. The Tiernan and other families. now in the possession of C. B. Tiernan. He aent one of these pictures to Mrs. Bazil B,Gordon, formerly Miss Eliza Boiling Skipwith, andreceived the follawing acknowledgment of it: ^527 North Charles St.,, Thursday, July 14, you,.dear Charlie, for the Photo, of mybeautiful and dearly loved Grandmother. * I dearly loved her, and she loved me. I livedwith her until her death—all my life; She took me-when my young Mother died. I went from her to Aunt Bernard at Gay was about fifteen when she died, and now, today^when you send me this, I am in my
. The Tiernan and other families. now in the possession of C. B. Tiernan. He aent one of these pictures to Mrs. Bazil B,Gordon, formerly Miss Eliza Boiling Skipwith, andreceived the follawing acknowledgment of it: ^527 North Charles St.,, Thursday, July 14, you,.dear Charlie, for the Photo, of mybeautiful and dearly loved Grandmother. * I dearly loved her, and she loved me. I livedwith her until her death—all my life; She took me-when my young Mother died. I went from her to Aunt Bernard at Gay was about fifteen when she died, and now, today^when you send me this, I am in my eighty-fourth Your affectix)nate old cousin, K B. S. Gordon. The genealogy of the Boiling family is tolerablywell known in Virginia. 0. B. Tiernan has the Manu-script, dated 1803, of a book on the Bolling Family,a copy of which is in the Maryland Historical SocietysLibrary. It was written in French, by Eobert Boiling,of Chellowe, Buckingham County, Va., and translatedby John Kobertson (afterwards Judge), and has Notes. Mrs. Elizabeth Bolling Robertsok. BOLLING. 401 which are in the handwriting of John Randolph, ofRoanoke. Mr. Randolph says of the author: Robert Boilingwas born at Varina, Henrico County, in 1738, and diedin the flower of his age, shortly before the left two volumes of poetry ; and wrote equally wellin Latin, French and Italian. An Italian piece, byhim, was published in the second volume of the Colum-bian Magazine, which was in the possession of hisexecutor, Col. Theodorick Bland, of Oawsons. C. B. Tiernan has also some writings of JudgeRobertson called Opuscula, that is, Little are written somewhat in the Biblical is hoped that a few extracts from these wiil beacceptable. A voice came, saying I would have thee recordthe genealogy of the posterity of Pocahontas; nottheir names only, as in the first chapter of the HebrewChronicles, or in the first chapter of St. Matthew; buttheir acts and customs, as those of the poster
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