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Descendants of Benjamin Holland

Generation No. 2

2. THOMAS² HOLLAND (BENJAMIN¹)¹ was born December 24, 1759 in Maryland, and died 1834 in Clay County Mo.. He married DRUCILLA ( CHRISTIAN ? ) Abt. 1785 in Probably (Green Co. Tn. ). She was born Abt. 1765 in Green Brier County , Virginia, and died 1851 in Platte Co Mo..

Notes for THOMAS HOLLAND:
Thomas Holland states in his Revolutionary War records that he was born on the east Coast of Maryland December 24th 1759 . He says when he was a very small child that his parents moved to Pittsylvania County Virginia , and later to Montgomery County Virginia where they were living when the Revolution war started .

His Revolution Pension request reads as follows . On this 27th day of February 1833 personally in open court before the council of Pleas and Quarter Opinions for said County of Cocke Tennessee setting , The same being a Court of Records . Thomas Holland a resident of said County and State aged seventy four years who first being duly sworn according to law does on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832.

That he resided in the County of Montgomery in the state of Virginia when he entered the services of the United States under the following named Officer and served a seven stated vow , That in the month of October the year not recollected he entered the service as a drafted Militia Man in the Revolution War assigned to the Company Commanded by Capt, Jerimiah Pierce in the Battalion Commanded by Major Lloyd of the Virginia Militia for a tour of one month against the Tories in North Carolina and was in the engagement with them at Shallow Ford on the Yadkin River in said last named State for which tour he had a discharge from said Captain . he was drafted for a tour of three months as a mounted Rifleman and served in the Company Commanded by Captain Abraham Trigg's in the Regement Commanded by Colonel Preston which was a few months before the Battle of Guilford at this time he was marched to Surry County North Carolina . According to his present recollection they were to act as scouts against the Tories and British , not long before the Battle of Guilford his Regiment joined the troops Commanded by Pickens for the purpose of surrounding and suprising the British Commanded by Colonel Farlton , After the failure of that attempt his Regiment left Pickens and continued to act as scouts until they were attacked by Col, Farlton troops in their encampment on Buffalo Creek at a place called Radley or Riegley Mills , On crossing over said creek many had to hop through the mill ;pond when the Regiment was dispersed in this attack , Captain Blackburn and Montgomery were wounded in this attack .

He was again drafted for a three month tour against the Tories and Cherokee Indians and was marched in the Company Commanded by Capt Barnet to the long Island of Halston where they were attached to the Regiment Commanded by Col, Martin and served there until he was discharged .

In August after the Battle of Guilford , he was drafted for one month as a guard at Paris Station on New River Virginia against the Indians where he served under Captain Paris until he was discharged.

From Montgomery County he removed to what was then Green County North Carolina in August of 1783 , where he served as a spy for three months in the summer under Captain William Jobe this was the first Cherokee War . After the Revolution he served another three months under said Captain Jobe in the last Cherokee War where he was wounded by the Indians by a shot through the thigh

Final statement of his Pension Record was that he was born 24th day of December 1759 in the state of Maryland from there his Parents thus moved to Pittsylvania County in the State of Virginia when he was very young and from there removed to Montgomery County is said state where he lived when he entered the service , He has lived since in what is now Green County Tennessee and now lives in Cocke County Tennessee .

In the Book over the Misty Blue Hills ; Page 95 it is recorded .

In the spring of 1783 . Colonel William Lillard and Major Peter Fine rasied a company of about thrity men and crossed the mountain to the Overhill town of Cowee and burned it because from this town had originated the Indian aggression upon Big Pigeon and French Broad River . Captain John and his brother Vinette Fine were members of the Company . Such action antagonized the Indians who in the winter of 1783 begin to steal horses and cattle from the Big Pigeon settlement.
Major Peter Fine and Captain John McNabb rasied a company of men and followed the Indians across the mountain into North Carolina where they killed one Indian and wounded another but recovered the horses and headed home but due to the hour was at night , Major Peter Fine company camped in the mountain for the night , during the night the Indians attacked killing Vinett Fine , Wounding Thomas Holland and another man , Because there was no time for grave digging and no safety in trying to escape with the body of Vinett Fine , the ice in the creek was broken and the body placed there , before the men could return to claim the body the creek became flooded and washed the body down stream and to this day the creek is known as Fine creek .

