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Robert Holt

Male 1605 - 1661  (56 years)


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  1. 1.  Robert Holt was born on 5 May 1605 in Rochdale, Lancashire, England; died in July 1661 in St. Mary's County, Maryland.

    Other Events:

    • Immigration: 1645; Immigrated to American some time around 1645 Occupation: Coopera maker of casks and barrels
    • Court: 30 Aug 1646, St Mary's County, Maryland; This bill byndeth me Francis Posey hy heirs or assignes to pay or cause to be payed, unto Robert Holt or his assignes one thousand and thirty pounds of sound merchantable tobbaco in caske, and five barrells of good sound Indian corn, to be payed 10 Nov
    • Court : 30 Aug 1646, St. Mary's County, Maryland; next, ensuing the date hereof, likewise, I Francis Posey do bind my crop for his security, and am not to dispose of it untill the sayd Holt be satisfied. Witness my hand this eighteenth of March, one thousand six hundred and fowerty six. X Francis Posey
    • Court: 1647, St. Mary's County, Maryland; Robert Holt complaineth agst Cuthbert Phenick gent in action of damage to the value of 1030 lb of tobbaco & caske by wrongfully attaching a crop of Francis Posy made over to him. "Court & Testamentary Business, Proceedings of the Council of MD" Vol 3 p330
    • Court: 23 Oct 1648, St. Mary's County, Maryland; This depositioner sayth that George Manners did desire Henry Clay to speak to Edward Commins to send him his pestle that he stole. Whereupon this depositioner told him that it was a hard matter to tax a man with such a thing.
    • Court: 23 Oct 1648, St Mary's County, Maryland; But the said Manners made answer again, that he did tax him & would tax him. These words being spoke in this deposition hearing sometime in May last. And further he sayth not. Robert Holt.
    • Court: 20 Jul 1649, St Mary's County, Maryland; This bill bindeth me Robert Holt of Maryland, planter, my heirs, executors and assignes to pay or cause to be pain unto Paul Simpson of St. Inegoes Marriner the full and just sum of 2300 pounds....see notes
    • Court: 1650, St. Mary's County, Maryland; Edward Hudson defaulted on a bond in 1650 and the court allowed Robert Holt to "attach his estate" for the cost. "LAND NOTES, 1634-1655." In Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 6:
    • Court: 6 Nov 1651, St Mary's County, Maryland; The St. Mary's court heard depositions concerning domestic problems between Robert Holt and his wife, Dorothy Heywood Holt. Robert reported that Dorothy threatened to murder Him.
    • Land Warrent: 1655, Maryland; Robert Holt was issued a land warrant to lay out 400 acres "in any place within this province southward of Patuxtent River". (Patents ABH.32) Edward (Edmund) Hudson was associated with Robert Holt and was living in the same household.
    • Court: 9 Sep 1658, St. Mary's County, Maryland; Was called afore the Board Robert Holt, & Mr William Wilkinson Clerk, The sd Holt being charged by Mr Attorney wth bigamy & Mr Willm Wilkinson as Accessory in Contryuing the same & prefers this Inditm.
    • Deed: 2 Mar 1661, St Mary's County, Maryland; David Holt of St. Georges requests that this deed is recorded verbatim...Robert Holt do freely give...to my son David Holt one half of the 100 acres called "Randall's Point"..my son David's part

    Notes:

    Birth:
    Robert, son of John HOLTE was baptized at Rochdale on 5 May 1605

    Died:
    See notes regarding Petition of Christian Holt for restoration of her share of Robert's estate

    Robert married Christian Bonnefield on 28 Jan 1657 in St Mary's County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Robert married Dorothy Heywood on 19 Dec 1625 in Cathedral, Manchester, Lancashire, England, and was divorced on 4 Dec 1654 in St Mary's County, Maryland. Dorothy was born in 1607 in Lancashire, England; died in > 1673. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Dorothy Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1630 in Roachdale, Lancashire, England; died in 1665 in Rappahannock County, Virginia, USA.
    2. 3. Richard Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1641 in Roachdale, Lancashire, England; died in 1693 in Essex County, Virginia, USA.
    3. 4. Elizabeth Holt  Descendancy chart to this point
    4. 5. David Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1625 in Roachdale, Lancashire, England; died in 1679 in St Mary's County, Maryland.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Dorothy Holt Descendancy chart to this point (1.Robert1) was born in 1630 in Roachdale, Lancashire, England; died in 1665 in Rappahannock County, Virginia, USA.

