Name of Child: Samuel Holland Date of Birth: 1775 Feb. 13th Town: Newfane [Note: no other information provided. The lack of information suggests it may have been recorded after the fact?]
Full Name of Deceased: Holland, Samuel Age: 83 y. 4 m. 23 d. [birth calculates to about 13 Aug 1774] Condition: Widowed Occupation: Cooper Birthplace: Mass Father's Name: Joseph Holland Mother's Maiden Name: Elisa Date of Death: 1858 Jan 5 Cause: Old Age Town: Townshend - Dist. 8
This Ancestry Family Trees-inspired page appears to be a mixture of two people. During the process of removing it from a family to which it does not belong, being 20 years past any other child, sources have been added for the birth and death, but they do not actually appear to belong to the same person. Vermont Vital Records show a marriage Newfane 1795 to Mitty Harris, Townshend 1809 to Lydia Walker, death of Mrs. Holland Newfane 1822, and another marriage Newfane 1823 to Polly Phillips. Without supporting evidence, this appears to be one Samuel Holland of Newfane, with two wives: Mitty and Polly, and another of Townshend with wife Lydia. Alternately if only a single person as posted, the first two wives would appear to have been conflated into one...
