Nicholas Holt

1608 - 1685  (77 years)

• Name	Nicholas Holt
  Born	1608	England   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Emigration	6 Apr 1635	Southampton, Hampshire, England   [1, 4, 5]
  Immigration	Abt 12 Jun 1635	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 4, 5]
  Residence	1 Sep 1635	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [6]
  Residence	7 Dec 1642	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [7]
  _UID	51702D1ADC780346B3D34922CB7230B9BCCC
  Died	30 Jan 1685	Andover, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 8]
  Person ID	I5364	Lechthaler/Powell Genealogy
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Short,   b. Est 1610, England ,   d. 9 Nov 1656, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 46 years)
  _UID	A61FF6AE7A79324E9FA9B6C2C4002D4EDB75
  Children	1. Hannah Holt,   b. 1634, England ,   d. 30 Mar 1728, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 94 years)   2. Elizabeth Holt,   b. 30 Mar 1636, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1683, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 46 years)   3. Mary Holt,   b. 6 Oct 1638, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 15 Nov 1700, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 62 years)   4. Samuel Holt,   b. 6 Oct 1641, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 7 Nov 1703, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 62 years)   5. Henry Holt,   b. 1644, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 13 Jan 1718/1719, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 75 years)   6. Nicholas Holt,   b. 1647, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 8 Oct 1715, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 68 years)   7. James Holt,   b. 1651, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 13 Dec 1690, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 39 years)   8. Priscilla Holt,   b. 20 Jun 1653, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 16 Oct 1653, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 0 years)   9. Sara Holt,   b. Est 1655, Massachusetts ,   d. Dec 1690, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 35 years)
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2024
  Family ID	F1827	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Hannah Bradstreet,   d. 20 Jun 1665, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts
  Married	10 Jun 1658	Andover, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 9]
  _UID	5859ADD907D39C41928C1FA29DECA3928B50
  Children	1. Rebecca Holt,   b. 14 Nov 1662, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts   2. John Holt,   b. 14 Jan 1664, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 10 Mar 1687, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 23 years)
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2024
  Family ID	F5072	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Martha,   b. Abt 1622,   d. 21 Mar 1702/1703, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 81 years)
  Married	21 May 1666	Andover, Essex, Massachusetts   [10]
  _UID	8C69E17DE778A44596283F43B30A93D0FBD0
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2024
  Family ID	F5074	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The HOLT FAMILY of ANDOVER. Nicholas (1) Holt and his wife, Elizabeth (Short), with their daughter Hannah, came from London or Southampton in the ship “James”, sailing in April 1635. After a voyage lasting 58 days, they landed in Boston in June. Nicholas is recorded as a “tanner” from Romsay, England. His other occupations in the colonies were those of master cooper, dish turner, yeoman and husbandman. (Ralph Farnum came over in the same boat.) He first settled in Newbury where he remained 10 years. There he joined the church; ran a ferry at the bridge near Holt's Rocks and owned land on Little River. A patch of 30 acres, still called Holt’s Neck, between the highway and Little River was owned by a Little in 1860. In 1637, Nicholas, with nine others, walked from Newbury to Cambridge, a distance of 40 miles to register, in order to help Winthrop in his fight with H. Vane. In 1644 he came to Andover, being 6th on the Proprietor’s List, and was one of the 10 members of the First Church under the Rev. John Woodbridge. Here he had a 15 acre house lot, 160 acres of meadow, 360 acres on Stony Plain and much more was given to him later. It is thought that he never built on his lot in North Parish Center. His homestead was on Holt's (Prospect) Hill. A stockade was across the fields to the south. In 1652, with Capt. Edward Johnson of Woburn and Thomas Danforth of Cambridge, Nicholas helped to lay out the Andover boundaries. The same year, with Lieut. Thomas Marshall of Reading,-probably a settler on the border line near Gould's,- and with settler Sprague of Haverhill, now Methuen, he helped lay out roads. On Nov.9, 1656, Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas died. On June 10,1658, Nicholas took for a second wife, widow Hanna Rolfe, the daughter of Humphrey Bradstreet of Ipswich. She died June 20, 1665 and Nicholas made his home with his son, Nicholas Jr., to whom he left “1/3 the house where he now dwells.” He m. 3rd, May 21, 1666, Mrs. Martha Preston, widow of Roger. --- The Great Migration - Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 Vol 3, Page 400 ASSOCIATIONS: In his will of 13 February 1672[/3], "Henry Short of Newbury" included bequests to "my cousin Samuel] Holt" and to "his [Samuel's] brother Nicholas Holt" [EPR 2:345-47]. The identity of the first wife of Henry Short is unknown, as is the identity of the fust wife of Nicholas Holt, so we cannot state how these two families are related. --- "Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts" by Philip J. Greven, Philip Greven, Cornell University Press, 1970 contains quite a bit of land record history in this family. A preview copy as of 3/12/23 can be found at https://books.google.com/books/about/Four_Generations.html?id=BlR_ufC-b88C --- Another goor reference if the book "A genealogical history of the Holt family in the United States: more particularly the descendants of Nicholas Holt of Newbury and Andover, Mass., 1634-1644, and of William Holt of New Haven, Conn." By Daniel S. Durrie. As of 3/13/23 if can be found at (free) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009792398 (not free) https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/11861/ ---

