John Bolling
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| Born | (1676-01-27)January 27, 1676 |
| Died | April 20, 1729(1729-04-20) (aged 53) |
| Resting place | Chesterfield County, Virginia |
| Spouse |
Mary Kennon
(m. 1697; died 1727) |
| Children | John Bolling Jr. Jane Bolling Elizabeth Bolling Mary Bolling Martha Bolling Anne Bolling |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Thomas Rolfe (maternal grandfather) Pocahontas (maternal great-grandmother) |
Major John Bolling (January 27, 1676 – April 20, 1729) was an American planter, politician and military officer in the colony of Virginia. He was the great-grandson of Pocahontas and her husband, John Rolfe.
John Bolling was the son of Colonel Robert Bolling and Jane (née Rolfe) Bolling.[1] He was a great-grand-child of Pocahontas and her husband, John Rolfe.[2]
John Bolling was born at Kippax Plantation, in Charles City County, in the east central part of Virginia, a site which is now within the corporate limits of the City of Hopewell. He made his home at the Bolling family plantation "Cobbs" just west of Point of Rocks on the north shore of the Appomattox River downstream from present-day Petersburg, Virginia. (Cobbs was located in Henrico County until the area south of the James River was subdivided to form Chesterfield County in 1749.)
John Bolling married Mary Kennon (–1727), daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham, on December 29, 1697. They had six children, whose names appear in John Bolling's will:[3]
In 1722, he opened a tobacco warehouse in what is now the 'Pocahontas' neighborhood of Petersburg. William Byrd IIofWestover Plantation is said to have remarked that Major Bolling enjoyed "all the profits of an immense trade with his countrymen, and of one still greater with the Indian."
Major Bolling served in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1710 until his death in 1729.
