1754 A son was born to John and Peggy Holloway on December 5. [1]
1755 The Chesterfield Monthly Meeting in New Jersey accepted an acknowledgement from John Holloway beause he had married out of the order prescribed by Friends. [2]
1770 John Holloway had a certificate of removal to the monthly meeting of Friends at Hopewell in New Virginia for himself & six children Jesse, Ruth, John, Daten, Thomas & George & Benjamin Holloway is desired to get it to him. Recorded on February 1 at Chesterfield, Burlington County, New Jersey. [3] [4] [5]
1798 John Holloway, of Culpepper County, Virginia, dated his will on September 28. [6]
I, John Holloway, of Culpeper County, in the State of Virginia, this 28th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety - eight, being but weak in body but of sound mind and memory, thanks be given unto the Almighty for the same, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of God who gave it, and as for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like manner at the direction of my Executor. And as touching such worldly estate as I am blessed with I dispose of it in the following manner:
Imprimis: It is my will and I do order that in the first place all my just debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfied.
Item: I give unto my well beloved wife, Margarett Holloway Sixteen Pounds to be paid unto her at my decease, to her and her heirs forever, also a Cow and the use of my Household Furniture during her natural life, after her death to be sold and the money to be equally divided among my eight children hereafter named.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife Margarett Holloway the lawful interest arising from all Monies, Notes, Etc., I die possessed of, to be paid unto her Yearly by my Executor during her natural life.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my five sons, to - wit: Jesse Holloway, John Holloway ; Thomas Holloway, David Holloway and Ephraim Holloway sixty - five pounds apiece, to be paid to them at the death of my wife, to them and their heirs forever.
Item: I give unto my three daughters namely, Ruth Green, Charlotte Cowgill and Abigail Holloway, forty - five pounds apiece to be paid to them at the death of my wife, to them and their Heirs forever.
Item: I give unto my grandson, John Holloway, son of Daten Holloway, deceased, five pounds, to be paid to him when he arrives to the age of twenty - one years old.
Item: It is my Will and I do order, that if through loss of debts or otherwise my estate is not sufficient to pay the above Legacies at the death of my wife, that each of the Legatees bear their part of the loss or Deficiency of said estate in proportion to their Legacies.
And lastly, I do hereby nominate, appoint, constitute and ordain my son Jesse Holloway sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and dis annul all and every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies and Executor by me in any wise before this time named, Willed and bequeathed, Ratifying this and no other to be my last Will and Testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written.
John Holloway ( Seal ) Witnessed by:
Joshua Wood
Henry Cowgill
John B Norman
The Holloway genealogy reports [7] [8]:
Descendants of John Holloway, (27) and Margaret Buck, His Wife. He was the son of George Holloway, (24) and Ruth Wood.
John Holloway, son of George Holloway, (24). He was born Sept. 9, 1732. His will was proved in Culpeper County, Virginia, July 15, 1799. He married Margaret Buck likely in the early part of 1754. May 1, 1755, Chesterfield Mo. Mtg. accepted an acknowledgment from him because he had married out of the order prescribed by Friends. (Liber B, p. 190)
Children :—(47) Jesse Holloway, born Dec. 5, 1754; died ————-1846; m. Sara Painter.
(48) Ruth Holloway, born Dec. 9, 1759; m. John Green.
(49) John Holloway, Jr., born Mar. 26, 1762; m. Mary Shinn.
(50) Daten Holloway, born Dec. 29, 1763; m. Hope Garwood.
(51) Thomas Holloway, born Nov. 11, 1766; m. Mary Gardner Aug. 21, 1806. July 4, 1808, Thomas Holloway makes an acknowledgment to Hopewell Mo. Mtg., Va., for marrying in violation of the discipline. (Vol. C, p. 414-428.)
(52) George Holloway, born Mar. 11, 1769.
(53) David Holloway, born June 23, 1771 ; m. Hanna Richards.
(54) Ephraim Holloway, born Jan. 23, 1774; died 1845; m. Susanna Garwood. _
(55) Charlotte Holloway, born Jan. 18, 1776; m. James Cowgill.
(56) Abigail Holloway, born , 1785; m. James Stout, May 30, 1799.The record of the births of John Holloway and nine of his children was found in Hopewell, Va. records. Margaret Buck Holloway was born October 22, 1733. She was the daughter of Abigail (Robins) Buck and granddaughter of Aaron Robbins of New Hanover, Burlington County, New Jersey, whose will dated April 6, 1759, and proved April 19, 1759, mentions wife Elizabeth; sons, Samuel, Aaron and Daniel; daughters, Abigail Buck and Elizabeth Quicksail; grandchildren, Margaret Quicksail, Margaret Holloway, Mary and Margaret Stuard and James Robbins; two eldest daughters of Josiah Smith and the four children of son Ephraim, viz: James, Lucia, Ephraim and Margaret. (Aaron’s wife Elizabeth was not his first wife.)
