A record given in Hotten's List of Persons of Quality, 1600–1700, states John Holland and wife as being sought in Massachusetts in 1627 for taking part in tax protests against the Crowns wishes under Theophilus Clinton, 4th Earl of Lincoln.
As a ship's captain, he traveled from Nantucket Point to Virginia and out to the English-held islands of the Caribbean.
[citation needed] Holland became a stop on the Atlantic and Danville Railway in 1890.
[3] As part of a wave of consolidations in southeastern Virginia during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, in 1972 Holland merged with Nansemond County and that county's other incorporated town, Whaleyville, to form the independent city of Nansemond.
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