Pocahontas In The Woods From Jamestown Island

Pocahontas and the “RED BOLLINGS”

To be a genuine descendant of Pocahontas, one must be a descendant of a “Red BOLLING.” Pocahontas, alias Matoaka, left a passel of descendants in Virginia from her marriage to Gentleman John Rolfe at Jamestown, Virginia in April of 1614. Virginia families which bear Virginia’s royal blood line include the families of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Ballard, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murphy, Page, Paythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Standard, Tazewell, Walke, West, Wattle, and others. However, Pocahontas left NO descendants to carry on her husband’s name of “Rolfe.”

Actually, the descendant lineage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe could have very easily died out in the first three generations. Pocahontas left only one son and he stayed on in England, which may have contributed to his survival. He returned to Virginia as a grown man and left only one heir, a daughter Jane. Jane in turn left only one descendant, Colonel John Bolling. Therefore, ALL descendants of Virginia’s beloved Indian princess, Pocahontas, descend from the Bolling family, known by genealogists as “The Red Bollings.” They are known as “Red Bollings” because after the death of Colonel Bolling’s mother who indeed bore the royal blue blood of Pocahontas, Colonel Bolling’s father married again and raised a large family of — you guessed it right — “White Bollings.” Therefore, ALL descendants of Pocahontas are Bollings, however, only a few Bollings are red-blooded, true-blue descendants of Pocahontas.

Oh what tangled webs our ancestors left for us to unravel!