As a successful merchant and planter, Bolling acquired a large estate, Kippax Plantation.

He was a colonel in the Virginia militia and was a member of the House of Burgesses representing Charles City County in 1702.

[1] Robert Bolling died on July 17, 1709, and was buried on his plantation Kippax, in Prince George Co., Virginia, where his tomb still stands.

However, in 1858, his remains were removed from Kippax to the Bolling mausoleum at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia erected by his great-grandson.

Archaeologist Donald W. Linebaugh, of the University of Kentucky, located the remains of Col. Bolling's house in Hopewell, Virginia in 2002.