James Holland

• BIRTH 1733 County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• DEATH 29 Sep 1820 (aged 86–87) Fulton, Oswego County, New York, USA
• BURIAL Mount Adnah Cemetery Fulton, Oswego County, New York, USA
• PLOT Section 3 Lot 38 MEMORIAL ID 40938542 Photos by Bette Hartman

James Mulholland was born in Belegaley/Ballygauley, County Tyrone, Ireland in 1733. He came to America and settled in Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts. On 19 June 1755, in the adjacent town of Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, he married Mary Bell, daughter of James and Martha (Crawford) Bell. About 1769 the family moved from Oakham to Murrayfield (now Chester, Hampden, Massachusetts) where he settled on Holcomb Hill.

He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War [records show his name as Mulhollen]. Sources indicate that he was a man of strong religious and political convictions and was accustomed to speaking his mind freely.

One of James Mulholland (Holland) assignments was to travel to Saratoga, New York after the defeat of General Burgoyne and bring the captured British soldiers back to the Springfield area where he was replaced and the soliders continued eastward where they were to be deported to England. The column stopped for one night in Chester, Massachusetts to bed down for the night. The night Nancy Mulholland, daughter of James, age 16 was one of the women serving dinner to the British soldiers, and David Cross became enamored and escaped from the column and returned to Chester to work for James Holland and marry her. See the memorial to David Cross who became his son-in-law for futher information.

After the death of his wife, Mary, in Chester, Hampden, Massachusetts, he moved to Fulton, Oswego, New York with his daughter, Elizabeth, and her husband, Daniel Falley, where he died 20 September 1820.

NOTE: Records are found in various spellings of the surname. The original surname was MULHOLLAND but perhaps due to the many misspelling of the name, by the late 1700s, the entire family was known by the surname of HOLLAND.

Inscription JAMES HOLLAND
1734 - 1820
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
MASSACHUSETTS

Spouse
Mary Bell Holland 1737–1809

Children
Simon E. Holland unknown–1830 m. Olive Fellows
William Holland m. 1st. Polly Moore; 2nd Clara Mosley; 3rd Basmath Fowler
Nancy Mulholland Cross 1762–1834 m. David Cairn Cross
Polly Holland Quigley m. Hugh Quigley
Thankful Holland Snow m. Orindatus Snow
James Holland 1762–1840 m. Lydia Stone
Mary Mulholland Quigley 1768–1828
Aaron Holland 1769–1777 m. Sally Kendall
Elizabeth "Betsey" Mulholland Falley 1772–1827 m. Daniel Falley
George Holland 1774–1809 m. Nancy Culver
Abraham Holland 1782–1806

References

[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40938542/james-holland

Source

[2] DAR Ancestor A082670

[3] Vital Records of Rutland, Massachusetts Marriages: Page 133

[4] Smith, Edward Church & Smith, Philip Mack: "A History of the Town of Middlefield, Massachusetts: 1988 Bookmasters, Ashland, Ohio Pages 504-505