Janet, just a quick note of interest to add to yours.  John Bollings
Gravesite is located just to the east of Point of Rocks Park next to a
relatively new housing development.  To reach it, it is necessary to drive
into the subdivision itself, but it is readily recognizable in that it is
surrounded by a stone wall.

Andy Means


>From: Janet Hunter <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
>      <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Pocahontas and "Cobbs"
>Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:47:45 EDT
>
>Bernie wrote:
>
> > Col Robert Bolling was from "Kippax" or
> > "Flaming Dale" and his son who was Col John Bolling was from  "Cobbs"
> > Plantation on the Appomattox near Petersburg, VA.
> >
>
>Bernie and all,
>
>I just have a footnote here of interest to Bolling descendants, as well as
>those with ancestry traced to Burtons (all you Stovalls), Baughs and Cobbs.
>
>To recap, Cobbs was the plantation of Robert Bolling and Jane Rolfe's son,
>John Bolling and Mary Kennon, daughter of Richard Kennon and Mary Worsham.
>I
>understand it was at Cobbs that they raised all the little "Red" Bollings
>to
>whom Pocahontas descendants trace their ancestry.
>
>Cobbs is on the opposite, north side of the Appomattox from Petersburg and
>downstream a handful of miles in what is now Chesterfield Co.  It is
>located
>a little east of  the point where the Appomattox, which had been travelling
>primarily north for a ways, turns east and the Ashton/PeircesToyl Creek
>(many
>names) becomes part of the Ashen Swamp and they empty into the Appomattox
>River
>
>Today, a part of "Cobbs" in its post-1753 boundaries, is now Point of Rocks
>Park, which has the requisite ball fields, a number of foot trails, points
>of
>interest, boardwalks through marchlands, lookouts, and an area where the
>local teens seem to gravitate to carve their names and initials on the
>trees
>(I've been there and got hopelessly lost in the woods one rainy, windy
>morning without a map, which weren't in stock).
>
>Point of Rocks literature and a historic marker (which I did not find, but
>it
>was probably hidden behind some soccer parents' SUV) mention the Cobbs and
>Bollings I am told, but the history of the land, and particularly that
>portion that is the Park is a little more complicated.
>
>Cobbs, as the Bollings owned it after 1753, my research suggests is
>primarily
>two separate pieces of land.
>
>(a).  The original Ambrose Cobbs patent 1639, which shows Abraham WOOD on
>his
>east and John BAUGH on his west. This land was sold to Thomas BURTON in
>1656.
>  It was sold by the BURTONS in 1704 to John BOLLING.
>
>(b). The original Abraham PEIRCY patent, taken over by John BAUGH in 1638
>patent.  This land was later in the hands of the descendants of William
>BAUGH, who died ca 1687 in Henrico Co. The fact that it is in the hands of
>William Baugh's descendants when they sell to the Bollings in 1753, tells
>me
>that William Baugh, believed to be progenitor of all the Henrico Baughs,
>was
>probably the son of John Baugh, but with the loss of HEnrico records we'll
>never know.  There are some records suggesting carveouts of fishing holes
>for
>Baughs and ferry permits that suggest that the Baughs might have held on to
>some small pieces of this land even after 1753, but the Baughs also held
>large holdings further up the Swamp and the Creek.
>
>I believe that it is this second section of land that encompasses most of
>the
>Park, with some of the easternmost fields part of the pre-1753 Cobbs.
>
>For all  Pocohontas, Baugh, Burton descendants, the archaeological survey
>done by Lyle Browning and others for the Point of Rocks Park did not go
>over
>inch-by-inch the Park lands that weren't slated for development into
>fields,
>but does say there are several sites, if excavated, that could yield much
>more information on Indians and early colonial times and artificats than
>those sites that they did have to study for development.
>
>There are pictures, map, Cobbs information at these websites:
>
><A
>HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cobb/ambrose.htm">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cobb/ambrose.htm</A>;
>see map: <A
>HREF="http://echesterfield.com/soccer/fields/por.jpg">http://echesterfield.com/soccer/fields/por.jpg</A>,
>and some pictures are here: <A
>HREF="http://www.cvfo.org/locations_parks_and_open_areas.htm)">
>http://www.cvfo.org/locations_parks_and_open_areas.htm)</A>.
>
>I have more specific documentation on the land transfers, etc. if anyone is
>interested.
>
>My best regards,
>Janet (Baugh) Hunter
>
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