  2. 3.  Richard Holt Descendancy chart to this point (1.Robert1) was born in 1641 in Roachdale, Lancashire, England; died in 1693 in Essex County, Virginia, USA.

    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 Unknown in 1660 in Virginia, United States. Unknown was born in 1642; died in 1688 in Old Rappahannock, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. Elizabeth Holt  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 7. David Holt  Descendancy chart to this point
    3. 8. Richard Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1672 in Old Rappahannock, Virginia.
    4. 9. Robert Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1677 in Old Rappahannock, Virginia; died in 1698 in Essex County, Virginia, USA.

    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]

    Children:
    1. 10. William Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1684 in Old Rappahannock, Virginia; died in 1734 in Prince Edward, Virginia, USA.
    2. 11. Plunkett Harraway Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1689 in Old Rappahannock, Virginia; died in 1760 in Prince Edward, Virginia, USA.

  3. 4.  Elizabeth Holt Descendancy chart to this point (1.Robert1)

  4. 5.  David Holt Descendancy chart to this point (1.Robert1) was born in 1625 in Roachdale, Lancashire, England; died in 1679 in St Mary's County, Maryland.


Generation: 3

  1. 6.  Elizabeth Holt Descendancy chart to this point (3.Richard2, 1.Robert1)

  2. 7.  David Holt Descendancy chart to this point (3.Richard2, 1.Robert1)

  3. 8.  Richard Holt Descendancy chart to this point (3.Richard2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1672 in Old Rappahannock, Virginia.

  4. 9.  Robert Holt Descendancy chart to this point (3.Richard2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1677 in Old Rappahannock, Virginia; died in 1698 in Essex County, Virginia, USA.

  5. 10.  William Holt Descendancy chart to this point (3.Richard2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1684 in Old Rappahannock, Virginia; died in 1734 in Prince Edward, Virginia, USA.

  6. 11.  Plunkett Harraway Holt Descendancy chart to this point (3.Richard2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1689 in Old Rappahannock, Virginia; died in 1760 in Prince Edward, Virginia, USA.

    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.

    Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Hudson?. Elizabeth was born in 1692; died in 1740. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 12. Francis Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1720 in Essex County, Virginia, USA; died in 1810 in Stokes County, North Carolina.
    2. 13. James Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1722.
    3. 14. Ambrose Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1724 in Virginia, United States.
    4. 15. Richard Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1725 in Amelia County, Virginia; died in 1778 in Amelia County, Va.
    5. 16. Plunkett Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1730 in Virginia, United States; died in 1789 in Virginia, United States.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  Francis Holt Descendancy chart to this point (11.Plunkett3, 3.Richard2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1720 in Essex County, Virginia, USA; died in 1810 in Stokes County, North Carolina.

    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]

    Children:
    1. 17. William Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1740; died in 1780.
    2. 18. Francis Holt, Jr.  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1742.
    3. 19. John Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1750.
    4. 20. Featherstone Holt  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1752 in North Carolina; died in 1834 in Hawkins County, Tennessee.

  2. 13.  James Holt Descendancy chart to this point (11.Plunkett3, 3.Richard2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1722.

    James married Elizabeth Fiedler on 11 August 1829 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  3. 14.  Ambrose Holt Descendancy chart to this point (11.Plunkett3, 3.Richard2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1724 in Virginia, United States.

  4. 15.  Richard Holt Descendancy chart to this point (11.Plunkett3, 3.Richard2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1725 in Amelia County, Virginia; died in 1778 in Amelia County, Va.

    Family/Spouse: Mary Howorth. Mary was born in 1714 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  5. 16.  Plunkett Holt Descendancy chart to this point (11.Plunkett3, 3.Richard2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1730 in Virginia, United States; died in 1789 in Virginia, United States.

    Family/Spouse: Ann Holt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]




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