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calm spirit he again commits himself to God in prayer and well-doing, with the bloody day before him.

Alexander Broadnax Carring-ton, son of Lieutenant Abram Cabell and Nannie Cabell (Read) Carrington, was born in Charlotte, Virginia, July 22, 1859. He received his education in the public schools of his native city and county. He entered business life at an early age, engaging in the railroad business, and after a few years spent in this line of work turned his attention to the fer- tilizing business. He removed to Lynch- burg, and with his brother, Clement Read Carrington, founded the Pocohontas Guano Company. On the death of the latter named he took over the business and has since con- ducted it on his own account. This busi- ness having grown extensively he is now erecting a larger plant to take care of his greatly increased trade. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and ior a num- ber of years has served as deacon of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lynch- burg. Mr. Carrington married (first) Lucy Sanford Royal, of Lynchburg, Virginia, who bore him two children : Royal Read and Nannie Cabell. He married (second) Margaret Fleming Wilson, by whom he had one daughter, Margaret Wilson, who died in infancy.

Robert Hagedorn Boiling, M. D. The most noble, romantic and pathetic story found in history is that of the Indian Prin- cess, Pocohontas. daughter of Powhatan, the ruler of all the Indian tribes inhabiting Virginia at the advent of the English. In her marriage, April 5, 1614, to Captain John Rolf, of the ancient family of Rolf, of Heas- ham Hall, Norfolk county, England, first secretary and recorder-general of Virginia, and member of the governor's council, is found the most historic and closest approach of civilization and savagery ever recorded. Married to an English gentleman of old family, Pocohontas accompanied him to England, leaving the wigwam of a savage Indian chief to become the guest of the Queen of England. Little wonder that the wild flower of the forest drooped and died when brought into contact with the hot- house air of civilization, passing away in 1616, when about to return to Virginia in a vessel especially fitted up for her accom- modation by the Virginia Company. Thomas

Rolf, only son of John Rolf, the English- man, and his wife, Pocohontas, the Indian Princess, married Jane Poythress, daugh- ter of Lieutenant Francis Povthress, of Jamestown. Virginia, member of the house of burgesses for Charles City county. 1644, and left a daughter, Jane, who married, in 1675, Colonel Robert Boiling, founding the ancient and honorable Boiling family of Vir- ginia.

The Boiling family of England is a most ancient one. Robert Boiling, "Esquire," in the reign of Edward IV. possessed and re- sided at Boiling Hall, near Bradford, in Yorkshire, England, where many genera- tions of his ancestors had lived. This Rob- ert Boiling died in 1485 and was buried in the family vault in Bradford Church, upon which is carved the Boiling arms : "Quar- terly, first and fourth, gyronny of eight or and azure, on a chief sable, three amulets argent ; second and third, gules, five mascles in fesse argent within a bordure argent." Crest: "First, a lion's head erased; second, on a mount a crescent therefrom issuing a rose slipped."

Colonel Robert Boiling, born December 26, 1646, was the son of John and Mary Boiling, of All Hallows. Barkin Parish, Tower Street, London, England, a descend- ant of the Boilings of Boiling Hall. Colo- nel Robert Boiling came to Virginia, Octo- ber 2, 1660, when not yet fifteen years of age. He was a member of the house of bur- gesses for Charles City county from 1701 to 1704. He attained fortune and prominence, living at "Kippax" (sometimes called Farm- ingdale). Prince George county, a fine estate on the James river below Petersburg, now in ruins, where he died July 17, 1709, and was there buried. In 1858 his remains were moved to a mausoleum erected by his great- grandson in Blandford cemetery. Colonel Robert Boiling married (first) in 1675, Jane Rolf, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Poy- thress) Rolf, and granddaughter of the In- dian Princess, Pocohontas. He married (second) Anne Stith, daughter of Major John Stith. Bv his first marriage he had a son, Colonel John Boiling, born January 27, 1676, of "Cobbs," also member of the house of burgesses. By his second marriage he had seven children.

Robert (2) Boiling, eldest son of Colonel Robert (i) and Anne (Stith) Boiling, was born January 25, 1682, died in 1747. He