I am trying to find out if Elizabeth Bolling (1731-1776) was married in 1756 to Benjamin Wright (1730-1799)

Question

My records indicate that Benjamin Wright (born about 1730 in Virginia) was married on 27 December 1756 to Elizabeth Bolling.

Benjamin was the son of Francis E. Wright and Mary Hawkins

Elizabeth was the daughter of Maj. John Bolling and Elizabeth Bland Blair

 

Thank you!

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irginia, Marriages, 1660-1800 about Elizabeth Bolling

Name: Elizabeth Bolling Spouse: Robert Mays Marriage Date: 27 Dec 1756 Marriage Location: Stafford County, Virginia

I find this.

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I am having the same problem. I am descended from Benjamin Wright and it came up that he married her but I'm not convinced because I know there is a lot of incorrect information out there related to Bollings.

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In the same situation. There seems to be several Elizabeth Bollings out there.

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me as well! trying to confirm.

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Elizabeth Bolling is a sister to My Benjamin Bolling. I will research my paperwork, but I do remember a Wright being a husband. I think she might have been married a few times.

Answer 1

Benjamin Wright may have married an Elizabeth Bolling, but not the one you're imagining. Maj. John Bolling and Elizabeth Blair did not have a daughter Elizabeth who survived childhood. (They may have tried the name Elizabeth on three of their infants, but it was not a lucky name, as all died soon.)

Answer 2

Virginia, Marriages, 1660-1800

Name:	Elizabeth Bolling
Spouse:	Robert Mays
Marriage Date:	27 Dec 1756
Marriage Location:	Stafford County, Virginia
Household Members:	Name Elizabeth Bolling Robert Mays

Source Information:
Dodd, Jordan. Virginia, Marriages, 1660-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.
Original Data: Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Virginia.

Description:
Database of Virginia marriages to 1800

Answer 3

I think it is possible but I have not found absolute proof. Also , it leads you down a path to Pocahontas which I know to be false. I have done it and deleted it several times. There was a hoax back in the sixties where someone wanting a connection made up some extra Bollings. It even has a name, the Blue Bollings. I can also say this is an incorrect path because my DNA has absolutely no Native American blood.