Hollands of Leon County, Florida
1830 - 1880
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Griffin W Holland was on the Leon Co. tax lists for at least the years 1829 and 1844-1848 and beyond, as 1 male poll with over 1000 acres of land near Lake Iamonia and from 25 - 60 slaves. (He may have been the unnamed Holland who was taxed on the 1851 Gadsden list for 14 slaves, with J Thomas as agent. James Thomas also had 1800 acres, 23 slaves and a sawmill.) He was also listed on the 1830 and 1840 censuses.
G W Holland was married in 1839 to Margaret Whitaker, but he had a prior wife, judging from the two children listed in 1850 who were older than the 11 years he and Margaret had been married. (See marriage record to Elizabeth Walker in Screven Co., Ga 1829.) He was 44 and she was 32 in 1850. It is not known whether he had any contact with the Gadsden Hollands. He was born in Virginia, not North Carolina, and may be unrelated.
William Holland appears on the 1830 Leon County census with two boys and six girls in his household. By 1839, both he and William Holland, Jr., appear on the Leon tax roll, but only William, the elder, is listed on the 1840 census. He may have been dead by 1842 when William, Jr., deeded some land to Elizabeth Holland, who appears to be the widow of William, the elder.
William Holland (Jr.) married Sarah Jane Barineau in Leon County 2 Feb 1837, and they appear on the 1850 Leon Co. census, both age 35. S J Holland is listed on the 1860 Population Schedule as age 43, b. SC, a female planter with 6 children, 5 entries from Peter L Barineau (Barnow), 39, a farmer b. SC. Sarah J Holland appears on the 1860 Agricultural Schedule, 2 entries from Peter Barineau (Berneau). Apparently she is now a widow. (LDS IGI says he died 31 Aug 1859.) She is still there in 1870, two entries from Conyers (52) and Jane (49) Barineau, also from SC.
This William who married Sarah Jane Barineau does not seem likely to be the William who appears on Gadsden tax lists of 1846 and 1847 because he would have been assessed a tax as a male between 21 and 50 in both years, but the Gadsden William was not assessed such a tax in 1847 (assuming he had reached age 50 and was exempt).
He appears to be the William Holland, Jr who received a land patent in 1843 for Lot 4 in the same Sect 23 T1N R2W where Caroline Holland received a patent for the N ˝ Lot 5 in 1838. Those patents list in both Leon and Gadsden counties, as the land is very near the county line along the Ochlochonee River. A current map shows that section to be mostly on the Leon County side of the river with just a tiny triangle across in Gadsden. He deeded Lot #4 to Elizabeth Holland on 23 July 1842. On 6 Mar 1845, Elizabeth Holland sold Lot #4 to William Grimes, with Franklin S Johnson as witness.
On 12 Oct 1838, Caroline Holland Bryan had deeded her N ˝ of Lot #5 to Roxa Ann Holland (probably her sister), with Olivia Holland (probably her sister) and Franklin S Johnson as witnesses. Roxa Ann Holland, on 29 Feb 1848, deeded the N ˝ of Lot #5 to Franklin S Johnson in trust for the use of her mother, Elizabeth Holland, for “her natural lifetime or widowhood.” On 7 Oct 1853, Roxa Ann deeded the same N ˝ of Lot #5, “upon which Mrs. Elizabeth Holland last resided”, to Isiah Johnson, Sr, with Tom Holland as witness.
Elijah and Caroline Holland Bryan may have lived in Tallahassee on the lot #142 deeded to him on 22 Sep 1829 by Joseph Bryan. They sold this lot on 1 Dec 1840 and disappeared from the records.
There was also a John Holland of Leon County who received a patent in Sep 1852 for land about 2 miles from William's and Caroline's parcels. He was John Holland of Gadsden County when he and wife Evelyn/Eveline sold it in Feb 1856. They are probably the John L Holland and Emeline Sewell who married in Leon County 9 Jun 1853. On the 1856 and 1857 tax rolls of Gadsden, there is a John Holland, who paid for one male over 21 and under 50, thus being too young to be John, the shoemaker.
