The "Blue" Bollings

Question

We need to be careful adding our Bolling ancestors to the Pocahontas ancestry! I just cleaned up a bunch of Bollings again. It's easy to make a mistake as it's a huge, old family surname with many variations of spellings.

But important to get a membership with the Pocohontas Foundation if you really want to work on your Bolling ancestors but we do not need anymore "Blue" Bollings. Just not enough evidence, plus DNA thinks they are a different group.

See: http://pocahontas.morenus.org/poca_desc.html

Please do not add anymore children to this particular Bolling couple. Thanks

Answer 1

My god! That coupled had 18 documented children, of whom seven survived and had children of their own. How anyone thinks they had any time to produce a baker's dozen more is beyond me....

Comments

Yes, Jessica. To quote from the Pocahontas Association itself "The "mysterious" Bollings a.k.a. "blue" Bollings, twelve extra children of Maj. John Bolling and Elizabeth Blair. Alas! A most numerous and enthusiastic contingent, but actually no relation. Maj. John Bolling and Elizabeth Blair had seven children who survived to adulthood, and another eleven who died as infants. The "blue" Bollings are yet another twelve children. That claim has been rejected by the Pocahontas Foundation, using standard genealogical methods. Paternal DNA tests concur that they are not Pocahontas descendants, and also show that they are several distinct, unrelated familes."

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Hello i have a "blue bolling" issue here in isle 7.... I am directly linked to one of your impossible connections Matoaka Bolling Sullivan... I have read she could have been born to Elizabeth Lewis but died @ birth? I have found documents online showing her as a tribal member listed amongst hundreds. My actual ancestry link of Captain James Sullivan who was said to have made one or two children with Matoaka (blue) bolling would have been in the area of Virginia around the birth of my other motherless connection John R Sullivan. He is the only child not of listed Sarah Roberts. Around 1775 (john birth) James was in Virginia for the Revolutionary war or something to that tune... Making it very possible... If she was a real person.... I just was clarity.. I cant upload my image but in a book "Shawnee Heritage V" she is listed as well as James Sullivan as husband in #427.