter" races held at the track in Bermuda Hundred. He built a residence called "Brick House" which is currently believed to be the oldest surviving house in the County. The dwelling was begun in 1685, and it is believed that the brick may have been manufactured on the peninsula, for in reality, few American buildings were actually built of English brick.

Richard Kennon married Elizabeth Bolling, daughter of Colonel Robert Bolling and his second wife, Anne Stith. Their first son was named Richard Kennon, Jr., and died at four years of age. He was buried just beyond the bay window of the house so that the bereaved young mother could watch over the grave.
It was not unusual, during the early colonial area, for a second son to bear the name of the first son who had died, so the Kennons also named their second son Richard. They were blessed with a third son whom they named William.

Richard Kennon, Sr. must have died prior to 1703, because in that year Elizabeth Kennon joined a group that included eight other people of influence and patented 4,000 acres on a creek called Winterpock in southwest Chesterfield. It appears that she entered this deal on behalf of her sons who were not of age. This lady seems to have been business minded because she was also listed as the proprietor of a ferry which operated from Point of Rocks to the Prince George side of the Appomattox. She operated this as late as 1720 when she would have been around fifty-five years old; an advanced age for a colonial lady.

By 1711 the Kennon's son William was one of William Byrd, II's subordinates in the Appomattox militia. When Chesterfield County was organized in 1749, William Kennon, Sr., and William Kennon, Jr., were among those charged by Governor William Gooch to be justices in the new county. In 1762 William Kennon, Jr., was given permission to operate a mill on the Appomattox River. A creek near this mill was renamed Kennon Mill Creek, in honor of the popular man. The Kennons, like many other County residents, were moving westward and continued to be outstanding County residents in their new location. This was indeed, one of Chesterfield's finer families.

Conjurer's Neck.
The neck of land at the northeast corner of the city lying between Swift Creek and the north side of the Appomattox River, was once known as Conjurer's Neck. A conjurer was an Indian magician found in the eastern United States. One early custom of the Indian was to place the conjurer at the confluence of streams to ward off evil spirits believed to inhabit the waters, so it is natural to assume the Appomattox Indians placed a conjurer at the point where Swift Creek runs into the Appomattox River.

On December 1, 1620, the Mayflower was still at sea off the coast of Massachusetts when the first known land patent was granted in Colonial Heights - the land known as Conjurer's Neck. In 1685, Richard Kennon, a merchant of Bermuda Hundred, built a brick plantation home, and another famous name attached to Conjurer's Neck, being that of "The Brick House Farm." The house was consumed by a fire in 1879, but most of the original walls still stand. Undoubtedly, it is the oldest home in Chesterfield County and by far, the oldest brick home in Colonial Heights. The Comstock family acquired the property in 1909, restored the old house, and have made it their home for since.

Brick House.
The oldest brick house in Chesterfield County, and thought by some to be the oldest in Virginia, is located on the promontory between Swift Creek and Appomattox River, and is simply called Brick House. The peninsula on which it stands is sometimes referred to as "Conjuror's Neck," because an old Indian conjuror used to live there. Brick House was built in 1685 by Richard Kennon, an English gentleman of wealth, whose family received large land grants in Virginia. Kennon came to Virginia prior to 1670, and became a merchant of Bermuda Hundred; he also represented Henrico County in the House of Burgesses. Richard Kennon, Jr. was also a member of the House of Burgesses. He married the daughter of Col. Robert Bolling, the emigrant, and his second wife, the former Anne Stith. Richard's sister was married to John Bolling, half-brother of Richard's wife - John was the son of Col. Robert Bolling and his first wife Jane Rolfe. They lived at Cobb's.

Like much of eastern Virginia, the site of Colonial Heights was located within the Algonquian-speaking confederation known as Tenakomakah, ruled by Chief Powhatan, when the English colonists arrived at Jamestown on May 14, 1607. Captain John Smith's early map of Virginia testifies that the present area of Colonial Heights included the principal town of the Appamattuck subtribe, led by their weroance, Coquonasum, and his sister, Oppussoquionuske. In the aftermath of the Indian attacks of 1622 and 1644, they became tributary to England and relocated to nearby Ettrick, and its opposite bank, near Fort Henry (within modern-day Petersburg, Virginia).

The area including present-day Colonial Heights was made a part of "Henrico Cittie", one of 4 huge "incorporations" formed in the Virginia Colony in 1619 by the London Company. English colonists first settled in the Colonial Heights area in 1620. A small group sailed up the Appomattox River looking for clear land, and finally settled in an area where Swift Creek runs into the Appomattox River, which they named Conjurer's Neck. This confluence was formerly the residence a Native American healer (known as a "conjurer") who was thought to have cast spells over the waters.

Shortly thereafter, Charles Magnor registered the first land patent in the area for 650 acres (2.6 km2), which he later developed into a plantation before selling it in 1634. That same year, by order of King Charles I of England, the Virginia Colony was divided into the 8 original shires of Virginia by the House of Burgesses, one of which was Henrico County, which included the future land of Colonial Heights.

In 1635, the English had a small town called Appamattucks near the "Old Towne" Creek,[5] thought to be located near the intersection of Temple Avenue and Dimmock Parkway.[6] Also in that year, Captain Henry Fleet and Francis Poythress built a small fort nearby, on "Fleet's Hill" just west of the current city, now occupied by the campus of Virginia State University.

During the period from 1677 to 1685, one of the area's historic landmarks was constructed with the building of the Old Brick House. Richard Kennon came to Virginia prior to 1670, and became a merchant of Bermuda Hundred. He represented Henrico County in the House of Burgesses. His son, Richard Kennon, Jr., was also a member of the House of Burgesses and married the daughter of Col. Robert Bolling, the emigrant, and his second wife, the former Anne Stith. Richard's sister, Mary Kennon, was married to Major John Fairfax Bolling, half-brother of Richard's wife. Major Bolling was the son of Col. Robert Bolling and his first wife Jane Rolfe, who was granddaughter of the early colonist John Rolfe and his Native American wife, Pocahontas. The Bollings lived at Cobb's, a plantation in eastern Chesterfield near Point-of-Rocks.

The manor house built by Richard Kennon (later known as the "Brick House") is now thought to be the oldest permanent structure in Colonial Heights. One wall of the house survived a disastrous fire in 1879, and the rest was rebuilt. [3]

John married Elizabeth Blair Bolling. Elizabeth was born in 1625 in , Henrico, Virginia, USA; died in 1705 in Conjurers Neck, Henrico, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William Worsham arrived in the Colony of Virginia by 1640 when Seth Ward sold him 200 acres at the old Indian Town, near Swift Creek, in what was then Henrico County.

A George Worsham, who may have been his brother, got a neighboring 200 acres 15 February 1652/3. William and his wife Elizabeth lived at “Jordans” on Bailey Creek in what was then Charles City County and is today Prince George. They were parents of five children. William was a county commissioner of Charles City County from April to August 1657, and George was justice of the peace for Henrico in 1656. After William's death, probably in the late 1650s, Elizabeth married Francis Epes, the second of his name in the Colony, who was by then the father of the third Francis Epes. He became father to William's children. Charles and Mary were still minors 20 August 1678 when Epes gave the court an accounting of some livestock that belonged to them.

