Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-18
Ry Sally Nelson Robins.

IcncaloEy is autocratic. II requires
pas" and volume, and documentary
evidence or the sworn deposition OF
some reliable person of sound mind
are its foundation stones.
sine" the day when Byron dcposed
concerning his friend. the poet. Thomas
Moore). Little Tommy loves "A lord
ilttie Tommy has continued to love n
lord be he President or any other
HigwiS that comes along. When the
engagement of President Woodrow
Wilson To Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait WAS
announced. pencaloGis,s got busy try
ing TO prove her descent from John
Rolf" and focahontas for their own
satisfaction and the pleasure Of the
"agct little TonmicS who asSaii"d them
Tor the interesting information
The New York Times and other pa
pcrS and periodicals affirmed that Mrs.
Calf WAS descended from Pocahontas
through Archibald Boiling bu, as
there were dozens OF Archibald Boil
incs in tho invaluable book called
"Pocahontas and Her Descendant ''
the announcement that Mr.. Cats an
c"Si"r was Archibald had about as
mnch genealogical value as to dcposc
mat the President came direct from
Adam.
The Bol!inEs OF Virginia have been
deluGci with letters since the en-
gaGement OF our first gentleman was
hnnounced-most amusing letters OF
inquiry concerning Mrs. Gait and until
Few days ago most Of the Eollings
ana the gencaloSists were uncertain
one OF tho Hollincs remarked: IL
don't know just how she is kin To me.
hut | know IL. She WAS an awfullv
pretty girl when she Went 10 AIR
Poweils school, and We used TO have
her to dinner and call her cousin. we
weren't Worrying how she was kin TO
US. just so she was"
But u descendant Of the Boiling
payne marriage living in Richmond in =
forms US. know exactly how she
Is related I" me- cryptically. Uncle
Archlbaid. her grandfather. and cousin
william her father. used to visit nv
father and mother ana rnnemher
them just AS we'll "a IL had seen
them to-day.
Uncle Archibald and my great
grandfather. Robert. were brothers.
ana thcE both married Payncs"
The wcll-worn volume OF pocahon-
las and her descendants was pulIeJ
from the shelf and several eager per
SONS turned page after page II was
ali clear through five generations.
through Robert the first, aud John his
SON. and John. his grandson, and John.
hiS great grandson. and John, his
thlr'N-hNc was sure enough Uncle
Archibald, who had married Catherine
Payne.
Mnttcr OF Clear Record.
itcre then is the Ecnealogy OF Mrs
Gait. duly recorded and attcstcd
May ., 1855. John Rolfe was horn
az lleacham Hall, Norfolk. England
he was the son OF John Rolfe and
i'orothca Mason. The arms of Eolfe
are Quarterly. first and fourth. cy-
ronny of eight. or and az. on chief
So. three anulets ar. second and third.
gu five muscles in Jesse ar within a
oordurc ar Crcsts: First a lions head
erased: second on a mount a crescent,
iheretrom issuant rose slipped New
EaG History and General Register
April 1879. page 149
IN April 1Gl1. John Rolfc married
Pocahontas. who was born about 1895.
Died at Gravcscnd. England. in 1916
Their only child was Thomas Rolfe
born 1918. and married Jane Poythres.
Thomas Eolfc lived in England with
his uncle. Henry Rolfc. till he was a
man. Then he came to Virginia and
settled on his matrimonial acres at
Narina. sixteen miles below Richmond.
Va He had only one child. Jane, born
1875, who married Colonel Robert Boil
Ing, the first of his name in Virginia
Colonel Robert and Jane Rolfe Boil
ling had one child, John Boiling OF
Cobbs, member of the House of Bur-