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For you Bolling Researchers:
Found this today
May 23, 1732.
Mr Robert Bolling, from the Committee for Public Claims, informed the House, That the Committee had had under their Consideration, a Claim of Moss Armistead, from the County of Elizabeth-City, for a Negro Man, valued at Forty Pounds, who was pursued by a Party of the Militia, order’d to patroll, and was drown’d in flying from them. . . .
Order’d, That it be an Instruction to the said Committee, to allow the Claim of the said Moss Armistead.
H.R. McIlwaine, ed., Journals of the House of Burgesses, 1727-1734, 1736-1740. (Richmond, 1910), p. 123 .
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