Thomas Alexander Halliday

captain of the Virginia Rangers

1632 - 1689

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At a glance

Name: Thomas Alexander Halliday
Reported life dates: 1632–1689
Title supplied: Capt.
Claimed military service: Captain of the Virginia Rangers, according to family-tree notes.
Claimed residence: St. George's Parish, King William County, Virginia, according to family-tree notes.
Probate association: Family-tree notes associate him with a will probated in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Record discrepancy: The supplied cited probate material is dated after 1722 and does not name Thomas Alexander Halliday in the quoted text.

Family connection

David Andrew Rhudy (Riza) → Gladys Marie Hill (mother) → Mary Viola Holladay (mother) → John William Holladay (father) → John James Holladay (father) → John Holladay (father) → John Marshall Holladay “Rev. War” (father) → Daniel Holladay Sr. “Rev. War” (father) → John (Joseph) Holladay “The Ranger” (father) → Captain Thomas Alexander Halliday (father), David’s 7th great-grandfather

Thomas Alexander Halliday is identified in the supplied tree material as having lived from 1632 to 1689. The accompanying notes attribute to him service as a captain of the Virginia Rangers and residence in St. George's Parish, King William County, Virginia. However, the cited probate material is dated decades after 1689 and names Holloday and Pulliam family members rather than Thomas Alexander Halliday, so those records cannot be securely connected to him from the information provided.

Thomas Alexander Halliday is listed as having been born in 1632 and having died in 1689. He is identified in the supplied material with the title “Capt.”

Family-tree notes state that he was captain of the Virginia Rangers in his company and was listed as a resident of St. George's Parish in King William County, Virginia. The notes also state that a will probated in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, described him as being from St. George's Parish in King William County.

The cited Spotsylvania County will material, however, refers to Joseph and Benjamin Holloday and to Thomas Pulliam, and a separately quoted 1758 will concerns Thomas Pulliam. Because these records postdate Thomas Alexander Halliday's reported 1689 death by many years and do not name him in the supplied text, they should be treated as unverified family-tree associations rather than established evidence for his biography.

Historical context

The supplied notes place the claimed residence in St. George's Parish, King William County, Virginia, and refer to probate records in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The cited will-book dates begin in 1722, after Thomas Alexander Halliday's reported death in 1689.

Sources & research

Virginia County Records, Spotsylvania Co. 1721–1800, Will Book A, 1722–1749, p. 346.

Spotsylvania County, Virginia Will Book B: Crozier: “PULLIAM, THOMAS, St. George's Parish, d. Apr. 17, 1758, p. June 6, 1758. Wit. Joseph Holloday, Benj. Holloday. Ex. sons James and Thomas Pulliam. Leg. sons, James, Thomas and Benjamin; daughters, Winifred, Susannah, Elizabeth, Agnes, Mary; Anna, wife of David Sandige; Sarah, wife of Christopher Dickin. (Page 369)”