Elizabeth’s wills of 1678 remembered children of both marriages.

It has been suggested that William’s wife was Elizabeth Littleberry since she gave one of her sons by a 2nd marriage that peculiar name. Yet there is no evidence.

Elizabeth’s 2nd husband was the son of Francis Epes who was in the colony by 1625. A patent issued to the elder Epes 26 Aug 1635 stated that the land granted to him was for the “personal adventure” of himself and for the transportation of his sons John Epes, Francis Epes, Thomas Epes, and 30 others.

Elizabeth left a will in Henrico County in 1678 remembering daughter Elizabeth Kennon and her daughter Mary Kennon, daughter Mary Epes, son John Worsham, and her husband Epes’ children, whom she did not name (will dated 28 Aug 1678 and proved 1 Oct 1678 ). She amended the will 23 Sep 1678 to confirm gifts to children by her 1st husband, William Worsham, including John and Charles, and to divide the rest of her estate among children she had by her late husband Francis Epes, namely William Epes, Littlebury Epes, and Mary Epes. She appointed executors son-in-law Richard Kennon and stepson Francis Epes

The first record of William Worsham in Virginia was a patent for William & George Worsnam for 400 acres of land in Henrico Co., VA dated 15 Feb 1652. Two hundred acres was part of a patent which WILLIAM WORSNAM purchased in 1640 from SETH WARD and two hundred acres was for transporting four persons. George was probably William's brother. William married Elizabeth by 1646. . . . [The land was at "the old Indian town" at Swifts Creek in what was then Henrico County.]

On 1 November 1640 SETH WARD sold 200 acres purchased of WILLIAM WORSHAM 200 acres in Henrico County. [Wm. Worsham :& George Worsham, 400 acres, Henrico County, 15 Feb 1652, p 23. 200 acres part hereof lying at the old Towne at Appomattox River siding SW by the Old Towne Creek upon John Coogney's land extending NE upon Mrs. DOROTHY CLERK (sic Clarke), widow; and 200 acres being part of the old Towne aforesaid, bounded from the S by W corner of said Worshams first 200 acres upon the head of the said land N by E, thence into the woods towards Swifts Creek &c 200 acres being part of a patent granted unto William Clarke deceased, 6 May 1638, and by said Clarke sold unto Seth Ward from whom it was purchased by Willliam Worsham, 2 November 1640; and 200 acres for transport of 4 persons: Henry White, Jo. Plummer, Susan Chiles, Sarah Chiles; Oliver Green, land due for.] Source: Cavaliers & Pioneers, p 237-238. This patent was mentioned as follows in a patent to JOHN WILSON, 100 acres, Henrico Co., N side of Appomattox, 24 Sep 1667 (Patent Book 6, p 54) beg. at the river side @ by N. Nly along an old known fence being line parting his & Orphants of George & Will Wworsham &c. adj. his own land &c. Due for trans of 7 persons dated 6 May 1638 & the other 25 Sep 1663. Sd. 100 acres being part of a dvdt. purchased by WM. CLARKE containin 1100 acs. granted him by Sir John Havey late Govt. 6 May 1638; sold to LEONARD LANGTON 29 Oct 1638 who sold to SEATH WARD 3 Jan 1639 as by record of said deed at James City 24 Sept 1640 & assighnment endorsed may appear & for better confirmation the Widow DOROTHY CLARKE did afterwards surrender same to SEATH WARD at a court held at Varina 25 Mar 1640, who at a Ct. held at Varina 9 Nov 1640 assigned to Wm. Worsham 3200 acs. part oe 300 acs. lying at the Old Towne Cr. ^ by dec dated 2 Nov 1640 & endorced & C. Said WARD for good consideration assigned the other 100 acres to MICHAEL MASTERS 28 Oct 1642 at a Court held at Varina at which Court said Masters surrended up said 100 acres to HENRY ROWEN who in like manner at the same Court surrendered same to PETER FEEPOND who at the same Court surrended to said WILSON.

From Patent Book #3: WM. WORSNAM & GEORGE WORSNAM, 400 acs., Henerico Co., 15 Feb 1652, p. 23, 200 acs. part herof lying at the old Towne att Appamattox Riv., bouding Ely, upon sd. Riv., sideing SW by the Old Towne DR. upon John Cooneys land, extending NE upon land of Mrs. Dorothy Clerk, widdow; & 200 acrs, being part of the old Towne aforesaid, bounded from the S by W corner of sd. Worsnams first 200 acs., upon the head of woods towards Swift Creek &C. 200 acres being part of a patent sould unto Seth Ward, from whom it was purchased by Wm. Worsnam, 2 Nov 1640; & 200 acs. for trans. of 4 pers: Hen. White, Jo. Plummer, Sasan (or Susan) Chiles, Sarah Chiles, Oliver Green, land due for.

George Worsham, probably brother to William Worsham, died before 6 Jun 1666. On that date John Wilson patented 100 acres of land which was on the North side of Appomattox along a fence which line parted said Wilson and the orphans of George & William Worsham. After William died his wife, Elizabeth married Col. Francis Eppes II of Henrico Co., VA about 1661. Elizabeth Worsham Eppes made a will with a codicil and both were recorded in Henrico Co., VA Oct 1678. In her will, she named her daughter, Elizabeth Kennon; her granddaughter, Mary Kennon; daughter, Mary Worsham; daughter, Mary Epes; son, John Worsham; son, Charles Worsham. In the codicil she states she is Elizabeth Epes, widow & relict of Col. Frances Epes of Henrico Co. She also mentions former husband Wm. Worsham, dec'd. This time she names her Epes children: William, Littleberry & Mary Epes." Source: Worsham & Warsham Family History

William & Elizabeth Worsham lived at "Jordans" on Bailey Creek in what was then Charles City County, and is now in Prince George County.

On 20 August 1678 COL. FRANCIS EPES was present at an Orphans' Court in Henrico County, when he gave an account of the cattle belonging to CHARLES and MARY WORSHAM, orphans of Mr. WILLIAM WORHSAM. (Source: Adventurers of Purse & Person, page 858]

William married Elizabeth Littleberry. Elizabeth was born in 1620; died in 1678. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Married: 1614, Jamestown, James City, Virginia, USA

Notes:

John Rolfe was born in Heacham, Norfolk, England as the son of John Rolfe and Dorothea Mason, and was baptised on 6 May 1585. John Rolfe was one of a number of businessmen who saw the opportunity to undercut Spanish imports by growing tobacco in England's new colony in Virginia. Rolfe had somehow obtained seeds to take with him from a special popular strain then being grown in Trinidad and South America, even though Spain had declared a penalty of death to anyone selling such seeds to a non-Spaniard. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia.

Heading the Third Supply fleet was the new flagship of the Virginia Company, the Sea Venture, carrying Rolfe and his wife, Sarah Hacker. The Third Supply fleet left England in May 1609 destined for Jamestown with seven large ships, towing two smaller pinnaces. The colony at Bermuda dates its settlement from 1609. Among those left buried in Bermuda were Rolfe's wife and his infant daughter, Bermuda Rolfe.

