Who are the parents of Susannah Ann (Bolling) Arrington?

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Susannah Ann (Bolling) Arrington is listed in wikitree as Susannah Ann (Boling) Arrington (abt. 2764-1830) under two different profiles [[Boling-242]] and [[Bolling-241].  Marriage records give her name as "Bolling" and not "Boling".  She cannot be the daughter of Edward Bolling and Dolly Payne as Jack Arrington and Susannah were married in 1796 though this same Edward Bolling seems to be the marriage bond surety.  He and Dolly were married in 1794.

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In Robert's will he list the name of Ann.  I believe that this must be Susannah Ann.  This would prove mother, father and daughter.  She is also referred to in a poem that he wrote.

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Ann or Susannah Ann is listed in the will of Robert Bolling and is also listed in a poem he wrote,"Occupation Inscribed to His Children," May 15, 1769.  She is said to have her mother's name. 

 

1.  Henrico Wills & Deeds 1697-1704.

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During the early colonial times historical evidence shows the connection between these two prominent families the Bolling's and the Arrington's. As early as 2 April 1705 John Pleasants was working with Capt. John Bolling. The Pleasant's had married into the Arrington family with the marriage of Samuel Arrington and Jane Pleasants. This definitely shows a relationship between all three families; the Arrington's, Pleasants and Bollings.

Susannah was born about 1764 Years did not separate the ties of these families as Edward Bolling is listed on Susannah's marriage licenses. This connects the Bolling's of Virginia to the Arrington's of Virginia. Biology evidence is showing that indeed Susannah was from the renowned Bolling family of Virginia.

So if there is historical evidence and biological evidence then some of the dates must be wrong.

Henrico County Virginia Colonial Wills &a Deeds 1677-1737 by Benjamin B. Weisiger, III.  Page 450; Page 80

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Look at Find A Grave web site for the Chellowe cemetery - it may be listed as Hubard - Bolling cemetery - you will see many of the Bolling Clan.  Also, Buckingham Co. is the country to look for Robert and Susanna   - also Watkins - as Susanna the (Mother) married him after Robert died.   The name Pleasant (sp) is also listed as a bookstore in Richmond - where the family went for books and newspapers from Samuel Pleasant.  Another Pleasant had a liverly and carriage repair place near them.... Also, the Univ. of N.C. has a large selection of donated papers on this family - many are on line.

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WikiTree members have given me the most honest and helpful information.  I am grateful for all the information.  I do not know if I should post some of the letters and PDF file as some are very negative.  I am at a loss.  I guess unless they optain useful information I should not.  Any suggestions?

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I purchased the Henrico County Virginia Colonial Wills and Deeds 1677-1737.  If anyone needs for me to look something up just let me know.

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The marriage license clearly shows Bolling spelling and no other for Susannah and Edward.  

https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Bolling-704

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Thanks, Eddie!

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Susannah's father was Edmund Bolling/Bowling (both spellings were used during the colonial period). He is sometimes listed as Edward in records, but he was NOT the Edward of the Red Bollings line. Her father's family was out of St. Mary's Co., MD and Edmund ends up in Clarke Co., GA (see his pension application).

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Anonymous, can you please provide the details from the pension document that supports this identification ? Thanks.

Answer 1

I guess I was 2percent off;

Robert Bolling Jr and Susan Watson parents of Susannah Bolling who marries John Arrington.

Marriage of Robert Bolling Jr. To Susan Watson;https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR77-W58

Citing this Record "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR77-W5D : 5 December 2014), Robert Bolling Jr. and Susanna Watson, 31 May 1765; citing Amherst County, Virginia, reference p 1; FHL microfilm 30,273.

https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bolling_Robert_1738-1775

CITING THIS RECORD The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3MQF-MYX : accessed 2017-07-11), entry for Susanna Ann /Bolling/.

https://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Bolling-of-Chellowe/5650367556150045338

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The geni.com has no source for Susannah being the daughter of Robert . Her year of birth at genius is not good for either the first or second wife.

