JEFFERSON
• Martha Jefferson Carr (1746–1811) - her husband , Thomas Jefferson’s best friend, helped launch the intercolonial in (1700-1757)
Virginia in March 1773, the first step to coordinated colonial action against Great Britain.
Major John Bolling II
• Peter Field Jefferson (1748)
• Peter Thomas (1750)
• Born: 20 Jan 1700, Cobbs, Chesterfield Co., VA
• (1752–1810)
• Marriage (1): Elizabeth Lewis in 1720 in Gloucester, VA
• Anna Scott Jefferson Marks (1755–1828) - twin of Randolph
• Marriage (2): Elizabeth Bland Blair on 1 Aug 1728 in James City Co., VA
• (1755–1815) - twin of Anna Scott
• Died: 6 Sep 1757, Cobbs, Chesterfield Co., VA at age 57
• Buried: Sep 1757 16
Jane Randolph Jefferson died of what was described at the time as an “apoplexy” on March 31, 1776, a few months before Jefferson wrote the .
Benjamin Bolling (RED BOLLING)
Benjamin was born on June 30th, 1734 in . Benjamin’s father was and his mother was . His paternal grandparents were and ; Mary Jefferson Bolling
his maternal grandparents were and . He had seven brothers and four sisters, named ,,, and . He had a half-sister named . He died m. John Bolling (1737-1800) on January 24, 1760
at the age of 97 on January 20th, 1832 in .
Mary Jefferson Bolling (1741-1804) was s older sister. Born on October 1, 1741, she was the second of the ten children born to William “Blackwater Bill” Bolling
and Peter Jefferson {add link}; she may have been born at her parents’ residence at Fine Creek. She married John Bolling (1737-
(1757-1845)
1800) on January 24, 1760. They had ten children:
William “Blackwater Bill” Bowling (1757 - c.1845)
• John, Jr. (Jack) (24 March 1762-?), m. ca. 1786 Mary Kennon.
Nicknames: “Blackwater Bill”
• Thomas (11 February 1764-December 1784)
Birthdate: 1757
• Jane (17 September 1765-before May, 1796)
Birthplace: North Carolina, United States
• Ann (18 July 1767-1785) m. Captain Howell Lewis
Death: Died 1845 in Virginia, United States
• Martha (1769-?) m. Peter Field Archer
m. Sarah “Sally” Fugate (Daughter of John Fugate Jr.)
• Edward (17 September 1772-1835) m. Dorothy Paine (Payne)
• Robert m. Jane Payne
Louannah Bolling (RED BOLLING)
• Archibald m. Catherine Payne
d. of William Blackwater Bolling. Louannah was born in 1780. Louannah’s father was and her mother was . Her paternal
• Mary (Polly, d. 1798) m. Edward Archer
grandparents were and . She was an only child. She died at the age of 40 in 1820 in .
• Son (name unknown, d. 1787)
m.
The Bollings lived at Fairfields in Goochland County and Lickinghole Creek, just west of Goochland Courthouse; in 1785
Edward Ned was born in 1778 in . He died at the age of 78 on November 27th, 1856 in County, KY.
they moved to Chestnut Grove, Bolling’s family plantation in Chesterfield County, while their oldest son Jack assumed ownership of Fairfields.
Letters between Thomas Jefferson, Mary, their sister , and Jefferson’s daughter reveal affectionate family relationships. It is Edward Edward “Ned” Sizemore, Sr. (c.1730 - 1810)
apparent, however, that John Bolling suffered from alcoholism, and that this was the cause of major strain in the family. Maria Few researchers encounter as much challenge in separating fact from legend as does the Sizemore family researcher. For over two wrote to Jefferson in 1797 that Bolling was “much as usual, in a state of constant intemperance allmost, he is happy only with his hundred years there has been a widespread tradition of Cherokee Indian ancestry in multiple branches of the Sizemore family.
glass in his hand…” Her father spoke frankly to her of “mr. B’s habitual intoxication” and his “attachment to the bottle.” On 22
This writer works on the premise of “Where there’s smoke, There’s fire”. As such I strongly believe that there are one or more April 1800, wrote to Jefferson, “We have reason to suppose Mr. Bolling is dead - He has been confined for some time dangerously Indian connections in various branches of this family. BUT, I have NOT succeeded in proving the exact individual and generation ill & we heard yesterday it was all over - It is not absolutely certain, but I have every reason to suppose the report well founded -”
where the Indian blood line enters this family.
Mary herself outlived her husband by only four years; in late January of 1804, Jefferson’s grandddaughter wrote to inform We do know that the Sizemore name is of English origin and that William and Martha Sizemore were in Charles City, VA
him of her death, although the exact date is not certain. Her burial location is unknown.
(near Jamestown) as early as 1619. Sizemore records in Virginia have not been located by this compiler from the time of William m. Major John Fairfax Bolling (January 27, 1676 – April 20, 1729) was a colonist, farmer, and politician in the . He was and Martha until more than 80 years later when a Margery Sizemore witnessed a will in 1712 in Henrico County, VA. No further the son of and . His maternal grandfather was ‘s grandson, .
information on Virginia Sizemores has been located until William Sizemore pays for a survey in Henrico County in 1736. This John Bolling was born at , in , a site which is now within the corporate limits of the . He made his home at the Bolling family 1712 Margery and 1736 William appear to be of the same Sizemore group that is then found in 1741 Lunenburg Co, VA and leaves
“Cobbs” just west of Point of Rocks on the north shore of the downstream from present-day . (Cobbs was located in until the area plentiful records thereafter.
south of the was subdivided to form in 1749).
There is a record of a Jacob Sisemore or Visemore in Craven Co, NC in 1707; then in 1716, a Samuel Sizemore appears in Chowan John Bolling
County, NC records. Samuel is found in several land transactions in 1719-1720, but was deceased by 1723 when his widow remarried.
m. Mary Kennon (1679–1727), daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham, on December 29, 1697. They had at least He did leave one or more sons who carried on the Chowan County Sizemore name. I have found no evidence to link these early VA and six children, whose names appear in John Bolling’s will:
NC Sizemore groups, and further have found no evidence that William and Martha of 1619-1626 Charles City, VA left any children.