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- NICHOLAS & ELIZABETH (SHORT) HOLT, his first wife, came on the JAMES from Southampton to Dorchester in 1635. He was deposed on Feb. 11, 1671 and gave his age as 63 yrs. making his birth year 1608. Savage gives his age at death as 83, which makes his birth year 1602 in Romsey, Hampshire, England.
He was a tanner by trade and an original settler of Newbury where historic accounts refer to Holt's Neck and Holt's Rock. On Sept. 1, 1635, he witnessed a legal paper. He was made a freeman of Mass. on May 17, 1637 and was chosen as town surveyor on April 19, 1638.
The family next removed to Andover around 1644 and he was an original settler in the southern part of the town known as "Holt Hill". His name is on a list of the Church of Andover, organized Oct. 24, 1641, as sixth of the first ten members who were freeholders. In 1647, he was one of the persons appointed to lay out the road from Reading to Andover.
He married second Hannah (Bradstreet) Rolfe, daughter of Humphrey Bradstreet and widow of Daniel Rolfe in June of 1658. She died June 20, 1665 and he married third on May 21, 1666, Martha, widow of Roger Preston.
In 1680 he conveyed 20 acres of upland to his son-in-law, Roger Marks. The name, Nicholas Holt, was on the list of the ten original members of the Church of Andover, organized October 24, 1645.
The children of Nicholas Holt... by first wife
1) Elizabeth b.1636 Andover, m. Ralph Farnham;
2) Mary, b.1638 Andover, m.Thomas Johnson;
3) Samuel, b.1641 Newbury, m. Sarah Allen;
4) Henry, b. “About” 1643, m. Sarah Ballard;
5) Nicholas, b. “Say” 1645, m.Mary Russell;
6) Hannah, b. “Say” 1648, m. Robert Gray;
7) James, b. “Say” 1650, m. Hannah Allen;
8) Priscilla, b.1653 Andover, d.1653 Andover;
9) Sarah,, b.”Say” 1655, m. Roger Marks;
by second wife
10) Rebecca, b.1662 Andover “no further record;”
11) John, b.1663 Andover, m. Sarah Geary.
From Robert Charles Anderson’s “Great Migration” series published by NEHGS.
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According to the New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, page 2334 he was a "turner" (a manufacturer of wooden furniture). References to him being a "tanner" was probably a misunderstanding of accents.
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