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John Holland Jr (1630 - bef. 1704)

John Holland Jr
Born in St Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, Englandmap
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Died before before age 73 in Nansemond, Virginiamap
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Biography

John Holland Jr was born in 1630 in Plymouth, Devonshire, England to John and Judith (Stephens) Holland.[1][2]

John's father was baptized at St Andrew, Plymouth, on 14 November 1602, son of John and Elizabeth (Barker) Holland.[1][3]

Immigration

Based on a land grant dated 10 Feb 1634/5, migration was 1634 to Dorchester, Massachusetts.[1]

Father's Will

John Holland's will, dated 16 December 1652 and proved 30 September 1652, included a bequest to his eldest son John of "my island of Muning's Moone." John and his mother were named the executors.[1][4]

Death

John Holland, son of John and Judith (Stephens) Holland, died before 7 May 1656, apparently without issue.[5]
On 7 May 1656, "Judith Holland of Dorchester, widow, executrix (together with John Holland her son deceased) of the last will and testament of John Holland her late husband deceased".[5]

Holland, Virginia

"Holland is located in what used to be called Old Nansemond County, Virginia. In 1860, the Holland City Commission was made up of 12 members, 10 of whom were named Holland.
"Holland was named for an English family headed by Capt. John Holland, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1630. (Although a record given in Hotten's List of Persons of Quality, 1600–1700, states John Holland and wife as being sought in Mass. in 1627 for taking part under the Earl of Lincoln in tax protests against the Crowns wishes.) As a ship's captain, he traveled from Nantucket Point to Virginia and out to the English-held islands of the Caribbean. He died at sea (1652) but is actually buried at Cape Charles, Virginia.
"His son, John Jr.(mentioned in the Suffolk County Massachusetts wills of 1651, as heir to John Holland seniors' island known as 'Munings Moore'(? migrated to Jamestown around 1645 and was a Major in the Virginia militia in 1654 in Westmoreland County and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses during the 1654/1655 session. He moved the family to Nansemond County. John Holland, died in 1656."[6]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 3, G-H, page 373. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.
  2. citation needed for specific birth date of November 7, 1630 given in datafield
  3. FamilySearch record: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, database, FamilySearch : accessed 21 January 2016), John Holland, 14 Nov 1602; citing SAINT ANDREW, PLYMOUTH, DEVON, ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 0896648 IT 2.
  4. looking at image of will, it appears to say "land" (lland), not "island", and Wikipedia transcribes it as "Muning's Moore".
  5. 5.0 5.1 The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 3, G-H, image 456, page 375, under CHILDREN.
  6. Wikipedia: Holland, Virginia
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Source 4: looking at image of will, it appears to say "land" (lland), not "island", and Wikipedia transcribes it as "Muning's Moore".

If one is reading from the transcription in Suffolk Probate Records, Vol. I (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YP-P2CP) it clearly says "my Iland of Munings moone" (uppercase i, lowercase l).

This refers to Moon Island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Island_(Massachusetts).

posted by Patrick Griffith
edited by Patrick Griffith
Date alert connected to this profile:

Warning: Check the data. A father's death date should not be more than nine months before one of his children's birth dates.

posted by Patricia Roche
Holland-4701 and Holland-3529 appear to represent the same person because: same birth and daughter
posted by Robin Lee
I set Holland-1028 and Holland-4701 as rejected after reading their biographies. The man who inherited (Virginia?) land from his father in 1652 & died before May 1656 cannot be the man who was listed as a headright in 1664 & nearly 20 years later patented land in Nansemond County. Also, I question the information from Wikipedia, it seems to confuse the two & of the three sources cited, two are dead links & the other is for boundary changes in 1972 [sic - 1972, not 1672].
posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
I agree. All of the information needed to know that this John Holland was deceased before 7 May 1656 (not in Nansemond, or probably anywhere else, in Virginia) is already contained in this profile.

For anyone without access to The Great Migration, see Suffolk Deeds, Liber III, 15-6 (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015027887069?urlappend=%3Bseq=29):

7 May 1656: Know all men by theise prsents That I Judith Holland of Dorchester widdow execcutrix together wth Jn° Holland hir sonne deceased) of the last will and testament of John Holland hir late Husband Deceased, ...

John, Jr. was probably deceased before 1 September 1654 when Judith puts up, among other things, a parcell of land Called by the name of manninges moone as security for a debt owed by John, Sr. to Henry Ashurst of London (Suffolk Deeds, Liber II, 291-2: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015027771784?urlappend=%3Bseq=270). John, Jr., the other executor (who was bequeathed land at "Munings moone") is not mentioned. I think that would be highly irregular.

See also "The John Holland Family of Nansemond, A Burnt Virginia County" (https://www.hollandfamily.us/ResourceCenter/WJH/WJH-on-JohnHolland.htm).

P.S. "Wikipedia" is not a reliable source. Ever. That page is just plain wrong in stating that Holland, VA was named after John Holland of Dorchester.

P.P.S. The whole section on Holland, Virginia (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Holland-3529#Holland.2C_Virginia), should be deleted.

posted by Patrick Griffith
To throw a giant wrench into the above...

From "Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II" (https://books.google.com/books?id=E0UOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA319):

In the interval between 1656 and 1664, there were recorded a number of powers of attorney from merchants in New England, including among many others such men as John Saffin, Timothy Prout, and John Giffard of Boston, William Payne of Ipswich, William Browne of Salem, and John Holland of Dorchester.3

[3 See Records of Northampton and Rappahannock Counties. Saffin was very actively engaged in the trade between New England and Virginia, either on his own account or as the agent of others. See Records of Rappahannock County, vol. 1668-1672, p. 117, Va. State Library, for an instance in which he was the representative of John Pinchon of New England.]

Who is this John of Dorchester if not THIS John of Dorchester?

posted by Patrick Griffith

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