Blair Bolling (1792 - 1839)

Ancestors

Died 3 Aug 1839 at about age 47 in Powhatan, Virginia, United States

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Biography

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

Captain of the State Guards ^[1]

Capt. Blair Bolling d. 03 Aug 1839 Aged 48 years 5 months This tablet erected to his memory by his affectionate wife

Married twice.

1. first M. A. Webster 1824
2. Penelope Storrs 1827

He had two sons and two daughters :

His sons:

Archibald Bolling m Feb 1852 Eliza Trueheart Armistead

John Bolling m Oct 1855 Maria Page Armistead

Will

Will of Blair Bolling of the City of Richmond and State of Virginia. Powhatan Co., VA, WB 11, pp. 70-71, w. 30 Jul 1839, p. 5 Aug 1839. Digital image at Ancestry.com - https://ancstry.me/2F9MyoW

wife Penelope Bolling - farm in the Counties of Powhatan and Goochland
As my sons arrive at the age of twenty one years, or my daughters to that age or marry...
Exrs: wife Penelope Bolling, friends Francis S. Sampson, Reuben Ragland
Wit: John R. Bolling, Arch. Robertson

Obituary

Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA) August 8, 1939 Enquirer, (Richmond, VA) August 9, 1839, Daily National Intelligencer, (Washington, DC) August 9, 1839

Bolling, Captain Blair - Died, At his farm in Powhatan, on Saturday evening, the 3rd instant, Capt. Blair Bolling, in the 49th year of his age. Capt. Bolling was an officer of the Regular Army during the last war, and has been for more than 21 years, the Commander of the Public Guard in Richmond-an office embracing a variety of important and highly responsible duties, all of which he performed with a zeal, ability and fidelity, that cound not have been surpassed. In every relation of life-as a soldier, citizen, husband, father, friend, he acted well his part. To the Public his loss is irreparable-to his family, deeply bereaved as they are, there is the consolation that he has left them the richest legacy the could have received-a pure and unsullied name.

Sources

• THE TAZEWELL FAMILY PAPERS, 1623-1930 Box 7 Folder 10.22 February 1836

"Blair Bolling captain of the public guard to Littleton Waller Tazewell-concerning the enclosed resolution from the house of delegates for raising the Union flag over the capitol-no flag staff on the capitol and no means of getting one up by time desired"

• THE TAZEWELL FAMILY PAPERS, 1623-1930 Box 7, Folder 10.7 March 1836

"John N. Tazewell to Ambrose P. Hill-source of rumor that Littleton Waller Tazewell (Governor) prevented the flying of the flag of the United States above the capitol on 22 February-Hill had stated this in a letter to a constituent-Tazewell says is not right-trying to track down inventor of the tale-(see Blair Bolling to Littleton Waller Tazewell 22 February 1836)"

• * Pg 1374. The Family Forest Descendants of Lady Joan Beaufort By Bruce Harrison

• http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/powhatan/cemeteries/bolling.txt

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

• "The Ancestors and Descendants of John Rolfe", in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Jul 1914), p. 333.

• Robertson, Wyndham (1887), Pocahontas and her Descendants, p. 36 (gen 6), p. 44 (children), p. 69, (sketch).

1. ↑ Pg.331.Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume 4.By Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Edward Jaquelin, Martha Cary Jaquelin