Nehemiah Holt, son of Nehemiah and Anna (Farnham) Holt; b. in Hampton, Ct., Nov. 28, 1756, d. in Chaplin, Ct., June 5, 1824, entered Rev. army at age of 19, sergeant, of Captain Thomas Dyer's Company 20th Regiment Continental Foot (4th Connecticut, Colonel John Durkee) in 1776-7, and 1st Sergeant, 7th August, 1780, of 5th Company in Colonel Hezekiah Wylly's Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, garrisoning New London Harbor. Engaged in battle of Long Island, was in retreat N. J., crossing the Delaware with Washington, engaged in battles of Trenton and Princeton.

~American Ancestry: Giving Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A, Volume 9; Thomas Patrick Hughes, Frank Munsell; Munsell, 1894.

Nehemiah Holt m. (1st), June 11, 1782, Mary Lamphear, who d. Dec. 11, 1799; m. (2nd), Jan. 1, 1801, Sarah Dunlap of Plainfield, Conn., who d. Nov. 7, 1808; m. (3rd), Sep. 10, 1809, Eunice Fuller, who d. Dec. 31, 1846, aged 74y. 9m. He d. at Chaplin, June 5, 1824, aged 64.

Children of Nehemiah and Mary (Lamphere) Holt, 1st wife:
1. POLLY, b. Windham Feb. 28, 1784; d. Sep. 26, 1794.
2. SALLY, b. Windham July 20, 1787; m. June 11, 1807, Uriel Hammond. He was b. July 5, 1781. She d. Jan. 20, 1850. 4 ch.
3. LUCINDA, b. Windham June 2, 1789; m. 1816, Rufus Loomis. She d. Oct.20, 1842. He d. July 30, 1859. 6 ch. Death dates per Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 [database on-line].
4. NANCY (ANNA),b. Windham Apr. 19, 1791; m. (1), Simeon M. Kendall; (2), Levi Work(s), and (3), Elisha Byles.
5. ALMIRA, b. Windham Oct. 21, 1793; d. July 2, 1796.
6. POLLY, b. Windham Oct. 25, 1795; d. Mar. 15, 1842. unmarried.
7. HIRAM, b. Windham Jan. 31, 1798; m. Feb. 21, 1828, Marian, daughter of John Wilkes Chandler. She was b. Sep. 15, 1800, and d. Mar. 16, 1857, aged 56y. 6m.; m. (2), Mar. 30, 1858, Mrs. Martha Cotton, daughter of Eleazer Mather of Brooklyn, Conn. He studied medicine at Yale college, and after receiving his degree, settled in Pomfret, where he engaged in the practice of his profession. 3 ch.

Children by Sarah Dunlap, 2d wife.
8. HENRY, b. Windham Apr. 6, 1803; m. (1) June 17, 1830, Lorancy, daughter of Philip Potter of Norway, Herkimer county, N. Y. She was b. Aug. 1, 1808, and d. Apr. 19, 1835. He m. (2), Apr. 19, 1836, Mary, daughter of Loren De Witt of Herkimer; resides at Cascade, Mich. 10 ch.
9. ELIZABETH, b. Windham Mar. 23, 1805; d. Sep. 8, 1819.
10. LUCIEN, b. Windham Oct. 24, 1806; m. Nov. 2, 1829, Sophronia Wright of Mansfield, Conn; resides at Willington. 2ch.
11. WILLIAM DUNLAP b. Windham Nov. 7, 1808; d. Jan. 10, 1829.

Children by Eunice Fuller, 3d wife.
12. DANIEL, b. Windham July 2, 1810; m. (1), Julia Fuller of Hampton, who d. soon after marriage; no ch.; m. (2), Abby, daughter of Pardon Brown of Glastenbury; m. (3), June 5, 1861, Mary G., daughter of Gen. Richard T. Dunlap; physician; resides at Lowell, Mass. 3 ch. by 2d wife.
13. ALMIRA, b. Windham Apr. 13, 1813; m. Russell Utley of Chaplin; b. Ap. 3, 1812. 2 ch.
14. CHARLES AUSTIN, b. Jan. 6, 1816; m. Jan. 9, 1837, Eunice, daughter of Origen Bennett; she was b. Oct. 6, 1816. He resides on the ancestral estate at Orchard hill. 1 ch.

~A genealogical history of the Holt Family in the United States: more particularly the descendants of N. Holt of Newbury and Andover, Mass., 1634-1644, and W. Holt of New Haven, Conn; Daniel Steele Durrie; 1864.

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