Joseph Holley, Sr., of Sandwich

Parents unknown. William Holloway, of Boston did not have a son named Joseph.

Family

https://catnip13.tripod.com/Holly.html

Joseph Holly (also called HOLWAY, HOLLOWAY) was a grantee of Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1634.3He was in Weymouth, MA in 1639 and removed to Sandwich prior to 1640.4 He mortgaged house and lands in 1639 (released 2 (1) 1640)5

JOSEPH married ROSE ALLEN, daughter of GEORGE ALLEN, about 1637. Rose was born about 1610 in England. She died after 6 May 1695.

JOSEPH and ROSE had the following children:21

• + 2 F i. MARY HOLLY was born about 1638 and died on 12 Jul 1703.
• + 3 M ii. JOSEPH Jr. HOLLY was born about 1635/1640 and died in 1692.
• + 4 F iii. SARAH HOLLY was born about 1642/1643 and died in 1675/1680.
• + 5 F iv. EXPERIENCE HOLLY was born about 1644.
• 6 F v. HOPESTILL HOLLY was born about 1645/1646 and died on 13 Sep 1715.

It is probable that Joseph Holly's children were raised in the Quaker faith since their mother & step-father were of this religious persuasion. His daughters Mary & Sarah both married Quaker men.

Biography

http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Joseph_Holley_%281%29

He was in Saugus (Lynn, MA) in 1636 and by 1637 in Sandwich MA on Cape Cod. He was one of 61 original settlers of Sandwich and one of16 long-term settlers. He purchased a house and lot from Jeremy Gould on Oct. 1, 1639. He served as constable in 1644, surveyerof highways in 1647, and in 1643 was listed on rolls of Lt. Blackmer's company of Militia.

He died young, at about 40, when only his son Joseph was of age. His wife remarried and raised their 4 small daughters. Joseph’s estate was not settled until 18 years after his death, when all the daughters were grown.

Little is known about the English background of Joseph Holley Sr. our original ancestor in America. He probably was born in West Anglia about 1605. He was in Saugus (now called Lynn) Mass., on Cape Cod. He was one of the sixty-one original settlers of Sandwich and one of sixteen long-term settlers.

"There are records of his purchase of a house and lot from a Jeremy Gould on Oct. 1, 1639. He shows on Plymouth Colony records as a constable in 1644 and as a surveyor of highways in 1647, and in 1643, he was listed on the rolls of Lt. Blackmer's Company of Militia.

"Joseph Holley Sr. married Rose Allen in Weymouth, England about 1628.” [SIC] married about 1638 in Massachusetts Bay Colony

She was probably the daughter of George Allen, who came with the Rev. Joseph Hull's Company in 1635. He died in December, 1647, age 38, leaving a son Joseph Jr. who was "of age" and four small daughters. Rose Allen Holley married on May 19, 1648, William Newland assumed guardianship of the four daughters but not of Joseph Holley, Jr. The estate was settled eighteen years after Joseph Holley Sr.'s death, when all the daughters became of age.

Notes

Notes for Joseph HOLWAY

"Able to bear arms" in 1643 in Yarmouth for Lt. Blackmer’s Company. He was a Plymouth Colony constable in 1644 and a surveyor of highways in 1647. He died young, at about 40, when only his son Joseph was of age. His wife remarried and raised their 4 small daughters. Joseph’s estate was not settled until 18 years after his death, when all the daughters were grown.[ [615]]

Savage’s: HOLLEY, JOSEPH, Dorchester 1634, Weymouth 1639, was prob. of Sandwich 1643, and d. early in Dec. 1647. Often it is spell. Holway.

10g grandfather of Gerald Ford through daughter Experience and Barack Obama through daughter Mary.

Notes for Rose ALLEN

Very active Quaker in Sandwich and occasionally persecuted for it.[ [1046]]

Called to give evidence against John Ellis in 1644 when he was charged with fornication. Ellis was found guilty and sentenced to the whipping post, despite the fact that he and his wife were by then married. (NEHGR 119:163)

Origins

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Holloway-53

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.

1. Pope, page 236. < Archive.Org >

Comments

Birth location seen as Crewkerne, Somerset, England, without citation.

References

• Pope, Charles Henry. Pioneers of Massachusetts (1620-1650): A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches. (Boston: The Author, 1900), 236. Division of estate May 1665. Receipts signed by Joseph Holley Jr., Mary wife of Nathaniel Fitsrandall, Sarah wife of Joseph Allen, Experience Holley & Hopestill wife of Samuel Worden. [Pioneers of MA by Charles Henry Pope, 1986]
• Macfarlane, Sally, “Hopestill Holly Worden and the related Families of Holley, Allen and Hull,”, in Worden, Patricia Carter, and Worden Family Association. Wordens past : newsletter of the Worden Family Association. (Midland, Michigan: Worden Family Association, 1980-), Volume XI, No. 2, Aug. 1990. Note: the link that was part of this citation is obsolete: [1]. The original source appears to be available to members of the Worden Family Association.
• George Allen, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011), I:29.
• Married Rose Allen between 1826-1830 in Hawkhurst, Kent, England. Source: Ron Kyser- April 23, 2002
• https://sites.rootsweb.com/~amorrow/fg01/fg01_302.html

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I originally had the following:
Joseph Holloway
9th great grandfather
Birth: 1605 - Devon, England, United KingdomDeath: December 1647 - Sandwich, Barnstable County, MA, United States

Then got this smartmatch so updated to match this except for the last name difference becuase it makes no sense that his wife and parents have a slightly different last name!
Joseph Holley, Sr., of Sandwich from: MyHeritage Family Trees
Birth: 1605 - Crewkerne, Somerset, EnglandDeath: Dec 4 1647 - Sandwich, (Present Barnstable County), Plymouth Colony (Present Massachusetts), (Present USA)Parents: William Holloway, Grace Holloway (born Phillips)Wife: Rose Holloway Or Holley (born Allen)Daughter: Hopestill Worden (born Holley Or Holloway)