Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameWilliam HOLT 
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, 1Birth1610, England2101, p 385,3295
Settlementbef 1 Jul 1644, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut499, p 231 Age: 34
Removalabt 1665, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut499, p 232 Age: 55
Death1 Sep 1683, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut3295,499, p 232 Age: 73
FlagsEarliest Immigrant
Individual Notes
• It is probable that William Holt was not one of the very first settlers at New Haven. His name suddenly appears upon the records of the New Haven colony on July 1st, 1644 as one of the signers of the Revised Constitution. After that time his name appears in the records, so that it is fair to assume that he arrived in New Haven shortly before 1644. The question as to where he came from, has always been an interesting one. That he was of English descent there is no doubt, and that he was born in England appears probable, but how and when he came and in what company, has always been a mystery.
An old record of the voyage of the ship Truelove to the Bermudas or Summer Islands, contains among the list of passengers the name of William Holt, aged nineteen years. The Truelove sailed from London on June 10, 1635, and while the age given for the William Holt who sailed on her does not quite agree with the date of his birth as computed from the record of his death, still it is close enough to fit with reasonable accuracy, and thee may have been a reason for understating it.
From the record of his death he would have been twenty-five years of age at the time of this voyage.
Many Englishmen who went to the Bermudas and the Barbadoes, afterward came to New England and it is no violent assumption that our ancestor was this passenger on the Truelove.3292, p 314
• About 1643 William Holt arrived in the New Haven (Conn.) Colony. There is no record of his departure for these shores, but there is a feeling by some that he was the William Holt who sailed from England, in 1635, on the ship Truelove to Bermuda. It is known that many of the Bermuda settlers later came to New England. Attempts have been made to trace this in Bermuda, and Barbados where he has also been placed, but without success because of the scarcity of early records, there and in New England. However, ancestor William Holt is noted in the New Haven records from 1 Jul 1644, when he was one of the signers of the Revised Constitution and Governor Eaton administered the oath of Free Burgess to him and others.3294, p 7
• He left no will.499, p 232
An old record of the voyage of the ship Truelove to the Bermudas or Summer Islands, contains among the list of passengers the name of William Holt, aged nineteen years. The Truelove sailed from London on June 10, 1635, and while the age given for the William Holt who sailed on her does not quite agree with the date of his birth as computed from the record of his death, still it is close enough to fit with reasonable accuracy, and thee may have been a reason for understating it.
From the record of his death he would have been twenty-five years of age at the time of this voyage.
Many Englishmen who went to the Bermudas and the Barbadoes, afterward came to New England and it is no violent assumption that our ancestor was this passenger on the Truelove.3292, p 314
• About 1643 William Holt arrived in the New Haven (Conn.) Colony. There is no record of his departure for these shores, but there is a feeling by some that he was the William Holt who sailed from England, in 1635, on the ship Truelove to Bermuda. It is known that many of the Bermuda settlers later came to New England. Attempts have been made to trace this in Bermuda, and Barbados where he has also been placed, but without success because of the scarcity of early records, there and in New England. However, ancestor William Holt is noted in the New Haven records from 1 Jul 1644, when he was one of the signers of the Revised Constitution and Governor Eaton administered the oath of Free Burgess to him and others.3294, p 7
• He left no will.499, p 232
Spouses
Individual Notes
• She must have been over sixty years of age at the time of her second marriage, which indicates not only a vigorous constitution but a sanguine disposition.3292, p 228
Marriageabt 1644, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut2101, p 385
Family Notes
• 8 children.499, pp 232-3