I'm reposting this from a "Contact the Profile Managers" sent by T Gif so that it's on public record. - Jeff G.
Managers of Solomon Holman, Sr.,
I am contacting you about this profile: Solomon Holman, Sr.
There are several sources that state Solomon Holman was from England or Wales:
1) H. Royce Bass, The history of Braintree, Vermont: including a memorial of families that have resided in town, (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle & Co., state printers, 1883) pg 149
. 2) Coffin, Joshua. A sketch of the history of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845. (Boston: S.G. Drake, 1845)
pg. 394
3) Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, Volume 2. (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1911) page 617
4) A centurial history of the Mendon association of Congregational ministers, with the Centennial address, delivered at Franklin, Mass., Nov. 19, l851, and biographical sketches of the members and licentiates, By Blake, Mortimer (Boston, Published for the Association, by S. Harding,1853) pg 144
Also there isn't a record of Solomon's birth in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, Volume 1, which records births in Newbury from about the end of 1640 to the end of 1889.
The details of the accounts in sources 1,2, and 4 vary, but they all have one common thread. Solomon was pressed on board a man-of-war, escaped, and settled in Mass.
In David Emory Holman's book, " The Holmans in America; Concerning the Descendants of Solaman Holman," there is a section entitled "Ancestors of Other Holman Lines." On page xxxi of that section, the subsection "Edward of Plymouth, Mass" states that there was a Gabriel and Edward Holman at Marblehead, Mass in 1674. I am sure this is the same Gabriel you are claiming as Solomon's father as that subsection also references Edward's (Gabriel's father) arrival on the ship Anne.
Sincerely,
T Gif