In the Green County Tennessee minutes of Court of Common Pleas 1797-1807 - By Houston it is recorded as follows

Page 39 : From Spencer Rice to Thomas Holland dated July 31st 1797 for half acre of land on the North side of the French Broad including the Ferry Landing for the sum of Forty Pounds current money of the state of Virginia .The above was recorded in the registers office March 24 th 1798.

Page 41 of the above Court Minitues : States

Thomas Holland hath leave to keep a Ferry over Nolechucky River near his own house , and entered into bond with William Boydston and John Huff his Securities in the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars : Condition that he will constantly find and provide at his said ferry good and sufficient boats and other crafts for the conveyance of travelers , their horses , carriages , and effects over said river and in case of damage pay for the same 1 "25 paid .

In the book over the Misty Blue Hills :

Page ; 347 , Be it enacted that David Stuart shall receive $ 2 per day for running of line , Thomas Holland to be paid $1 per day for marking said line , to be paid by the treasure of Cocke County Tennessee and their receipts shall be sufficient vouchers in the hand of the treasure in the settlement of his account for marking line between Green County and Cocke County Tennessee .
Page 318 : Thomas Holland was commissioned as Captain in the Cocke County Militia April 3 rd 1800.

Thomas Holland and his Ferry:

To the Honorable the General Assembly of Tennessee now in Session :

The petitioner of the undersigned mail carrier contractor from Asherville , NC to Barbourville , Kentucky residing in Newport East Tennessee humbly showeth: that he together with the public hath substained considerable inconvenience viz: oweing to the conduct of the keepers of the Ferry on said route-that his route from Newport to Asherville in fifty-eight Miles he has to perform it in 48 hours but not with standing the alarcrity with which he has to travel to perform his routs and the danger of incurring the penalties of the law if he should fail in the performance a certain Thomas Holland not having the public good of caring for the your petitioner may sustain has frequently and doth still continue to your petitioner carrier So that his are frequently injured materially by the delay -owing to the Broken county and the short space of time he has to complete his route Thomas Holland frequently detaining him from 2 O' clock PM untill six in the morning thus Causing him but 42 hours to perform a trip of 116 miles for which detention the said Holland has no other excuse than that your Petitioner has not at all times change to pay the ferriage which excuse has all so Mr. Whiteside on the same route or on the route from Newport to Hazle Patch Ky to detain your Petitioner Carrier by which he has lost one trip not only to his own Damage but to the Damage to the Public in general .

Your petitioner therfore humbly prays that by the strict attention he has ever paid and which he is ready to attend to the public good by a quick and safe performance of his that your honorable body would releave him from those who endeavor to check him in his route to permit him to pass without paying Ferriage & Turnpikeage . And for which he will every pray .

John Carmichael
20 JUne 1820

James C. Holland ,Son of Jonh Holland and Mary Wise he was born in Jefferson County in 1794 , he state that his father came from Whyte county Va. and that his Uncle Thomas Holland was a Revolutionary Soldier . He state that his ancestors were among the first settlers in Tennessee and that they had a great deal of trouble with the Indians .

Thomas Holland came to Green County North Carolina in 1783 .from Montgomery County Virginia , at which time he was still a Revolutionary Soldier he was still fighting the Indians in the Big Creek area known today as Del Rio Tennessee and across the Mountians into Cherokee North Carolinia , Thomas Holland Lived in Green County after it became part of Tennessee ,this is where he was living when he married Drucilla Christian about 1785 she was born in Green Brier County Virginia and was the daughter of Nathaniel Christian and Jane Ewing , Nathaniel Christian died in Montgomery County in 1778 Jane Ewing Christian came to Green County with her family along with Elizabeth Christian who married Willian Boydston .

Thomas Holland and his Brother John Holland Children were born in Green county from 1786 - 1797 , other children born 1798 and later were born in Cocke County Tennessee in the Big Creek ( Del Rio ) area .

Thomas and John Holland were large land holders in the Big Creek area which later was called Del Rio area , much of there land was rich Mountain Land , some of the land was located in the Lemon Gap area most of the land was south of the French Broad River and extended over into North Carolina , what would now be across the road from the old Allen Stage Coach Stop. William Holland married Elizabeth Allen and they are buried in the Allen Family Cemetery along with a son named Reubin Holland .

