Samuel Holly (1641 - 1709)

Born 1641 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Close) Holly — married 25 Jun 1668 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Colony of Connecticut

Descendants

Died 13 May 1709 at about age 68 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Samuel Holly was born circa 1641in Stamford, Fairfield County, Colony of Connecticut, to parents John Holly and Mary Waitstill.^[1]

Samuel married Mary Close 25 June 1668 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Colony of Connecticut.

Death

13 MAY 1709

Marriage

John Holly and wife: Mary Waitstill married 1640

Children

Samuel Holly

Child: Increase Holly

Child: Elizabeth (Holly)

Child: John Holly

Child: Bethia Holly

Child: Hannah Holly

Child: Elisha Holly

Child: Jonathan Holly

Child: Abigail Holly

Sources

1. ↑ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield Compiled and edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. 2 vols. (New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932.) Volume 1, page 290. See record at subscription site. He testified Aug 1692 in the Clawson witchcraft trial.

• https://www.americanancestors.org/DB99/i/7471/290/6133400
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/LT9N-L41
• Huntington, Elijah Baldwin. Stamford Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths ( Wm. W. Gillespie & Co., Stamford, Conn., 1874) Page 42.
• Mindrum, Thomas L., Holly Family in Early New England, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn., Nov 2022) Vol. 65, Page 44.
  • He was probably b. Cambridge about 1642.