Sgt. Gabriel Holland, of Jamestown

If you’re looking for a descendant of Gabriel Holland, perhaps check this profile instead: Hollands of Virginia. The progenitor of most Hollands was John Holland, of Nansemond, and Gabriel Holland is not known to be his father.

Qualifying Ancestor for the Jamestown Society < link >
Holland, Gabriel - A3913; living in 1632 [sic]; College Lands: 1634 (Burgess).

• Not a known son of Sir John Holland & Mary Holland
• Not a known son of Philemon Holland & Anne Holland, alias Peyton
• Not the father of John Holland, of Nansemond
• Married 1) Rebecca 2) Mary Pinke, widow; no known children by either wife
• Not the same as the Gabriel Holland, of the “Supply” who came to Jamestown on the “Supply” In 1620 as an indentured servant. The other Gabriel died by 1621, and also had no known children.

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Brief Biography

http://www.hollandfamily.us/ResourceCenter/gabriel.htm#misinformation

According to John Bennett Boddie in his book, Historical Southern Families, Gabriel was living in Jamestown at the time of the massacre in 1622. Many of the residents of Jamestown were saved because an Indian boy who had been converted to Christianity warned them. The fact that Gabriel was living in Jamestown is born out by the fact that 2 years later on 14 August 1624, Mary Pinke Holland, Gabriel’s second wife patented 12 acres of land on the island of James City which had been part of her former husband’s 100 acres.

Gabriel was a yeoman farmer and served as a sergeant in the militia. He served in the Virginia House of Burgesses in the 1623/4 session. According to Boddie, “They appear in the records of the General Court up to about 1627, but disappeared after that.” I could find no records of Gabriel having children.

https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/a/r/Diana-Barnett-MO/GENE3-0001.html

Six (6) children have been "attributed" to Gabriel Holland

• 1. George Holland - b. c1622 James City Co., VA
• 2. John Holland - b. 1628 James City Co., VA
• 3. Richard Holland - b. 1630 James City Co., VA
• 4. Job Holland - b. c1631 James City Co., VA
• 5. Daniel Holland - b. c1633 James City Co., VA
• 6. William Holland -. b. c1634 James City Co., VA

But as far as we know, this Gabriel Holland had no surviving children.

Supporting evidence

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~knower/genealogy/gabrielstem.htm

On January 24, 1624, "Gabriell Holland and Rebecca" are listed among a census of settlers living on James City Island, with the additional information that "Gabriell Holland came in the John & Francis; Rebecca his wife in the same Shipp." No date of arrival is recorded; the ship had made seven voyages to Virginia by 1623. It is possible that Gabriel returned to England to collect his wife -- or to marry her -- and returned to Jamestown with Rebecca aboard the John & Francis. The couple's possessions are recorded as a house, 100 dried fish, 7 barrels of corn, 2 bushels of dried peas and beans, 6 swine, a coat of mail, and 6 'piece,' -- small firearms for hunting and defense. In that year also Gabriell was a signer of "The Tragical Relation of the General Assembly," in which members of the Virginia Assembly respond to Sir Thomas Smith's attempts to discredit and bring about the dissolution of the Virginia Company of London.

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According to the Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, “Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons,” Gabriel Holland was a yeoman, and one of the first settlers at Berkeley Hundred in 1620. He was made a burgess in 1623; in the same year he was a signer of "The Tragical Relation of the General Assembly." The encyclopedia continues: “Long resident in Nansemond county, Virginia, the family of Holland has in that time occupied honorable position in that locality. That the family is an old one is proven by the fact that Gabriel and Richard Holland arrived at Berkeley, Virginia, February 8, 1621, on the ship, "Supply," with fifty others, leaving England, October 5, 1620. [SIC: different Gabriel Holland]. Gabriel Holland was one of thirty-one signers to the answer of the general assembly in Virginia to the Declaration of the State of the Colony in 1624, and also was one of the signers for the incorporation of Henrico County and the incorporation of college plantations.”

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From https://pilgrimsandpatriots.com/?cat=50

Gabrielle was living at Shirley 100 in 1622 based on Court testimony he gave January 2, 1624, in which he stated, ‘he formerly had lived at Shirley 100 where he held the rank of sergeant and had been temporarily responsible for 15 of Berkeley 100’s male servants.’

References

• link to The Truth About Gabriel Holland of Virginia by Wiley Julian Holland
• http://www.hollandfamily.us/ResourceCenter/gabriel.htm
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~knower/genealogy/gabrielstem.htm
• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/a/r/Diana-Barnett-MO/GENE3-0001.html
• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/y/e/Ron-C-Myers/GENE31-0154.html
• http://myrootsaredeep.blogspot.com/2010/05/gabriel-holland.html
• https://pilgrimsandpatriots.com/?cat=50 cites
• http://www.hollandfamily.us/ResourceCenter/gabriel/gabriel-wjh.htm citing
  • Sources: London Company of Virginia records – Henning’s Statutes at large – Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635 – Cradle of the Republic, Lyon Gardiner Tyler – First Republic in America, Alexander Brown – Narrative of Early Virginia, 1606-1625, Lyon Gardiner Tyler- Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, 1622-1632 – Hotten’s ship list – The living and dead in Virginia February 16, 1623/4 – The Original List of Persons of Quality etc, John Camden Hotten – The Complete Book of Immigrants, Coldham -Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent- Historical Southern Families, John Bennett Boddie,1956.”
• Jamestown muster 24 January 1624/5 Gabriell Holland Holland Gabriell head James Iland James Citty John & Francis not given 24 January 1624/5 Rebecca Holland Holland Gabriell his wife James Iland James Citty John & Francis not given 24 January 1624/5

& link to “The Truth About Gabriel Holland of Virginia” (dead link but see attached document)

• “Descent from Gabriell Holland of Jamestown” < link > “Jamestown genealogy is notoriously difficult. Between bouts of malaria and Indian attacks, the colonists tended not to keep their family bibles up to date. Families were wiped out overnight, and wives had to be replaced with grim frequency. The climate was, and still is, hostile to the preservation of paper records -- the best preserved documents are actually in London, where the colonists seems to have been regarded as so much cattle. The desire of our more immediate ancestors to know their genealogies has prompted a lot of guesswork and speculation that has acquired a patina of authenticity by sheer repetition. I've tried to go back to an original source for each assertion made repeatedly, and for the most part these are elusive.” (Comment: there is no proven descent.)
• Old pedigree: https://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/a/a2/Holland-645-2.png
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Holland-645