In May 1610, two newly constructed ships set sail from Bermuda, with 142 castaways on board, including Rolfe, Admiral Somers, Stephen Hopkins, and Sir Thomas Gates. On arrival at Jamestown, they found the Virginia Colony almost destroyed by famine and disease during what has become known as the Starving Time. Very few supplies from the Third Supply had arrived because the same hurricane that caught the Sea Venture badly affected the rest of the fleet. Only 60 settlers remained alive. It was only through the arrival of the two small ships from Bermuda, and the arrival of another relief fleet commanded by Lord De La Warr on 10 June 1610 that the abandonment of Jamestown was avoided and the colony survived.

The land gifted by Powhatan (now known as Smith's Fort Plantation, located in Surry County) was willed to Rolfe's son Thomas, who in 1640 sold at least a portion of it to Thomas Warren. Smith's Fort was a secondary Fort to Jamestown, begun in 1609 by John Smith.

John and Rebecca Rolfe travelled to England on the Treasurer, commanded by Samuel Argall, in 1616 with their young son. They arrived at the port of Plymouth on 12 June and Rebecca was widely received as visiting royalty, but settled in Brentford. However, as they were preparing to return to Virginia in March 1617, Rebecca became ill and died. Her body was interred in Gravesend's St George's Church. Their two-year-old son Thomas survived, but was adopted by Sir Lewis Stukley and later by John's brother, Henry Rolfe. John and Tomocomo returned to Virginia.

In 1619, Rolfe married Jane Pierce, daughter of English colonist Captain William Pierce and Jane Eeles. They had a daughter, Elizabeth, in 1620, who married John Milner of Nansemond, Virginia and died in 1635. Rolfe died in 1622 after his plantation was destroyed in a Native American attack. It remains unclear whether Rolfe died in the massacre or whether he died as a result of illness. His widow Jane married Englishman Captain Roger Smith three years later. He was the son of John Smith (no relation to Captain John Smith) and Thomasine Manning.

Rolfe's son with Pocahontas, Thomas, who grew up in England, married Elizabeth Washington in September 1632 at St James's Church in Clerkenwell and they had a daughter Anne in 1633. Elizabeth died shortly after Anne's birth. Thomas returned to Virginia two years later, where he married Jane Poythress. Her English parents were Francis Poythress and Alice Payton. Thomas and his second wife had one child, Jane, who married Robert Bolling in 1675 and had a son, John, in 1676. She died later that same year.

John married Pocahontas Amonute Matoaka "Rebecca" Powhatan on 5 Apr 1614 in Jamestown, James City, Virginia, USA. Pocahontas (daughter of Chief Wahunsonacock Powhatan and Matatishe Winanuske Nonoma Powhatan) was born on 15 Sep 1595 in Matoaka, Gloucester, Virginia, USA; died on 21 Mar 1617 in Gravesend, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Descendants of Francis Poythress
Trial Chart of the Descendants of Francis Poythress
Prepared April 1977 by R. Bolling Batte
Review Transcription and Research Notes

Francis Poythress
( - c. 1650) m. Mary_____; English immigrant to Virginia c. 1633; patented 400 acres on Bailey’s Creek in Charles City County in 1637 (PB 1, 439) and 350 additional acres adjoining (total 750) in 1648 (PB 2, 139). This land fell into Prince George County upon its formation in 1702. Was lieutenant of the militia in 1644; a captain by 1648. Was burgess for Charles City County 1644, 1645, 1647, and for Northumberland County in 1648. His name disappears from the records after that. The family name of the wife of Captain Francis Poythress has not been discovered.. After his death she became the wife of Colonel Robert Wynne. Issue of Francis and Mary___ Poythress: 1. Jane 2. John 3. Thomas 4. Francis

1 Jane Poythress m. Thomas Rolfe, son of John Rolfe and Pocahontas.

2 John Poythress m. Christian Peebles, daughter of David and Elizabeth ( ) Peebles. In 1661 Edward Hill deeded 50 acres in Charles City County, adj. Capt. Robert Wynne to John Poythress, "son of Captain Francis Poythress, dec’d".

21 Joshua Poythress
( -1740), m. ______. The name of the wife of this Joshua has never been proved. The fact that one of his sons was named "Littlebury" suggests that she may have been an Eppes or a Hardyman. In 1725 John Hardyman, whose mother had been Mary Eppes 124, and whose grandmother had been Elizabeth Littlebury, conveyed to "Joseph" Poythress 300 acres, part of the Flowerdew Hundred Tract in Prince George. The consideration expressed was 5 shillings, which means that it was a deed of gift. John Hardyman had actually paid 600 pounds lawful money of England for 150 of the same 300 acres he was now giving away. The "Joseph" named as grantee in the deed was certainly an error in transliteration. Joshua was intended, not "Joseph". This will be clear later when Joshua’s grandson William (211 2) sells the same land to Peachy 65 years later. Why should John Hardyman give valuable land away to Joshua Poythress? A most likely answer would be that a Joshua Poythress had married a close relative of John Hardyman, a daughter or a sister. By 1725 John and Henrietta Maria Hardyman would hardly have a daughter old enough to marry. He had sisters, however. Their names do not appear in any known record but their existance is established by the 1726 will of Littlebury Hardeman, brother of John, which leaves one shilling "to each and every one of my brothers and sisters." These circumstances, plus the existance of a Hardyman Poythress in Prince George, bolster a growing suspicion that the wife of Joshua Poythress was a daughter of John Hardyman, Sr. and Mary Eppes, his wife, and thus a grandaughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Littlebury-Worsham) Epes. Hardyman Poythress, as yet unidentified, in 1809, may have been a grandson of Joshua Poythress. Joshua left a will dated January 17 1739 (o. s.) in which he leaves property to his wife (but inconsiderately fails to name her), and to three sons,three daughters, brothers William, Robert, and others.. The original will is now in the archives of the Virginia State Library (Accession 23849)

211 Joshua Poythress m. Mary Short, daughter of William and Mary ( ) Short of Surry County. William Short’s 1757 will mentions his daughter Mary Poythress, her husband Joshua Poythress, and three of their children. Joshua Poythress was captain of a packet ship that plied between London, Glasgow and Petersburg. He left a will, now lost, but referred to in a 1790 deed from his son William to Peachy. (See William 211 2).

211 1 Joshua Poythress ( - 1794), m. Elizabeth Robertson, daughter of Archibald and Elizabeth (Fitzgerald) Robertson. Joshua and his wife were second cousins. They lived and died at Flowerdew Hundred and both were there buried. She died 7 September 1787.

211 11 Elizabeth Poythress
Shown as a child of Joshua and Elizabeth (Robertson) Poythress in the notes on the Robertson family made by Gov. Wyndham Robertson. Elizabeth (Robertson) Poythress was the governor’s aunt. He certainly would have had personal knowledge of her children. Several printed accounts of the Cocke and Poythress families state that James Cocke, son of Benjamin, married Elizabeth Poythress, daughter of Joshua, without identifying the Joshua, and that they had a daughter Elizabeth Cocke who married Jacob Hoffman. As to this last couple there can be no doubt. In 1955 I ran across a monument

in the cemetery in Leesburg inscribed: "In memory of Jacob Hoffman/and his wife/ Elizabeth Cocke/and their children/erected by their grand-daughter/1928." If the mother of this Elizabeth Cocke had indeed been the daughter of any Joshua Poythress at all she would have to have been the daughter of Joshua 211 1. She could not possibly been the daughter of Joshua 211 and Mary Short, for their daughter Elizabeth (as we shall see later) married Simon Fraser in 1775. Elizabeth Poythress who married James Cocke is said to have died in 1800. Tentatively I place her here.

