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HOLLAND, Samuel, surveyor-general, born in Canada; died in eastern Canada in 1801. He was surveyor-general of the colonies north of Virginia, served in the army as a major during the war with France, and engaged in the expeditions against Louisburg and Quebec. He was near Wolfe when that officer fell, and was mentioned by him in his will. In 1773 he had completed surveys as fat" west as Boston, and in 1775 he wrote to Lord Dartmouth that he was ready to run a line between Massachusetts and New York. He lent to Alexander Shepard, a surveyor, a plan or survey of Maine, which the latter, by advice of the Provincial congress of Massachusetts, did not return, fearing that it might be used to the prejudice of the Whigs. Mr. Holland then went to Lower Canada, and served there for nearly fifty years as surveyor-general. At the time of his death he was a member of the executive and legislative councils.
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