Robert Bolling (1738–1775)

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Robert Bolling (1738-1775), grandson of Robert Bolling (1646-1709) was born in Virginia and sent to England for his education. On his return to Virginia, he studied law, but soon took over at Chellow, a tobacco plantation inherited from his father. He was one of the most prolific poets in Virginia's early history.

Much of Bolling's work remains unpublished. His papers are owned by the University of Virginia Library and the Henry E. Huntington Library.

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J.A. Leo Lemay, ed. Robert Bolling Woos Anne Miller: Love and Courtship in Colonial Virginia, 1760 (University Press of Virginia, 1990). ISBN 0813912598