Daniel Holladay Sr. Sr. "Rev.War"

Daniel Holladay Sr. was a Virginia and South Carolina resident whose reported birth year varies in the supplied material. Records and family compilations place him in Spotsylvania and Albemarle counties, Virginia, before his death on 30 September 1784 in the Camden District/St. Mark’s area of South Carolina. He is identified by the DAR as a South Carolina patriot for signing the Association Test.

Daniel Holladay Sr. is reported in the supplied material with differing birth information. A pedigree sheet from Della Holladay gives 1725, while The Holladay Family gives a probable birth year of 1712 in King William County, Virginia. A GEDCOM entry instead records a 14 November 1720 christening in Virginia and a 1725 birth at Bellefonte, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. These conflicting details do not permit a single birth date or place to be stated with certainty.

He was associated with Spotsylvania County, Virginia, during the 1740s. A 7 June 1743 Spotsylvania County deed identifies Daniel Holloday and his wife Agnes, both of St. George Parish, as grantors to Thomas Pulliam. The deed concerned 197 acres on the East North East River, described as land devised to Daniel by the 4 November 1742 will of his father, John Holloday. A GEDCOM residence entry places him in St. George Parish between 7 June 1743 and 1747.

The supplied material also places Daniel in Albemarle County, Virginia. A property-related GEDCOM entry refers to land on the west side of the Little Mountains adjoining Thomas Carr, dated between 6 April 1734 and 10 January 1750. Another entry notes an Albemarle County deed dated 10 January 1750 to Charles Gilliam. These entries require further examination before their details can be fully connected to Daniel Holladay Sr.

A family note states that Daniel Holladay Sr. fought in the Cherokee War expedition of 1759 and 1760. The GEDCOM additionally describes him as a leader of a militia in Spotsylvania, Virginia, but provides no date or supporting citation for that statement. Both claims should be treated as unverified pending identification of original military records.

During the American Revolution, Daniel Holliday Sr. is recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution as Ancestor A134546, with patriotic service in South Carolina. The DAR entry states that he signed the Association Test. The family-tree notes say that both Daniel Sr. and Daniel Jr. signed this test. The cited service source is the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, volume 18 (1930), pages 1–2.

Daniel’s residence is recorded in the Camden District of South Carolina. He died on 30 September 1784, with the supplied material variously giving Camden District, St. Marks in Craven County, and burial in St. Mark’s Parish, Sumter, South Carolina. A sales account for an estate in Craven County dated 6 January 1785 is listed among the references and may relate to his estate. The supplied material identifies Agnes as his wife, but provides no further reliable details about her life or their family.

Historical context

The Association Test was a Revolutionary-era pledge of support for the American cause and a commitment to oppose hostile British military action. Signing such an association is recognized by the DAR as patriotic service, although it does not by itself establish military enlistment or rank. South Carolina’s Camden District was an important inland administrative area during and after the Revolutionary period.

Sources & research

DAR Ancestor Database, Ancestor A134546, “HOLLIDAY, DANIEL SR”; service: South Carolina; rank: patriotic service; service description: signed Association Test.
National Genealogical Society Quarterly, volume 18 (1930), pages 1–2.
Virginia County Records—Spotsylvania County, 1721–1800, volume 1, edited by William Armstrong Crozier; 6 November 1739 record involving Thomas Sertain, Mary Sertain, and John Holloday Sr.; cited in Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639–1850, Ancestry.com, accessed 7 September 2008.
Virginia County Records—Spotsylvania County, 1721–1800, volume 1, edited by William Armstrong Crozier; 7 June 1743 deed of Daniel Holloday and Agnes to Thomas Pulliam; cited in Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639–1850, Ancestry.com, accessed 7 September 2008.
The Holladay Family 1989, Alvin Milton Holladay Sr. (The Ambrose Printing Company, Nashville, Tennessee; LDS Library Microfiche no. 6049266, 1983382), pages 149–151 and 151–157.
Pedigree sheet from Della Holladay.
Ancestral File, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, July 1996, data as of 2 January 1996; Family History Library, 35 N. West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, USA.
FamilySearch artifact link: https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/17071194?p=8413163&return...
Ancestry Family Trees, online publication, Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com; original data: family tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
Ancestry Family Tree link: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=38858137&pid...
Ancestry search link: https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1030&h=191002323728&indiv=try
Reference list: sales account of estate, Craven County, South Carolina, 6 January 1785.
Reference list: Hist & Gen mag, volume 2, pages 257–262.
Reference list: Ala. 11, volume 1, page 176.
Reference list: VA S8, pages 162–164.
Reference list: SC29; SC18.
Reference list: AM 165, volume 2, page 170.
Reference list: Ala. 9, pages 55–56.
GEDCOM source description: land lying in Goochland on the west side of Little Mountains, adjoining Thomas Carr.
GEDCOM record for Daniel Holladay Sr., RIN 31062 and associated entries; source designation @S12@.