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Edward, there's not much I can add to the interesting dialogue between you and Gary. You'll recall that our late friend Chet Bolling - the coiner of the "blue Bolling" expression - was a descendant of Benjamin. There were at least two things that surprised Chet as he studied the family history and tried to develop biographical material about his ancestor, who apparently served with Gen. Braddock during the French and Indian War. The first was his discovery (relatively early in his family history research) that Benjamin Bolling's family had nothing to do with Pocahontas - he was an "out of the blue Bolling" whose name had been inserted incorrectly into the John and Elizabeth Blair Bolling list of children. The second, which came late in his life, was the discovery (courtesy, as I recall, of the BFA DNA research) that Benjamin was not a "white Bolling" either. I think Chet believed for a long time that Benjamin was descended from Edward Bolling, a son of Robert and Anne (Stith) Bolling. If I remember correctly the DNA results suggested that the Benjamin Bolling family's American origins may have been in Maryland, not Virginia. Best, Fred
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