Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Bolling (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Denmark, England, Germany, Scotland, and Sweden as early as 1610. Some focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of these primary ancestors: Robert Bolling 1st (1546-1709) who lived in Bolling Hall, Bradford, England; Thomas Bouldinge (1580-1655) known as Thomas of the ship, The Swan; and the Catholic Bolling...

William Savage, Sr. settled in North Carolina and married Mary Robbins. They were the parents five children, one which was William Savage, Jr. (1784-1842). William married Susannah Bolling Williams and they moved to Missouri. In 1832 he and his family moved from eastern Missouri to Cass County and then later to Jackson County where he assisted in the expulsion of the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from their homes. Descendants...

Jane Rolfe, only child of Thomas Rolfe, son of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, married Colonel Robert Bolling (1646-1709) in 1675. They had one son, John Bolling (1676-1729). Jane Rolfe Bolling died in childbirth or shortly thereafter. Record chiefly follows line of descent from John Bolling, through his son, Major John Bolling (1700-1759), to the author's grandfather, David Luther Bolen (1872-1942) and his family. He was born in Carroll County, Virginia,...

This biography of Mary Bolling "is a dichotomy of fact and fancy...This book centers around the descendants of Samuel Bolling and Abigail Choice, who emigrated from Virginia to South Carolina in 1780, and the descendants of Strother Dobson Shumate, also of Virginia, who arrived circa 1802." Mary Bolling married Lewis Hampton Shumate.

"This memoir was written in the French language by Robert Bolling ... the original became the property of a member of the family, William Robertson, Esq., and in 1803 he gave it to his son, then a youth, as an exercise in translation ... subsequently the translation fell into the hands of John Randolph of Roanoke ... [he] showed his interest in it by inserting explanatory notes, by interlineation. All of these have been retained, and are to be found...

Ancestors of Henry Bolen who was born 1782 in the territory that later became Virginia and Kentucky. He married Margaret McCrary in Ohio in 1809.

Matoaka Pocahontas Powhattan (1586-1617) was born to Powhattan, chief of thirteen tribes in the area which later became Jamestown, Virginia. In 1614 she married John Rolfe (1585-1622) and bore him a son, Thomas Rolfe (1615-1670). She died while on an extended visit to England and is buried there. Thomas was married three times but was the father of only one daughter. All descendants of Pocahontas descend from Jane Rolfe (1655-1676) who married Robert...

John Hartung Jr. (1807-1887), son of John Michael Hartung Sr. (b.ca.1780) and Anna Margaret Elsessen, immigrated in 1829 with a half-brother, Johann Martin Zirkel, from Germany to Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to land near Pittsburgh or Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He married Salome Schramm in 1831, settled in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and moved in 1855 to Butler County, Pennsylvania. Other family members immigrated from Germany to join them. Descendants...

Ephraim Brock was born in 1843. His parents were Ephraim Brock (1752-1852) and Nancy Shepherd. He married Aggie Caldwell (1852-1938), daughter of Joseph Caldwell and Stacy, in about 1871. They had seven children. They lived in Leslie County, Kentucky. They moved to Wise County, Virginia in about 1883. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Kentucky and Virginia.