David
Holt
Jr.
Born in Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of David Holt
and Margaret (Dibdall) Holt
Brother of
Margaret (Holt) Smith, Mary Holt, Dibdall Holt, John Holt, Sarah (Holt) Truly, Jane (Holt) Davies and William Holt
Husband of
Mabel Hunter
— married
1748 (to 10 Dec 1751) in Virginia
Husband of
Elizabeth (Hall) Holt
— married
20 Oct 1752 (to 9 Dec 1786) in Amelia Co, Virginia
Descendants 
Father of
Elizabeth (Holt) Oswald, John Hunter Holt, Thomas Holt, Amelia (Holt) Davies, Mabel Holt, Jean Holt, Paulina Holt, Ann (Holt) Barbour and Frances (Holt) Harrison
Died
at about age 58
in Chesterfield, Virginia, United States
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Biography
David Holt Jr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A057223.
David was born about the year 1728. He was most likely the son of David Holt of Hanover Co., Virginia who flourished there, "from 1706 until at least 1743."[1] Apparently, he was still listed as David Holt, Jr. as late as 1754.[2]
One of the earliest records for David appears to be his name on a petition of hat makers that was presented to the Virginia House of Burgesses and was decided upon on Monday, March 24, 1745. It was reported in the House Journal, "That the Consideration of the said Petition, be referred to the Committee of Trade; that they examine the Matter thereof, and report the same, as it shall appear to them with their Opinion thereupon, to the House."[3]
David was listed as David Holt, Jr. as the executor of James Munford's Amelia County will which was dated March 16, 1754.[4]
"Sometime after 1752 and before 1759," he, "moved to Chesterfield County, where he remained until his death..."[5]
David witnessed a deed on October 5, 1757 between Buckner Stith of Brunswick County and John Edloe of Charles City County for a half acre lot in Town of Pocahontas.[6]
On, October 31, 1759, he witnessed Col. William Kennon of Chesterfield County sign his will.[7]
In 1766 and 1769 he was a listed as Justice of the Peace in Chesterfield Co., Virginia.[8] [9]
David, his brother Dibdall and their neighbor Robert Munford traveled to British West Florida in the hopes of settling down their in 1771.[10] They announced their departure in the newspaper on September 5th[11] and appear to have been back at Petersburg by November.[12] More evidence that David was a hatter comes from a statement dated December 4, 1843, by William Peck in which he says that, "I well recollect David Holt, and know that he kept a Hatters shop, being myself about 9 years old at the time spoken of, and living then in Petersburg."[13] This would have been around 1780.
David Holt is named as the father of Thomas Holt in Thomas' Revolutionary War pension file. According to Thomas Holt's affidavit in his pension file, Lafayette was quartered in David's home around 1781. David Holt is a recognized patriot by Daughters of the American Revolution. David Holt's will was written in Chesterfield Co, VA and dated 9 Oct 1786, so he had to have died after this date. I found and copied the will (source listed below). I looked for when the will was proven, which was supposed to be in the same Will Bk, however, I did not find that. In his Will, David named 9 children: sons Thomas, & John Hunter, and daughters, Amelia, Ann, Frances, Mable, Jean, Eliazabeth, & Polina/Paulina."[14]
On December 9, 1786, it was reported in the paper that David Holt had passed away near Petersburg being of advanced years.[15]
David's will was probated on June 10, 1787 at Chesterfield County Court.[16]
Will
Will of David Holt. Chesterfield Co., VA, WB 4, pp. 106-108, w. 9 Oct 1786, no notation of when the will was proved. [17]
wife Betty
son in law Samuel Davis (sic) - 2 lots in Petersburg called Ravenscroft Town - gave lots to him in 1774 but didn’t execute deed.
son John Hunter Holt
daughter Elizabeth Oswald
whole of my estate ... be equally divided between my son Thomas Holt, Amelia Davis, Ann Barber, Mable Holt, Polina Holt, Frances Holt and Jean Holt
my second son Thomas
daughters Amelia Davis, Ann Barber, Polina Holt
Exrs: wife Elizabeth, friend Jerman Baker
Wit: Richd Gregory, John R. Davis, Joseph Alexander
Sources
- ↑ National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 'David Holt of Chesterfield County, Virginia, and John Hunter Holt of Williamsburg and New York City', Anne Thomas Tenny, Vol. 69, No. 4, December 1981, pages 250-258.
