CENSUS: 1782 VA State Census - Charlotte Co
CENSUS: 1790 96th Dist, Pendleton Co, SC
Moses Holland
1 male over 16
4 males under 16
2 females in the household
1810 Anderson Co, SC
Moses Holland 00101 - 21010 - 00
1820 Anderson Co, SC
Moses Holland 400001 00010
MILITARY: He served as a drummer in the Revolutionary War. (South Carolinians in the Revolution, pg 100 {Note- There was also a Thomas Holland listed in this list.) (Virginia Vital Records, Revolutionary War Vital Records
It is engraved on Moses Holland’s tomb in Big Creek Church yard that he was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.
WILL: State of South Carolina
Anderson County
In the name of God Amen I Moses Holland of the State and County afore written being weak of body but of sound memory and perfect understanding knowing that it is appointed for man to die and after death to come to judgement I do hereby constitute this to be my last will and testament and what ever worldly goods it has been pleased God to bless me with I do give and bequeath in the form and manner following vix. First I bequeath my soul to God who gave it and my body to be buried in a decent manner at the will of my Executors hereafter named - I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Gracey all my personal and real Estate and goods and chattels whatsoever during her natural live or widow-hood after that time to be Equal Divided between the lawful heirs of hur body namely Moses Aaron Caleb Joshua Tabitha and Elib - I also give and bequeath to my daughter Ellender one Dollar also to James one Dollar to heirs of Chesley one Dollar to John one Dollar to Fanny one Dollar and to Thomas one Dollar. I hereby nominate and appoint William Acker Esquire my lawful Executor of this my last will and Testament and lastly that he disposes of such of my property as he thinks proper to discharge my lawful debts. Revoking and setting aside all other will or wills heretofore made by me.
In wintnefs whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this fourth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine - Singed, Sealed and adknowledged in the presence of - Mofses X (his mark) Holland
WILL: Henry Cobb
William Magee
H. Rice
Recorded in Will Book A p. 397
Recorded November 9, 1829
Proved November 9, 1829
John Harris, O. A. D.
Roll No. 295
(This will was copied as it was)
OCCUPATION: He was a Baptist minister and was the founding pastor of the Big Creek Baptist Church in Anderson Co, South Carolina which was started in 1801. Of course, he is listed as a member along with his wife, Mary Holland.
SURNAME: Holland is an English place name that described the medieval man from any of the eight villages scattered around England at the time, which got their names from Old English hoh = ridge + land = land. A county of the Holy Roman Empire was Holland in the Netherlands, and it has long been used synonymously in English and occurs occasionally in English, German, Jewish, Flemish, and Dutch names to describe the man from that area. Also, less frequently, Holland (when of known Irish origin) is an Anglicized form of the Gaelic surnames Houlihan, Mulholland, or Whelen. Variations are Hollands, Howland, Hoyland . Of the Netherlands version, variations exits in the form of Hollander, Hollaender, Holand, Holander, Goland, Golender . Cognates are Hollande and Hollenzer .
Or........this could be what the name means per goireland.com/genealogy surname encyclopedia: O'Holohan, Holland, Holian, (Mulholland, Hyland)
O'Holohan - O hUallachain in Irish - is the name of at least two septs originally located in Offaly and in Thomond. In the course of time they spread southwards in both cases, but in the census of 1659 the great majority of the name were living in Co. Kilkenny: at the present time it is chiefly found in that county with the spelling Holohan, and in the western part of Munster with the spelling Houlihan. No less than seventeen variant spellings of the name are recorded by the Registrar-General, including Oolahan and Whoolehan. In Offaly the O'Holohans shared the leadership of the Clan Colgan with the O'Hennessys. It was one of these, Dermot O'Holohan, who constructed the curragh bridge across the Shannon above Portumna which enabled O'Sullivan Beare to cross into Connacht on his epic march from Kinsale in 1602. The southward movement both from Offaly and Clare brought them to Co. Cork where many families of Houlihan adopted the name Holland as the English form of their surname. this was also done to some extent in their original Thomond homeland: John Holland (1841-1914), the noted American inventor, was a native of Co. Clare. The name Holland may also be an abbreviation of Mulholland (once O Maolchalann, devotee of St. Callan) a sept located in the northern part of Co. Limerick: the Ulster Mulhollands, however, never abbreviated their name to Holland. firstly it may be mentioned that Holland is found in Ulster as the anglicized form of O hAolain, which in Leinster is Hyland and in Munster Heelan. In Mediaeval times the most notable man of the name was Donal O'Hoolahan, Archbishop of Cashel from 1171 to 1182. A curious anglicization of O hUallachain is mentioned int he article on Nolan (q.v.) Mr. P.J. Kennedy told me that he knew families called Holland in the vicinity of Loughrea and Craughwell who were formerly Holian. Whether this is an anglicized form of O hAolain (usually Hyland) or a distinct Gaelic surname, O hOileain, I do not know. Not far away, in the Aughrim and Ballinasloe area, there are, he says, Hollands who are traditionally descendants of disbanded Williamtie soldiers settled in the Trench estate. Tradition ascribes a similar origin to the Cookes and Howards of that district. Both these names in that part of the country, however, have a more distinguished origin as we have noted elsewhere.
"The name Holland comes from the Angus district in England (re- Computer Family Tree).
PARENTS: There are some who believe that his father's name is Andrew.
OBITUARY: Pendleton Messenger, 16 Sep 1829
Died at his residence in Anderson District, at six o'clock on Tuesday, the 8th inst., Rev. Moses Holland, in the 71st years of his age and the 47th or 48 year of his ministry. He was interred at the Baptists' burying ground at Big Creek Church. Rev. Sanford Vandiver delivered a discourse. (From Marriage and Death Notices from Pendleton (S.C.) Messenger by Carol Sue Hill. Sent to me by Joan Wade.)