Executors: Sons Daniel and Moses Robins of Allentown.
Witnesses: Benj. Kirby, Joseph Arney and William Lawrie.
(Trenton Wills, Liber 9, p. 326)John Holloway having married out of the Society of Friends and making an acknowledgment for the deviation, retained his membership, but his wife, Margaret, not being a member, their children were not entitled to the birthright membership in the Society, which children whose parents are both members have enjoyed since the Setting up of the Society of Friends in the seventeenth century. On 9 Mo. 7, 1769, Chesterfield Mo. Mtg. (Liber B, p. 413) accepted into membership, Jesse, Ruth, John, Daten, .Th0ma5 and George, children of John and on 2 Mo. 1, 1770 (p. 417) John and the above named children were given a certificate of removal to Hopewell ‘Mo. Mtg., of New Virginia. Book B, p. 76 of Hopewell Mo. Mtg. notes that David, Ephraim and Charlotte, Children of John Holloway, were admitted into membership.
March 11, 1774, John Hfolloway, of the Township of Overwharton, Stafford County, Virginia, tailor, and Margaret, his wife, sell and convey to George Hall of Gringe, Cumberland County, tanner and cordwinder, a tract of land which John Holloway became seized of by virtue of a Sheriffs sale June 14, 1760, lying in the Township of Chesterfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, adjoining land formerly Henry Buck’s, by the road leading to Crosswicks, containing 10 acres, consideration, £195. Margaret Holloway releasing her right of dower.
Witnesses: Charles Carter, Benj. Holloway and Anthony Smith of Stafford County, Virginia. (Trenton Deeds A. L., p. 409.)
WILL or JOHN HOLLOWAY. (Culpepper County, Virginia, Book D, p. 249.)
I, John Holloway, of Culpeper County, in the State of Virginia, this 28th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, being but weak in body but of sound mind and memory, thanks be given unto the Almighty for the same, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of God who gave it, and as for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like manner at the direction of my Executor. And as touching such worldly estate as I am blessed with I dispose of it in the following manner:
Imprimis: It is my will and I do order that in the first place all my just debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfied.Item: I give unto my well beloved wife, Margarett Holloway Sixteen Pounds to be paid unto her at my decease, to her and her heirs forever, also a Cow and the use of my Household Furniture during her natural life, after her death to be sold and the money to be equally divided among my eight children hereafter named.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife Margarett Holloway the lawful interest arising from all Monies, Notes, Etc., I die possessed of, to be paid unto her Yearly by my Executor during her natural life.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my five sons, to—wit: Jesse Holloway, John Holloway, Thomas Holloway, David Holloway and Ephraim Holloway sixty—fivepounds apiece, to be paid to them at the death of my wife,ito them and their heirs forever.
Item: I give unto my three daughters namely, Ruth Green, Charlotte Cowgill and Abigail Holloway, forty—five pounds apiece to be paid to them at the death of my wife, to them and their Heirs forever.
Item: I give unto my grandson, John Holloway, son of Daten Holloway, deceased, five pounds, to be paid to him when he arrives to the age of twenty-one years old.
Item: It is my Will and I do order, that if through loss of debts or otherwise my estate is not sufficient to pay the above Legacies at the death of my wife, that each of the Legatees bear their part of the loss or Deficiency of said estate in proportion to their Legacies.
And lastly, I do hereby nominate, appoint, constitute and ordain my son Jesse Holloway sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all and every other former Testaments, Wi1ls, Legacies and Executor by me in any wise before this time named, Willed and bequeathed, Ratifying this and no other to be my last Will and Testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written.
John Holloway (Seal)Witnessed by:
Joshua Wood
Henry Cowgill
John B. Norman.
[1] Frank H. Stewart, Stewart's Genealogical and Historical Miscellany, Vol. 2 (1918), 6, [InternetArchive].
[2] Olin E. Holloway, Genealogy of the Holloway Families (Knightstown, Indiana: 1927), 55, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[3] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Book of Records, 1756-1786, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Men's Minutes, 1684-1738, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Joint Committee of Hopewell Friends, Hopewell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia (1936), 410, [HathiTrust].
[6] Olin E. Holloway, Genealogy of the Holloway Families (Knightstown, Indiana: 1927), 57, citing Culpepper County, Virginia Will D-249, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[7] Olin E. Holloway, Genealogy of the Holloway Families (Knightstown, Indiana: 1927), 55, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[8] Olin E. Holloway, Genealogy of the Holloway Families (Knightstown, Indiana: 1927), 00028-1, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].