Robert Bolling (born c.1759) of Centre Hill, Petersburg, was the son of Robert Bolling (1730–1775) and Mary Tabb Bolling of Bollingbrook. He married in 1796 his third wife, Sally Washington, daughter of Lawrence Washington of Chotank. Bolling had served in the Virginia militia during the Revolution (DAVIDSON description begins Nora F. M. Davidson. “Revolutionary Services of Robert Bolling, of Petersburg.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 12 (1904–5): 154–56. description ends , 154–56; Va. Mag., 4 [1897], 330–31). l. washington of king george: probably Bolling’s brother-in-law, Lawrence Washington, Jr. (see entry for 27 July 1785).