Looking for information on William Holliday. This is what I have:

Sarah Davis – also shown by some as the child of William and Mary Davis.

Most say that Sarah married first Henry White born about 1705 in Virginia and they had a son, Daniel White;

And that Sarah Davis (White) married second William Holliday born December 7, 1683 in Chalford, Minchinhampton Parish, Gloucestershire County, England, and died July 1742 in Rapidan, Orange County, Virginia at about age 58 years. William married a Davis sister in 1702 in King William, King William County, Virginia. (Sarah seems a better match for marrying William than does Sarah’s sister Judith).

William Holliday was a sea captain in Virginia.

Orange County is located near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Central Virginia region. It is between the headwaters of the York and Rappahannock Rivers and the Rapidan River and North Anna River bordering it on the south.

Pioneers of Old Frederick Country, Virginia: On 24 June 1742, Robert Worthington, was appointed by the Orange County Court to help appraise the estate of William Holliday… On 24 September 1742, Colbert Anderson was appointed guardian of Elizabeth Holliday and James Holliday (children of William Holliday, deceased), with John Smith and Abraham Yeates as his security. On 6 October 1750, James Holliday (son of William, deceased) had 210 acres surveyed on Mill Creek and received a Fairfax grant on 11 November 1754. Colbert Anderson’s wife Mary was probably a Holliday and a daughter of William (and Mary is also thought by some to have been the daughter of Jonah Seaman)….Colbert was deceased by 31 March 1749 when the Frederick County Court ordered an inventory to be made by Thomas Lowe, Samuel Holliday and Patrick Reily.

…After his death, Colbert’s wife Mary married Francis Lilburn and had her dower land (her share of Colbert’s land at present day Inwood, West Virginia) surveyed on 16 May 1770…Francis Lilburn and his wife Mary (widow of Colbert Anderson, son of Thomas, son of Colbert and his wife Ann) sold the 212-acre Fairfax land on 4 September 1758 to Burkhart Reager for 120 pounds… Colbert Anderson, eldest son of Colbert, was an infant of tender years when his father died (1748/49) and did not show up in the record books until 1770 when he assigned 85 acres on Mill Creek to John Neavill; (some say that Colbert left no will - so he must have died unexpectedly or was killed by Indians.) On 8 March 1775, John Lilburn, heir at law of Francis Lilburn (deceased), Mary Lilburn (widow and relict of Francis Lilburn and Colbert Anderson) and Morgan Morgan (executor to John) sold the 397-acre grant land where Lilburn lived to Colbert Anderson (grandson of Thomas and son of Colbert and Mary Anderson Lilburn) for 300 pounds.

(Colbert Anderson, Jr., was born March 16, 1747/48 in Frederick County, Virginia and died 1804 in Berkley Springs, Virginia, he had one sister by father Colbert, Rebecca Anderson). Mary was a member of the Anglican Church in the Opequon R. area (Opequon lies at the foot of the Great Northern Mountain in Frederick County, Virginia and flows as a tributary stream for 35 miles into the Potomac River); her children (both Anderson and Lilburn) are registered in minutes of the old chapel, with birth years, etc.

On 3 October 1750 318 acres “where he now lives” (Robert Cunningham) was surveyed for him and presumable granted to him by Lord Fairfax. The survey was unsigned but the names of the chain carriers, William Duckworth and George Cunningham, are listed. The “marker” was Samuel “Hollowday.” A surveyor was usually assisted by two men who carried and stretched the measurement chains. A “marker” was a person specifically employed to blaze trees or build rock cairns at strategic points along the boundaries of the property. Robert received many more grants of land from Lord Fairfax, the proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia. One, in 1760, was of 314 acres on Mill Creek, a branch of the Opequon, and on the west side of the Opequon. The property was surveyed by Thomas Rutherford and lay adjacent to his own line, the west side of the “Waggon Road,” Jonas Seamon, Peter McCain and Francis Lilburn. Lord Fairfax granted Robert 500 acres on Mill Creek, “a drain of the Opeckon,” on 16 October 1763. The land lay adjacent to Francis Lilburn, Dennis Onan, Murty Hanley, and Joseph Beiler.