There is a Tom Creek and John Creek located in the Del Rio area that was named after the Holland Brothers , there was a mountain rang between these two creeks where the brothers would hunt . A Holland Cemetery which has several unmarked grave sites in it , It is belived that John Holland and his Wife Mary are buried is this Cemetery located about a mile and half past the Rattlesnake Camp Grounds It is also felt that Benjamin Holland born in the Netherlands who was the father of Thomas and John Holland is also buried there.

Records of Jefferson County Tennessee ( Record Book NO 1 ) Court Minutes 1792-1798 ;
Item 208 Page 102 : A power of attorney from Benjamin Holland to Thomas Holland was proven in court and recorded .
Then we find land grants for Benjamin Holland in Cocke County on different occassions .

In 1830 Thomas Holland divided his Land and property among his children giving the Plantation to his wife Drucilla Holland upon his death . in his will he and his wife were to be able to live at the home place untill thier death .

In 1832 the Government authorized Pension and land Grants for the Revolution war Soldier . Thomas Holland applied for his Pension in early 1833 , later in the year he decided to move to Clay County Missouri where he was to get land grants for his service in the Revolution. He ask the boys to give him back the deeds to the land he had given them so that the 1200 acre's could be sold together , in September of 1833 he sold the land to Swan Burnett , and the Holland's along with the Boydston , Nichols, Cunningham , Stokleys , Faubions, and several other families went to Clay County Missouri to wait for the land in the Platte purchase to open .

In May 1834 Thomas Holland applied at Liberty in Clay County Missouri for his Pension to be moved from Cocke County Tennesse to Missouri , at the same time he applied for a land grand , records indicate that Thomas Holland died a short time later within the same year.

Notes for DRUCILLA ( CHRISTIAN ? ):
It is felt that Drucilla Holland parents were Nathaniel Christian and Jane Ewing , Nathaniel Christian Died around 1778 , and Jane Ewing is found in Green County Tennessee , on the tax rolls in 1787-88 along with William Boydston who married Elizabith Christian the oldest child of Nathanial and Jane Christian , several of the Christian's sons , Thomas & John Holland were also on the Green County early Tax Rolls . From information left by Jacob Holland his mother Drucilla Died in Platte County Mo. in 1851 . It is believed that Drucilla (Christian ) Holland may be buried in the Davis Chapel Cemetery about five miles east of Dearborne Missouri in Platte County or she may have been taken to be buried next to her husband Thomas Holland over in Clay County no grave marker has been found . In the winter of 1845 Drucilla Gave a deposition to the court recorder from Clay Co. Mo. at the home of Benjamin Holland who lived near Dearborne Mo. Drucilla Holland filed a Slander Suite against John Smith and wife on September 17, 1849 and on September 6, 1850 the case was dismissed at the said defendant's cost . Jacob Holland her son, left a letter with Leondias Jackson Holland that Drucilla died in 1851. but have not found her grave .

Children of THOMAS HOLLAND and DRUCILLA ) are:

4.	i.	BENJAMIN³ HOLLAND, b. December 30, 1786, Green Co. Tn.; d. June 14, 1856, Rochester,Andrew ., Mo..
5.	ii.	THOMAS HOLLAND, b. 1789, Green County Tn.; d. 1850, Page Co Iowa.
6.	iii.	JACOB HOLLAND, b. December 24, 1791, Green , Co Tn.; d. January 12, 1887, Maysville, Mo.
7.	iv.	JANE HOLLAND, b. Abt. 1794, Cocke Co Tn.; d. Unknown, Mo..
8.	v.	JOHN JAMES HOLLAND, b. 1798, Green County Tn; d. 1851, Platte Co. Mo..
9.	vi.	DRUCILLA HOLLAND, b. Abt. 1800, Cocke County Tennessee; d. Unknown, Kansas.
10.	vii.	FRANCIS HOLLAND, b. Abt. 1806, Green Co Tenn.; d. May 1867, Maysville, Mo..
11.	viii.	MARTHA HOLLAND, b. Abt. 1807, Cocke Co Tn.; d. Abt. 1838, Clay Co. Mo.
12.	ix.	NATHANIEL HOLLAND, b. August 19, 1811, Cocke co. Tn.; d. Abt. 1900, Montgomery , Co. Kansas..

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