The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . amilyby an heiress. Many portraits of members of the Boilingfamily will be found in T. H. Wynnes Memoir of aPortion of the Boiling Family (1868), together withdiscussions of interest to every student of Colonial author refers to seventeen children as a typical familyof the period when infant mortality was slight. Old age,however, was rare among people of wealth and leisure,because Madeira wine brou
The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . amilyby an heiress. Many portraits of members of the Boilingfamily will be found in T. H. Wynnes Memoir of aPortion of the Boiling Family (1868), together withdiscussions of interest to every student of Colonial author refers to seventeen children as a typical familyof the period when infant mortality was slight. Old age,however, was rare among people of wealth and leisure,because Madeira wine brought on the gout. Robert Boil-ing, the immigrant, did not live up to Queen Annes recordin the number of his children, but in an old volume of thelaws of Virginia he wrote: That god allmighty may bless these Blessings shall be the con-tinuall prayer of theire father Rob* Boiling. 83 The portrait of Colonel Boiling is from Mr. H. P. Cooksphotograph of the painting owned by Richard Boiling, portrait of John Boiling, the only son of Robert andJane, may be seen in Wyndham Robertsons Pocahontasand Her Descendants. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 22, page 103. 84. ROBERT BOLLING 1646-1709 (85 PtoS NBW YORKIPOBLIC LIBRARY The Rev. Thomas Bray, , promoter of libraries,was born at Marton, in Shropshire, about 1656, the son ofRichard and Mary Bray. He matriculated, 12 March,1674/5, at All Souls College, Oxford, aged seventeen, asa pauper puer. His rise to notice was rapid. As rectorof Sheldon, he wrote his Catechetical Lectures, whichbrought him to the attention of influential persons, andBishop Compton, of London, selected him to be commis-sary or suffragan of Maryland, where already the govern-ment had divided the province into parishes. Meanwhile,he worked incessantly to establish deanery libraries, librariesin market towns, in seaports, on men-of-war, and through-out the colonies beyond seas, raising the money by self-denial as well as by appeals. To enlarg
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