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References
- ↑ Holman, David Emory. The Holmans in America: Concerning the Descendants of Solaman Holman Who Settled in West Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1692-3 One of Whom Is William Howard Taft, the President of the United States. Including a Page of the Otherlines of Holmans in America, with Notes and Anecdotes of Those of the Name in Other Countries. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1909)
p. 17.
Edward Holman m. (1) 7 May 1754 Rebecca Gale. They separated. She m. (2) Joseph Severy.
- ↑ No marriage record has been located and the basis for the assertion of the Holman Genealogy is unknown. Assuming it is true, there are then problems with Source:Savary, John. Memorial Volume, Selections from the Prose and Poetical Writings of the Late John Savary, p. 19-20, and Source:Savary, A. W. Genealogical and Biographical Record of the Savery Families (Savory and Savary) and of the Severy Family (Severit, Savery, Savory and, p. 185 which both indicate that Joseph Severy Jr. b. 1714 had a wife Susanna who died 1762, but that it was his son Joseph b. 1744 that married Rebecca ---. This is a problem because if born 1744, the son is a poor match for Rebecca born 1725. It also seems questionable because his first child is born 1765 meaning he married under age, and there is no mention of the father remarrying, which seems unlikely for a man who lived until 1800. No probate or death records have been found to confirm either case. However, if Rebecca was a divorced woman, it is far more probable that she married the widowed father, and since they had a son Joseph, we would have to assume the first son Joseph died. No probates have been found and no deeds by Joseph Savery named a wife, until after 1800 when the Joseph b. 1767 and wife Miriam execute some. However, no deed is found from 1756 until Joseph and Miriam's deeds in 1804, i.e., when a Joseph b. 1744, if he lived, would have been of legal age and could have executed one. So, in summary, circumstantially it seems more likely this is the father, b. 1714, remarrying after his first wife d. 1762, and the Joseph, b. 1744, died young.
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