Bollingbrook

Benson J. Lossing drew this sketch of the two main houses of Bollingbrook around 1848, for the second volume of his 1852 Pictorial Field Book of the American Revolution. The houses were constructed in the town of Petersburg, most likely by Robert Bolling of Dinwiddie County, sometime before 1775. After Bolling’s death his widow Mary Marshall Tabb Bolling lived in what they called the “East House” or “East Hill” with her children. Benedict Arnold and British General William Phillips used Bollingbrook as their headquarters in 1781, following the skirmish at Petersburg, and Mary Marshall Tabb Bolling gained some renown for remaining at the house under house arrest during their occupancy.