ORIGIN: Swyre, Dorsetshire.
OCCUPATION: Woolen draper (apprenticed at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, 25 March 1622 to William Jolliffe [NEHGR 73:190]). Fur trader (in 1632 William Pynchon, as Massachusetts Bay treasurer, received "of John Holman and Richard Collecot 15 March for their beaver trade, £1 12s. [MHSC 2:8:231]).
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Mr. John Holman" admitted to second Dorchester church 4 February 1639/40 [DChR 5].
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 9As "John Howman") [MBCR 1:80].
BIRTH: Baptized Swyre, Dorsetshire, 27 January 1602/3, son of Morgan and Alice (Odberre) Holman [Aspinwall 104-05; NEHGR 67:260, 72:189].
The inventory of the estate of John Holman was taken 18 March 165/3 and totalled £739 16s., of which £200 was "in housing and land" and £60 "in one-half of a bark the Swallowe" [SPR 2:85].