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==Biography== Jane Rolfe was born in [[Varina Farms|Varina]], [[Henrico County, Virginia]] on October 10, 1650<ref name="Dorman">John Frederick Dorman, ''Adventurers of Purse and Person'', 4th ed., Vol. 3, pp. 23β36.</ref> to [[Thomas Rolfe]] and his wife, Jane Poythress, whose parents were Francis Poythress and Alice Payton of England.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Thomas Rolfe|url=http://www.nps.gov/jame/historyculture/thomas-rolfe.htm|first=Megan|last=Snow|date=May 2003|work=Historic Jamestowne|publisher=[[National Park Service]]|accessdate=August 31, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Some prominent Virginia families|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/someprominentvir04pecq#page/304/mode/2up|first=Louise|last=Pecquet du Bellet|year=1907|publisher=J.P. Bell Co.|location=Lynchburg, VA|page=304|chapter=Bolling Family|accessdate=August 31, 2011}}</ref><ref>"The Descendants of Pocahontas: An Unclosed Case", by Elizabeth Vann Moore and Richard Slatten, ''Magazine of Virginia Genealogy'', XXIII, no.3, pp. 3β16, cited by John Frederick Dorman, ''Adventurers of Purse and Person'', 4th ed., Vol. 3, p. 26, fn23β24. Moore and Slatten traced the suggestion that his wife was a Poythress back to a comment by W. G. Stanard in "Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents", ''Virginia Historical Magazine''(I, 1894, 446β447): "His wife is said to have been a Miss Poythress (if so, doubtless a daughter of Francis Poythress." According to Moore and Slatten, Stanard cited as evidence handwritten notes on the flyleaf of a copy of ''A Complete Collection of All the Laws of Virginia Now in Force Carefully Copied from the Assembled Records'' (London, 168[?], now in the Library of Virginia. Moore and Slatten state: "Interestingly, Thomas Rolfe here is recorded as married to a 'Miss Payers'. We recall that in John Rolfe's will the name of his third wife is spelt ''Pyers'' (Peirce) and that it was John who married a "Jane". Here again a Bolling descendant confused the son with his father. Not recognizing the name 'Payers' as another variant of ''Peirce'', someone searched the records for a name beginning with 'P' and having a 'y' in the first syllable. Francis Poythress lived in adjacent Charles City County and his name ended in ''s''! Stanard wrote, 'His wife is said to have been a Miss Poythress (if so, doubtless a daughter of Francis Poythress).' (VMHB I, 446) Wyndham Robertson, a Bolling descendant, wrote in ''Pocahontas Alias Mataoke and Her Descendants'' (Richmond, 1887), 'I adopt "Jane Poythress" (not "Poyers") whom he is stated in the ''Bolling Memoirs'' to have married in England.' He added in justification of his charming ''adoption'' of an ancestress, '...no such name as "Poyers" is anywhere known ... the family of Poythress was already settled in Virginia.' ... The result has been the acceptance of a non-existent personage, 'Jane Poythress', in the Bibles of Virginia genealogy, as the bona fide ancestress of many illustrious Virginians. Who the wife (or wives) of Thomas Rolfe may have been remains an unanswered question."</ref> Thomas Rolfe was the son of [[John Rolfe]] and his wife, [[Pocahontas]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/john-rolfe|title=John Rolfe|website=HISTORY}}</ref> Jane Rolfe married [[Robert Bolling]] of [[Prince George County, Virginia]]. Their son, [[John Bolling]], was born on January 27, 1676. Jane is said to have died shortly after giving birth.<ref name="Dorman"/> John Bolling married Mary Kennon, daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham of Conjurer's Neck.<ref name="Dorman"/> The couple had six surviving children, each of whom married and had surviving children.<ref>Henrico County Deeds & Wills 1697β1704, p. 96</ref> Jane Rolfe's interment was near her father in the [[Kippax Plantation]], but her birth year was never engraved on her headstone.
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