- ↑ National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 'David Holt of Chesterfield County, Virginia, and John Hunter Holt of Williamsburg and New York City', Anne Thomas Tenny, Vol. 69, No. 4, December 1981, page 257.
- ↑ Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1658/59, Volume 7, page 198.
- ↑ National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 'David Holt of Chesterfield County, Virginia, and John Hunter Holt of Williamsburg and New York City', Anne Thomas Tenny, Vol. 69, No. 4, December 1981, page 257.
- ↑ National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 'David Holt of Chesterfield County, Virginia, and John Hunter Holt of Williamsburg and New York City', Anne Thomas Tenny, Vol. 69, No. 4, December 1981, pages 250-258.
- ↑ Abstracted and Compiled by Benjamin B. Weisiger, III, Chesterfield County Virginia, Deeds 1764-1768,©1990 (Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. Baltimore, MD 1995), page 18.
- ↑ Lewis of Warner Hall, page 396.
- ↑ Justices of the Peace of Colonial Virginia: 1757-1775, 1921, pages 70=71, 92 & 93.
- ↑ David Holt Ancestor File
- ↑ "Sarah Truly, A Mississippi Tory," Madel Jacobs Morgan, The Journal of Mississippi History, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, February, 1975.
- ↑ Rind's Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg, Virginia, 05 Sep 1771, page 3.
- ↑ The Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg, Virginia, 07 Nov 1771, page 3.
- ↑ https://revwarapps.org › w4645.pdf Revolutionary War Pension Application of Neal Brown (w4645)
- ↑ Added by Betty Mckee Wollenberg
- ↑ Genealogical Abstracts from 18th -Century Virginia Newspapers, Robert K. Headley, Jr., Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987, page 168.
- ↑ Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 13, 1904, page 19.
- ↑ Will of David Holt
- Virginia Tax list for 1783.
- Will of David Holt Will Bk 4 Chesterfiled Co, VA pgs 106-108, Library of Virginia microfilm reel 27
- Deed Bk 1 Chesterfield Co, VA Library of Virginia microfilm reel 1
- Deed Bk 4 Chesterfield Co, VA Library of Virginia microfilm reel 2
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Quoting the section on the possible relationship...
"To put the foregoing facts in logical perspective, the following is presented in standard genealogical format, treating David Holt of Hanover County as the first generation:
David Holt lived in St. Paul's Parish of New Kent, later Hanover County, Virginia between 1711 and 1743, as the Parish Vestry Book includes his land in processioning reports six times during that period. Three hundred acres had been patented to him 2 May 1706 as a result of a deed of gift dated 28 May 1686 from his grandfather David Crawford--"David Holt, then still a minor," thus placing his birth ca. 1686. He may have been a descendant of the Surry County Hog Island Holts; Boddie and Jester state that John Holt of Surry County (ca. 1664-1705) had a son David.
The wife of David Holt was probably the Mrs. Margaret Holt of Hanover County, whose daughter Grizell married Benjamin Smith in 1760. The article in Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America about John Holt of Williamsburg and New York City quotes his will as showing that his mother's first name was Margaret and that he had brothers David, Dibdal, and William, and sisters who married Benjamin Smith and John Thompson of Hanover County."
Tenny also puts forward the evidence that David Holt of Chesterfield was married twice with John Hunter Holt, Elizabeth Holt and Mabel Holt being the children of David's 1st wife Mabel Hunter.