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The Reverend Benjamin Bolling II was born 25 April 1754. He was the son
of Benjamin Bolling I and Patty Phelps of Pittsylvania, and/or Surry
County, Virginia. It is believed that soon after the birth of Benjamin
II, his father, Benjamin I, came into North Carolina, along with John
Bolling, the brother of Benjamin I, and both men fought in the French-
Indian War, in the State of North Carolina. Both later received land
grants in North Carolina. 

Benjamin II is said to have been educated in Virginia, and to have
married Sarah T. Hancock, born about 1754, of Virginia, in 1775, and
soon there-after Benjamin and Sarah came into Rowan County, NC the
part which became Randolph County, NC and settled near her  Hancock kin,
and Benjamin's own kin on the drains of the Little River in Randolph
County, very near the Montgomery-Randolph line. The Hancock family
stems from Samuel and Johanna Hancock of Henrico County, VA.  We have
found two accounts of Benjamin's and Sarah's marriage, one said to have
been in Spotsylvania, and the other in Pittsylvania County, in  VA.


Their children were:

1. Benjamin III born about 1776, married Prudence Callicoat.
   Prudence's father was Wm Harrison Callicoat and her mother
   was Prudence Bolling, of Virginia.

2. John born about 1776, married Lucille Randolph. Lucille's
   parents may be Thomas Randolph of Montgomery County, who
   lived nearby. 

3. Sarah born about 1778, married Benjamin F. Page. The Page
   family was also intermarried with the Randolph family before
   coming into Randolph County, NC. Benjamin Page was involved
   with the children of Lardicie and Martin Cagle, and left many
   land records in Randolph County. 

4. Rhoda born about 1778, may have married a Garret or Jarret,
   or may never have married. We have an account in which she
   returned to the home place near Seagrove, NC with a child
   named Ladicie Bolling born after 1807, and she and her
   brother Garner are said to have raised the child. This child
   married William Cagle in 1826. 

5. Isaac born about 1785, married to Mary Coltrane. They
   returned to Virginia at one time, and may have stayed there.

6. Talitha born about 1785 married to Samuel Graves. The Graves
   family had marriage connections into the Randolph family of
   Virginia. 

7. Gardner born about 1788, is said by one account to have never
   married, and by another to have married and his wife died in
   child birth, and that he is the parent of Ladicie or Dicy who
   married to William Cagle in 1826. In the 1850 census, Gardner
   Bolling is living with William Cagle, and Dicy is dead. We
   have no idea of which account may be correct, or if Rhoda or
   Gardner is the parent. The William Cagle who married Dicy
   Bolling in 1826 was the grandson of Henry Cagle. 

8. Lardicie born 1790, married to Martin Cagle Senior on 15 Sep.
   1810. Martin's father is Henry Cagle Senior, who owned a Mill.
   Henry Cagle Senior had eight sons, and several daughters, and
   five of his children or grand children intermarried with
   Bollings. Some of the Bolling females where from the lineage
   of John Bolling.

   a. Martin Cagle Senior and Lardicie had 9 children, one of
      whom; Isham Cagle born 1819, married to Hannah Dunlop in
      1841. I have a lot on this lineage if anyone is interested.
      There is information in the Mongomery County, NC, Heritage
      Book, page 78, "The Family of Isham Cagle."

9. Mark born about 1796 married, to Anne Graves. 

10. William born about 1801, married to Nancy _____, had a son
    named Decator Bolling.

The information given here comes from several sources, including old
letters, and local genealogies. Much of what we know comes from the
well known Callicoat, Bolling researcher, Ora Callicutt. 

Sarah T. Hancock Bolling died in 1805, and Benjamin in 1819, both
in
Seagrove, NC. One record claims there was a son Mitchell, but 
most disagree
with this. Benjamin is said to have seem service in the RW, perhaps
as a Chaplain. 

The children of Benjamin and Sarah are not twins despite the estimated
years of birth for them.  If any are twins we don't have that
information.
In the 1790 census we see that the four daughters and four sons of
Benjamin born before 1800 are still in the home. In 1800 the two
oldest
females are no longer in the home. An old letter tells us that
Rhoda,
one of the two missing in 1800, returned to the old home place in later
years. 

The Bollings, Cagles, and Pages have numerous descendants in the area
of Randolph and Montgomery Counties, NC to this day. Many of this family
of Bollings moved west during the great land grabs of the late 1790s
and early 1800s, to OH, IN, KY,TN, and other points west. 

This is a first effort, and perhaps others will help us to build on
what we have. If you have birth dates, or anything you wish to add
please email me.  See a mistake? E-mail me, I'll fix it. Ken Poole



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