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Bolling, Robert. Letter : London, England, 1698 January 2.

Title: Letter : London, England, 1698 January 2.

This letter concerns a tobacco account and trade in that commodity.

ArchivalResource: 4 leaves.

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Bolling, Robert. Bolling family genealogical notes, 1646-1738.

Title: Bolling family genealogical notes, 1646-1738.

Consists of handwritten notes which appear in John Purvis's Collection of Laws of Virginia [1682], a volume in the collections of the Library of Virginia. The notes concern the Bolling family and include genealogical notes written by Robert Bolling, born in England 1646, concerning his two wives, Jane Rolfe and Anne Stith, and their children. There is also a certification of the number of inhabitants in Charles City County in 1699. Also included are notes concerning the children and grandchildren of Robert Bolling, a 1711 list of slaves belonging to John Bolling, a 1709 list of slaves received by Mrs. Anne Bolling, and an undated poem.

ArchivalResource: 8 leaves.

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Bolling, Robert, Jr. Robert Bolling, Jr. Commonplace book 1764.

Title: Robert Bolling, Jr. Commonplace book 1764.

Music book with clippings from the Virginia Gazette pasted in. Includes letters between men referring to themselves as Aristides and Phocion, poetry, ballads, and letters written by "D.C" of Chellow, the house Bolling built in 1760. A note, written in French on the fly-leaf, states, "I found this book with several other books of music (Italian, for the most part, which seem to be the remains of a singer of that nation) in Walker's shop at Williamsburg, where I was appointed to wrap up the odds and ends which were sold there." It was signed, "Bolling, junr." and dated 20 January 1764.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (61 pages); 10" wide X 7 1/2"

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Bolling, Robert. Bolling family genealogical notes, 1646-1738.

Title: Bolling family genealogical notes, 1646-1738.

Consists of handwritten notes which appear in John Purvis's Collection of Laws of Virginia [1682], a volume in the collections of the Library of Virginia. The notes concern the Bolling family and include genealogical notes written by Robert Bolling, born in England 1646, concerning his two wives, Jane Rolfe and Anne Stith, and their children. There is also a certification of the number of inhabitants in Charles City County in 1699. Also included are notes concerning the children and grandchildren of Robert Bolling, a 1711 list of slaves belonging to John Bolling, a 1709 list of slaves received by Mrs. Anne Bolling, and an undated poem.

ArchivalResource: 8 leaves.

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Bolling, Robert. Bolling family genealogical notes.

Title: Bolling family genealogical notes.

Pertains mainly to Robert Bolling (1646-1709) of England and Virginia and his descendants. Includes a genealogical chart, lists of slaves belonging to John Bolling in 1711 and Anne Bolling in 1709, and a document certifying the number of inhabitants in Charles City County in 1699. All of the items were handwritten in a copy of John Purvis's "A Complete Collection of All the Laws of Virginia Now In Force" (1682), housed in Special Collections at the Library of Virginia. Other allied families mentioned include: Rolfe and Stith.

ArchivalResource: 8 leaves.

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Adams, Stephen, 1835-. Papers of the Barbour family [manuscript], 1793-1941.

Title: Papers of the Barbour family [manuscript], 1793-1941.

The collection consists chiefly of the personal and financial papers of James Barbour, his son, Benjamin Johnson Barbour, and granddaughter Caroline Homassel Barbour Ellis. Topics of interest include complaints of extravagance by a Harvard student, 1815; the War of 1812; slaves and slavery (including an 1854 inventory); genealogy; the American Party and its opposition to Roman Catholics as office holders; rail travel from Virginia to Florida in 1857; cotton; Orange County court house construction; and Reconstruction, the Republican Party, and the Virginia Convention of 1867. Also the Immigration Society; the shooting of General Thompson by Osceola at Ft. King; William Mahone's political activities; a St. Paul law practice in 1886; the Minneapolis exposition, 1886; the destruction of Madison letters by a gardener; a building for the Library of Congress; Fitzhugh Lee as governor; Thomas L. Rosser's political opinions; and Russian and Polish affairs, 1889. Also James Barbour's orations, 1890; race relations in 1891; the Boer War; the San Francisco earthquake; a 1917 poetry reading by Robert Frost; Red Cross Work; Catherine Booth; the Yorktown Sesquecentennial; and Garden Week. University of Virginia topics include the Student Infirmary Fund, 1867; Washington Hall, 1869; renovations and additions, 1869; astronomical observations, 1869; a department of agriculture, 1870; and the detrimental effect of politics on the University, 1884. Also the selling of the Lee family papers to the Library of Congress, 1886; the resevoir and dam, 1886; reorganization of various schools, 1887; recasting of the bell; the hiring and resignation of professors; Dr. Harrison's affair; and Presbyterian influence. The collection also contains ballot sheets for the election of Zachary Taylor; a William Henry Harrison political cartoon; U.Va. Board of Visitors resolutions, 1850-1865, on faculty salaries; minutes and membership lists, 1876-1879, of the Lay Association Virginia Diocese of the Episcopal Church; minutes, 1892, of the U.Va. Society of Alumni; photographs of Barboursville; slave inventories; and copies of General orders, August - November 1861, issued by Generals Banks, and McClellan, U.S. Army of the Potomac.

ArchivalResource: 3 feet.

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