Ensign John Holman

John Holman, son of Morgan Holman and Alice Odberre, died Betw 10 Jun 1652 and 18 Mar 1652/53 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Married:  Anna Bishop, daughter of Thomas Bishop and Avis Abbott, died before 4 Aug 1673.

John Holman, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 2:973-76.

• ORIGIN: Swyre, Dorsetshire.
• OCCUPATION: Woolen draper (apprenticed at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, 25 March 1622 to William Jolliffe [NEHGR 73:190]). Fur trader (in 1632 William Pynchon, as Massachusetts Bay treasurer, received "of John Holman and Richard Collecot 15 March for their beaver trade, £1 12s. [MHSC 2:8:231]).
• CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Mr. John Holman" admitted to second Dorchester church 4 February 1639/40 [DChR 5].
• FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 9As "John Howman") [MBCR 1:80].
• BIRTH: Baptized Swyre, Dorsetshire, 27 January 1602/3, son of Morgan and Alice (Odberre) Holman [Aspinwall 104-05; NEHGR 67:260, 72:189].

The inventory of the estate of John Holman was taken 18 March 165/3 and totalled £739 16s., of which £200 was "in housing and land" and £60 "in one-half of a bark the Swallowe"

References

• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volumes 72-73 page 199. GoogleBooks
• http://pastlane.blogspot.com/p/maternal-yawman-ancestry.html
• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Holman_%2814%29_