John Bolles was the son of Thomas Bolles and Zipporah Wheeler.
He was an infant when "he was the only one to survive the axe murder of his mother and brother Joseph and sister Mary, by 16-year-old John Stoddard, the axe murderer," said Jerry Hawley.
This is discussed in Genealogy of the Bolles Family in America by John A. Bolles (Boston: Dutton & Son, 1865), pp. 5-9.
"Surviving Tragedy: The Resilient Bolles Family," by Carol Sommer, June 5, 2016:
"John Bolles grew up believing that God had spared him for a purpose. An outspoken advocate for religious freedom, he became influential in the Rogerene religious movement which opposed the rigid control of the Puritan church. The Rogerenes often expressed their views by deliberately disrupting worship services and breaking the Sabbath. John endured several imprisonments and at least one public whipping for living his faith.
"Despite these trials John lived to be a 90-year-old man, married twice, and fathered 14 children. In 1735 he built a farmhouse that still stands on the Connecticut College campus. Bolles property at one time stretched from there all the way into Quaker Hill; Bolles Avenue near Riverside Park suggests that their extensive land holdings stretched in that direction too."
John Bolles married Sarah Edgecomb on 3 July 1699 at New London, Connecticut.
John Bolles married Elizabeth Wood (2nd wife) on May 26, 1736 in Groton, New London, Conneticut.
He was said to be buried in the Ancient Cemetery at New London.
He was an infant when "he was the only one to survive the axe murder of his mother and brother Joseph and sister Mary, by 16-year-old John Stoddard, the axe murderer," said Jerry Hawley.
This is discussed in Genealogy of the Bolles Family in America by John A. Bolles (Boston: Dutton & Son, 1865), pp. 5-9.
"Surviving Tragedy: The Resilient Bolles Family," by Carol Sommer, June 5, 2016:
"John Bolles grew up believing that God had spared him for a purpose. An outspoken advocate for religious freedom, he became influential in the Rogerene religious movement which opposed the rigid control of the Puritan church. The Rogerenes often expressed their views by deliberately disrupting worship services and breaking the Sabbath. John endured several imprisonments and at least one public whipping for living his faith.
"Despite these trials John lived to be a 90-year-old man, married twice, and fathered 14 children. In 1735 he built a farmhouse that still stands on the Connecticut College campus. Bolles property at one time stretched from there all the way into Quaker Hill; Bolles Avenue near Riverside Park suggests that their extensive land holdings stretched in that direction too."
John Bolles married Sarah Edgecomb on 3 July 1699 at New London, Connecticut.
John Bolles married Elizabeth Wood (2nd wife) on May 26, 1736 in Groton, New London, Conneticut.
He was said to be buried in the Ancient Cemetery at New London.
John Bolles was the son of Thomas Bolles and Zipporah Wheeler.
He was an infant when "he was the only one to survive the axe murder of his mother and brother Joseph and sister Mary, by 16-year-old John Stoddard, the axe murderer," said Jerry Hawley.
This is discussed in Genealogy of the Bolles Family in America by John A. Bolles (Boston: Dutton & Son, 1865), pp. 5-9.
"Surviving Tragedy: The Resilient Bolles Family," by Carol Sommer, June 5, 2016:
"John Bolles grew up believing that God had spared him for a purpose. An outspoken advocate for religious freedom, he became influential in the Rogerene religious movement which opposed the rigid control of the Puritan church. The Rogerenes often expressed their views by deliberately disrupting worship services and breaking the Sabbath. John endured several imprisonments and at least one public whipping for living his faith.
"Despite these trials John lived to be a 90-year-old man, married twice, and fathered 14 children. In 1735 he built a farmhouse that still stands on the Connecticut College campus. Bolles property at one time stretched from there all the way into Quaker Hill; Bolles Avenue near Riverside Park suggests that their extensive land holdings stretched in that direction too."
John Bolles married Sarah Edgecomb on 3 July 1699 at New London, Connecticut.
John Bolles married Elizabeth Wood (2nd wife) on May 26, 1736 in Groton, New London, Conneticut.
He was said to be buried in the Ancient Cemetery at New London.
He was an infant when "he was the only one to survive the axe murder of his mother and brother Joseph and sister Mary, by 16-year-old John Stoddard, the axe murderer," said Jerry Hawley.
This is discussed in Genealogy of the Bolles Family in America by John A. Bolles (Boston: Dutton & Son, 1865), pp. 5-9.
"Surviving Tragedy: The Resilient Bolles Family," by Carol Sommer, June 5, 2016:
"John Bolles grew up believing that God had spared him for a purpose. An outspoken advocate for religious freedom, he became influential in the Rogerene religious movement which opposed the rigid control of the Puritan church. The Rogerenes often expressed their views by deliberately disrupting worship services and breaking the Sabbath. John endured several imprisonments and at least one public whipping for living his faith.
"Despite these trials John lived to be a 90-year-old man, married twice, and fathered 14 children. In 1735 he built a farmhouse that still stands on the Connecticut College campus. Bolles property at one time stretched from there all the way into Quaker Hill; Bolles Avenue near Riverside Park suggests that their extensive land holdings stretched in that direction too."
John Bolles married Sarah Edgecomb on 3 July 1699 at New London, Connecticut.
John Bolles married Elizabeth Wood (2nd wife) on May 26, 1736 in Groton, New London, Conneticut.
He was said to be buried in the Ancient Cemetery at New London.
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