211 12 Mary Poythress
Shown in the notes of Gov. Wyndham Robertson. Probably died young.

211 13 Susanna Peachy Poythress
(1785-1915), m. 1804 John Vaughn Willcox (11 Aug 1779 Charles City - 23 Nov 1863 Flowerdew Hundred, Pr. Geo.) John Vaughn Willcox was very wealthy; a very large holder of Confederate Bonds. He acquired by purchase the several parcels comprising the original Flowerdew Hundred tract, including the original 300 acres that had been given by John Hardyman in 1725 to his wife’s great grandfather Joshua Poythress 21. John Vaughn Willcox was buried in Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg. Susanna Peachy (Poythress) Willcox was buried at Flowerdew Hundred where a tombstone marked her grave until 1864 when the yankees destroyed it along with all other Poythress monuments that were then there.

211 2 William Poythress
(c. 1753 -1794 Pr. Geo.), m. Mary Gilliam, daughter of John and Jane (Henry) Gilliam of Pr. Geo. William Poythress was a captain in the Continental Army during the Revolution. He was the principle beneficiary of the 1779 will of Thomas Epes 132 32. In 1790 William Poythress deeded to William S. Peachy the same 300 acres of Flowerdew Hundred, previously mentioned, that John Hardyman had conveyed by deed of gift to the first Joshua Poythress and had by the latter been devised to the second Joshua, who had, in turn, devised the same to his son William, the present grantor. William also owned a tract of 863 acres on Simmons Branch upon which he had been living at the time he died.

It is probable that the youngest of the sons had reached legal age by that time. William Poythress may have been buried there.

211 21 Joshua Poythress
(1784 - post 1854), m. 1810 in Petersburg Jane Mills Angus, daughter of John and Lucy (Wortham) Angus, then of Petersburg but formerly of Scotland. In 1850 Joshua and his

wife Jane were living in Petersburg (census). By 1854 he was living in New Jersey when he deeded some lots in the town of Blandford to one Shanks. Jane did not join in the deed. Presumably she had previously died.

211 211 Nancy G. D. Poythress
m. (1) 1834 Robert Carter Harrison, son of Collier and Beersheeba (Bryant) Harrison of "Kittewan," Charles City County. Nancy later m. (2) John Crane. What names her middle initials "G. D." stood for is now anybody’s guess. My guess is that the "G" was for Gilliam, her grandmother’s family name.

211 22 Thomas Eppes Poythress
(c. 1785 - 1847), m. c. 1815 Beersheeba, nee Bryant, but then the widow of Collier Harrison who died in 1809. Beersheeba, by her first marriage, was the mother of Robert Carter Harrison who m. Nancy G. D. above. T. E. P. had but one child by Beersheeba, Caroline, who died at the age of seven. By his 1847 Will Thomas Eppes Poythress left his entire estate to wife Beersheeba for life, and after her death, to brother Joshua, niece Nancy G. D. Harrison, nephew William P. Poythress, and to Harrison step-children. The will provided for having the graveyard at Kittewan enclosed with a brick wall forty feet long on all four sides. Presumably, he, Beersheeba, Caroline, and a number of Harrisons are buried there.

211 221 Caroline Poythress
(1817 - 1824) Obituary appears in "Southern Churchman".

211 23 William Poythress
died unmarried.

211 24 Patrick Henry Poythress
( - 1824), m. Mary Elizabeth Eppes (1785 - 1822), daughter of Peterson Eppes of Dinwiddie County. It might be supposed that P. H. P. was named for the famous orator, it having been a popular custom in that period to name children in honor of persons prominent in the affairs of the times. Actually, this Patrick was named for his own great-grandfather, the Rev. Patrick Henry who was an uncle of the orator.

211 241 William Peterson Poythress
(1810 - 1862), m. Charlotte Reed (1825 - 1897), daughter of Elias and Sarah (Block) Reed of Richmond. After their marriage W. P. P. and Charlotte lived in Richmond where all of their children were born. Mr. Poythress died in Nassau, B. W. I., during blockade-running operations in the war between the States. Charlotte died in Richmond and was buried in Hollywood.

211 241 1 Mary Poythress
d. inf.

211 241 2 Patrick Henry Poythress
(1846 -1863) Accidentally shot while in C. S. A.

211 241 3 William Powhatan Poythress
(1847 - 1920), m. 1877 in Lunenburg Co. Louisa Campbell Mayo (1849 - 1927), daughter of John and Mary Louisa (Campbell) Mayo of Westmoreland County and Richmond. She was granddaughter of Joseph and Jane Poythress 281 9 Mayo of Richmond. W. P. P. was in the wholesale drug business and was founder and owner of W. P. Poythress & Co., of Richmond, a drug manufacturing firm still in operation under that name, although no Poythress is any longer connected with it. Both William P. and Louisa died in Richmond and are buried in Hollywood.

211 241 31 Charlotte Reed Poythress
(9 Feb 1880 - 29 May 1880), buried in Shockoe Cemetery, Richmond.

211 241 32 Charlotte Reed Poythress
(1881 -1906). She was given the same name that had been given to her deceased sister, that of their grandmother. Charlotte died in Richmond as a result of an accidental fall. She was unmarried. The marble slab marking her grave in Hollywood, like all the others in the lot bears only her name. It reads: "Charlotte Poythress" - no more.

211 241 4 Sarah Reed Poythress
(1852 - 1927) , unm. Upon her decease in Richmond, passed the last living descendant of Joshua Poythress 21 to be born with the surname "Poythress." The name thus became extinct in the "21" branch.

211 241 5 Walter Eppes Poythress
(1861 - 1888), m. 1887 Marie Joseph Brouse, native of Pennsylvania. Walter Eppes Poythress was a musician. He died of yellow fever while in Jacksonville, Fla. In 1911

his remains were removed to Richmond and reinterred in the family lot in Hollywood. In 1893 his widow m. (2) James Chandler Dorst in Tazewell County, Virginia.

211 242 Mary Poythress
d. unm.

211 243 A. H. Poythress
d. unm. I have never been able to learn what the initials "A. H." stood for.

211 3 Elizabeth Poythress
m. 1775 in Middlesex Co. Simon Fraser, a recent immigrant from Scotland to Petersburg where he was engaged as a merchant. It is conjectured that the marriage took place in Middlesex County because she had been at that time living with her aunt Elizabeth Poythress 215 , then the wife of James Mills of that county. James Mills and her brothers Joshua and William were sureties on the bond. After their marriage the couple settled in Petersburg. Simon Fraser died there 28 Oct 1792 and was buried in Blandford. Elizabeth was still living in 1795 when she was named in the will of the same aunt who, by that time, was the wife of Thomas Griffin Peachy. It is likely that Elizabeth was buried in Blandford but there is no record to establish that fact. The earliest record of Blandford interments now available begin in 1842.

