HOLDING, William, s. of Sam[ue]ll and Susannah, [born] Mar. 4, 1712-3.
[Note: see comments on brother Phineas' page about Phineas' mistranscribed birth date. This raises some doubts about the transcription given here. Source:Bond, Henry. Family Memorials. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston (1855), p. 301, gives this date as 4 Mar 1711/12, and he could be presumed to have seen the record when it was in better shape. However, Source:Paige, Lucius Robinson. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, p. 2:586, probably saw it not much later, and says 4 Mar 1712-13.]
