Linnaeus Bolling (1773 - 1836)

Born 1773 in Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Markham) Bolling — married 16 Dec 1793 in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 7 Jan 1836 at about age 63 in Buckingham, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Lenias Bolling is a descendant of Pocahontas. Here is the trail.

Father: Robert Bolling, b. 1738, d. 1775

Mother: Susan Watson, b. Abt 1750

Children:

Robert Markham Bolling

Mary Bolling

Susannah Pocahontas Bolling

Phillip Bolling

Linnaeus Bolling, Jr. who died drowned young at Wm & Mary

Died at the age of 63 at his home in Chellowe.

Name

Name: Linnaeus /Bolling/^[1]

• Source: Title: Pocahontas List Note

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S-2063027587

See also:

• "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch (11 February 2018), Bernard Markham in entry for Lenias Bolling and Mary Markham, 16 Dec 1793; citing Chesterfield, Virginia, reference p 37; FHL microfilm 30,869. Name Lenias Bolling; Spouse's Name Mary Markham; Event Date 16 Dec 1793; Event Place Chesterfield, Virginia; Spouse's Father's Name Bernard Markham.
• Virginia Genealogical Society, Some Marriages in the Burned Record Counties of Virginia (Virginia Genealogical Society, 1972); Page: 10; Quote: 16 December 1793 — BOLLING, Lenias of Buckingham County, and Mary Markham, not of age, daughter of Bernard Markham who consents. Sur. Robert Cary (is that the correct Robert, his father shows death before 1792). (Chesterfield County Marriage Register, p. 37)

• Morenus, David. The Real Pocahontas website, "Pocahontas Descendants" chart, 6acd.

• "The Ancestors and Descendants of John Rolfe", in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Jul 1914), p. 332.

• Robertson, Wyndham (1887), Pocahontas and her Descendants, p. 35 (gen 6), p. 43 (children), p. 68 (sketch).

• Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK15-T6LJ : 11 January 2022), Linneus Bolling, ; Burial, Bridgeport, Buckingham, Virginia, United States of America, Bolling Farm Cemetery; citing record ID 146442166, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com. THERE is no photo but there is an obit.Obituary: The Lynchburg Virginian, Feb. 1, 1836, p. 3, col. 4.

BOLLING, LINNEUS, ESQ. died on 7th inst., age 63, at residence in Buckingham Co. "Active and faithful magistrate; member of General Assembly 1799-1800 and thereafter." He was a Republican of Jeffersonian school and husband and father.