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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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Robert Bolling, of "Bollingbrook", Petersburg, VA.
Robert and Anne Bolling, of Prince George Co., VA.
Robert Bolling lived in the parish of Allhalloway, (or All Hallows), Barkin Parish, Tower Street, London, England. He was the first of the name who settled in Virginia. He arrived in the Colony, Oct. 2, 1660 and soon attained to fortune and prominence in affairs of both Church and State. In 1858, his remains were removed from "Kippax" to the mausoleum, at Blandford Cemetery, erected by his great grandson.
John Peyton Bolling died at the age of 6 months.
The gravestone for Maj. Samuel Cooper, Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery, Alexandria, VA, Lot 101:4, reads as follows:
Sacred / to the memory of / MAJOR SAMUEL COOPER / of the / Revolutionary Army / Who in early youth / At the First onset / Struck for Liberty / and continued to wield the sword / in the defence of his Country, / Until Victory crowned her arms. / He fought, at / Bunker-hill, Trenton, Brandy-Wine / At German-Town and at Monmouth / and other sanguinary Fields. / As then a valiant soldier / So in after life was he / an active and estimable Citizen / an upright man and a / pious Christian. / He was born / in the State of Massachusetts; / He died / in the State of Virginia / on the 19th of August A. D. 1840 / At the age of 84 years.
Adgt. Gen. Samuel Cooper, USA and CSA
Major Samuel Cooper, Jr., CSA.