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Historical Highway MarkersRobert Bolling (1738-1775)O-99
Robert Bolling, member of the House of Burgesses, lived near here at his home Chellowe. A prolific writer, he published many poems as well as a treatise on wine-making. In 1766, Bolling precipitated a crisis when in an article in the Williamsburg Virginia Gazette he accused prominent legislators of showing favoritism in allowing their friend, and accused murderer, John Chiswell bail. Lt. Gov. Francis Fauquier instructed a grand jury “to punish the Licentiousness of the Press” and indict Bolling, but it refused. Bolling died in Richmond while participating in the Virginia Convention of July-Aug. 1775.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Dictionary of Virginia Biography; Elizabeth Vann Moore and Richard Slatten, "The Descendants of Pocahontas: An Unclosed Case," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 23, no. 3 (Aug. 1985): 3-16; William Thorndale, "Two Rolfe Negatives," Virginia Genealogist 34 (1990): 209-213; and Camille Townsend’s Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004), p209n31 |