211 4 Susan Ann Poythress
(1766 - 1799), m. 1788 in Pr. Geo. David Maitland (1759 - 1838), a native of Barcaple, Scotland, and son of David and Mary (Currie) Maitland of that place. David and Susan had two daughters born in Petersburg; Mary Currie in 1790 and Elizabeth Agnes in 1793. Tombs may be seen in Blandford churchyard today for Susan Ann, who died in Petersburg on 9 Feb 1799, and for her daughter Mary Currie Maitland, who died there in 1795. Afterward, David Maitland returned to Scotland to live, taking with him their daughter, Elizabeth Agnes. He died in Barcaple 18 May 1838. Elizabeth Agnes was still living there, unmarried, in 1865.

212 Littlebury Poythress
d. w/o issue. Mentioned in his father’s 1739/1740 will with an inference that he was incapacitated, either physically or mentally. No further record of him.

213 William Poythress
214 Ann Poythress

m. John Wall. Numerous decendants are given in the trial chart of the Eppes Society.

215 Elizabeth Poythress (1725 - 1795). She was married three times; (1) to Walter Boyd, who died in the town of Blandford in 1779; (2) to James Mills (1718 -1782) of Middlesex County; and (3) to Thomas Griffin Peachy (1734 - 1810) of Williamsburg, but then the Clerk of the Court in
Amelia County. Elizabeth had no children by any of her three husbands. She died in Petersburg leaving a will on record there. In it she named as beneficiaries her husband, nephews, nieces, and others. The will has been very helpful in establishing with certainty a number of relationships within this branch of the Poythress family. Elizabeth (Poythress-Boyd-Mills) Peachy was buried by her second husband in the churchyard of Christ Church, Middlesex. Thomas G. Peachy died 6 March 1810 in Williamsburg and was buried in the garden of his home where all three of his children by his first marriage, and whom he had outlived, had been buried. In 1911 expansion of Eastern State Hospital necessitated the removal of the remains in the former Peachy garden to nearby Cedar Grove Cemetery. A single large, granite block was then erected as a monument on the lot. It bears ten names, one below the other, with associated years. The first three lines read:

"Col. Thomas G. Peachy 1734-1810

Elizabeth Gilliam Peachy 1741-1781

Elizabeth Beverley Peachy - 1795

* * * * * "

The second line, of course, refers to TGP’s first wife. The third line apparently was intended to refer to his second wife who is not even buried there. While the year of death shown is correct for Elizabeth Poythress, the second wife, the name "Beverley" is an error. The great-grandchildren of TGP who caused the monument to be erected more than 100 years after his death probably had very scant information as to the second wife.

They had her confused with the first wife of James Mills who was Elizabeth Beverley. After all, TGP’s second wife was only a step-grandmother to these 20th century Peachys.

The late John McGill, in his very excellent The Beverley Family of Virginia was also confused as to the respective marriages of James Mills and Thomas G. Peachy. On page 616 he has Elizabeth Beverley married in 1743 to James Mills, which is correct. Then he shows her as marrying (2) in 1783 to Thomas Griffin Peachy. Actually Elizabeth (Beverley) Mills, who died in 1770, was married but once. It was her husband who married twice as is clearly shown in The Virginia Gazette for Sept. 4, 1771. It was this second wife of James Mills; I. e, his widow, Elizabeth (Poythress) Mills, who married Thomas G. Peachy in 1783, thirteen years after Elizabeth (Beverley) Mills had been buried.

216 Mary Poythress
m. Peter Epes (1730 - 1807), son of Francis and Sarah (Hamlin) Epes of "Causons", Prince George County. They lived at "High Peak" in Pr. Geo. and for this reason he was known as "Peter Epes of High Peak". She died there 25 Jan 1792. Numerous descendants are listed on the Epes chart.

22 Elizabeth Poythress
m. (1) John Fitzgerald, who died around 1736. Among her Fitzgerald children were: A- Francis Fitzgerald who married (1) Mary Epes 122 125, and B-Elizabeth Fitzgerald who m. Archibald Robertson and was the mother of the wife of Joshua Poythress 211 1. Elizabeth (Poythress) Fitzgerald m. (2) Thomas Epes 132 3, who died in Pr. Geo. in 1743.

There are many descendants of this second marriage, especially through Mary Epes 132 31, who m. Col. David Mason of Sussex.

23 Christian Poythress
The only knowledge we have of her existence was her appearance as a witness on the 1740 will of Joshua Poythress 21. Presumably she was his sister. 1740 seems much too late for the signature to be that of Christian (Peebles) Poythress, their mother.

24 David Poythress
In a 1735 deed David Poythress conveyed 350 acres in Pr. Geo. to Robert Poythress (his brother), stating that the land had been devised to him by the will of his father John Poythress. The name of the wife of David Poythress is unknown. In 1739 his son Edmund Poythress came into court and stated that his father had died without a will. William Poythress, brother of David, was William’s surety.

241 Edmund Poythress
His qualification as administrator of his father’s estate (above) is the only record we have of him.

25 William Poythress
(1694 - 1763), m. c. 1725 Sarah Epes 121 7 (1702 -1750), daughter of Francis and Anne (Isham) Epes of Henrico. William Poythress served as a colonel in the militia, a vestryman of Bristol Parish, and a sheriff of Prince George County. Upon the formation of Dinwiddie County in 1752 his lands fell within that county. Sarah’s tomb in Blandford churchyard is perhaps the earliest in Virginia still in existence for either the Epes or the Poythress families. William’s is next to it.

251 Anne Isham Poythress
(1726 - 1790), m. Thomas S. Gordon. Anne Isham survived her husband and left a will naming nephews, nieces, and others.

252 William Poythress
(1728 - c. 1768), m. (1) Mary Eppes (1731 - 1750). The only knowledge of her existence comes from her tomb in Bothwell graveyard in Dinwiddie County. This recites that she was "daughter of Capt. William Eppes and wife to William Poythress, Jr." Which of the

several William Eppes was her father has not been definitely settled. There were no known children of this marriage. William’s second, but unidentified, wife was the mother of his six known children whose names come to light by a division of the slaves of William’s estate, decreed in 1775. William Poythress was elected to the vestry of Bristol Parish on 5 Aug 1760 to succeed his father, recently deceased. He was County Lieutenant for Prince George County in 1761.

252 1 William Poythress
was party to division of father’s slaves in 1775. No further record.

252 2 Anne Isham Poythress
(1760 - 1784), m. 1777 in Middlesex County William Yates, son of William and Elizabeth (Randolph) Yates.

252 3 Mary Poythress
m. Francis Muir of Dinwiddie County

252 4 Benjamin Poythress
see note for William Poythress 252 1 above.

252 5 Sally Poythress
same

252 6 Lucy Poythress
m. John Gordon.

