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Honorable Thomas Bolling was a lawyer and Justice of the Peace in Chesterfield County, Virginia. He was the captain of Capt. Thomas Bolling's Company from Chesterfield County in the Revolutionary War.[1] He belonged to the Episcopal church. In 1812, he established COBBS, which was the first Deaf-Mute Education Institute in America.[2]. He was foremost of the education of the Deaf because three of his children were deaf-mute from birth.
Married to his cousin, Elizabeth Gay, daughter of Dr. William Gay, and they had six children.Three of them were deaf mutes that never married or had issue.
The names of their children were :
Will of Thomas Bolling of Cobbs in the county of Chesterfield. Chesterfield Co., VA, WB 6, pp. 208-210, w. 29 May 1800, codicil w. 5 Aug 1804, no notation of when the will was proved. Digital image at Ancestry.com - https://ancstry.me/2Jb0WBm
wife Betty Bolling - all my lands & tennants in the county of Chesterfield
mentions land in Goochland and Powhatan counties
son William Bolling - my estate known formerly by the name of Lickinghole now called Bolling Hall and on my Island called Bolling’s Island both lying and being in the county of Goochland, & my plantation in the county of Powhatan called Hampstead. Also gives him land in Campbell county, plus “two acres of land devised to me by my late fathers will, lying over the creek in the fork of Lickinghole & adjoining the said Bolling Hall tract.”
son Thomas Bolling, his late uncle John Gay & his cousin John Hyndman
daughter Elizabeth Robertson
granddaughters Betsey & Mary Robertson
daughter Rebecca Murray
daughter Mary Bolling
Exr: son William Bolling
Wit: Edwd Moseley, Wm Fleming, Thos A. Taylor, John Stratton, William Walthall
Wit to codicil: Thos. A. Taylor, John Stratton, William Walthall
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