Hannah (Sheldon) Holton (1757-1841) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Hannah Holton formerly Sheldon

Born 17 Oct 1757 in Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Daughter of Amasa Sheldon and Sara (Bardwell) Sheldon

Sister of Amasa Sheldon Jr., Reuben Sheldon Sr., Elihu Sheldon, Rufus Sheldon, Arad Sheldon, Oliver Sheldon, Eunice Sheldon, Elisha Sheldon, Sarah (Sheldon) Ash, Lois Sheldon and Rufus Sheldon

Wife of John Holton Jr — married 1778 in Northfield, Franklin, MA

Descendants

Mother of Horace Holton and Isabella (Holton) Harris

Died 17 Jan 1841 at age 83 in Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States

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1 Biography
2 Acknowledgments
3 Sources
- 3.1 Thank you to Gwen Edwards for merging the profile and cleaning up Biography Section

Biography

Hannah Sheldon, daughter of Amasa Sheldon and Sara Bardwell, was baptized on October 16, 1757, in Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts^[1] See Also source #2.

Marriage

Marriage 1. She married^[2] John Holton II, son of John Holton and Mehitable Alexander in 1778, and they had ten children together.

Children

Horace Holton 1780–1858
Ora Holton 1782–1850
Rufus Holton 1783–1815
Henry Holton 1788–1842
Loucius Holton 1789–1872
Elias Holton 1790–1868
John Holton III 1792–1871
Isabel Holton Harris 1794–1818
Electa Holton 1798–1821
Betsey Holton 1803–1842

Marriage 2 On May 22, 1832 she married Ezekiel Webster (1757-1839), a widower with grown children.

Death

Hannah died Jan. 17, 1841 in Northfield, Franklin, MA.

Burial

Inscription on the tombstone: "Mrs., Hannah, wife of, John Holton died, Jan 17, 1841, a. 84. Erected by her Grandchildren"

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Joe Lehnerz for creating WikiTree profile Sheldon-780 through the import of moore 2011 - 17022013.GED on Mar 11, 2013.

Sources

↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Ancestry.com, Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). 2011
↑ History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, A: The Times when the People by Whom it was Settled, Unsettled and Resettled, Volume 1., by George Sheldon, Press of E.A. Hall & Company, 1895 - Deerfield (Mass.).

Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127740843
Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988
Millennium File
Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 108 : 1914, p. 321.
Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR Vol 048, p. 421
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970

Thank you to Gwen Edwards for merging the profile and cleaning up Biography Section

Edwards-13482 18:17, 24 January 2018 (EST)

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hannah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Hannah: