Featherstone Holt

Other Events:

• Rev War: 1780, Surry County, North Carolina; Entered the service of the United States as a drafted soldier, under Captain Wooldridge of the same county & State (per pension claim)
• Census 1790: 1790, Stokes, North Carolina, USA; 1 W M over 16 b. before 1774 | 2 W M under 16 b. 1774-1790 | 4 W F
• Tax List: 1794, Stokes County, North Carolina; Capt. Clouds District Featherstone Holt 1 w poll
• Tax List: 1796, Stokes County, North Carolina; Featherston "Hall" is listed one white poll. Capt. Clouds District
• Census 1800: 1800, Salisbury, Stokes, North Carolina; 1 W M 0-10 | 2 W M 16-26 | 1 W M 26-45 | 2 W F 10-16 | 1 W F 16-26 | 1 W F 26-45
• Census 1810: 1810, Stokes, North Carolina; Living next door to Edward Collins
• Census 1820: 1820, Stokes, North Carolina
• Census 1830: 1830, Lee County, TN
• Pension: 30 Aug 1832, Hawkins County, Tennessee; Pension Claim (Revolutionary War)

Notes:

Pension:
Hawkins County, TN On this 30th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the justice of the court of ____ quarter _____ for said county now sitting Featherstone Holt now a resident of said County aged 74 years. Who being first duly sworn according to Law doth cry his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress papered 7th June 1832. That in the spring of the year 1780, as well as he now recollects, he entered the service of the United States as a drafted soldier, under Captain Wooldridge of the same county & State meth himself. _____ & Surrey county North Carolina, he was drafted for 3 months now sent to the Moravian Town in N. Carolina as a guard over British and Fort prisoners there stationed he remained, to the best of his recollection, about 9 week, when the prisoners were sent to Hillsboro NC and there being no longer a prep for men he went home (to Surry County) on furlough _____ _____ before the expiration of the term for which he was drafted. During his stay in Surry, he was frequently in that summer (1780) out on scouting parties after the Lorie, for a few days at a time, volunteering his ____________________. In the succeeding fall he was again under Col. Williams and Major Winston for 3 months. They papered the forks of the Cladkin river in Surrey, this Wilkes & Burke County _____ after the Tories _____ infesting that county, he was however discharged or furlough before the expiration of 3 months and _____ again called out. At the time he was drafted he was a resident of Surrey County NC, and he has no documentary evidence and knows no person whose testimony he can procure to testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an _____ except the present and declares that his _____is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to & subscribed this day & year affirmed. There is not any Minister of the Gospel in his vicinity who can certify familiar and he has not any Documentary evidence to prove his service. He has not lived in Tennessee in Hawkins County but a few years. _____ is in open court and _____ and come to Tennessee from Stokes County North Carolina where he resided from the end of the war until he came to Tennessee. Sworn to and subscribed in open court 30th day of August Fetherston Holt

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. David Holt was born in 1772 in Virginia or North Carolina.
2. Hannah Holt was born on 25 September 1779 in Virginia, United States; died on 13 January 1875 in Patrick, Virginia, USA.
3. Rebecca Holt

Other Events:

• Land Grant: 3 April 1780, Surry County, Virginia, USA; Grant to Francis Holt, 200 acres on South Side of Little Peter's Creek, including his plantation. Surry County Deed Book B - 38
• Deed: 3 May 1780, Surry County, NC; Francis Holt & wf Martha to Jms Bohannon 100 pds VA money 200a on Little Peters Ck including his improvement. Wit: James Gaines, Eliz Gaines, Thomas Lankford. Deed BK D
• Tax List: 1782, Surry County, North Carolina; Capt. Hickman's District, (Location Buffelo) 4 Horses/Mules3 Cattle; 440 acres.
• Land Grant: 18 May 1789, Surry County, North Carolina; Grant #1124 to Francis Holt...200 ac...Little Peters Creek...line his former Survey
• Land_Grant : 5 June 1794, Stokes County, North Carolina; Wt. Granted Joseph Cloud enters 25 ac on both sides of Dan Rborder: survey made for Thomas Ship James Lyons purchased of Edwin Hickman, Francis Holt & Samuel Edgman; Includes mouth of Turkey Br.
• Tax List: 1796, Stokes County, North Carolina; Francis is listed in the records, but there is nothing written after his name. Capt. Clouds District
• Census 1810: 1810, Snow Creek, Surry, North Carolina, USA

Francis married Martha Featherstone in 1739 in Virginia?. Martha was born in 1722 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Father's Death: March 1698, Essex County, Virginia, USA; Half Bro, David was appoint guardian of "all the children of Ric'd Holt, dec" In 1704 an attachment was issued against his estate for a debt. David having "illegally absented himself" He evidently left Essex. Anyway, Plunkett was bound out in 1695.
• Bound Out: 1695-1699, Essex County, Virginia, USA; "Plimeket Holt is bound unto James Boughan untill he arrives to ye age of one and twenty years, ye sd Boughan obliging himself to give ye sd Holt two years schooling when he comes to ye age of ten or eleven years." (Essex order books)
• Deed: 12 March 1712, South Farnham Parish, Essex County, Virginia, USA; P. Holt son of Ric'd Holt dec'd sells John Boughan for 1600lb tobo. 620a granted Ric'd Holt dec by patent dated 4 Nov 1685 begin @ Kings Swamp below Piscataway Mill.
• Land Sale: 1713, Essex County, VA; In 1713, Plunkett sold his interest in his father's land to James Boughan
• Notes: 1724, Essex County, Virginia, USA; Between 1724 and 1742, various court records mention Plunkett in connection with "being absent from his Parrish Church during the months of February, March and April", failure to appear in court for debts assessed to him, and for trespass.

Notes:

Died:
(VA Genealogy, Vol. 25, p. 289) "Plunkett Holt, 13 lbs 2.11 Deadleft sufficient estate in Prince Edward to pay all his debts, which is in the hands of his sons James and Plunkett Holt."..British Mercantile Claims - 1775-1803, p. 83, t79/89.

Plunkett married Elizabeth Hudson?. Elizabeth was born in 1692; died in 1740. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: 1660, Virginia, United States; Cooper & Planter
• Land Sale: 1664, Lancaster County, Virginia; Richard Holt sold one hundred acres of land to EDWARD HUDSON.
• Land: 1669, Rappahannock County, Virginia, USA; Virginia County Records IX, Index to Land Grants, Rappahannock Co., Vol. 6, No. 6, p.291 Richard Holt, 600 acres in 1669
• Court/Deed: Jan 1672, Old Rappahannock, Virginia; Follow-up to above, RICHARD HOLT appoints friend Capt. Edmund Crask his attorney in regards to a sale to William Cook
• Deed: 3 Jan 1672, Old Rappahannock, Virginia; "I R HOLT do make over all my right & interest of the within mentioned conveyance to Wm. Cook of Gloster w/warranty from all persons wch may thereafter lay any claim to & do promise that I & my wife will acknow. the same @ next court held in Rappah.
• Note: 1692, Essex County, Virginia, USA; 1692 from the old Rappahannock County, Virginia

Richard married Margaret Plunkett in 1682 in Old Rappahannock, Virginia. Margaret was born in 1655; died in 1698 in Essex County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]