253 Sarah Poythress
(1731 - ), d. s. p.

254 Elizabeth Poythress
(1741 - ), m. 1760 in Dinwiddie Patrick Ramsay, a native of Glasgow, Scotland. Patrick Ramsay was a merchant in Petersburg until shortly before the Revolution when he

removed with his family to Scotland. In 1791 Elizabeth (Poythress) Ramsay, then a widow, returned to Virginia with her children and settled in Alexandria.

26 John Poythress
m. Mary Batte, daughter of Henry and Mary (Lound) Batte. To avoid confusion with his first cousin John Poythress 43 (whose wife was also named Mary), this John was usually designated as "Sen." or "Sr." while cousin John was designated as "Jun." or "Jr.". In 1720 John Poythress, Sr. and Mary, his wife, together with four other couples, the five wives all being daughters of Henry Batte, dce’d., join in deed of partition whereby they divide 1200 acres in Prince George left by the will of Henry Batte to his daughters. John Poythress, Sr. was a captain in the militia and he represented Pr. Geo. in the House of Burgesses in 1723 and 1726. In 1727 as Capt. John Poythress he was granted 225 acres on the south side of the Meherrin, which land later fell into Brunswick County. The identical land was sold in 1773 by one Thomas Poythress who may have been a son or grandson of John Sr.

27 Peter Poythress
m. 1711 in Charles City Anne_____, a widow, whose own maiden name and the name of her first husband are unknown. He was sometimes referred to as "Peter Poythress of Flowerdew Hundred" to distinguish him from his nephew (and son-in-law) Peter Poythress "of Branchester".

271 Anne Poythress
(1712 - 1758), m. Richard Bland (1710 - 1776) "of Jordans", son of Richard and Elizabeth (Randolph) Bland. Their daughter Elizabeth was the wife of Peter Poythress 281 "of Branchester".

28 Robert Poythress
(1690 - c. 1747), m. Elizabeth, last name unknown. Robert left a will dated 24 May 1743, now lost, but quoted from in a deed given by his daughter Tabitha in 1793.

281 Peter Poythress
(1715 - 1785), m. c. 1756 Elizabeth Bland (1733-1792), daughter of Richard and Anne (Poythress 271) Bland of "Jordans", Prince George County. Peter Poythress resided at

"Branchester" in Prince George. He represented that county in all sessions of the House of Burgesses from 1768 through the last in 1776. He was also a member of both the 1775 and 1776 conventions. Peter and Elizabeth (Bland) Poythress had one son and eight daughters, through whom they have many descendants.

281 1 Ann Poythress
(1757 - 1804), m. 1777 in Pr. Geo. John Randolph (1743-1803), son of Henry and Tabitha (Poythress 285) Randolph of Chesterfield.

281 2 Elizabeth Poythress
(1759 - 1806), m. 1776 in Pr. Geo. William Mayo (1757-1837) of "Powhatan Seat", Henrico County, son of John and Mary (Tabb) Mayo. Her husband was educated at William and Mary College, served in the Revolution, represented Henrico in the House of Delagates, and was a member of the first Board of Trustees for the Virginia Theological Seminary. Both died at "Powhatan Seat" and were buried there. In 1894 all remains at the Powhatan graveyard were reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery and all tombstones thither removed. In 1807 William Mayo m. (2) Lucy Fitzhugh in Petersburg.

281 3 Mary Poythress

(1762 - 1815), m. 1780 at "Branchester", Pr. Geo. Co., John Batte (1757-1816) of "Mancelle", Prince George County, son of Robert and Martha (Peterson) Batte of that county. John and Mary (Poythress) Battle resided at "Mancelle" which was part of the

original grant made to Henry Battle in 1668. John Batte was a captain in the militia and one of the justices of the Prince George court. Mary died at "Mancelle" 17 Dec 1815 and was buried in the Batte graveyard on the place. John died 19 Sept of the following year while on a visit to the White Sulphur Springs in Greenbrier County. He was buried in the churchyard of the Old Stone Church in Lewisburg, (now) West Virginia. His tombstone is still standing.

281 4 Lucy Bland Poythress
(1764 - ante 1823), m. 1806 in Prince George John Eppes ( - 1832), son of John and Susanna (Epes)Eppes of "Hopewell". No issue. John Eppes later married Hannah Roane.

281 5 William Poythress
(1765 - 1811), m. 1787 in Prince George Elizabeth Blair Bland (1770 - ), daughter of Richard and Mary (Bolling) Bland and granddaughter of Richard and Anne (Poythress 271) Bland of "Jordans". Issue: one daughter, Elizabeth Bland Poythress. William Poythress m. (2) Rebecca Williams. No issue. As William left no male issue the Poythress

name became extinct as to his branch with the death of his only daughter.

281 51 Elizabeth Bland Poythress
m. 1817 Richard Marks of Prince George. She survived her husband, who died before 1834. According to a statement in 10V106 [Swem index?] she was buried at "Branchester". With her decease, whenever that was, passed the last person born with the surname Poythress among the descendants of Robert Poythress 28, and possibly also among the descendants of John and Christian (Peebles) Poythress 2. Since John and Mary

(Batte) Poythress 26 are not known to have had issue, it is likely that the name Poythress

exists today only among the descendants of Francis Poythress 4.

281 6 Sally Bland Poythress
(1768 - 1828), m. (1) at "Branchester", Prince George County, Richard Lee (1726-1795) of Westmoreland County, sone of Henry and Mary (Bland) Lee of that county. Four Lee children were born of this marriage. In 1796 Sally m. (2) in Westmoreland County Willoughby Newton, son of John and Elizabeth (Vaulx) Newton of that county. There were five children by this marriage. "Squire" Richard Lee was buried at "Burnt House Field" in Westmoreland. Sally Bland (Poythress-Lee) Newton was buried at "Lee Hall" in that county.

281 7 Susanna Poythress
(1769 - 1839), m. 1787 at "Branchester" Richard Bland (1762-1806), son of Richard and Mary (Bolling) Bland of "Jordans". Richard Bland was a grandson of Richard and Anne (Poythress 271) Bland, and brother of Elizabeth Blair Bland who married William Poythress 281 5 . They both died at "Jordans" and were buried there, leaving issue.

281 8 Agnes Poythress
(1779 - 1821), m. 1788 at "Branchester" Roger Atkinson (1764 - 1829) of "Olive(?) Hill", Chesterfield County, son of Roger and Anne (Pleasants) Atkinson. There were ten children. She died 28 Nov 1821 in Halifax County while visiting a married daughter. Roger Atkinson later married Sarah Spotswood in Petersburg. He died 23 April 1829.

281 9 Jane Poythress
(1773 - 1837), m. 1792 Joseph Mayo (1771 - 1820) son of Joseph and Martha (Tabb) Mayo of Richmond. There were nine children. Joseph Mayo died in Richmond 1 Oct 1820 leaving a will on record. Jane (Poythress) Mayo died 20 Mar 1837 in Faquier County at the home of her daughter Elizabeth Bland Mayo who had married Charles James Stovin.

282 Robert Poythress
He was a soldier in the Revolution. I was told by a lady of Memphis, now deceased, that Robert Poythress died in January 1782 in Charleston, S. C. without issue. No record was cited.

