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More evidence that David Holloway married Martha Bevill, daughter of Edward and Parker Pride Bevill of Mecklenburg County VA:
On the 1786 tax list, a young male slave named Abraham is listed with Edward Bevill. On that same list, David Holloway has only one slave, the boy Charles, left to him by his mother. In 1787, David is listed with two under 12, Charles and Abram. Abraham is missing from Edward Bevill's household, and this Abraham does not return (although another older Abraham does appear later, eventually going to live with Edward's son John). In his 1793 will, Edward Bevill gives his daughter Martha Holloway "one Negro boy by name Abraham." Also, Martha alone of the children is not given any household items such as furniture or livestock. I believe this is because she has left the area. David Holloway lived south of the Roanoke River in 1787 and 1788 before disappearing from the Mecklenburg tax lists. When he reappears in Guilford County NC in 1800 with a group of Mecklenburg Bevills, he has two slaves.
There is no conclusive proof that the David in Guilford is the same David from Mecklenburg, but it seems probable from the circumstances. Guilford David's daughter Lucy said in 1880 that her parents were both from Virginia. Lucy had a sister named Martha and a brother named Taylor, which was a Brunswick/Mecklenburg Holloway name. There were only two Holloways in Mecklenburg near Edward Bevill in the 1780s: David and his older brother Edward, who was already married to woman named Nancy. And it appears that David and Martha moved south well before Edward Bevill's will was written in 1793 which would account for Martha's different legacy.
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