William Holliday married second Mary.

William was possibly the son of: Captain Thomas Holliday born 1648 (some say 1632) in London, Middlesex, England, of Chowan precinct, but a member of the family of that name in Nansemond and Isle of Wight Counties, Virginia and who died January 20, 1699 in Chalford, Gloucestershire, England (some say Jamestown, James City County, Virginia) (some say that died he in North Carolina shortly after September 8, 1744 – the date of his will) – buried January 21, 1700/01 in Minchinhampton Parish, Gloucestershire, England;

Thomas Holliday married third Sarah Webb born 1659 (some say 1660) in probably Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England and died December 1700 (some say January 10, 1677, but that seems incorrect) in Chalford, Gloucestershire, England – buried December 25, 1700 in Minchinhampton Parish, Gloucestershire, England – married August 8, 1678 (some say August 8, 1672, but that seems incorrect) in Minchinhampton Parish, Gloucestershire, England (some say Virginia). Some show that they had 6 children born between 1679 and 1690 in Chalford, Gloucestershire County, England, including William.

Thomas Holliday had married first Margery Kempe born about 1650 (some say 1632) in London, Middlesex, England and died 1682 in London, Middlesex, England – married 1656 in England. Not all researchers show this marriage.

Thomas Holliday married second Elizabeth Seville born 1650 - 1652 in Bisley, Gloucestershire County, England and died January 10, 1677/78 in Chalford, Gloucestershire County, England – buried January 11 1677/78 in Holy Trinity Church, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire County, England – she had married Thomas on January 25, 1670 in Bisley, Gloucestershire, England (some say Virginia). (Some say that Elizabeth was the mother of William Holliday). Some say that she had 4 other children born between 1671/72 and 1676 in Chalford, Gloucestershire County, England.
Some say that in 1725, Thomas Holladay resided in James City County, Virginia and about 1729 removed to Chowan County, North Carolina.

Thomas Holliday married fourth Mrs. Mary Anne Hardy Hinton (of Royal and Magna Charta Surety Descent) born about 1635 in Jamestown, James City County, Virginia – they married in 1732 (some say about 1650 or 1652 or 1742) in Jamestown, James City County, Virginia, 2 years after the death of Colonel John Hinton. They possibly had 2 - 3 sons. Not all researchers show this marriage.

Mary Anne was the widow of Col. John Hinton who died in 1730, of Chowan (now Gates) Precinct – he was a man of prominence, wealth and widely spread connection with many of the most influential families in the colony; Mary Ann was also called by some the mother of William Halliday - she had 11 Hinton children, but seems not to have had Holladay offspring.

Some say that Thomas had a cloth mill in Chalford, England. He had ten children from four wives. Clothier (manufacturer of cloth). Operated Holliday (or Stoneford) Mill on the Frome River at the foot of Cowcumbe Hill.

May 20, 1702, John Davis of King William County, Virginia with consent of my father William Davis and in consideration of the marriage to be arranged between my sister Sarah Davis and William Holladay have assigned to William Holiday 75 acres on Mattapony as my part of 300 acres fallen to me on the death of my Aunt Rebecca White, bounded as follows, up from the river upon Scotland line, bounded by the line of Mr. Richard Littlepage on one side and along the lne belonging to Ralph Graves on the other side. Wit: Richard Gissedge, Sarah Gissedge, William Noyes.

Some show that Sarah’s step-sister Judith married William Holladay.

I found this old post:
…There was a George Holliday in Estill County, Ky County Court Records(which is close by Clark Co.) who was a boat builder in 1809. He was being sued by a Vessner(could be Messer)over failure to built a boat on time. Benjamin Holliday the Rev War Vet was in some of these records as well and he was sued by "Lane & Company" over failure to pay a debt, a Company that familiar with us from "William Holliday, the sea Captain family in Va…"

Any help you can give me that will help confirm or add to this, or even subtract, would be greatly appreciated,

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