Joseph Holloway (abt. 1605 - abt. 1647)

Born about 1605 in England

Husband of Rose (Allen) Newland — married about 1638 in Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about Dec 1647 at about age 42 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony

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Joseph Holloway migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 166) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Joseph Holloway was born about 1605/06 in England. ^[1] No proof of a link to the family tradition is that they were from Somerset in England, where a Holway House is found in Ilminster, has ever been proven.

It is possible he is the Joseph Holly granted six acres in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on 22 Nov 1634. ^[2]

It is possible that he is the Jo. Holloway that is seen 29 Apr 1635 on the passenger list of the Elizabeth & Ann, Roger Cooper, Master. ^[3]

He was a millwright. ^[1]

In 1640 "Joseph Holloway of Sandwich in New England, millwright aged about thirty five yeares sworn saith upon his oath that about nyne moneths since he had certaine commodities of the wife of Thomas Richards of Weymouth that is to say Kersey at 6s 6d p yard bayes at 4s 2d p yard and bynding lace at 7d a yeard when he came to reckon for it and she did affirme that he had of her three quarters of a yard of kersey more than he had & sayed it was so much upon the booke & would have been payd for so much." Joseph also deposed "That in or about March last past he heard the wife of Thomas Richards of Weymouth speaking of Henry Waltham William Waltham say these words viz, The Walthams are cozeners & cheaters.

Joseph was a freeman in Sandwich in 1643/44 and took the Oath of Fidelity the same year.

At the Plymouth Court of 6 June 1643 Joseph Holly was the complainant in two cases of trespass - one against Joseph Hull and the other against Josiah Cooke.

In 1644 "Rose, the wyfe of Joseph Holly" was ordered to give testimony at the General Court in Plymouth in a case involving John Ellis and his wife. ^[4]

Marriage

He married in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts to Rose Holly Allen, ^{[1] [5]} eldest daughter of George Allen. ^[6]

Children

1. Sarah Holloway m: Joseph Allen
2. Joseph Holloway m: Mary Hull
3. Mary Holloway m: Nathaniel FitsRandolph
4. Experience Holloway m: John Goodspeed
5. Hopestill Holloway m: Samuel Worden.

Death

He died intestate, and the "Trew inventory of the goods and chattels of the late decease Josepth Holiway of Sandwidg taken by Edward Dillingham and William Newland this 4th of Dessembre 1647" totalled 205 pounds, 6 shillings, 10 pence, but 12 pounds, 12 shillings was in "desparate debts." "Rosse Holiway ... depposed to this Inventory before Mr. Thomas Prence the 30th day of the 10th month Anno 1647." ^[7]

The inventory of Joseph Holly's estate was taken on 4 Dec 1647 by Edward Dillingham and William Newland. It amounted to L205-6-10. One of his assets was a "two years and a half servis in a boy but hee is a very bad servant." The widow "Rosse" deposed to this inventory on 30th day of the 10th month Anno 1647. ^[8][9]

His widow Rose married secondly on 19 May 1648 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts to William Newland. ^[10]

It appears that William Newland assumed an obligation to pay the children of Rose and Joseph, their rightful inheritances when they reached maturity. That obligation was fulfilled by 03 May 1665 when court records ^[11] show that William had paid 24 pounds each to ...

- Joseph Holley, Jr.

- Mary (wife of Nathaniel FitsRandall)

- Sarah (wife of Joseph Allen)

- Experience Holley

- Hopestill (wife of Samuel Worden).

Newland's last Will ^[12] named Rose as executrix and his brother-in-law, William Allin as overseer.

Holloway DNA Project

There are 5 men who have taken the YDNA test at Family Tree DNA descend from this man. If you descend from this Holloway family please consider getting a DNA test.

• Men with the Holloway name should get a 37 marker test from Family Tree DNA. Join the Holloway Project at FTDNA and order a test at the same time. Click the "Join" button and then click "Order Test". Then scroll down to the first group of tests and order the 37 marker YDNA test.

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• If you have tested, add yourself to the Holloway DNA Study here on Wikitree.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents. Boston, C.H. Pope. 1900. p236
2. ↑ City of Boston, Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners, Dorchester Town Records (Boston, MA 1880) p8-9
3. ↑ Tepper, Michael. New World Immigrants: a Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists And Associated Data From Periodical Literature. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1979 $
4. ↑ Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, Court Orders v1 (1633-1640) edited by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff & printed in 1855 by William White of Boston, MA; p75
5. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes 1, A-F; Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society 1995 p29 $
6. ↑ Notebook kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638, to July 29, 1641; printed in 1885 by John Wilson and Son, University Press of Cambridge, MA; p321
7. ↑ Plymouth Colony Wills, Mayflower Descendant, 8:207-209
8. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register v4 (July 1850) p282
9. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-VSLQ  : 5 March 2023), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 81 of 616; State Archives, Boston. Page 71-72
10. ↑ Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, Miscellaneous Records 1633-1689 edited by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff & printed in 1857 by William White of Boston, MA; p6
11. ↑ Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, Court Orders, v4 (1661-1668) edited by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff & printed in 1855 by William White of Boston, MA; p87-88
12. ↑ Barnstable, MA: Probate Records 1685-1789; on CD-ROM by New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston, MA in 2002; AmericanAncestors.org online database by New England Historic Genealogical Society in 2008; v2 p4-5 for husband#2, William Newland

• Holway-Rich Heritage. A History and Genealogy of Two Cape Cod Families by Richard Thomas Holway, Gateway Press, 1988 and Supplement and Index to Holway-Rich Heritage...Penobscot Press, Camden, Maine, 1992.

• Sandwich, A Cape Cod Town by R.A. Lovell

• The Settlers of the Beekman Patent Dutchess County, New York by Frank J. Doherty v6 p616-636.

• Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy, A Facsimile Edition of 108 Pamphlets Published in the Early 20th Century by Leonard H. Smith Jr., C.G., Genealogical Publishing v2 p1614; Dated 16 April 1640, at a general meeting of the townsmen of Sandwich ... concerning the division of upland and meadow ... deciding of the differences about the meddow grounds & to make an equall division thereof ... Joseph Hollyway was one of the five townsmen selected for this duty. P. 1615 - Joseph Halloway was awarded 15 acres of meddow land. Gernert-16 08 Apr 2015

• Our Hawley Ancestry - Evidence of Our Descendancy

From Joseph Holley & Rose Allen of Sandwich, Massachusetts; with DNA testing