Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Bolles (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Ireland, Normandy, and Scotland. Some focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of Joseph Bolles (1608-1678), the son of Thomas Bolles and Elizabeth Perkins, of Lincolnshire, England. In 1640, Joseph immigrated to Cape Porpois, then established an historic homestead called Osberton in Wells, Maine. He married...

Joseph Bolles (d.1678) immigrated from England to what later became the state of Maine during or before 1640. Includes genealogical data about Bolles-Bowles individuals and families throughout most of the United States.

Abel Waters, son of Nathaniel and Mary Waters, was born 25 January 1749 in Sutton Massachusetts. He married Sara Learned Davis, daughter of Elijah and Dorothy Moore, 15 January 1783. They subsequently settled in Charlton, Massachusetts. They were the parents of five children. Abel died 7 February 1829 in Augusta, Maine.

Genealogical information on four Bowles brothers and their descendants. has been given. The four brothers were Benjamin (b. ca. 1700), David , Thomas, John IV (b. 1743). All were born in Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, and elsewhere.

Henry Collier lived in Chatham County, North Carolina between 1780 and 1810, and was probably a descendant (possibly a grandson) of John Collier of Surry County, Virginia. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and elsewhere.

Joshua Rawlings (1766-1801), a native of Maryland, was in Kentucky ca. 1788, when he married Verlinda Darnell (1771-1796), daughter of Thomas Darnall, a Revolutionary War soldier. They had three children, 1789-1792. He married 2) Sophia Kennedy (1777-1868), daughter of John Kennedy, a Revolutioanary patriot, in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1797. They had three children, 1798-1801. He died on his farm near Paris, Borubon County, Kentucky. After Joshua's...