283 William Poythress
His existence would not have been known except for a statement made in a 1793 Chesterfield deed given by Tabitha (Poythress 285) Randolph to the effect that her father Robert Poythress 28 had by his will left property to his sons Robert, Peter, and William Poythress.

284 Jane Poythress
Supposedly married John Baird. He came from Scotland c. 1750 and settled at City Point.

285 Tabitha Poythress
(1725 - 1805), m. 1742 Henry Randolph (1721 - 1771) of Chesterfield County, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Epes 121 5) Randolph. There were eight children. In 1793 Tabitha made a deed conveying her interest in some slaves to Henry Archer. The deed recited that her father Robert Poythress 28 had by his will dated 24 May 1743 left some slaves to his wife (Tabitha’s mother) and after his wife’s death the slaves were to go in (sic) his (Robert’s) three sons, Robert, Peter, and William, and to such of his daughters that were at that time unmarried.

286 Elizabeth Poythress
m. John Gilliam

Notes & Comments: Return To Top of Document Poythress Home

1. I have used Mr. Batte’s text throughout....i. e. his abbreviations, punctuations, spellings, etc., saving comments and/or observations and/or questions for this separate section.

2. While Mr. Batte’s generational numbering system is not difficult to figure out, this text is still best read with the chart at hand for illustration.

3. Mr. Batte uses italics whenever he is introducing a new spouse to the line. He also uses italics for emphasis in places.

4. Of Francis Poythress’ four children this traces the line of only one, first son John. Daughter Jane married out of the surname line. Thomas returned to England and there is no further record of him. Francis2’s line was to have been "Section B". Mrs. Batte informed me personally that Mr. Batte had never done Section B.

5. It is worth only a slight mention that for a family that used the same Christian names over and over again, the name Francis does not appear in John’s line.

6. Batte refers to Wyndham Robertson as "Governor". I expect we may assume that this Wyndham Robertson (or one of his descendants) is the author of "Pocahontas and her

Descendants".

7. Projection: William Poythress # 211 2 is the one of whom we have the line drawing. William 252 would not seem to be a likely candidate.

8. The "Peterson" name appears at # 211 24 and # 211 241. This name is one of many suggested for the surname of the wife of Francis1.

9. This probably doesn’t need saying but just to be sure, the "Hollywood" referred to is a cemetery in Richmond.

10. The raised tomb of William Poythress 25 is directly in front of the front door of Blandford Church, about 20 feet away.

11. The name Peachy has been assigned (without documentation) to the mother of Francis1. The name Peachy has appeared in the Poythress line lending some presumed credibility to the assignment. However, as this document shows, for the purpose of this line Peachy is introduced at 211 3 and 215, and in both instances is "brought in" by an "outside" spouse. The mother of Francis may or may not have been named Peachy but

these later appearances of the name would seem to be immaterial to that issue.

12. Note John Poythress 26 comments with respect to a son or grandson Thomas! Is this our man?

13. Spouse of Mary Poythress # 281 6, "Squire Lee" is brother of Harry Lee and uncle of General Robert E. Lee.

14. Observation with respect to the supposedly "legendary" nine Misses Poythress, all daughters of Peter Poythress of Branchester and all married: Three of the daughters (Sally, Agnes, and Jane) had 28 children between them. Only one daughter (Lucy) is shown with "no issue" and Mr. Batte’s document is silent on five other daughters. If the five unmentioned only had half as many children as the three mentioned....we should not be surprised that "Poythress" shows up for a long time all over Virginia as an "honorary" middle name.

15. Special to Lou Poole the Eppes chaser.....all those numbers in Batte’s code beside Eppes names in this document tell me that somewhere in the Va. Historical Society Library there is a Bolling Batte Eppes trial chart.....or somebody’s Eppes trial chart! I think I’d be making a phone call over there and seeing if a "donation" of some reasonable amount wouldn’t get me a copy on the way. Another angle...ask Craig Scott if he has anything on it....although I don’t believe Mr. Batte is "published"....Craig would know if anybody would. Craig runs Willowbend Books and you can click his link on the web page. He is a Poythress researcher himself.

Francis married Mary Frances Sloman in 1629 in Jamestown, James City, Virginia, USA. Mary was born in 1624 in London, London, England; died on 8 Oct 1675 in , Charles City, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Eustace was a farmer, planting turnips for his cattle. He was the first Rolfe to be entered into the public record - when he married Joanna. On his tomb is the epitaph "He increased his property by merchandise. By exporting and importing such things as England abounded in, or needed, he was of the greatest service"

Col. Robert I BOLLING "the immigrant"26 Dec 1646 - 17 Jul 1709
TITLE: Col.
OCCUPATION: Merchant, Burgess, Planter,
RESIDENCE: England and 1660 Ippax, Prince George and (Kippax, Charles City VA)

BIRTH: 26 Dec 1646, All Hallows, Barking Prish, Essex, England
DEATH: 17 Jul 1709, Kippax, Charles City Co. Virginia
BURIAL: Blandford Cem, Petersburg, VA, Bristol Parish Church
RESOURCES: See: Notes [S24] [S706] [S1121] [S1387] [S1561] [S2014] [S2755]
Father: John BOLLING
Mother: Mary CARIE

Family 1 : Jane ROLFE
MARRIAGE: 1675, Petersburg, Indian Territory (Dinwiddie Co.)VA
+Jane Rolfe BOLLING
+John (The Red Bolling's) BOLLING Sr.
Family 2 : Anne Dade STITH
MARRIAGE: ABT 1681
+Robert BOLLING II "of Kippax"
+Drury BOLLING
Agnes BOLLING
Notes

"Arrived in America Oct 2 1660 from London England.
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume IV: "The Bollings of Virginia descend from Robert Bolling, who came from London to Virginia in 1660. He was a son of John Bolling, of "Bolling Hall," Yorkshire, of an ancient English family. A Robert Bolling, in the reign of Edward the Fourth, of England, possessed Bolling Hall and there many generations of his ancestors had lived."

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume IV: "I) Robert Bolling, the first of his name in Virginia, was born in London, England, December 26, 1646. He arrived in Virginia at the age of fourteen years, October 2, 1660, and in the year 1675 married (first) Jane, daughter of Thomas Rolfe, and granddaughter of the Princess Pocahontas (wife of John Rolfe), and great-granddaughter of the Indian Emperor Powhattan. By her he had one son, John. He married a second wife, Anne, daughter of John Stith, by whom he had a large family. This Robert Bolling lived at Kippax, in Prince George county, where he died July 17, 1707, and is there buried."

