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05-15-2019, 09:02 AM
Samuel Johannes Holland (1728 – 28 December 1801)
A Dutch-born Royal Engineer and first Surveyor General of British North America.
Holland was born in 1728 in Deventer, the Netherlands.
He was baptised on 22 September 1729 in the small Lutheran Church
in the Dutch town of Deventer in the Province of Overijssel.
In 1745, he entered the Dutch or Staatse Leger artillery
and served during the War of the Austrian Succession.
He was promoted lieutenant in 1747.
In 1749, Holland married Gertrude Hasse.
They had one daughter who is thought to have died in infancy.
In 1754, having possibly made contact with the Duke of Richmond
and leaving his wife behind in the Netherlands,
Holland emigrated to England to seek advancement under the British flag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Holland
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A Dutch-born Royal Engineer and first Surveyor General of British North America.
Holland was born in 1728 in Deventer, the Netherlands.
He was baptised on 22 September 1729 in the small Lutheran Church
in the Dutch town of Deventer in the Province of Overijssel.
In 1745, he entered the Dutch or Staatse Leger artillery
and served during the War of the Austrian Succession.
He was promoted lieutenant in 1747.
In 1749, Holland married Gertrude Hasse.
They had one daughter who is thought to have died in infancy.
In 1754, having possibly made contact with the Duke of Richmond
and leaving his wife behind in the Netherlands,
Holland emigrated to England to seek advancement under the British flag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Holland
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Samuel_Holland.jpg
http://www.biographi.ca/bioimages/s500.6857.jpg