Joseph was born in 1680. He is the son of John Holt and Elizabeth Thomas.[1]
Joseph Holt was born 22 January 1680/1 and baptized in East Haven as an adult in 1756. He died 25 May 1770 in Norfolk. On 28 February 1705/6 Joseph married Abigail Hemingway, the daughter of Samuel Hemingway and Sarah Cooper. Abigail died in 1736, and he later married Mary ____ who died in 1743, and then in 1745 he married Joanna Gaylord, the daughter of Joseph Gaylord and Sarah Stanley, the widow of Robert Royce and John Johnson. Joseph and his first wife Abigail had 7 children: John, Joseph, Daniel, Samuel, Abigail, Elizabeth, and Isaac.[2]
Pedigree chart of Mercy Holt b. 1747 which includes her grand-father Joseph (different birth year, but correct wife and death date), his father John and grand-father William [3]
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