He was the son of coachman Johann Hinrich Bolte and Gesche Belings (Bählings).
[2] Bolten's marriage to one of Johan Friedrich Heinrich's daughters was instrumental in his aspirations to climb socially.
With a loan of 700,000 rigsdaler from the state he initially managed to get his business back on track.
He continued his property purchases there by acquiring Sæbygård and Ågård (in Løve herred) in 1785.
He spent the last years of his life in relative poverty as a tenant in the garret of his old property in Gothersgade.
Her sister was married to the English-born sea captain and merchant John Christmas.