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Jane Rolfe (October 10, 1650 – January 27, 1676) was the granddaughter of Pocahontas and English colonist John Rolfe (credited with introducing a strain of tobacco for export by the struggling Virginia Colony). Her husband was Colonel Robert Bolling, who lived from 1646 to 1709. Robert and Jane had one son, John Bolling (1676–1729).
Thomas Rolfe, who had grown up in England, returned to Virginia as an adult [16] and married Jane Poythress. [17] [18] Poythress's English parents were Francis Poythress and Alice Payton. [19] Thomas and Jane Rolfe had one child, Jane Rolfe, [20] who married Robert Bolling and had a son, John Bolling, in 1676. Jane Rolfe died shortly after ...
Rolfe was the first man to successfully raise export tobacco in the colony (although the colonists had begun to make glass artifacts to export immediately after their arrival). The native tobacco raised in Virginia prior to that time, Nicotiana rustica , was not to the liking of the Europeans, but Rolfe had brought some seed of Nicotiana ...
Rolfe's daughter, Jane Rolfe, married Robert Bolling of Prince George County, Virginia; the couple's son, John Bolling, was born on January 27, 1676. Jane Rolfe is said to have died shortly after giving birth. [17] John Bolling married Mary Kennon, daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham of Conjurer's Neck. [17]
The Rolfe family is a First Family of Virginia and prominent family in early U.S. history. ... Jane Rolfe; John Rolfe; Thomas Rolfe; S. Jeanne Shaheen; W. Edith Wilson
In 1674, he married Jane Rolfe, daughter of Thomas Rolfe, the son of Pocahontas. [1] They had one son, John Bolling (January 27, 1676 – April 20, 1729). [3] Jane Rolfe Bolling is believed to have died in childbirth. John Bolling married Mary Kennon, daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham, and they had six children. [4]
Bolling married Jane Rolfe, who was the granddaughter of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. Their only child, John Bolling was born at Kippax in 1676, and settled nearby at Cobbs Plantation, just west of Point of Rocks across the Appomattox River in what is now Chesterfield County.
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