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1765

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3MQF-MYX

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The famsearch is a user submitted family tree. No sources on it.

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Robert Bolling Jr and Susan Watson parents of Susannah Bolling who marries John Arrington.

Marriage of Robert Bolling Jr. To Susan Watson;https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR77-W58

Citing this Record "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR77-W5D : 5 December 2014), Robert Bolling Jr. and Susanna Watson, 31 May 1765; citing Amherst County, Virginia, reference p 1; FHL microfilm 30,273.

https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bolling_Robert_1738-1775

CITING THIS RECORD The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3MQF-MYX : accessed 2017-07-11), entry for Susanna Ann /Bolling/.

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Edward the Missing child of Robert Bolling and Susannah's brother.  It is weak but possible.

3.There is an Edward Bolling buried at the Chellowe graveyard in Buckingham County alongside Powhatan (1767-1803).There is also a memorial obelisk in the graveyard bearing the following inscription on its south side: "To the memory of Col Robert Bolling and Susan his Wife.Powhatan Bolling Esq.Pocahontas Cabell.Edward Bolling."Powhatan and Pocahontas (Bolling) Cabell were siblings.Would Edward's name be inscribed in this manner if he were not?

http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/bolling/1330/

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Hello, 

     Here is a record of an earlier marriage age for Edward Bolling.

• Shawnee Heritage III

By Don Greene; Lulu.com., Nov 7, 2014-History-548 Pages: ‪The latest in the collection 'Shawnee Heritage' that includes Pre-1700 Shawnee families. Shawnee Heritage III has a complete, updated information from families with surnames A - L.‬ page 94.https://books.google.com/books?id=E9EeCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=edward+bolling+1746&source=bl&ots=Bm_qAItneE&sig=MKbsvWYaGDZC9EGhUR94ecW9SWw&hl=en&sa=X#v=onepage&q=edward%20bolling%201746&f=false

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Please do not use Don Green's Shawnee Heritage books as sources. They are filled with speculation and in some cases downright fabrication.

See:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Shawnee_Heritage_Fraud

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The book “Shawnee Heritage” brings to light the evidence that is on the Marrage License.  There is no evidence that I am aware of on paper that exists that states the Bolling name is actually Bowling.  There has never been any documentation on this come to light.  Having sourced my material with the document I suggest those that believe this document exists bring it to our attention.

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Remember we need documentation not someone’s opinion.

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If anything in one of Don Greene’s books is accurate it’s purely by chance.  They are made-up junk, worse than fiction because they are meant to deceive, but sadly they have taken in many people who want to believe they have a Native American ancestor.  Pocahontas’ descendants are very well documented.

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The main evidence for Bolling is the Marrage License.  It amazes me how so many people can say but not produce an actual document supporting their belief. I believe there is no document with the Bolling name spelled Bowling as no one has produced it.  I have not found it in any book or on line and I really searched.  Yet the myth that a document with the spelling of Bowing for Bolling continues.  This myth is not a valid source.

https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bolling_Robert_1738-1775

On June 5, 1763, Bolling married Mary Burton, of Northampton County. She died on May 2, 1764, two days after the birth of their daughter. Almost fourteen months later, on May 31, 1765, Bolling posted a marriage bond in Amherst County and married Susanna Watson on that day or early in June. They had two sons and two daughters.

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Loretta, what do these marriage records of Robert Bolling have to do with the identity of the parents of Susannah Bolling who married Arrington?

The offspring of Robert Bolling are documented; they do not include a daughter Susannah or Anna.

Answer 2

During the early colonial times historical Evidence shows the connection between these two prominent families the Bolling's and the Arrington's. As early as 2 April 1705 John Pleasants was working with Capt. John Bolling. The Pleasant's had married into the Arrington family with the marriage of Samuel and Jane Pleasants. This definitely shows a relationship between all three families; the Arrington's, Pleasants and Bollings.

