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References
- ↑ Northfield (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Births, baptisms, marriages, intentions, deaths, 1713-1839, approx. (Salt Lake City, Utah)
p. 226.
Mr. Simeon Holton to Miss [something crossed out at time of writing: "Rebeccah"?] Olive Kendrick ...
["February" crossed out] March 1 1802.
[Note: The digit 2 in the year 1802 is written in a heavier ink as if it was corrected after the fact. It is impossible to even guess what it may have originally said. It follows a record for Feb. 1803 and precedes one for Apr. 1803, and it may have said 1803, as reported by Source:Temple, Josiah Howard. History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for 150 Years, p. 465. However, the intention on p. 207 says, "Feb'y 12 1801 then was Marrige intend between Simeon Holton & Olive Kendrick and published p'r Eben'r Janes Town Clerk", which doesn't really fit 1802 or 1803, if taken at face value. Although the intention above it is also 12 Feb 1801, by context we would expect the intention, usually collected in chronological order to be 12 Feb 1803 based on looking at the whole page. So, while it would be nice to use 1 Mar 1802, since their first child is born May 1803, rather than having a marriage 7 months pregnant, the records as written don't make sense, and based on context, it seems likely the date is 1803 as reported by Temple.]
- ↑ Source:Holton, Edward Payson. Genealogy of the Descendants in America of William Holton (1610-1691) of Hartford, Conn., and Northampton, Mass, p. 108: "Little is known of his first wife, by whom it was said he had thirteen children. Only ten are known. ... removed to Middlebury, Vt., from Northfield, Mass., about 1830, it is thought, perhaps as early as 1825." 1825 is the birth of his last recorded child (tenth). He appears to still be in Northfield for the 1830 census where he appears to have 4 boys and 5 girls in his household (plus the parents). He also appears to still be in Northfield for the 1840 census with 2 boys and 1 girl in his household, the youngest being a boy 10 to 15. Thus everything appears to be consistent with only 10 children by his first wife, and it is surmised that the number 13 appears to be an erroneous sum of those 10, plus the 3 children appearing in the 1850 census, who actually were born into his second marriage. Of course, he had more than 3 children in his second marriage, but three is all that would be available to a superficial search.
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