Person:Nicholas Holt (2)

Lived on the highest land in Essex County, known later as Holt's Hill and Prospect Hill. He had 11 children, many of whom left Andover (most of their cousins stayed) for Windham County, Connecticut. He left his lands to Nicholas and Thomas.^[3]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Nicholas Holt, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   3:400.

   "Nicholas Holt, b. say 1645; …"

2. ↑ Children of Nicholas¹ Holt and first wife Elizabeth, in Durrie, Daniel S. (Daniel Steele). 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. (Albany : J. Munsell, 1864)
   12.

   "7. Nicholas² (Holt) b. at Andover, 1647; m. Jan. 8, 1679, Mary probably dau. of Robert Russell. He d. at Andover, Oct. 8, 1715, aged 68. His wife d. April 1, 1717. Sept. 9, 1684, his father deeded him 'one-third of the farm where he now dwells,' also several parcels of land, also his dwelling house with 'y^e cellar rooms and Leantowe, and other convenience of house room adjoining.' In consideration of which Nicholas jr. agrees to fulfill certain conditions, and to provide for his father until death, and afterwards to pay a certain sum to his mother-in-law. 11 ch."

3. ↑ Nicholas² Holt, in Holt Association of America. The First Three Generations of Holts in America. (Newburgh, MA: Moore Printing (1930).)
   151-66.
4.   Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Andover, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1912)
   2:469.

   "Holt, … Nickolice, [died] Oct. 8, 1715."