Susannah was born about 1764 Years did not separate the ties of these families as Edward Bolling is listed on Susannah's marriage licenses. This connects the Bolling's of Virginia to the Arrington's of Virginia. Biology evidence is showing that indeed Susannah was from the renowned Bolling family of Virginia.

 

Henrico County Virginia Colonial Wills &a Deeds 1677-1737 by Benjamin B. Weisiger, III.  Page 450; Page 80

Answer 3

Reprint From The Bolling Family Association Newsletter

May 2016 Issue

 

OLD JOE’S PIE SAFE

by

Prof. John M. Arrington, retired

April 16, 2016

 

Retired professor Arrington, a native of Lynchburg, Virginia, is a contributing writer for the Bolling Family Association Newsletter. His stories are written in “creative narrative” stylewhich are based on limited facts, but allow the author to use his knowledge of time lines, history, lifestyles, geography, culture and flora & fauna of the area to “fill in the blanks” making stories more detailed, complete, interesting and colorful. Most of the carefully selected creative details typically turn out to be true.

 

“Old Joe’s Pie Safe” connects Prof. Arrington’s 49-acre country estate, Stonegate, to the long forgotten Buffalo Lick Plantation south of the James River once owned by Archibald Bolling. Ironically, Prof. Arrington is a Bowling descendant through his historical grandmother, Susannah Ann Bolling of St. Mary’s Maryland who married John Arrington in 1796 in Amherst County, Virginia.

 

Answer 4

The parents of Susannah Bolling Arrington were Edmund/Edward Bolling/ Bowling of Maryland and Elizabeth Braggs, also of Maryland.

Bolling Family Association has some very interesting research on the migration of Arringtons, Bollings, other Maryland & Georgia families led by "John Cartwight who was also Edward Bolling Arrington's step-father.

The Bolling Family Association Newsletter (Vol. XXIII, August 2014 Issue) spelled it out wonderfully, along with some citations from the the Arrington Family Historian, Professor John Mitchell Arrington, in this reprint available at https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE6226310

John Mitchell Arrington says that "The writing of the enclosed article published in the Bolling Family Newsletter, Susannah Ann Bolling Arrington: Pioneer Wifeand Mother, was motivated by a driving quest in the search for my ancestors and the truth about their lives". He was dismayed by the Ancestry.com trees that connected Susannah to wrong parentages in an attempt to connect her and the Arringtons to the Virginian "Red Bollings".

He says that the latest research (2014) has proven that Susannah Ann Bolling "was the descendant of the St. Mary’s, Maryland Bowlings who had migrated to Amherst County Virginia in 1770 and settled in the Rose’s Mill area near the Tye River (now Nelson County, Virginia). Susannah Bolling, daughter of Edmund/Edward Bolling of Maryland, married John Arrington a year ( 1796 ) after their settlement in Amherst, Virginia. Her father, Edward Bolling, held the "surety". On the original surety bond, John Mitchell Arrington notes that Edward Bolling is  "Edward Bowling (as spelled on her marriage bond)" .

As for Bolling DNA studies, I would get in touch with this group for further information. To have a test kit sent to you write Larry Bowling, Group Administrator for the BFADNA study at larrybow1ing1@gmai1.com or 3126 S. Longleaf Way, Boise, ID 83716.http://wwwfamilytreedna.com/public/Bolling/default.aspx?section=results

Btw, if you are related to Arringtons, you are in for a real treat, with John Mitchell Arrington's research - ABSALOM ARRINGTON: Virginia Pioneer Georgia Patriarch A Narrative ofArrington History - Virginia to Georgia ­1650-2014. Also available online at https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE6226285

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I've read this piece. Unfortunately, the author cites no sources for the claims he makes about Susannah Bolling Arrington's parents. Highly disappointing for an article published in 2014.