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I, IV--Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons: Robert Bolling a descendant of the Bollings of Bradford in Yorkshire, was son of John Bolling, of the parish of All-Hallows Barking, Tower street, London. He was born Dec. 26, 1646, and came to Virginia in 1660. He engaged in trade as a merchant and acquired large tracts of land. His residence was in Charles City county on the south side of James river in what is now Prince George county. The name of his residence was "Kippax." He was sheriff and lieutenant-colonel of the militia and in 1688, 1692 and 1699 he represented Charles City county in the house of burgesses, and in 1704, 1705-06 he represented Prince George county. He died July 17, 1709. His first wife was Jane Rolfe, daughter of Capt. Thomas Rolfe, son of Pocahontas, and his second was Anne Stith, daughter of Capt. John Stith, of Charles City county."
CHILDREN OF ROBERT BOLLING AND ANN STITH:
1 Robert, born 25 January, 1681/2, married Anne COCKE.
2. Stith, born 28 March, 1686/7, married Elizabeth Hartwell, died 1716.
3. Edward, born 3 October, 1687/8, married ----Slaughter.
4. Anne, born 22 July, 1690/1 (nothing known)
5. Drury, born 21 June, 1695/6 (nothing known)
6. Thomas, born 20 March, 1696/7(nothing known)
7. Agnas, born 30 November, 1700, married Richard Kennon

1675--Robert Bolling, the immigrant, married first, in 1675, Jane, dau of Thomas Rolfe and granddaughter of Pocohontas; 2nd, 1681, Ann, dau of John Stith, of Brunswick county, and lived at "Kippax" (sometimes called "Farmingdale"), Prince George Co. Died July 17, 1709.
Issue by first m.:
John, b. Jan 27, 1676.
Issue by second m.:
Robert b. Jan 25, 1682;
Stith, b. March 28, 1686.

Children:
3 William STITH d: 1749
3 John STITH
3 Drury STITH , Jr. b: ABT. 1695 + Elizabeth BUCKNER
3 Stith BOLLING b: 28 MAR 1686 d: 1716 + Elizabeth HARTWELL
3 Ann BOLLING b: 22 JUL 1691
3 Drury BOLLING b: 21 JUN 1695
3 Thomas BOLLING b: 20 MAR 1696/97
3 Agnas BOLLING b: 30 NOV 1700 d: 1762 + Richard KENNON
3 Edward BOLLING b: 3 OCT 1688 + Miss SLAUGHTER

Feedback This Posting Received Follows:

Good explanation of the Bolling line:
Thursday, January 18, 2001

· First let me say with absolute conviction that no girl child of Robert Bolling 1646 England-1729 VA and his first wife JANE ROLFE the granddaughter of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, Jr. has ever existed. From their marriage ONE and only ONE child was born named JOHN Bolling b. 27 January 1646 Virginia and he died 20 April 1729 Virginia. This son JOHN and his ONLY wife MARY KENNON had only ONE son and FIVE daughters.
This lineage is known as "The RED Bolling's" i.e. Indian Blood descents.

· Next, ROBERT Bolling 1646-1709 raised his son for three years after the death of JANE Rolfe six months after birth of John. She died of Typhoid, and had been looked after by visits of particular Indians related to Pocahontas, and they looked after baby JOHN with visits until after the third marriage of Robert Bolling in December 1681. Until this marriage happened, Robert raised John with a Nannie in his household. The third marriage for Robert happened with Anne Dade Stith, d/o John Drury Stith.
Their descents are known as "The WHITE Bollings", NO Indian Blood.

· Child and son JOHN 1676 married in 1697 to MARY KENNON 1676-1744VA, and the marriage is recorded. From this ONLY marriage one and only one son was born and he was named JOHN Bolling born 1700VA. There are 5 sisters to this JOHN Bolling, Jr. 1700 who grew up a privileged life in Colonial America. He did have one big vice and that was he John Jr. liked women. He also liked to drink and party, but he followed in his father and grandfather shoes as a Member of The House of Burgess, the ruling political body of Colonial America.
· This John Bolling, Jr. inherited all his Father and Grandfather holdings and property which had become massive with thousand of acres, purchased and given by the Indian Nations to Robert Bolling 1646-1709 and wife Jane Rolfe, the Granddaughter of Pocahontas, and the only living daughter heir of her father Thomas Rolfe b. 1615 in America before any trip to England, but after death of Pocahontas in 1617 at Godsend, England, he Thomas was left to be raised by Uncle Henry Rolfe, the younger brother of John Rolfe, Jr. who lived in London. Henry raised Thomas and the Royal Crown of England then trained Thomas to be a military officer. At the age of 25 Thomas opted for a military career in Colonial America and was sent to Virginia in 1640 as a Lt. in the English Military. Thomas Rolfe had total of three wives, and the older brother of JANE ROLFE b. 1655 VA was THOMAS ROLFE, Jr. b. 1645 VA who had his death will probated in 1720, which mentions three children including a Thomas Rolfe III, Dorothy Rolfe, and a wife's nephew Wm. Roads. Thomas Rolfe 1615 had another son named William Rolfe born 1647 VA and JANE ROLFE born 1655VA. ROBERT BOLLING 1646 England-1709 VA married JANE ROLFE at her age of 19 just before her 20th birthday. She became immediately pregnant with baby JOHN who was born 1676.

1? There are no children by Thomas Rolfe 1615 named "Martha" or "Mary"

Now back to baby JOHN BOLLING b. 1676VA, he was raised by a Nannie in the household of ROBERT for three (3) years before ROBERT remarried in December 1781 to ANNE DADE STITH, d/o John Drury Stith. During this three year period, and a few years thereafter, the Indian Nations have recorded relatives of Pocahontas that continued contact with ROBERT and his son, just as they did during the very short marriage of JANE ROLFE to Robert. JOHN BOLLING was the only heir to Pocahontas in 1676, as her ONLY living Great Grandson of this historical descent status.

OTHER older TWO Grandsons of POCAHONTAS: Thomas Rolfe, Jr. b. 1645VA and William Rolfe b. 1647VA. These two Grandsons were by blood the UNCLES of baby JOHN Bolling b. 1676. They and JANE ROLFE b. 1655 were children of Jane Poythress the second wife of Thomas Rolfe 1615, and the first wife born in North America, as the daughter of his fellow military Lt. Francis Poythress and wife Alice Peyton.

North American School Systems fail to educate anyone about the life of JOHN ROLFE, Jr. and his families except for POCAHONTAS as his wife, and the raising of TOBACCO to be exported to England.

Back to baby JOHN BOLLING b. 1676VA he was raised by a Nannie and a Stepmother Anne D. Stith from 1681 until his marriage in 1697 to MARY KENNON b. 1676-d.1744 at age 68. JOHN MARY had only one son, and they named him JOHN Bolling, in 1700 VA. He became known as John Bolling, Jr. and later became known as (Major) John Bolling who grew up a privileged life in Virginia, loved women, and drank quite a lot. Yet, he inherited all his Grandfather and Father's land holdings which totaled in the thousands of acres in Virginia. Much of it lands given to Robert Bolling Jane Rolfe, his grandparents.
This John Bolling, Jr. had two wives, the first being ELIZABETH LEWIS b. 1700-d.1756VA The second wife was ELIZABETH BLAIR b. 1709 or 1712 VA (never proven the actual birth year) she died 1775 in Chesterfield, VA.

Eustace married Joanna Jenner on 27 May 1560 in Heacham, Norfolk, England. Joanna was born in 1539 in Heacham, Norfolk, England; died in Jun 1593 in Heacham, Norfolk, England; was buried in Heacham, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chief married Matatishe Winanuske Nonoma Powhatan. Matatishe was born in 1571 in Werowocomoco, Gloucester, Virginia, USA; died in Apr 1618 in Werowocomoco, Gloucester, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]