Individual Details

His name sometimes Benjamin "Flat Gap" Bolling or Benjamin Bolling, Sr
Moved from Virginia to NC before 1760, then on to Tennessee, then to Eastern Kentucky.
Inscribed on tombstone, Flat Gap Cemetery, Wise County, VA: 1734-1832, First Settler in area, born Wilkes County, NC, son of Major John Bolling and Elizabeth Blair. Wed first to Patsy Phelps and then to Charity Larrimore .
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There is some question about his parents
Col John Bolling and Elizabeth Blair
or John Rolfe Bolling and Mary Elizabeth Blair.
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Moved from Wilkes County NC to VA about 1790.
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wise gap man killed Braddock
Posted 02 Jan 2019 by kbeg68
General Edward Braddock was commander in chief of the British forces in North America during the French and Indian War. While leading an attack at Fort Duquesne at the Forks of Ohio he was shot through the right arm and into his lung. Braddock was carried off the field by George Washington who was serving with him as a volunteer officer, and he died on July 9, 1755.

Braddock was buried just west of Great Meadows near Uniontown, Pa., where the remnants of his column halted on its retreat to reorganize. He was buried in the middle of the road and wagons were rolled over the top of the grave to prevent his body from being discovered and desecrated.

George Washington presided at the burial service, as the chaplain had been severely wounded. In 1804, human remains believed to be Braddock’s were discovered buried in the roadway by a crew of road workers.


To this day no one is sure who actually killed Braddock. Was it an Indian, a Frenchman or one of his own men? According to a Wise County family legend, kept alive through generations, Braddock was actually killed by a man who later became one of our first settlers.

According to William Bolling, who lived at Flat Gap near Pound, it was Benjamin Bolling who shot Braddock. William’s grandfather, Jeremiah Bolling, told him that his father, Benjamin, was a mere boy when the French and Indian War broke out and, looking for adventure, he enlisted under Colonel George Washington.

When Washington’s force was attached to General Braddock, Benjamin found himself on his way to Fort Duquesne.

According to William Bolling, instead of slipping through the forest, as Colonials had been trained to do, Braddock gave orders to march in regular military formation. British military formation consisted of long rows of even columns stretched across open fields.

The Colonials, although they realized the dangers of such an advance into enemy territory, obeyed the command of their superior officer and advanced, with beating drums and fifes, straight into the French and Indian ambush.

According to the story passed down by Jeremiah Bolling, when the French and Indians opened fire from behind boulders, bushes and trees, Colonel Washington dashed up to General Braddock and appealed to him to retreat for a reformation of his lines; but, even then, with his men falling all around him, the general would not accept the advice of a Colonial subordinate.

Young Benjamin Bolling had made some close friendships with other boys from Carolina and Virginia and, when he saw them being pushed into certain death, he was consumed with uncontrollable rage.



One boy, in particular, was like a brother to him. As the massacre continued, General Braddock singled out this young fellow and ordered him to attack, single-handed, a nest of the French and their Indian compatriots who were barricaded behind a big log.

The boy appealed to the General with a look; but, finding no pity there, he advanced only to fall, halfway to his goal, with a dozen bullets through his body.

Benjamin Bolling saw General Washington darting here and there, trying to protect his men. He looked at General Braddock. The man, he decided, was out of his mind—absolutely insane! If Benjamin or any of his comrades, including the brightly-uniformed British soldiers, were to get home alive, something had to be done.

So he did it! Benjamin raised his gun and fired—not in defense of the British Empire, but fired in defense of his own life and the lives of his fellow Colonials, being slaughtered at the command of an arrogant British officer.

At the crack of the gun General Braddock fell from his horse and Colonel Washington, taking command, ordered a retreat, salvaging what he could from the greatest military mistake, perhaps, ever made on the North American continent.


kbeg68
4 years ago
found in Coalfield.com by Rhonda Robertson
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Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774
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Section: North Carolina Militia

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Ancestry.com. Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data:Clark, Murtie J. Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999.

Lists amond others: Benjamin Bolling and John Bolling as privates in regiment of Colonel William Eaton, Granville, NC, 8Oct 1754
p 728 in digital files
image 758/1276
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Benjamin Bolling note in digital files. Im not sure f thias is correct Benjamin Bolling

Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965
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Year Range: 1816 - 1879

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Ancestry.com. Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
Original data:Marriage Records. Kentucky Marriages. Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky.


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In the Benjamin Bolling Cemetery
there are two CSA privates:
Caleb Bolling
Pvt
CoA 13 KY Cav
CSA
1845
1863

and

Corp John Bolling
CoA 13 KY Cav
CSA
1842-1863

Birth	30 Jun 1734	"Cobbs", Henrico County, Virginia, USA
Marriage	20 Jan 1753	Albemarle County, Virginia - Mary Patsy Phelps
Marriage	1768	River, All Saints, South Carolina, British America - Charity Larimore
Death	20 Jan 1832	Flat Gap, Russell County, Virginia, USA
Census (family)	1830 US Census	Russell Co, VA - Charity Larimore
Census (family)	1820 US Census	Lebanon, Russell, Virginia, United States - Charity Larimore
Relationship		6th Great Grandfather
Burial		Benjamin Bolling Cemetery, Flat Gap, Wise, Virginia, United States
Military		Rev War patriot

Spouse	Mary Patsy Phelps (1737 - 1767)
Child	Elizabeth "Betsy" Bolling (1767 - 1809)
Child	William Bolling (1757 - 1838)
Child	Rev Jesse Bolling (1758 - 1841)
Child	Justice Bolling (1760 - 1841)
Child	Hannah Bolling (1766 - 1852)
Child	Benjamin Bolling Jr (1754 - 1819)
Child	John Bolling (1756 - 1836)
Child	James Bolling (1756 - 1804)
Child	Robert Bolling (1757 - )
Child	Barnett Bolling (1759 - )
Child	Deleney Bolling (1765 - )

Spouse	Charity Larimore (1748 - 1794)
Child	Jeremiah Bolling (1782 - 1870)

Father	Major John Kennon Bolling Jr. (1700 - 1757)
Mother	Mary Elizabeth Blair (1709 - 1775)

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