Texas Eldridges
I have seen several messages about the decendents of Martha Bolling and Thomas Eldridge, Jr.This may help to clear up who their children were.I have a book which was written in 1921 about my grandfather William Thomas Eldridge.The following is from the book.
Up to the present time the will of Thomas Eldridge, Jr., has not been discovered, and is supposed to have been destroyed with many other of the Prince George County records.The genealogists therefore have failed to agree as to the exact number of his and Martha Bolling's children.Some state only John, Mary, Judith and Rolfe; others add a Sarah to the list.They strangely leave out the two children whose existence and relationship are definitely established by Bolling wills, namely Bolling Eldridge and Jane Eldridge.
Col. John Bolling, brother of Martha Bolling, in a codicil to his will dated September 4, 1757, gives to "my nephew, Bolling Eldridge," "400 acres in Bedford County, on the branches of Rock Island Creek," in the same location where he had assigned "1200 acres to my son, Archibald."
Edward Bolling, son of John Bolling, also made a bequest to Bolling Eldridge in 1770, naming him "Cousin Bolling Eldridge." the relationship of Bolling Eldridge is thus doubly established and proves him to have been the son of Martha Bolling (sister of Col. John Bolling) and Thomas Eldridge, Jr. and thus a brother of the well-known Rolfe Eldridge of Buckingham County.That there was a sister Jane is established by the will of Jane (Bolling) Randolph, daughter of Maj. John Bolling and Mary Kennon in 1748-1750, who bequethed her niece Jane Eldridge," a black walnut press and loaned her for life certain negroes, which were to become her property if she married and had issue.
Jane was older than her brother Bolling Eldridge, as she was mentioned in the will of her grandfather, Thomas Eldridge Sr., in 1739, together with another of his grandchildren, Thomas, probably another of her brothers, name for his father and his grandfather.
Thus the fact is established that Thomas Eldridge, Jr. and his wife Martha (Bolling) Eldridge had certainly Thomas, Jane and Bolling in addition to the John, Mary and Judith (twins) and Rolfe usually named by the genealogists.
I hope this helps.There is a lot more in this book that does not name an author, but has "For private circulation only B.F. Johnson, Inc. City of Washington, USA 1921.
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