  
  

• Sources

  [S872] Memorial Hall Library - Abbott Genealogies, Charlotte Helen Abbott, (Unpublished ), http://www.mhl.org/andover/Abbott/index.htm. EARLY RECORDS OF THE HOLT FAMILY OF ANDOVER See transcription in notes for Nicholas Holt d. 30 Jan 1685 [S798] U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7486&enc=1. Name: Nicholas Holt Age: 27 Birth Year: abt 1608 Arrival Year: 1635 Arrival Place: Massachusetts Primary Immigrant: Holt, Nicholas Source Publication Code: 263 Annotation: Part 1, pp. 1-43, is a study of emigration to New England in colonial times; part 2, pp. 45-207, lists passengers and the ships they arrived on (3,600 passengers on 213 ships). From the Custom House records of English ports. Much of the information is contained in nos. 7906 and 7907, Savage; nos. 1672 and 1674, Drake; and no. 3283, Hotten. Source Bibliography: BANKS, CHARLES EDWARD. The Planters of the Commonwealth; a Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times: To Which Are Added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships which Brought Them; Their English Homes, and the Places of Their Settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. 231p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1961. Repr. 1984. [S293] Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, (The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass 1913), Vol IV, Page 370. Nicholas Holt, aged about sixty-three years, deposed that sometime in October or November last, hearing of a rumor in the town that his son-in-law Thomas Johnson had sold strong liquors to the Indians and had taken an oath to clear himself, he went to his house to speak with him about it, but he not being at home, deponent discoursed with his wife about it. He told her that he heard her husband carried bottles of liquor to the Indians. She replied that there was a great deal more made of it than there was cause, and that, she knew of only two or three quarts that he sold them. Sworn, 11 : 2 : 1671, before Simon Bradstreete. As of 3/12/23 at https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/Essex/vol4/images/essex370.html [S463] Miscellaneous website (website only cited once). Great Migration: Passengers of the James of London, 1635 https://www.geni.com/projects/Great-Migration-Passengers-of-the-James-of-London-1635/8344 This site documents the roll of passengers of the James, which sailed from London, 6 April, 1635, Julian calendar, bound for New England. Nicholas Holte tanner Romsey, Hampshire [S463] Miscellaneous website (website only cited once). https://familypedia.fandom.com/wiki/James_1635_1st_Voyage James 1635 1st Voyage English immigrant ship The James. Sailed for New England on 05 April 1635 from Southampton per Custom House Records One of many Immigrant Ships of New England. List of Known Passengers By roll number: Oath given June 12, 1635: 43. Holte, Nicholas, tanner, of Romsey [S1598] Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. (Nathaniel Bradstreet), (William White, Printer to the Commonwealth), https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/802285., Vol 1, page 154. Inventory of the estate of Joseph Avery dated 1 Sep 1635 signed by Nicholas Holt. [S590] The Great Migration - Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Robert Charles Anderson, (NEHGS, Boston, MA 2005), Vol 3, Page 398. In an undated Newbury land inventory, "Nicholas Holt" held three parcels: "a houselot of four acres"; "a field lot of forty acres"; and "another field lot of thirty-six acres of upland & meadow" [Newbury TR 1:19v]. "Nicholas Holt" was the seventh name in the 7 December 1642 list of Newbury proprietors [NewburyTR 1:44v]. [S291] Vital Records of Andover, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, (Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Mass 1912), V2 page 468. Death HOLT Nicholas, sr., Jan. 30, 1685, a. 104 y. [S291] Vital Records of Andover, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, (Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Mass 1912), V2 page 182. Marriage HOLT Nicholas, and Hanna Rofe, wid. [at Ipswich, cr. f.], June 12, 1658. [June 20. ct. r.] [S291] Vital Records of Andover, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, (Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Mass 1912), V2 page 182. Marriage HOLT Nicholas, and — Preston, wid., May 21, 1666.